I Want an Awakening Experience. How Do I Get It? | Henry Shukman

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

They say enlightenment is always an accident. Here’s how to make yourself more accident-prone.

Henry Shukman is a poet, author and Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage. He is founder of the Original Love meditation program, spiritual director emeritus at Mountain Cloud Zen Center and co-founder of the single-path meditation app The Way. His most recent books are Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening and the Zen memoir One Blade of Grass.

In this episode we talk about:

Henry’s awakening moment
The meaning of the term “inn”
We walk through the four inns
We talk about loving your obstacles
Whether finding a meditation teacher matters
What koans are, and how they can enhance your practice

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Henry's meditation app, The Way
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0:00.0	It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
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1:32.8	As you'll hear, Henry Shookman has an amazing story.
1:36.1	Seemingly out of nowhere, when he was a very young man, he had an awakening experience.
1:42.5	You may ask, what does that mean? I will let him answer that question.
1:46.1	You'll hear him answer it right at the top of this interview. Anyway, that experience upended his
1:50.6	whole life plan. He had no intention of becoming a Zen master, but that is exactly what he now is.
1:57.8	His job, in essence, is to help the rest of us wake up in the way in which he did.
2:03.5	It's often said that enlightenment is always an accident, and the trick is to make yourself
2:08.5	accident prone. So Henry has devised a four-part recipe for waking up, and he spells it out
2:15.8	in his new book, which is called Original Love, the Four Inns,
2:20.3	I N-N-S, the Four Inns on the Path of Awakening. In this conversation, we talk about his
2:26.5	awakening moment, which I already referenced. We talk about the meaning of the term in, again,
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