Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei in regards to the two “lacking” brahmaviharas, Innate Goodness follow, coronary heart knowledge vs. thoughts knowledge, the magic of the “group coronary heart”, the paradox of the Coronary heart Sutra, studying to grow to be receptive, God and the nondual, entities, bodhisattvas, deities, the three forms of forgiveness, and the “horrible significance” of heart-based follow.
Stephen Mugen Snyder, Sensei started working towards each day meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively—investigating and fascinating in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, and Western non-dual traditions. He was licensed to show within the Theravada Buddhist custom in 2007 and the Zen Buddhist faculties of Soto and Rinzai in 2022. Stephen is a senior scholar of Roshi Mark Sando Mininberg and a transmitted instructor within the White Plum Asanga—the physique of academics within the Maezumi-roshi lineage. Stephen is the creator of many books, together with Belief in Awakening, Demystifying Awakening and Buddha’s Coronary heart.
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