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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: Drawn to Two Different Buddhist Traditions
If you have a Zen monk to guide you in person, go with Zen. If you have a Tibetan monk to guide you in person, go with Tibetan. The Tibetans say that Vajrayana will "drive you crazy" if you… (View Post)
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Re: emptiness in everyday life
Emptiness comes from the experience of internal insight. You do not "create" it with your thoughts or with you intellect. Buddhism is experiential in nature, lying in the area of observatio… (View Post)
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Re: You need to find yourself before you can lose yourself...
No you don't need to. This is a Western misunderstanding. It's sort of like the Western concept of getting over angry by BEING angry ... all you do when you beat up a pillow is strengthen the anger i… (View Post)
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Re: No hope in Buddhism?
Just meditate more and continue to listen to Pema Chodron. Once you start to See, to observe, the operation of hope/attachment/desire leading, within you, to your dissatisfaction then you start to se… (View Post)1 -
Re: Buddhism in three words or fewer
Four words: sorry. "What's the big deal?" Background: My daughter is taking beginner's lessons in Tibetan Buddhism from my teacher, who is one of the Dalai Lama's senior monks and a geshe. … (View Post)1