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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: Karma and video games
Karma is not a belief system. It is a fact of imprints within ourselves, created by our actions, emotions and thoughts. We ARE our imprints, the habits of mind and emotion that we have created, and w… (View Post)
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Re: Is Buddhism just like the others?
Don't worry about Nirvana or enlightenment. We are taught that until we have becomed enlightened, we cannot conceive of what it is like. Also, as a Buddhist, don't be "goal-oriented" (focus… (View Post)
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Re: Shiny, bright things
Why is it so hard to "beat the delusion" that external things will bring happiness? Because external things distract us from our inner unhappiness. Because it is a lot easier to look for di… (View Post)
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Re: Help understanding Emptiness please!
You know, Buddhism is the EXPERIENCE of reality. Not an intellectual conception of it. Experience has to be lived, and will not be understood from someone else's words .. nor even from our own "… (View Post)
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Re: Which Buddhist teaching have you found most helpful?
The meditation instructions. Buddhism is about experience ... just as no words and no teaching can convey what sugar tastes like, or what an orgasm feels like ... so too, no words and no teaching can… (View Post)
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