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#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
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Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans | Brought to you by GiveWell.org charity research and effective giving, Laird Superfood clean, plant-based creamers, and LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 770M+ users. More on all three below.Henry Shukman (@mountaincloudzencenter) teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is an appointed teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and is the Guiding Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. He has an MA from Cambridge and an MLitt from St Andrews and has written several award-winning books of poetry and fiction.Henry’s essays have been published in The New York Times, Outside, and Tricycle, and his poems have been published in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Sunday Times (UK), and London Review of Books. He has taught meditation at Google, Harvard Business School, UBS, Esalen Institute, Colorado College, United World College, and many other venues. He has written of his own journey in his memoir One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.Henry has also recently created a new meditation program, Original Love, which aims to provide a broad, inclusive path of growth through meditation.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by Laird Superfood. Founded by big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton and volleyball champion Gabby Reece, Laird Superfood promises to deliver high-impact fuel to help you get through your busiest days. Laird Superfood offers a line of plant-based products designed to optimize your daily rituals from sunrise to sunset.My two favorite products are their Turmeric Superfood Creamer and Unsweetened Superfood Creamer. I put one of them in practically everything. Both can really optimize your daily coffee or tea ritual, and a $10 bag will last you a long time. For a limited time, Laird Superfood is offering you guys 20% off your order when you use code TIM20 at checkout. Check out LairdSuperfood.com/Tim to see my favorite products and learn more.*This episode is also brought to you by GiveWell.org! For over ten years, GiveWell.org has helped donors find the charities and projects that save and improve lives most per dollar. GiveWell spends over 20,000 hours each year researching charitable organizations and only recommends a few of the highest-impact, evidence-backed charities they’ve found. In total, more than 50,000 people have used GiveWell to donate as effectively as possible.This year, support the charities that save and improve lives most, with GiveWell. Any of my listeners who become new GiveWell donors will have their first donation matched up to $250 when you go to GiveWell.org and select “PODCAST” and “Tim Ferriss” at checkout.*This episode is also brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have in the future, LinkedIn Jobs can help. LinkedIn screens candidates for the hard and soft skills you’re looking for and puts your job in front of candidates looking for job opportunities that match what you have to offer.Using LinkedIn’s active community of more than 770 million professionals worldwide, LinkedIn Jobs can help you find and hire the right person faster. When your business is ready to make that next hire, find the right person with LinkedIn Jobs. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit LinkedIn.com/Tim.*For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This episode features two sponsors. The first, Laird Superfood, offers high impact fuel to help people get through their busy days with creamers that can optimize daily coffee or tea rituals. The second, GiveWell, helps donors feel confident that their donations are making a difference in the world.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
GiveWell.org provide a vetted list of charities that are considered best per dollar in donations, they have been proven to save or improve lives.
01:26 - 08:19 (06:53)
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GiveWell.org provide a vetted list of charities that are considered best per dollar in donations, they have been proven to save or improve lives.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The podcast discusses the characteristics of allowing and accepting and how to practically implement them in our lives to cope with distressing situations.
08:19 - 15:58 (07:39)
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The podcast discusses the characteristics of allowing and accepting and how to practically implement them in our lives to cope with distressing situations.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
This episode discusses how meditation can produce bodily sensations such as warmth and softness, and how this can help practitioners become more aware of their physical experiences.
15:58 - 22:54 (06:55)
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This episode discusses how meditation can produce bodily sensations such as warmth and softness, and how this can help practitioners become more aware of their physical experiences.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Susan David discusses on the coding of emotions and recounting the powerful repercussions that comes with being able to sit with and work through emotions, instead of ignoring or avoiding them.
22:54 - 27:41 (04:46)
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Susan David discusses on the coding of emotions and recounting the powerful repercussions that comes with being able to sit with and work through emotions, instead of ignoring or avoiding them.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The human race has faced countless tragedies over the course of history, leading to a collective deep grief.
27:41 - 36:04 (08:22)
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The human race has faced countless tragedies over the course of history, leading to a collective deep grief. However, it is possible to access positive experiences through these difficult emotions.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Kevin Rose talks about his journey to discover meditation and how koans, a paradoxical puzzles, can help overcome self-deception and grant clarity of thought.
