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
13. ZalthoLIVE: On Fear of Dying, Not Being Controlling, Anchors in Our Lives, Healthy Detachment, Changing Through Practice
These are 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 underst…
12. On Lonliness, Attachment, War in the Ukraine, Awakening, Laziness etc.
11. ZalthoLIVE: On Intuition, Faith, Facing Complications, Having Choices
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 …
10. ZalthoLIVE: Dealing With Stress, Trusting Intuition, Being Vulnerable, War in the Ukraine
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. ZalthoLIVE: First Impressions, Vulnerability, Our Past, Confronting Fears
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. ZalthoLIVE: About Directness, Noticing, Intuition, Vulnerability, and the Ukraine War
The following questions are what Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - reflects on in this episode. He reminds the listener of how to stay awake…
7.ZalthoLIVE: College students ask ‘What is Living as a Buddhist Monk Like?'
This is a topic that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - reflects on with a group of university students.
This episode was recorded during a …
6. ZalthoLIVE: Memorial Day, The Real Costs of War
Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - speaks at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas on the topic of war never being a solution and how to live …
5. ZalthoLIVE: Conditioning Leading to War, Finding a Way with Zen Practice
This talk was held in January 2022 online for a group of veterans who are working on the aspect of moral injury. Claude AnShin Thomas shares his experience for the first 30 minutes as it relates to h…
4. ZalthoLIVE: Trusting to Find Absolute Truth and other questions (with German translation)
Q: If all my perceptions are influenced my cultural circumstances, how can I be sure to find absolute truth? How to know, if what I find is not yet just another cultural conditioning?
Q: How did your…
3. ZalthoLIVE: Useful Responses on the War in the Ukraine
These are questions about the current war in the Ukraine that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition - reflects on. Having been a soldier in war, C…
2. ZalthoLIVE: The Observing Mind, Being Connected, Mindfulness, Finding a Teacher, Stop Letting Ideas Dictate Our Lives
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 …
1. ZalthoLIVE: Meditation is not a Technique, Making Decisions, Can Lying be Skillful Means?
Meditation is not a technique, Making Decisions, Can Lying be a skillful means?
These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the Japanese Soto Zen tr…
13. ZalthoLIVE: Accepting Impermanence and Uncertainty
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. ZalthoLIVE: About Strong Emotions, Being Bored, Homelessness and Drug Addiction (with German translation)
In this episode Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomas works with following questions. This episode was recorded during a zoom questions&response session with a German-speaking audience.
For more int…
11. ZalthoLIVE: On Freedom, Irritability, One's Past, Stop Arguing
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 …
10. ZalthoLIVE: Giving witness, Living Zen out loud, Setting daily priorities
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. ZalthoLIVE: The Value in Impermanence and Not-Knowing (with German translation)
Listen to this inspiring public talk by Zen monk Claude AnShin Thomas on the occasion of the world wide celebrated Buddhist VESAK fest. We all struggle from time to time with the reality of impermanc…
8. ZalthoLive: Stay Fresh and Open with Daily Routines, Sustaining Life while Challenges Always Occur (with German translation)
Sustaining a meditation practice is not always easy. Sitting meditation is only one form of meditation.
How do I remain fresh and open in the midst of daily routines?
In short: Zen pracitice is about…
7. ZalthoLIVE: About Breath, Real Understanding, Zen Practice Supporting Teenager Parenting (with German translation)
@The importance of breath awareness in all that we do.
@ How was the process of beginning to serve others?
@ Could you explain the difference between knowledge and wisdon?
@ What do you think about t…