“We are learning to love, tend and cherish our experience, whatever it may be. This is a beautiful thing to be developing.”
– Henry Shukman
“We are learning to love, tend and cherish our experience, whatever it may be. This is a beautiful thing to be developing.”
– Henry Shukman
Original Love is a new approach to the ancient path of meditation. It is a broad meditation training based primarily on traditional teachings of Zen and Early Buddhism.
Through finding the intrinsic lovingness, energy, peace and joy that are always already within us, even if they sometimes feel hidden, we can grow as more clear-sighted and open-hearted beings. Gradually, and sometimes suddenly, through shared practice, we start to catch glimpses of the “original love” that is always here.
While this program can serve for many as a complete training in itself, it can also serve as an on-ramp for Zen koan training.
We warmly invite you to watch Henry’s video introducing
the four essential “zones” of meditation.
Original Love
3 Day In-Person Retreat with Henry
January 26-28 at Mountain Cloud Zen Center
Original Love
12 guided meditations
On Mindfulness, Self-Love & Awakening
About Henry
Henry is a Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and spiritual director of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
His struggles as a youth, a spontaneous awakening experience at 19, followed by years of rigorous Zen training and his own deep healing process, all paved the way for Henry to develop Original Love, a well-rounded approach to spirituality and meditation.
Henry is the author of One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, A Zen Memoir.
