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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: Living an extraordinary Life
To me this link reads as being very "New Agey" ... i.e., increasing ones attachments (and conversely, one's aversions). Still trapped on the merry-go-round of trying to be happy by what you… (View Post)
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Re: When Practice Gets Stale
The purpose of the Precepts is to help us see how enslaved we are. When we resist these impulses we have the of opportunity to observe and learn. If we just give in to our cravings, we don't have tha… (View Post)
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Re: The Art of Letting Go....The Practice of the Dharma
The hardest thing, for me, is to let go of the attitude that things should always go the way I want them to. And that when I am not happy with something this means something is wrong and the situatio… (View Post)2 -
Re: I am related to the Buddha?
"Buddha" is a state of being. We are ALL "Buddhas", according to the monks. We just don't know it. THE Buddha was just one enlightened being ... Siddhartha. (View Post)1 -
Re: Mental illness and rebirth
I don't think you need to worry about it. My sister's teacher (a Buddhist monk) told her that addictions do not pass on, although the tendency to overdo something can pass on. The addiction itself is… (View Post)
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