Host Michael Taft talks about love, primordial love and original sin, happiness intense enough to be called a “blessing,” seeing your true face outside of time, the four zones of love, and inseparability. A conversation with meditation teacher and author Henry Shukman about the experience of infinite space. , experiencing love as the purpose of life, etc.
Henry Shukman is the founder of the Original Love Meditation Program, spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and author of award-winning books of poetry and fiction. His latest work, Original Love: the Four Inns on the Path of Awakening (HarperOne), will be released in July 2024. Henry has taught at Google, Harvard Business School, Institute of American Indian Arts, and Oxford Brookes University. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, and The Guardian, and his essays have appeared in The New York Times and Outside. He holds an MA from Cambridge and an MA from St Andrews. Henry is the co-founder of The Way, a meditation app that offers a unique path to deep meditation training with zero options.
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