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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: Non-attached love?
Love has nothing to do with attachment. When we love someone out of attachment, our "love" is love for how WE feel about them. This is selfishness, which is the opposite of love. Love is no… (View Post)
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Re: Zen - 'enlightenment in this lifetime'
It kind of amuses me. Our habits are the habits of a lifetime to date, perhaps of countless lifetimes if rebirth does indeed occur. These habits are not going to change quickly. Although if we have a… (View Post)
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Re: Cessation of suffering
It is a fancy way of saying we relax into it all. Which is not the same things as "dealing" with things. And which it is much easier to SAY we are going to relax than it is to actually DO s… (View Post)
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Re: What are we supposed to do?
According to my teacher, our karmas rebirth. Our personality does not. Karmas are imprints we have made within ourselves, through our intentions, actions, words, thoughts and feelings. And the teachi… (View Post)
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Re: I have trouble finding where I belong within Buddhism.
I have been practicing Buddhism (with a monk/teacher) for over 14 years, and I STILL am not sure where I fit into Buddhism. This is okay. In order to fit in, to force myself into this format or that,… (View Post)
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