Speaking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman

Zen instructor, creator, and poet Henry Shukman talks with host Michael Taft about Mountain Cloud Zen Middle, Henry’s collection on the Waking Up app, meditation for awakening vs. meditation as a “band help,” the function of psychotherapy in non secular observe, the facility of working within the “previous method,” the trail of working with Zen koans because the journey of a lifetime. 

Henry Shukman is a instructor within the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is the Guiding Instructor of Mountain Cloud Zen Middle, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Henry is an award-winning poet and creator of a number of books, together with One Blade of Grass, which particulars his non secular journey. And is superb. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, mixed with a spontaneous awakening expertise at age 19, paved the best way for Henry to develop a well-rounded method to spirituality and meditation – one that features love for self and the world as its basis.

Henry Shukman at Mountain Cloud Zen Middle

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