Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei about working towards the Pa Auk jhanas, the significance of vulnerability to find genuine power, his two paths for awakening: the Theravada cessation path and the Zen shikantaza path, easy methods to steadiness psychological work with awakening, seeing the enlightened qualities of anger (and different troublesome feelings), what are “protecting” meditations, the three ranges of shikantaza follow, koan follow, 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 day by 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 colleges of Soto and Rinzai in 2022. Stephen is a senior scholar of Roshi Mark Sando Mininberg and a transmitted trainer 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.
Stephen Snyder’s web site: https://awakeningdharma.org/
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