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The only Buddhist chaplains I have ever heard of was a Tibetan monk who first got his 20-year Geshe degree from the Dalai Lama and were assigned to act as chaplain to a Tibetan regiment in the Indian army. The only comment the made was that the tent he lived in was very very hot.
In the Buddhist tradition, it takes years of learning how to do the practicings, mastering our mind, under the guidance of a teacher. And it is considered wrong to teach until our teacher has assessed us as being ready TO teach. Teaching before we have developes some firm ego-mastery only increases our ego and we create negative karma for ourselves. And it is considered negative karma to teach before we have the inner wisdom TO teach. Buddhism is learning from doing the practices, and this takes decades ... no book or spoken words will teach us Buddhism, because is about inner insight and experience, and words are merely intellectual concepts that cannot convey experience adequately.
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Re: Worshiping the buddha to bring peace prosperity and emancipation
Ah well ... those not trained in Buddhism want to worship, want to find solutions outside of themselves, and want to fix things instead of fixing themselves. This is the usual way for humans. My teac… (View Post)
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Re: Why do we crave stimulation?
Henry David Thoreau wrote, "Most men lead lives of quiet dissatisfaction ....| We all have this inner angst, this restless dissatisfaction. And keeping busy drowns out the "noise" of o… (View Post)
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Re: One meal a day in the Theravadan tradition
The aim of Buddhism is not to limit calories, but to change your habitual ways of thinking and reacting to life. Food intake does not create this change. There is also some medical concern about the … (View Post)1 -
Re: How do I know if im doing it right
You need a teacher. One is supposed to have a teacher if they are practicing Buddhism. Theravadan Buddhism is the only tradition that does not stress the need for a teacher. So, in light of that, I r… (View Post)
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Re: I feel trapped by desire,pleasure and expectations
Desires do not go away. What DOES change, slowly over time as you meditate and do the other practices of Buddhism, is that your desires hook you less and less. Let me share a story that the Dalai Lam… (View Post)3