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christin
@christin
/firstdraft is becoming my public notepad! here are a series of recurring thoughts this weekend, stemming from meeting a bunch of IRL friends i haven't seen in a while and trying to condense all that i've been up to in the past few years into a few sentences. i've also pondered about how to explain what i've been up to for my spiritual community, chaplaincy teachers, practitioner friends, and the like. - embedded chaplaincy as a content creator in a past piece titled "why am i pursuing buddhist chaplaincy," I wrote: The traditional definition of a chaplain is: a minister who cares for people in crisis who are displaced from their preferred place of living. This can range from people suffering from illness (hospital), death (hospice), incarceration (prisons). It鈥檚 like being an ER doctor for spiritual care, composed of Judeo-Christian traditions. https://christinchong.com/writing/why-am-i-pursuing-buddhist-chaplaincy
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Marcela
@laursa.eth
I'm surprised about the Christian references. But it's so interesting, mainly because at least i was taught Buddhism/christianism are very different, at least catholicism is. How can you balance the divine vision of Buddha with the God that causes fear from the other side?
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christin
@christin
one of the teachers in my buddhist meditation center is a catholic nun 馃槉 judy cannon, who recommended me the book below practitioners explaining how they integrate zen buddhism with catholicism (in summary most answered their reverence towards emptiness which is similar to apophatic theology) https://www.amazon.com/Catholicism-Zen-Richard-Bryan-McDaniel/dp/1896559352
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Marcela
@laursa.eth
my city (recife) was one of the main portuguese colonies. we are one of the cities with the most number of churches (150 dating back to 1660) per square meter. so i was raised in a catholic school, im very used to their lessons and they've got an aggressive approach to other religions. they once taught mediums (like me) were schizophrenics
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Marcela
@laursa.eth
i think that my relationship to catholicism has been broken as someone born and raised in a catholic city and school, being a lesbian medium. i've got all sacraments (i can go to the church and all this stuff) but i feel they made the lessons have no value and found my peace in somewhere else. my religion is now umbanda/candomble, in which they've associated jesus with oxal谩, it's synced but not exactly the same. Yet, i still have a hard time mentioning jesus or looking good at it. but the fact that a catholic nun could incorporate buddhism is 馃憦馃憦馃憦馃憦
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