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9. On Spiritual Discipline, Success with Meditation, Countering Rigidity

Release Date: 07/11/2023

14. On Fear, Friendliness in Zen, Puffed Up Ego, Becoming, and Silence(#56)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

- Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - responds to questions from students in an inspiring manner based on his Zen practice and life experiences. He reminds the listener how to stay awake to life and understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind. This episode was recorded during a weekly online meeting of questions & responses. For more information: If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question, please feel free to write to . Book recommendations: - Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen...

13. Not Squandering One's Life, Subtle Manifestations of Violence, and the Meaning of Peace and Healing (#55)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

12. On Staying Focused, Zen Study, Belonging, Healthy Relationships, and Feeling Safe (#54)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

- Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - responds to questions from students in an inspiring manner based on his Zen practice and life experiences. He reminds the listener how to stay awake to life and understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind. This episode was recorded during a weekly online meeting of questions & responses. For more information: If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question, please feel free to write to . Book recommendations:- Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen Practice (Oakwood Publishing 2021)- AT...

11.On Dealing with Defiance, Emotional and Physical Pain, and Having Courage

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

10. On Assisted Suicide, Praise&Blame, Self-Compassion, Failure, and Attachment (#52)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - responds to questions from students in an inspiring manner based on his Zen practice and life experiences. He reminds the listener how to stay awake to life and understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind. This episode was recorded during a weekly online meeting of questions & responses. For more information: If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question, please feel free to write to . Book recommendations: - Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen Practice (Oakwood...

9: About Selfish Desires, Seeking Stability, No Soul, Sitting Meditation (#51)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - responds to questions from students in an inspiring manner based on his Zen practice and life experiences. He reminds the listener how to stay awake to life and understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind. This episode was recorded during a weekly online meeting of questions & responses. For more information: If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question: . For more information: Book recommendations: - Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the...

8.Bringing Meditation to Life (#50)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - speaks on the topic “Bringing Meditation to Life” during a public talk in October 2023 in Germany. He addresses his own inherited karma and how Buddhist practice helped him to transform that karma. Today his life is based in being-of-service. "When healing occurs to self, all past generations experience healing”, states Claude AnShin Thomas. The questions at the end of the talk include such as: - How important is it to have a teacher? - How has your view of death and dying changed from the...

7. Addressing Feeling Hurt, Value of Commitment, Dealing with Craving, Consciousness of Plants and Inanimate Objects

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

You can find ZalthoLIVE on all major podcast channels: Apple, Google, Spotify, AmazonMusic, and Audible and also here: These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - reflects on. He reminds the listener of how to stay awake to life and how to understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind. This episode was recorded during a weekly zoom session of questions&responses. For more information: If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question: Book recommendations: - Bringing Meditation to Life - 108...

6: Spiritual Discipline Versus Control, Emotional Challenges, Upside of Anger (#48)

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

You can find ZalthoLIVE on all major podcast channels: Apple, Google, Spotify, AmazonMusic, and Audible. These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - reflects on. He reminds the listener of how to stay awake to life and how to understand more deeply the traps of a deluded mind. This episode was recorded during a weekly zoom session of questions&responses. For more information: If you want to ask Claude AnShin Thomas a question: Book recommendations: - Bringing Meditation to Life - 108...

5. Living at Peace with Traumatic Experiences

ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

On Vietnam Veterans Day, 29 March, Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, Vietnam combat Veteran, and author - gave a talk to the employees of a cancer-biotech company. Their interest was that Claude AnShin Thomas’ own journey of healing and transformation of the wounds of war mirror the turbulences and peace finding efforts in high stakes crisis and hardship of many people, to include cancer patients. For more information: Contact Email: Book recommendations: - Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen...

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These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - reflects on. He reminds the listener of how to stay awake to life and how to understand more deeply the trappings of a deluded mind.

This episode was recorded during a zoom questions&responses session with a German-speaking audience.

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Want to read up on this topic? Book recommendations:

- Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen Practice (Oakwood Publishing 2021)

- AT HELL'S GATE - A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace (Shambhala Publications 2003)

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1:30 In which way are your father and your mother present in your life now, if they are present?
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3:58 During sitting meditation, is it important to consciously slow down my breathing or do I just stay with whatever breathing pattern is natural at that time?
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5:58 Would you share something about your experience of discipline?
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8:16 This morning when you gave instructions for sitting meditation you said that it was best to not wear shoes and if it was cold to not wear socks. How come?
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10:16 When does discipline lead to feeling overwhelmed and tightness?
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10:50 What your saying is, if I am not enjoying, for instance getting up very early in the morning and getting on with my day and I’d rather be in bed because I don't’ like doing that, that’s not discipline?
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14:40 When does discipline lead to more serenity and freedom?
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18:50 In my meditation practice I do experience on certain days I am busy with quite intense feelings which I usually reject internally and am fighting with it, and then I am not succeeding in meditating. What would you say about that?
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21:08 Do you sometimes experience situations when you keep yourself small?
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24:03 What are your thoughts on the idea of the value of looking or reflecting on the path?
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27:24 When bringing little children into the zendo, when does it get to the point where the disturbance gets to big and I need to interact?
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31:50 There is this saying that every response already exists in us. Do you have any idea how it comes that we are so deluded as humans that we don’t have access to it?
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34:21 I noticed lately that when I travel I become rigid and uptight. Is the response to that tension just to accept it or should I make an effort to change that and relax?
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40: 08 (In reference to what was shared in previous question) Why didn’t you just put the eyedrop in your eye?

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