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]
- Trust the Process, Meditation and Chronic Pain, Feeling Alive etc.
This is a session with an international audience on zoom where Claude AnShin Thomas - fully ordained Zen Buddhist Monk in the J…
Author Claude AnShin Thomas introduces his new book Bringing Meditation to Life and reads a few excerpts.
https://zaltho.org/en/who-we-are/claude-anshin-thomas-founder/books.html
Zen teacher Claude…
Intriguing questions about guilt, forgiveness, science - we all have questions. How inspiring to hear this particular Zen perspective from Claude AnShin Thomas. Reminders of how we create separatenes…
Claude AnShin Thomas: "There is a difference between the ideas of peace, nonviolence, pacifism and the commitment to the reality of active nonviolence.
How does all the information I receive translat…
My attachment to my ideas of what life is or how I should be in the world creates more suffering.
What is the 'seeing with clarity' that Shakyamuni Buddha experienced?
What do you do about the enviro…
Have unexpected painful feelings ever overwhelm you? Is suchness the same as soul ? Can a Buddhist mantra clear all suffering? Is it true that when I avoid conflict to keep the peace, I start a war w…
Ever wondered what Zen sitting meditation is about? Ever had doubts if you are doing it correctly?
Zen Buddhist monk Claude AnShin Thomas explains the basics of sitting meditation including how to es…
Claude AnShin is a Vietnam combat veteran, a Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and the author of the book “At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace.” He is also the founder of the Zaltho Fo…