#789: Ease Into Stillness — Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This episode is part of a new experiment 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 for the last |
| 0:45.2 | few months. And it has lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show, |
| 0:50.1 | you yourself can get 30 free sessions by visiting theway app.com slash Tim. |
| 0:55.4 | So if you like what you hear in these meditations, which will be valuable in and of themselves, |
| 0:59.4 | you can get 30 free sessions by going to thewayapp.com slash Tim. |
| 1:03.5 | And for the time being, please enjoy this Meditation Monday with Henry Shookman. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome to Meditation Monday. |
| 1:12.9 | It's a joy to be back with you. |
| 1:15.4 | Thanks for hopping on. |
| 1:18.0 | So many of us come to meditation to help us with stress. |
| 1:23.6 | And rightly so, meditation is a great vehicle for dialing down our nervous systems, |
| 1:30.0 | coming back into homeostasis, into more of a balanced state. |
| 1:34.7 | But I've noticed over 15 years of teaching meditation that it's not uncommon for people |
| 1:39.5 | that get stressed about meditation. |
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