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This is the story of how a meditation practice gave Henry Shukman a context for integrating a sudden spiritual awakening into his life and how his depression and anxiety were gradually healed through this practice. In sharing how he grew into a Zen teacher, Shukman demystifies Zen training, casting its profound insights in simple, lucid language. Along the way, One Blade of Grass guides listeners on a journey of their own, into the hidden treasures that contemplative practice can reveal to any of us.

""Powerful, poetic, transformative.""—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance ""Henry Shukman is one of the wisest and most poetical teachers of dharma we have today. In an increasingly fragmented world, he is unusually good company.""—Sam Harris New York Times bestselling author of Waking...

Raised in a rationalist household in Oxford during the spiritual heyday of the '60s and '70s, an unexpected spiritual awakening would prompt a lifelong quest to integrate the experience into his life, leading him eventually to Zen Buddhism. As Shukman gets to grips with meditative practice and struggles with anxiety, depression and the chronic eczema he had had since childhood, he discovers in surprising ways the emotional, spiritual and even physical healing that he has been searching for all along.

Henry Shukman guides us in laying the groundwork for our own awakening, weaving together beautiful guided meditations, personal stories, Zen teachings, poetry, and music. Each audio session peels back the illusion of self, bringing us home to the infinitely good, all-pervading, and all-encompassing love that is our true nature.