36:04 - 44:52 (08:48)
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Kevin Rose talks about his journey to discover meditation and how koans, a paradoxical puzzles, can help overcome self-deception and grant clarity of thought.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Meditation and psychedelic research are complementary practices that are being used to study altered states of consciousness.
44:52 - 52:22 (07:30)
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Meditation and psychedelic research are complementary practices that are being used to study altered states of consciousness. While psychedelic substances can induce these states, meditation is seen as a more stable way to reach non-dual states of consciousness.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The use of coins in meditation is a way to push through the construct of self and reality by puncturing the membrane of one's sense of self.
52:22 - 1:01:51 (09:28)
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The use of coins in meditation is a way to push through the construct of self and reality by puncturing the membrane of one's sense of self. By doing so, it allows for a different perspective to be gained and a deeper understanding of the self to be reached.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
In this podcast, the speaker discusses the value of koans as a meeting place for two practitioners to come together and share their experiences.
1:01:51 - 1:10:35 (08:43)
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In this podcast, the speaker discusses the value of koans as a meeting place for two practitioners to come together and share their experiences. The meeting point allows practitioners to awaken through the koan, in the same reality, and meet in the boundless wonder of this other dimension of our experience.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker explores how coins can symbolize the connection between everyday life and the mind-blowing reality of the universe.
1:10:35 - 1:15:05 (04:29)
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The speaker explores how coins can symbolize the connection between everyday life and the mind-blowing reality of the universe. Through engaging with the physical world around us, we become more in tune with the boundless oneness of existence.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Dr. Ingmar Gorman discusses the challenges of navigating psychedelic experiences, particularly when individuals reach out to him for validation of potentially destructive experiences.
1:15:05 - 1:27:30 (12:25)
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Dr. Ingmar Gorman discusses the challenges of navigating psychedelic experiences, particularly when individuals reach out to him for validation of potentially destructive experiences.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The podcast discusses the differentiation between a Zen teacher and an assistant teacher, and sets up a system of shared agreements regarding the awakening experience and handling Koans.
1:27:30 - 1:38:16 (10:46)
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The podcast discusses the differentiation between a Zen teacher and an assistant teacher, and sets up a system of shared agreements regarding the awakening experience and handling Koans. It touches on the prevalence of charlatans who exploit people in the personal and medical fields.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Shared visions while on psychedelics have been reported for centuries, and even though they are hallucinations, they seem to describe an entity independently of the observer.
1:38:16 - 1:45:24 (07:08)
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Shared visions while on psychedelics have been reported for centuries, and even though they are hallucinations, they seem to describe an entity independently of the observer. These experiences may also shift one’s perception and offer a new way of experiencing the world.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker believes that the perceptual experiences of multiple people lead to a non-dual state or oneness and emptiness which he thinks is how things really are and our ordinary way of construing reality obscures it.
1:45:25 - 1:52:42 (07:16)
Summary
The speaker believes that the perceptual experiences of multiple people lead to a non-dual state or oneness and emptiness which he thinks is how things really are and our ordinary way of construing reality obscures it.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The non-dual experience can be explained as temporarily removing the gating mechanisms of perception, allowing more raw data to be recognized.
1:52:42 - 1:59:28 (06:46)
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The non-dual experience can be explained as temporarily removing the gating mechanisms of perception, allowing more raw data to be recognized. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman's TED Talk provides an insightful explanation of the same.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss promotes his 'Five Bullet Friday' newsletter, which offers subscribers a short email every Friday with fun tips and ideas to start the weekend.
1:59:28 - 2:05:05 (05:36)
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Tim Ferriss promotes his 'Five Bullet Friday' newsletter, which offers subscribers a short email every Friday with fun tips and ideas to start the weekend. He also mentions originallove.org, a site that offers a broad approach to meditation, as well as givewell.org, which provides a list of the best charities to donate to in terms of improving and saving lives.
Episode#560: Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
In this episode of the Tim Ferriss Show, Tim talks about the benefits of using Laird Superfood creamers in your daily coffee or tea ritual.
2:05:05 - 2:06:20 (01:15)
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In this episode of the Tim Ferriss Show, Tim talks about the benefits of using Laird Superfood creamers in your daily coffee or tea ritual. With plant-based ingredients, including organic oats, macadamia nuts, and avocado oil, Laird's creamers can optimize your daily routine with high-impact fuel.