Episode 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 more deeply the trappings of a deluded mind.

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

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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 and Time Stamps:
1:20: I wanted to ask this question to AnShin and KenShin but I can also now ask it of GenRai. If you wouldn't have become a monk or a nun which other job would have interested you?
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3: 08: Your introduction to Questions and Responses and for meditation sounds to me always as fresh as you would do it for the first time. How do you do it?
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4:50: Do you want to share something about the program of the promotion of the book that you have in Germany?
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9:29: I was reading recently about the 5 Remembrances and they seem pretty straight forward. I was wondering if you had anything to add or experiences with the 5 Remembrances?
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15:03: How is KenShin doing?
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16:10: What is your relation with "supernatural?"
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17:45: Do you think that a change of opinion is connected with age or aging?
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19:05: Would you be willing to share about humor and what you think about it?
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20:38: What are some tangible ways that you incorporate your practice into daily life?
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27:34: How do you work with resentments when they come up?
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30:09: Sometimes I hear something that is meant "Buddhist psychology". What do you know about this?
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31:43: Could you imagine situations where emotionality is important to have?
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33:56: I am interested to get more information about your disappointment about when a friend just does not connect anymore with you? 
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36:12: I am just wondering a