Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei about practising the Pa Auk jhanas, the significance of vulnerability to find unique energy, his two paths for awakening: the Theravada cessation trail and the Zen shikantaza trail, the best way to stability mental paintings with awakening, seeing the enlightened qualities of anger (and different tricky feelings), what are “protecting” meditations, the 3 ranges of shikantaza follow, koan follow, aloneness as a non secular trail, and the 3 components he feels should be provide for a real awakening.
Stephen Mugen Snyder, Sensei started practising day-to-day meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism broadly—investigating and attractive in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, and Western non-dual traditions. He was once 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 frame of lecturers within the Maezumi-roshi lineage. Stephen is the writer of many books, together with Accept as true with in Awakening, Demystifying Awakening and Buddha’s Middle.
Stephen Snyder’s website: https://awakeningdharma.org/
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