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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: Born in the Caul
There is only one Dalai Lama, and he is not selected on the basis of having been born with a caul. Sorry (View Post)
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Re: Buddhism, The Path or just more BS?
(Quote) The practice does not actually eliminate grief, anger, etc. What it does is to "unhook" us from them ... they continue to occur, but they do not push us, do not control us. I read a… (View Post)
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Re: The mind of a socio-pathic
(Quote) This is true. Our actions and our attitudes link us in with karmas. My lama made a comment one day that struck home: He knew a guy who was attracted to one of the dharma members in our group,… (View Post)
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Re: Fishing
One can go fishing with their grandfather and not fish. What the grandfather wants is time spent with his grandchild. And that can be done. As for killing or even just harming the fish, this is in vi… (View Post)
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Re: Police: 27 killed at Conn. school; 1 other dead
It's not that we, as Buddhists, are not deeply moved by this killing in Connecticut. It is that we live, every day, in full awareness of all the suffering that goes on in the world. Not just the suff… (View Post)
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