Stephen Snyder's Blog

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Goodreads is running a book giveaway for Stephen’s new book, Liberating the Self: Buddhist Practices for an Authentic Life. Three books will be given away at the end of June, 2025. Enter Giveaway In Liberating the Self, Zen and Theravada Buddhist teacher Stephen Mugen Snyder carefully takes us through our patterns of behavior and helps us disassemble… Continue reading Goodreads Book Giveaway

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Steve James interviews Stephen Mugen Snyder, Sensei and Mark Sando Mininberg, Roshi about the new Anatomy of Awakening Course. The Anatomy of Awakening course is a series of in-depth interviews with leading spiritual teachers, exploring what it means to awaken, and the skillful practices used to do so. The interview premiered on Wednesday May 28, 2025.… Continue reading Guru Viking Interview on the Anatomy of Awakening Course

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Steve James interviews Stephen Mugen Snyder, Sensei and Mark Sando Mininberg, Roshi about the new Anatomy of Awakening Course. The Anatomy of Awakening course is a series of in-depth interviews with leading spiritual teachers, exploring what it means to ...

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The Anatomy of Awakening course is series of in-depth interviews with leading spiritual teachers, exploring what it means to awaken, and the skillful practices used to do so.

Awakening is what happens when we discover who we really are in ...

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At the Practicing the Jhānas retreat in Beaverton, Michigan in April 2025 a new retreat cookie was introduced.

Practicing the Jhānas was a concentration meditation retreat using breath awareness meditation to access and enter the deeper states of concentration with ...

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In this podcast Jimmy Wightman & Stephen Mugen Snyder Sensei discuss the reality of authentic awakening, also known as kenshō or satori. In this context, awakening refers to an event that happens in consciousness that reveals the non-dual truth of ...

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Liam Hartery, host of the Simply Inspired podcast, interviewed Stephen saying:

Stephen Mugen Snyder Sensei is an esteemed and world-renowned Buddhist teacher and practitioner across multiple traditions; an author of five books and co-author of Practicing the
Jhānas; has ...

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Stephen spoke recently with the host of the Guru Viking podcast, Steve James, to discuss his latest book release,  Liberating the Self: Buddhist Practices for an Authentic Life as well as:

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I am delighted to share my new book, Liberating the Self: Buddhist Practices for an Authentic Life, is now available for purchase.

I wrote Liberating the Self to provide a method for students working with difficult personal emotions like ...

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