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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: how to join a monastery?
Enlightenment is a state of mind. Therefore, it is achieved WITHIN your mind, and the outer circumstances do not create it. Monastic life has hard labour, material discomfort, and social factions/bac… (View Post)
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Stress is self-induced. Be aware of it when as create it, and then relax into it instead. (View Post)
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Re: teachers
A teacher is someone at whose feet you can literally, physically sit, and take lessons and guidance from them (generally along with several other people). They are not an online source, not a book. T… (View Post)2 -
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Spend your time on your Buddhist practice. The only really worthwhile use of our time is to work towards enlightenment. Congratulations on beating cancer, btw. (View Post)2 -
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Belief is not knowledge. In fact, the Tibetan language has two different words for the English concept of "know". One word means "I know because someone told me or I heard about it.&qu… (View Post)
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