Goodreads Book Giveaway

Goodreads is running a book giveaway for Mugen’s new book, Liberating the Self: Buddhist Practices for an Authentic Life. Three books will be given away at the end of June, 2025.

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In Liberating the Self, Zen and Theravada Buddhist teacher Stephen Mugen Snyder carefully takes us through our patterns of behavior and helps us disassemble the beliefs we create about a separate self. With compassion and insight born of deep personal experience, he offers

• examples and practices that help us identify the building blocks of our personality and self-beliefs;
• instruction for transforming dysfunctional emotions, such as hatred, anger, or guilt, into authentic peace, strength, or loving-kindness;
• meditations and exercises, including kasina work, for exploring our relationship to our bodies and sense of self;
• protective meditations that help prepare the newly liberated self for Awakening; and
• testimonials from students who share their remarkable and transformative experiences of Awakening under Snyder’s guidance.