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 deeply the trappings of a deluded mind.

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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 (Oakwood Publishing 2021)

-       AT HELL'S GATE - A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace (Shambhala Publications 2003)

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Questions/Time Stamps:

1:16 How has your relationship to being on time been, for example before the practice and then coming into the practice
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6:04 Do you remember the first retreat that you facilitated and if so, how did it go?
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8:30 If I have developed certain reactions to similar situations over my lifetime, do you think that this is a trap like conditioning patterns? And that I should behave freshly in every moment?
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11:42 Do I let go of fear or does fear let go of me?
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13:27 Can you say more about “moral Injury” such as examples or how a person knows that they have one?
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16:22 Would you be willing to share a personal experience about recognizing fear and how your relationship to fear served you
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19:37 Is there something that you especially like to do to recovery yourself or get back your strength after changing time (jet lag)?
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24:51 Do you beat yourself up when you make a mistake or how has your process been?
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27:15 After you finish an event or a lot of traveling do you take a specific amount of time to reflect or let it sink in?
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32:57 How would you finish the sentence, “At the end of my life…?”
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39:28 Do you think of what you might leave behind for your son after death?