The Emerald Coast Meditation Society Welcomes Zen Master Claude AnShin to speak:
Where: Christ the King Church in Santa Rosa Beach
When: Thursday, October 20, 2022
When: 6:30-8:00 pm
Where: Christ the King Church in Santa Rosa Beach
When: Thursday, October 20, 2022
When: 6:30-8:00 pm
Meditation and Daily Life are Not Two Things
"Meditation is not just something we do while seated on a cushion or in a meditation hall, it’s a way of living. The practice of meditation can be present and support us in all things, in every moment, like a life jacket that keeps us from drowning. Without it, we will sink into the sea of samsara, the sea of our confusion and suffering.
By living a life rooted in meditation, we have the opportunity to recognize our repeating patterns of suffering and begin to establish a more conscious relationship with these patterns so that they no longer control us. Through this process, through living a life rooted in a disciplined, committed meditation practice, we have the opportunity to finally experience the wonder of being alive. The root form in all of this is silent sitting meditation."
- Claude AnShin Thomas out of his book Bringing Meditation to Life
About Claude AnShin Thomas
Claude AnShin Thomas is a fully ordained Zen Buddhist monk, Vietnam Veteran and the author of the books At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace and Bringing Meditation to Life. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the US Army and served in the Vietnam War as a helicopter crew chief. Since that time, he has been working to heal the wounds of war—emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
Ordained in Auschwitz in 1994, he walked on pilgrimage from Auschwitz to Vietnam, begging for alms along the way in the ancient Buddhist tradition of takuhatsu. He has walked several other pilgrimages since then in the United States and Europe.
Claude AnShin is the guiding teacher at the Magnolia Zen Center in Mary Esther, Florida, and the founder of the Zaltho Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes meditation and nonviolence. Claude AnShin teaches frequently in the United States, Europe, and South America. For more information visit www.zaltho.org or email info@zaltho.org, facebook/instagram zalthofoundation, podcast ZalthoLIVE.
