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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: Zen.......self-taught or via a Teacher ?
There are 3 basic traditions of Buddhism: Zen, Vajrayana (Tibetan) and Theravadan. I have read the pursuing Zen without the guidance of a master/teacher is a waste of time. But since I have no Zen te… (View Post)
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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: What do you practice?
I practice what my teacher teaches us. He is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, born in Tibet, educate at Namgyal in Dharamshala and earned his Geshe degree. So I practice Vajrayana. Does it fit? Not exactly. … (View Post)
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Re: Traditions...and the role they play in your practice.
My teacher is an old Tibetan monk, born in Tibet, with a Geshe degree. Needless to say, Tibetan Buddhism is HEAVY on tradition and ritual. Not quite my cup of tea, but I can see how it works with cog… (View Post)1