#850: The Peace That's Always Within You — Guided Meditation by Zen Master Henry Shukman

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This episode is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That means in addition to my long form interviews each week, every Monday, I will be bringing you a short ten minute or so meditation, which which will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four episode series, you'll develop a Zen toolkit specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life. The teacher, Henry Shookman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few dozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called Sambo Zen, and I have found this particularly interesting and effective. And now he'll be your teacher. I've been using Henry's app, The Way, once, often twice a day, and it has lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show, you yourself can get 30 free sessions by visiting thewayapp.com/tim. So if you like what you hear in these meditations, which will be valuable in and of themselves, you can get 30 free sessions by going to thewayapp.com/tim. And for the time being, please enjoy this meditation Monday with Henry Shookman. Welcome to this meditation with me, Henry Shookman. In this little set of meditations so far, we've looked at doing a body scan, We've explored the practice of doing less or even not doing anything at all as a fantastic way to reset the nervous system. We've also explored how to be with stress in a way that we're not kind of opposing it and fighting it, but we're including it, and how helpful that can actually be in bringing us to a more patient and compassionate, approach to our own stresses. In this meditation, we're gonna be exploring an old Zen teaching, which runs like this, take the backwards step that shines the light inward. What on earth does this really mean? It means finding a way to rest back into the sort of heart of our experience, into the very condition of our own awareness, as it were, into the fabric of awareness that underlies all our experience. That that that's a bit of a mouthful, but I'm gonna be guiding us through the use of this little directive from Zen, and I think showing how useful and helpful it can be in the midst of any ordinary life. Just taking a moment to disengage, to come back into an intrinsic well-being, a kind of unconditional well-being that the great traditions of meditation such as Zen know is available to us. Okay. Let's get into a comfortable seated position. Close your eyes or lower your gaze. Have your hands where feels good for you, could be in the lap, could be on the thighs. Let your arms go completely slack. Let them just kinda dangle like old ropes, and actually let the …