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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: Avoiding the near-enemy nihilism
What makes suffering painful is that we expect to NOT suffer. We tense up, we fight our discomfort. No, relaxing into it doesn't make it go away, but it changes how we feel it. Think of any kind of p… (View Post)
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Re: Insight for the day
Until you experience it first-hand, it is only an idea. (View Post)
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Re: 12 Links of Dependent Origination
The way to learn it and understand it is through observation of what goes on inside of you. Memorizing the links DOES help you identify what your mindfulness observes, but is no substitution for bein… (View Post)
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Re: What music are you listening to?
(Quote) Of course I chant. It is part of the traditional Tibetan practices and part of what our Lama teaches. Chanting involves visualization, but it is not meditation. Nor is it mindfulness. Chantin… (View Post)
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Re: Being Happy
We all want to be happy. But the desire and the need to be happy IS the source of our unhappiness. Buddhist steps off the happiness/unhappiness merry-go-round and endeavours to just be vibrantly and … (View Post)
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