Talking about Zen Koans: Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
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Henry Shukman talks with host Michael Taft about Mountain Cloud Zen Center, Henry’s series on the Waking Up app, meditation for awakening vs. meditation as a “band aid,” the role
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Guru Viking Podcast Features Henry Shukman – Zen’s True Miracle
Steve James (the Guru Viking) is joined by Henry Shukman for a second interview. Click here for the first interview. In this interview Henry reveals what he calls Zen’s true
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Ocular Distortion: Dharma Talk by Michael Taft (Video)
Podcaster, writer and eclectic meditation teacher Michael Taft explores ocular distortion and awareness. What’s the view we see the world through, and how does it distort reality? Our everyday view
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Being Well Podcast: The Heart of Zen with Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman joins Dr. Rick Hanson and his son Forrest Hanson on the Being Well Podcast to explore self-transcendent experiences, relaxing self-identification, and the warm heart at the core of
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The Mysterious/Unsolvable Zen Koans: Henry interviewed by Kevin Rose
A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. Zen masters have been testing
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Ryokan: Temporary Dwelling
Where you have beauty you have ugliness, too. Where you have right you will also have wrong. Knowledge and ignorance are each other’s cause. Delusion and enlightenment produce one
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Flower Sermon
Once upon a time the world honored one was at Vulture Peak. Before a vast crowd of lay practitioners, nuns, and monks, angelic creatures, and even gods, he held up
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Falling into Beauty
I don’t regard my life as insufficient. Inside the brushwood gate there is a moon; there are flowers. ― Ryōkan Photo: Circle of life… a contemporary Enso circle by Rosa Bellino
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Henry Interviewed By Eric Zimmer on The One You Feed Podcast
Paths of Spiritual Awakening: Henry was interviewed by Eric Zimmer on the podcast, The One You Feed. Listen to this April 28 Conversation. In This Interview, Henry Shukman and Eric
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Don’t-Know Mind
But when you allow each thought to be met with “Is it true?” life will show itself to you. Eventually, you find yourself ending every thought with a question mark,
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Welcoming
… in welcoming, you are completely open, open to perception. In welcoming, you are waiting, completely directionless. …Your real nature is welcoming. from Living Truth – Jean Klein Photo by Rosa Bellino
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Sharing One Breath
Kono iki ya Ah this breath Mae wa dare
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Henry Shukman and Sam Harris Interview / Waking Up Podcast
Henry was recently interviewed by Sam Harris on the Waking Up podcast. Waking Up is available with a subscription. If you’d like to listen, we have a special offer that
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Mindfulness: You are Not Alone, Jack Kornfield
In a recent article titled You Are Not Alone, Jack Kornfield reminds us that we are intricately connected to all things through the air we breathe, the food we eat
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