10% Happier with Dan Harris · 2025-04-09 · 70 min · 11,642 words

I Want an Awakening Experience. How Do I Get It? | Henry Shukman

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It's the ten percent happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing? I love episodes like the one you're about to hear, where I get to chop it up with a brilliant Dharma teacher.

As you'll hear, Henry Shookman has an amazing story. Is seemingly out of nowhere. When he was a very young man. He had an awakening experience. You may ask what

Does that mean I will let him answer that question. You'll hear him answer it right at the top of this interview. Anyway, that experienced his whole life plan. He had no intention of becoming a Zen master, but that is exactly what he now is. His job In essence.

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