ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas

By Zaltho Foundation

What's ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas about?

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. (zaltho.org)

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ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas episodes:

05.24.2024
8.Bringing Meditation to Life (#50)
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...
05.13.2024
7. Addressing Feeling Hurt, Value of Commitment, Dealing with Craving, Consciousness of Plants and Inanimate Objects
You can find ZalthoLIVE on all major podcast channels: Apple, Google, Spotify, AmazonMusic, and Audible and also here: https://zaltho.org/en/media/podcasts-zaltholive.html These are questions and topics that Claude AnShin Thomas - Zen Buddhist monk, combat veteran, and author - reflects on. He...
04.27.2024
6: Spiritual Discipline Versus Control, Emotional Challenges, Upside of Anger (#48)
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...
04.05.2024
5. Living at Peace with Traumatic Experiences
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...
03.20.2024
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 deeply the traps of...
03.03.2024
3. Grieving Loss, Roots of Antisemitism, Understanding War and Moral Injury (#45)
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...
02.07.2024
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 deeply the traps...
01.17.2024
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 deeply the traps...
12.01.2023
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 understand more deeply...
11.14.2023
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 understand more deeply...
10.31.2023
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 how to understand...
10.04.2023
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 how to understand more...
09.13.2023
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 how to understand...
08.25.2023
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 his book Bringing Meditation to...
07.28.2023
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 how to understand more...
07.11.2023
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 how to understand more...
06.27.2023
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 how to understand more...
06.08.2023
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 how to understand more...
05.14.2023
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 how to understand...
04.29.2023
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 how to understand...
04.08.2023
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. This episode was recorded...
03.10.2023
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 how to understand more...
02.16.2023
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 how to understand more...
01.24.2023
1. ZalthoLIVE: Dealing with Challenges, Sabotaging Oneself, Death, Senselessness, Paying Attention to Details
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 the...
12.08.2022
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 understand the trappings...
11.11.2022
12. On Lonliness, Attachment, War in the Ukraine, Awakening, Laziness etc.
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 the...
10.05.2022
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 how to understand the...
08.30.2022
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 how to understand the...
08.06.2022
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 how to understand...
07.20.2022
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 to life and how to...
06.23.2022
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 zoom class. Claude AnShin Thomas:...
05.31.2022
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 the peace we...
05.17.2022
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 his military service...
04.06.2022
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 ordination go? (3...
03.09.2022
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, Claude AnShin Thomas speaks with...
02.16.2022
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 how to understand the...
01.16.2022
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 tradition - reflects on. He reminds the...
12.22.2021
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 how to understand the...
12.07.2021
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 interesting information: https://zaltho.org/ If you want to ask a question: [email protected] Want...
11.02.2021
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 how to understand the...
09.23.2021
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 how to understand the...
08.10.2021
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 impermance and not-knowing. Sometimes these are...
07.06.2021
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 ATTENTION-TO-DAILY-LIFE. These are some...
06.13.2021
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 the violent turmoil in...
05.14.2021
6. ZalthoLIVE: Trust the Process, Meditation and Chronic Pain, Feeling Alive
- 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 Japanese Soto Zen tradition - responds...
04.13.2021
Bonus ZalthoLIVE: New Book Release, Author Reads Excerpts
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 AnShin Thomas shares his experiences and insights into how Zen teachings and practice can move off the...
03.16.2021
5.ZalthoLIVE: Guilt and Self-Forgiveness, Science and Practice, Paying Attention (with German translation)
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 separateness, how thoughts are not absolute fact, how to develop discernment of...
02.18.2021
4. ZalthoLIVE: Active Nonviolence in Relation to the Ideas of Peace, Nonviolence and Pacifism
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 translate into action? If something is not practical, it is...
02.06.2021
3. ZalthoLIVE: Attachment to My Conditioned Patterns Keeps Me Trapped (with German translation)
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...
01.17.2021
2. ZalthoLIVE: About Pain, Concept of Soul, and Peace (with German translation)
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 within myself? These...

