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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: The truth of reality
Truth? Psychologists will tell you that most of the "truths" we hold so dear are intellectual constructions designed to keep us from facing our hidden emotional issues. Furthermore, thinkin… (View Post)
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Re: My dad is a right-wing A--hole
Attachment to our values and believes is just attachment to trying to feel "certain" in a world that is fundamentally UN-certain. The Buddhist works on being aware of the moment, mindful of… (View Post)
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Re: Blessing - now available
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Re: Who has better flying skills? Superman or Buddha?
Superman, hands down. Certainly there are stories, traditions, myths of flying and levitation. There is much fanciful thinking in Tibetan Buddhism (which was a merger of the local Bonn religion and B… (View Post)
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Re: Hallucinations During Meditation
Hallucinations? Very common. My mom (who was a student of Yogananda back in the 1930's) had them. My sisters and I, too. Through my life, I have heard many other meditators talk about these experienc… (View Post)
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