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 environmental crisis? Is the care for the environment part of self care?

What is spiritual?

What has been outstanding for you in your long distance walks (pilgrimages)?

When having a depressed mind, can observing the mind be an obstacle in sitting meditation and can saying a sentence repeatedly (mantra) be more helpful?

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These are questions 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 the trappings of a deluded mind more deeply.

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

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Want to read up on this topic: AT HELL'S GATE - A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace (Shambhala Publications 2003)

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