Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei about working towards the Pa Auk jhanas, the significance of vulnerability find genuine energy, his two paths for awakening: the Theravada cessation path and the Zen shikantaza path, learn how to stability psychological work with awakening, seeing the enlightened qualities of anger (and different troublesome feelings), what are “protecting” meditations, the three ranges of shikantaza apply, koan apply, aloneness as a religious path, and the three elements he feels should be current for a real awakening.
Stephen Mugen Snyder, Sensei started working towards each day meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively—investigating and interesting in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, and Western non-dual traditions. He was approved to show within the Theravada Buddhist custom in 2007 and the Zen Buddhist colleges of Soto and Rinzai in 2022. Stephen is a senior pupil of Roshi Mark Sando Mininberg and a transmitted instructor within the White Plum Asanga—the physique of lecturers within the Maezumi-roshi lineage. Stephen is the creator of many books, together with Belief in Awakening, Demystifying Awakening and Buddha’s Coronary heart.
Stephen Snyder’s web site: https://awakeningdharma.org/
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