10. ZalthoLIVE: Giving witness, Living Zen out loud, Setting daily priorities
ZalthoLIVE - Claude AnShin Thomas
English - September 23, 2021 09:49 - 21 minutes - 28.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBuddhism Religion & Spirituality Spirituality change meditation mindfulness breathwork buddhism daily engaged life nonviolence peace Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 trappings of a deluded mind more deeply.
Here brief notes about this episode's themes:
Giving witness/bearing witness
- Encourage to be revealing of oneself, to not skate around on the surface of things, to explore the depth of our conditioning in a verbal way
Recognizing excuses for not-practicing meditation
Living practice out loud
- It’s about sitting, it’s about pausing before eating
- application of meditation in all of my daily affairs, not hiding my commitment, for instance in my case wearing robes
- being more slow, talk less, be more deliberate
Working with the feelings connected with the trauma of injuring your hand – re-visiting using the saw
Memories that touch sadness
- learning to hold the feelings
Perceiving interconnectedness in life – having a keen awareness, not always possible to put into words
Decisions on setting priorities
- a big part is accepting life as it is
- going ahead with what wants or needs to be done
- to not over-think things
For more interesting information: https://zaltho.org/
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Want to read up on this topic? Book recommendations:
Bringing Meditation to Life - 108 Teachings on the Path of Zen Practice AT HELL'S GATE - A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace (Shambhala Publications 2003)