All Episodes

17. Relative and Absolute Realms, the Ceremony for the Dead and Navigating a War Zone (#87)

16. Spiritual Practice, Attachment, and Seeing the Nature of Things (#86)

15. Healing Past and Future Generations, The Roots of Sarcasm, and Working with a Busy Mind (#85)

14. On War, Addiction to Substances to include Adrenalin, and What Is Self-Reflection (#84)

13. Changing Oneself and Learning from Mistakes; Working with Worry and War(#83)

12.On Boundaries, Presence, and How Liabilities Can Be Assets (#82)

11. On Surrender, Generosity, and How to be of Service (#81)

10. On Suffering, Self-Awareness, and the Path to Responsibility (#80)

9. On Compassion, Human Connection, and the Ethical Challenges of Living in a World shaped by Violence and Ideology (#79)

8. How To Live the Dharma Today, On Refuge, Relationships, Crisis, and Non-Killing (#78)

7. Navigating Challenges and Awakening: On Resentments, Judgments, Obsession, and Showing up to Practice (#77)

6. From Busyness to Being: Questions on Presence, Dharma, and Transformation (#76)

5. Living Fully: Commitment in an Uncertain World (#75)

4. On Truth, Finding One's Voice, Skillful Means, Visiting the Ukraine (#74)

3. What We Inherit, How We Practice, and How We Meet Suffering (#73)

2. On Not Setting Goals, Being Overcritical, Repairing Hurt, and Obsession (#72)

1. On Authenticity, Illness, and What Practice Asks of Us (#71)

14. On Practice, Awareness, Ordination, and Compassion (#70)

13. On Addiction Recovery based on Buddhist Practice (#69)

12. On Ambivalence, Attention, Resistance on Pilgrimage and in a War Zone #68

11. Claude AnShin Thomas with Veterans on Acceptance, Surrender, Balance, and Indecisiveness

10. Useful Responses on the War in the Ukraine (repost from March 2022)

9. On Community, Self Esteem, Problem Solving, and Walking on Pilgrimage

8. On Self Denial, Wisdom, Delusion, Chastity and Making Mistakes

7. Bearing Witness to War: Reflections on Violence, Identity, and the Path to Peace, Claude AnShin Thomas Speaks With Veterans

6. On Silence, Arguing, Being Rejected, Arrogance, and Getting Older

5.On Manifestation, Loss, Communication, Passion, Expectations, and Daily Routines

4.On Sincerity, Working with: a Busy Mind, Powerlessness, Low Moods, Physical Pain, Rats, Real Teachers

3. On Silence, Compassion for One's Parents, Concern for the World, Euthanasia of Pets

2. On Our Inner Voice, The World Is Telling Us, Trauma Can Become An Asset, Freedom Through Practice (#58)

1. Questions on Sitting and Breath, Leadership, Listening to One's Inner Small Voice, and Teaching Children(#57)

14. On Fear, Friendliness in Zen, Puffed Up Ego, Becoming, and Silence(#56)

13. Not Squandering One's Life, Subtle Manifestations of Violence, and the Meaning of Peace and Healing (#55)

12. On Staying Focused, Zen Study, Belonging, Healthy Relationships, and Feeling Safe (#54)

11.On Dealing with Defiance, Emotional and Physical Pain, and Having Courage

10. On Assisted Suicide, Praise&Blame, Self-Compassion, Failure, and Attachment (#52)

9: About Selfish Desires, Seeking Stability, No Soul, Sitting Meditation (#51)

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)

ZalthoLIVE: Bonus Episode Instructions to Zen Sitting

1. ZalthoLIVE: Listening In on Claude AnShin Thomas Speaking (with German translation)