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The Tim Ferriss Show

#846: Permission to Do Nothing — Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This episode is part of a series called Meditation Monday. The teacher, Henry Shukman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few dozen masters in the world authorized to teach Sanbo Zen, and now, he’ll be your teacher.

In addition to my long-form interviews each week, every Monday I’ll bring you a short 10-minute or so meditation, which will help you for the rest of the week.

Over this four-episode series, you’ll develop a Zen toolkit to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life.

Henry’s app, The Way, has changed my life since I first started using it. Unlike other meditation apps, where you’re overwhelmed with a thousand choices, The Way is a clear step-by-step training program guided entirely by Henry. Through a logical progression, you’ll develop real skills that stick with you.

I’ve been using it daily, often twice a day, and it’s lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible.

As a listener of my podcast, you can get 30 free sessions by visiting https://thewayapp.com/tim and downloading the app.

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0:00.0

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show.

0:05.2

This episode is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That means, in addition to my long-form

0:10.7

interviews each week, every Monday, I will be bringing you a short 10-minute or so meditation,

0:15.9

which will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four-episode series, you'll develop a Zen toolkit,

0:21.5

specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life.

0:26.3

The teacher, Henry Shookman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few

0:30.9

dozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called Sambo Zen, and I have found

0:35.7

this particularly interesting and effective. And now he'll

0:37.9

be your teacher. I've been using Henry's app, The Way, once, often twice a day, and it has lowered my

0:45.0

anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show, you yourself can get 30 free sessions

0:50.4

by visiting theway app.com slash Tim. So if you like what you hear in these meditations,

0:56.0

which will be valuable in and of themselves, you can get 30 free sessions by going to

0:59.5

thewayap.com slash Tim. And for the time being, please enjoy this meditation Monday with

1:04.9

Henry Shookman. Welcome to another meditation with me, Henry Shookman.

1:12.6

There are so many ways that meditation can help us.

1:16.6

There are tons of different techniques and methods and approaches,

1:20.6

and all of them have something to offer us.

1:24.6

But at the same time, there is a meditative path that's about doing less,

1:31.7

not so much about deploying a method or a technique, as simply about learning to kind of drop

1:38.6

everything, to not be doing anything and to be coming back to an intrinsic, peaceful well-being that we all have

1:49.6

as part of our very nature, but we're not very used to tapping into it on the whole.

1:56.3

And in this meditation, we're going to be exploring that and seeing if we can get a taste of it and a taste

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