Stages of Practice

In Stages of Practice, Sam speaks with Henry Shukman. They discuss Henry’s new book and app; his poems, two of which he recites; integrating meditative insight; the generative quality of emptiness; resistance and clinging as opportunities; jhana meditation and flow states; aesthetic appreciation in Zen; the increasing accessibility of nondual teachings; emotional reactivity, and the need to train it; the centrality of compassion to the project of awakening; the value of practicing with others; the intrinsic dysregulation of the human mind; shortcomings in science and secular philosophy; Eastern vs. Western wisdom; the relationship between ethical conduct and nondual recognition; and other topics.