#846: Permission to Do Nothing — Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman

ls, lad germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of
w. This e is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That
o my lo interviews each week, every Monday I will be bringing you a short
itation will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four-episode
lop a Z kit specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and
ur dail The teacher, Henry Schuchman, has been on my podcast twice
f only ozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called
ve foun particularly interesting and effective, and now he’ll be
been us ry’s app, The Way, once, often twice a day, and it has lowered my
though ble. As a listener of the show, you yourself can get 30 free sessions
pp.com im. So if you like what you hear in these meditations, which will be
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ing, pl joy this Meditation Monday with Henry Schuchman.
meditat h me, Henry Schuchman. There are so many ways that meditation
are ton fferent techniques and methods and approaches, and all of them have
us. But same time, there is a meditative path that’s about doing less,
eployin hod or a technique, as simply about learning to kind of drop everything,
thing, be coming back to an intrinsic, peaceful well-being that we all have
nature e’re not very used to tapping into it on the whole.
ion, we ng to be exploring that and seeing if we can get a taste of it,
wonder tation as a kind of non-doing, or at least as a doing less.
a comfo seated position. I invite you to get your hands arranged where they
in the on the thighs. Get your body arranged comfortably. It’s fine to be
a chair f you’re not having your spine supported, then try to be balanced so your
ly over eat and ears over shoulders and shoulders over hips.
ng us i



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itself.
always aiting for.

it and ill.
r, the , they already know it’s just one breath away.




t’s set need to do, a need to perform our meditation.
just l tative awareness come by itself.
close y s if you haven’t already closed them or lower the gaze if you prefer that.
awarene his moment of being still and of unplugging from the activities of your day.
espite, ge, a sort of oasis that you can come back to in yourself, in your very own experience.
‘s actu re waiting for all of us just by being still and being quiet
ystem p wn, letting our whole system go into a kind of idle, a restfulness, an ease.
when w h, unattach, from the to-do list, our agenda, our activities.
for us up again, no problem, after this little spell of quiet.
y, sens stillness, and just noticing,
quiet t resent?
uality own awareness?
tain re ss in your body as it’s invited into stillness?
rant yo a little window, a little pocket of time
e to do ng?
endors o nothing,
just fo tle bit?
, actua reset, to restore ourselves,
e we’re less.
en we c k to something a little more fundamental in who we are.
someth t we’ve been,
r, inne art of our being.
till he d of patiently waiting to be recognized.
of not


e movem o the feet and the toes,
ngers.
e, open es.
around e space that you’re in.
ch if t ls supportive and nice.

again ning me in this meditation.
ing to oring how to work with stress.