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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: Meditating for longer than 5-15 minutes
It is quality, not quantity. If 10 minutes is all you can do and retain SOME focus, that is good .. longer than that would only be strengthening the mind's habit of wandering. The mind WILL wander. A… (View Post)
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Re: An individual spirituality
Being born in 1949, I hung out with hippies ... they were closer to my world-view than the conventional people. And I tried every drug there was to try at the time, although none of them compared to … (View Post)
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Re: Seeking advice...
I have advice. Which may or may not help. I smoked a pack a day from 1972 to 2006 … that’s 34 years. I tried support groups, nicotine gum, the nicotine patch, hypnosis, cold turkey. Always, the cravi… (View Post)
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Re: Repentance and confession questions
We confess to ourselves. We face the pain of our unskill actions, vow to do differently, and then let go of the guilt, and move on (but keep the intention alive). We accept that until enlightenment, … (View Post)
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Re: An apology
It is kind of you to apologize, but not needed. We are all ignorant, until we attain enlightenment .. all unskillful. And it takes countless lifetimes to attain even the first level of enlightenment.… (View Post)1