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ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas episodes:

8.Bringing Meditation to Life (#50)

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

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

5. Living at Peace with Traumatic Experiences

4: On Practice, Regret, Violence in Athletics, Dealing with News Reports, Fun and Relaxation (#46)

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)

1. On Zen and Psychotherapy, Zen and Drugs, Zen and Conflict

16. On Unconditional Giving, Near-Death-Experience, Can Westerners be ’True’ Buddhists? (#42)

15. On Making Your Bed and How to Explain Witnessing the Killing of a Chicken to a 1-Year-Old (#41)

14. Understanding More About How We Engage in War

13. On Regrets, Adjusting to Different Cultures, Not-Killing Insects, Failure, Holding Others’ Suffering

12. On Attachment and Loving, Is Suicide a Solution?, Our Life is a Reflexion of Our Conditioning, Suffering and Comforting

11.From a Public Talk in Switzerland in Spring 2023: Karma, the Illusion of Autonomy, Four Noble Truths in Daily Life

10: On Freshly Presenting, German Book Tour, About Aging, Tangible Evidence of Practice in Daily Life

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

8. On Sitting, Showing Interest in Veterans, Concept of Evil, What About the Ego, Sense of Self, Weight of Karmic Doom

7. On Seeking Approval, Feeling Lonely, Wearing Monk's Robes, Soul Pain, Touching the Absolute, Waking Up

6. On Hope, Dealing with Getting Hurt, Being Not-Broken, Connection

5. On Life and Various Questions: Awakening, Suffering, Death, Boundaries

4. Online Visit With College Students from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, Asian Philosophy Class

3. Relationship with Time, Letting go of Fear, Moral Injury, Making Mistakes, Taking Care of Oneself

2. ZalthoLIVE: On Vulnerabillity, Having Children, Addressing Anxiety, What about Therapy?

1. ZalthoLIVE: Dealing with Challenges, Sabotaging Oneself, Death, Senselessness, Paying Attention to Details

13. ZalthoLIVE: On Fear of Dying, Not Being Controlling, Anchors in Our Lives, Healthy Detachment, Changing Through Practice

12. On Lonliness, Attachment, War in the Ukraine, Awakening, Laziness etc.

11. ZalthoLIVE: On Intuition, Faith, Facing Complications, Having Choices

10. ZalthoLIVE: Dealing With Stress, Trusting Intuition, Being Vulnerable, War in the Ukraine

9. ZalthoLIVE: First Impressions, Vulnerability, Our Past, Confronting Fears

8. ZalthoLIVE: About Directness, Noticing, Intuition, Vulnerability, and the Ukraine War

7.ZalthoLIVE: College students ask ‘What is Living as a Buddhist Monk Like?'

6. ZalthoLIVE: Memorial Day, The Real Costs of War

5. ZalthoLIVE: Conditioning Leading to War, Finding a Way with Zen Practice

4. ZalthoLIVE: Trusting to Find Absolute Truth and other questions (with German translation)

3. ZalthoLIVE: Useful Responses on the War in the Ukraine

2. ZalthoLIVE: The Observing Mind, Being Connected, Mindfulness, Finding a Teacher, Stop Letting Ideas Dictate Our Lives

1. ZalthoLIVE: Meditation is not a Technique, Making Decisions, Can Lying be Skillful Means?

13. ZalthoLIVE: Accepting Impermanence and Uncertainty

12. ZalthoLIVE: About Strong Emotions, Being Bored, Homelessness and Drug Addiction (with German translation)

11. ZalthoLIVE: On Freedom, Irritability, One's Past, Stop Arguing

10. ZalthoLIVE: Giving witness, Living Zen out loud, Setting daily priorities

9. ZalthoLIVE: The Value in Impermanence and Not-Knowing (with German translation)

8. ZalthoLive: Stay Fresh and Open with Daily Routines, Sustaining Life while Challenges Always Occur (with German translation)

7. ZalthoLIVE: About Breath, Real Understanding, Zen Practice Supporting Teenager Parenting (with German translation)

6. ZalthoLIVE: Trust the Process, Meditation and Chronic Pain, Feeling Alive

Bonus ZalthoLIVE: New Book Release, Author Reads Excerpts

5.ZalthoLIVE: Guilt and Self-Forgiveness, Science and Practice, Paying Attention (with German translation)

4. ZalthoLIVE: Active Nonviolence in Relation to the Ideas of Peace, Nonviolence and Pacifism

3. ZalthoLIVE: Attachment to My Conditioned Patterns Keeps Me Trapped (with German translation)

2. ZalthoLIVE: About Pain, Concept of Soul, and Peace (with German translation)