
Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei about training the Pa Auk jhanas, the significance of vulnerability to find genuine energy, his two paths for awakening: the Theravada cessation path and the Zen shikantaza path, 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 training every 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 faculties 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 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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