About this episode

Wendy Shinyo Haylett interviews Zen master Henry Shukman about his teachings and influence on her meditation practice.

I am excited to share this conversation with Henry Shukman, a Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage and spiritual director emeritus at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Henry is the co-founder of The Way meditation app and founder of the Original Love meditation program. He is the author of the books, Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening and One Blade of Grass: A Zen Memoir , among other award-winning and bestselling books of poetry and fiction. He has taught meditation at Google and Harvard Business School and taught poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker and the Guardian and his essays in the New York Times, Outside, and Tricycle. Henry has a master's degree from Cambridge and a master of letters degree from St. Andrews. As this biographical summary makes obvious, it's not like Henry hasn't been quite "discoverable" , as a writer and meditation teacher but I only recently "discovered" him. And once I did, he has had a profound influence on me, as both a teacher and writer. In my conversation with him, I'll talk more about how I discovered him on Sam Harris' Waking Up app and how he became a…

People in this episode

Host: Wendy Shinyo Haylett

Guest: Henry Shukman

Topics covered

• Zen Buddhism
• Meditation
• Spirituality
• Poetry
• Personal Growth

Keywords

• Zen master
• meditation
• spiritual director
• poetry
• awakening

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mountain Cloud Zen Center, The Way, Google, Harvard Business School, Institute of American Indian Arts, New Yorker, Guardian, New York Times, Outside, Tricycle

Books & works: Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening, One Blade of Grass: A Zen Memoir

Places: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cambridge, St. Andrews

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