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Following a significant awakening experience, qualities of awakenness will spontaneously manifest in one’s behavior. In this gathering we will directly experience practice qualities of awakeness. The gathering will consist of a dharma talk, Q&A, and guided mediation touching into manifest qualities of awakeness.

“In this episode I am once again joined by Stephen Snyder, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of several books including “Living Awakeness: Embodying Your Awakening”. Stephen compares Theravada to Zen in terms of difficulty and depth, explains why 30 minutes of cessation is his minimum to achieve Theravada stream entry, and shares why he believes… Continue reading Guru Viking Interview: Living Awakeness

Stephen Mugen Snyder’s latest book, Living Awakeness: Embodying Your Awakening, has been published and is available for purchase. Fully awaken to your potential Buddhahood through the innovative guidance, exercises, and personal reflections of one of contemporary Buddhism’s most experienced teachers. When we deeply experience the Absolute, we are transformed by a profound, life-changing Awakening. But… Continue reading New Book: Living Awakeness

Mugen Roshi will give a presentation to the Zen Peacemakers on April 14, 2026 Cessation/ Nivana is the vital liberating awakening experience in Theravada Buddhism.  Cessation is the center, the hub, of the Absolute, the source of all creation and manifestation.  It is the ceasing of all mentality and materiality.  In this presentation, Theravada and… Continue reading Koan of Cessation

Mugen Roshi was interviewed by Simeon B. Mihaylov of Seeker to Seeker. Stephen Mugen Snyder has spent half a century practicing and teaching meditation; in this conversation, we examine what that depth of practice reveals. From concentration and insight meditation to heart practices, awakening, and the integration of psychological work, we move carefully through the… Continue reading Interview with Seeker to Seeker

The Heart Sutra is the shortest and most potent of the Buddhist sutras. It details the Absolute perspective particularly identifying and providing examples of Absence/ Emptiness as a function and quality of the Absolute. Prajna Paramita Heart Sutratranslated by Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi Om excellent Prajna Paramita Om Great Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva, deeply steeped in and… Continue reading Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra

Here’s a recent conversation I had with Stephen Snyder about the importance of the “Heart” in practice. We cover things like about the two “missing” brahmaviharas, Innate Goodness practice, heart wisdom vs. mind wisdom, the magic of the “group heart”, the paradox of the Heart Sutra, learning to become receptive, God and the nondual, entities,… Continue reading Michael Taft Interview: Power of the Heart

Mugen Roshi is interviewed by his student Mushin about how new students can practice with him. They discuss topics such as: Related

An audiobook version of Buddha’s Heart has just been published and is available for purchase on Amazon. An inspiring and healing guide to immersive meditation in the ancient Buddhist heart practices — the brahmaviharas. Informed by Jhana Master and Zen Master Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi’s experiential understanding and suitable for those at any level of… Continue reading Buddha’s Heart Audiobook

Sit Heads Meditation Club is a “serious group of meditators for non-serious people”. In this interview, they discuss Dzogchen, Zen, Nonduality, Cessation, and more. Learn more about Sit Heads Meditation Club at their website: sit-heads.com