New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Aug 6, 2024 Henry Shukman, MA, is the Spiritual Director Emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and has trained in various other meditation schools and practices. He has been authorized to teach Mindfulness by Shinzen Young and is a certified dreamwork therapist. Henry is author of several books, including Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening, One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir, In Dr No’s Garden, and Mortimer of the Maghreb. He is a poet who has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He is cofounder of the The Way App. His website is henryshukman.com. Henry describes that the heart of life is the oneness of original love. He shares how we are all a hair’s breadth away from a vast boundless reality and how you can come home to yourself through the four inns on the path of awakening. They include: mindfulness meditation, support, absorption, and a union with everything. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:05 Original love vs. original sin 00:04:46 Spontaneous moment of awakening 00:13:19 Becoming a meditation teacher 00:21:09 Harnessing unity consciousness 00:32:40 Mindfulness meditation 00:43:29 Support and connecting 00:48:06 Absorption and flow 01:00:51 Deep self-acceptance 01:03:15 Neuroscience research 01:09:58 Awakening to boundless union 01:13:55 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/ (Recorded on June 27, 2024)