Introduction
Henry describes some of the many paths to awakening.
Ease and Awareness
Relax the boundaries between self and surroundings.
No Goal, No Effort
Let go of your dependence on the future to find stillness in the present.
Exploring the Sense of Self
Surrender your attachments to name, image, sensation, and self-concept.
What Is This?
Experience this moment unburdened by the need for answers and explanations.
Awareness
Allow yourself to become fully enveloped by awareness.
Whose Awareness?
There is hearing, seeing, and feeling. There is experience. Who is having it?
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Original Nature
In Original Nature, writer and Zen teacher Henry Shukman offers six 30-minute guided meditations that help us “sit with, be with, and investigate more deeply what it is to be aware.”
Henry uses visualization, inquiry, koans, body-scanning, and other techniques to explore the nature of awakening itself. The discovery that the self is “nothing more than a thought,” he says, isn't akin to "some ghastly void—it's actually the most beautiful and affirmative and positive experience.”
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