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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: Sense Of Self
As per "The Heart Sutra", we are and we are not. A student once asked our teacher, "Is it true we aren't real?" He thought for a moment and said "Try slamming a car door on y… (View Post)
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Re: Looking at your life from the outside
This may be just a difference in semantics, but I think that looking at life from the outside creates disunity from yourself. A mental-emotional imbalance that can lead to serious results. And that w… (View Post)
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Re: Good meditation books
I recommend "Mindfulness in Plain English" by Bhante Gunaratana, I received my copy from a friend, who had been given it to him by a Sri Lankan bhante/monk. And as per the instructions on t… (View Post)
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Re: Happiness Is..........................................
We often think of happiness as being temporarily distracted from our inner unhappiness. This is distraction, rather than happiness. "Since happiness is a state of mind, then the source of happin… (View Post)
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Re: Enlightenment and being perfect
Until full enlightenment, no one will be perfect. And most of us (myself included) are not SO far down the path that we draw a fully-enlightened being to us for teachings. All we need is someone who … (View Post)
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