ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas
We all desire happiness - what is good, pleasant right, permanent, joyful, satisfying, and easy.
But life often brings frustration, dissatisfaction, incompleteness, and sorrow.
This podcast channel offers talks and question-response-sessions from Zen Buddhist Monk, Vietnam Veteran, Author, and Peace Activist Claude AnShin Thomas.
This is for everyone who yearns for understanding and for embodying the difference we want to see in the world. Let's embark together on a path of ending all wars and truly living peace. https://www.zaltho.org, [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
4: On Practice, Regret, Violence in Athletics, Dealing with News Reports, Fun and Relaxation (#46)
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…
3. Grieving Loss, Roots of Antisemitism, Understanding War and Moral Injury (#45)
2. Lightness in Challenging Times, Healthy Fame and Gain, Revenge, Forgiveness, Letting Go (#44)
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…
1. On Zen and Psychotherapy, Zen and Drugs, Zen and Conflict
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…
16. On Unconditional Giving, Near-Death-Experience, Can Westerners be ’True’ Buddhists? (#42)
These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk, Combat Veteran, and Author - reflects on. He reminds the listener of how to stay awake to life and how to …
15. On Making Your Bed and How to Explain Witnessing the Killing of a Chicken to a 1-Year-Old (#41)
These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk, Combat Veteran, and Author - reflects on. He reminds the listener of how to stay awake to life and how to …
14. Understanding More About How We Engage in War
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 …
13. On Regrets, Adjusting to Different Cultures, Not-Killing Insects, Failure, Holding Others’ Suffering
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 …
12. On Attachment and Loving, Is Suicide a Solution?, Our Life is a Reflexion of Our Conditioning, Suffering and Comforting
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 …
11.From a Public Talk in Switzerland in Spring 2023: Karma, the Illusion of Autonomy, Four Noble Truths in Daily Life
This recording is from a public talk that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - gave in spring in Switzerland for the German language release of…
10: On Freshly Presenting, German Book Tour, About Aging, Tangible Evidence of Practice in Daily Life
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 …
9. On Spiritual Discipline, Success with Meditation, Countering Rigidity
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 …
8. On Sitting, Showing Interest in Veterans, Concept of Evil, What About the Ego, Sense of Self, Weight of Karmic Doom
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 …
7. On Seeking Approval, Feeling Lonely, Wearing Monk's Robes, Soul Pain, Touching the Absolute, Waking Up
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 …
6. On Hope, Dealing with Getting Hurt, Being Not-Broken, Connection
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 …
5. On Life and Various Questions: Awakening, Suffering, Death, Boundaries
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 …
4. Online Visit With College Students from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, Asian Philosophy Class
What is it like to live as a Zen Buddhist Monk? This and other questions from college students Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - reflects on…
3. Relationship with Time, Letting go of Fear, Moral Injury, Making Mistakes, Taking Care of Oneself
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 …
2. ZalthoLIVE: On Vulnerabillity, Having Children, Addressing Anxiety, What about Therapy?
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 …