#531: Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway

Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs.
Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway |
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Henry Shukman (@mountaincloudzencenter)
teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of
students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is an
appointed teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and is the Guiding
Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He has an MA from
Cambridge and an MLitt from St Andrews and has written several
award-winning books of poetry and fiction.


Henry’s essays have been published in The New York
Times, Outside, and Tricycle, and his poems have been
published in The New Republic, The Guardian, The
Sunday Times (UK), and London Review of Books. He has
taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, UBS, Esalen
Institute, Colorado College, United World College, and many other
venues. He has written of his own journey in his memoir One
Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.


Henry has also recently created a new meditation
program, Original Love, which aims to
provide a broad, inclusive path of growth through meditation.


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