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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: Craving for...
“Everything is always changing. If you relax into this truth, that is Enlightenment. If you resist, this is samsara (suffering).” Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, “What Makes You (Not) a Buddhist” (the pla… (View Post)
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Re: How Mindful Are You ?
I keep on forgetting. Life is very seductive, and I am a bit of a fool. (View Post)1 -
Re: Laughter
I am always impressed by how easily the older monks laugh. But it is never the frenetic fitful laughter of someone who has not found inner peace. Their laughter is like a rippling brook sparkling in … (View Post)
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Re: Wrong friends and causes of the afflictions
It all reflects back on ourselves. No one is perfect before enlightenment, and that includes ourselves. Yet somehow our teachers are the friends of us relatively-unskilled Buddhists. The key point is… (View Post)1 -
Re: good morning, gods and goddesses
Today is Sagadawa Duchen in Tibetan Buddhism. Day for the Mahayana Sojong Vows before the sun rises. Unfortunately, I was up in the morning hours last night with atrial fibrillation and missed the pr… (View Post)
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