ORIGINAL LOVE

The essential meditation guide for the twenty-first century: renowned mindfulness teacher Henry Shukman replaces the concept of original sin with original love, teaching us to tap into the love that shapes our world and can transform who we are.

Renowned mindfulness teacher and Spiritual Director of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe Henry Shukman presents a groundbreaking new teaching: ORIGINAL LOVE: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening. Here is what you can actually do to ease your troubles and find the highest possible happiness. Shukman's four-step guide leads you along a path of growth and healing of emotions and mind. It's beautifully written - as you'd expect from a poet - taking us on a journey through meditation that will help practitioners of any level. ORIGINAL LOVE recounts inspiring stories of Shukman's and his students' experiences and spiritual breakthroughs with the program and interweaves fascinating information on the science of mind and consciousness. With grounding guided meditations and practical tips, Shukman gently and kindly accompanies us as we develop loving awareness and come to deeper self-understanding. As Henry writes, "Mindfulness is not about the mind; it's about the heart. It's about love." Urgently needed to create peace for ourselves and our times, the Original Love program reduces stress, anxiety, and depression; relaxes mind and body; lessens feelings of worry, regret, anger, and irritation; and improves decision-making and executive functioning. Finding a sense of love is a critical purpose of meditation. Finding your way back to the loving peace that lives at the center of things is unconditional, intrinsic Original Love. Henry Shukman is a poet, author and meditation teacher who has guided thousands of students from around the world in practices for mindfulness and awakening. A Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage and the Spiritual Director at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Henry is the founder of The Way meditation app and the Original Love meditation program, and has taught meditation at Google and Harvard Business School. He has written award-winning and best-selling books of poetry and fiction, taught poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian and The Times. He has an MA from Cambridge and an MLitt from St Andrews.