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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: What does everyone practice :)
I practice the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Because the qualified teacher where I live is a Tibetan monk from the Dalai Lama's monastery. I have had teachings from other traditions of Buddhism .… (View Post)
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Re: Is everyone here an atheist?
I do not know if I am an atheist. Belief is NOT knowledge. Buddhism supports self-observation and personal experience, rather than belief. The problem with believing in the existence of God is that t… (View Post)
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Re: Dealing with the Bossy Mind
You are over-thinking this. Over-thinking is just another way of trying to seek security ... a form of attachment, or at least of aversion to insecurity. Buddhism is about observation and experience.… (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: What music are you listening to?
Sorry If I'm stepping on people's toes. I am only passing on what my teacher (a senior Tibetan Lama) is teaching us. You are, of course, free to reject it. And, in fact, since Buddhism is about what … (View Post)
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