Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir, teaches mindfulness and awakening practices to a wide range of students from all traditions and walks of life. Henry is an appointed teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and is the Guiding Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Previous to this, Shukman had a career as an award-winning author and poet. His struggles and traumatic experiences as a youth, combined with a spontaneous awakening experience at nineteen, paved the way for Shukman to develop a well-rounded approach to spirituality and meditation— one that includes love for self and the world as its foundation.