{"id":23683,"date":"2013-07-03T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=23683"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:19:23","slug":"buddhist-chaplain-to-open-army-meditation-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/buddhist-chaplain-to-open-army-meditation-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Chaplain to Open Army Meditation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Capt) <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/buddhism-at-fort-benning\/\">Thomas Dyer<\/a>, the US Army&#8217;s Baptist-<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/04\/baptist-pastor-to-buddhist-military-chaplain\/\">preacher-turned-Buddhist<\/a>-Chaplain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/spiritual-warfare-buddhist-chaplain-helps-heal-soldiers-minds-1.221388\">opening a meditation center<\/a> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bagram Dharma Center in Afghanistan will be classified as a &#8220;faith-based resiliency center,&#8221; and it gives [Chaplain] Capt. Thomas Dyer&#8230;a better way to connect his Eastern beliefs, Southern roots and Middle Eastern deployment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to describe what it will be:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is not a Buddhist temple, but rather a building dedicated to Eastern health and spiritual practices for the benefit of Buddhist and non-Buddhist soldiers alike &#8212; although it will have a Buddhist altar and statues inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chaplain Dyer gives high credit to the meditation he teaches:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It works. It helps,&#8221; Dyer said. &#8220;Not only is it relieving suffering &#8212; it&#8217;s restoring performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He used meditative principles to help a man pass a running test he&#8217;d already failed five times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is no small irony that US Army Chaplain (Capt) Dyer will be opening a Buddhist &#8220;temple&#8221; in a country that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/19\/world\/19TALI.html\">destroyed all vestiges of Buddhism<\/a> just prior to the US invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Capt) Thomas Dyer, the US Army&#8217;s Baptist-preacher-turned-Buddhist-Chaplain is opening a meditation center in Afghanistan. The Bagram Dharma Center in Afghanistan will be classified as a &#8220;faith-based resiliency center,&#8221; and it gives [Chaplain] Capt. Thomas Dyer&#8230;a better way to connect his Eastern beliefs, Southern roots and Middle Eastern deployment. The article goes on to describe what it will be:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,88,4096,37,5284,2,10,171,371],"class_list":["post-23683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-bagram-dharma-center","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-thomas-dyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}