The Emerald Coast Meditation is honored to host Zen Master Claude AnShin Thomas. Please join the us at Christ the King Church in Santa Rosa Beach on October 20, 2022 from 6:30- 8:00 pm. The Emerald Coast Meditation Society is a non-sectarian group of meditators at all levels from beginners to expert. We follow no one religion and are open and free to the public. The Church is located at 480 N County Hwy 393, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459, one half mile north of Hwy 98.
The Title of Thomas’ Talk is: 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 from 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 Peaceand 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 oftakuhatsu. 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. You can also connect on Facebook and Instagram at zalthofoundation, or via podcast at ZalthoLIVE.
Love and Peace,
Dianne Kinsey
For additional information about the Emerald Coast Meditation Society please contact Dianne Kinsey Email: Tikster12@yahoo.com
Phone: 401-286-7193
