What’s New

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

Mugen will be a guest of Clear Mountain Monastery for a live YouTube Interview on December 3rd, 9-10pm Eastern (6-7pm Pacific) hosted by Ajahn Nisabho and Ajahn Kovilo. Clear Mountain is an aspiring Buddhist forest monastery in the Greater Seattle area. Ajahn Nisabho and Ajahn Kovilo host a weekly Wednesday evening program.

Several months back Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi participated in a study at Harvard Medical School. Using an advanced MRI machine, the study observed advanced meditative practitioners, such as Mugen Roshi, enter different meditative states, including Cessation, which the participants were able to enter at will. A preprint of the research paper has been released. Announcement… Continue reading Harvard Study on Nirodha Samāpatti (Cessation)

“We discussed Inka Shomei and the sacred and humbling experience of sharing a dharma eye with a teacher, koan study and working with our bull tails that are sticking out, the Enneagram and being your uniqueness without being your dysfunction, how deeper levels of awakening reveals deeper levels of work that needs to be done,… Continue reading Interview by Vincent Moore on the Paths of Practice Podcast

“My teacher, Mark Sando Mininberg, Roshi, and I recently completed the recognition/ empowerment ceremony called Inka Shomei. Inka, as it is called, is the final seal of approval. It is offered when student and teacher now see as teacher to teacher with the same dharma eye, with the same clarity of awakeness. It is the… Continue reading Inka Empowerment / Recognition Ceremony

The Gradual and Direct Paths of Awakening Living Mirrors is a new podcast in which neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke will be interviewing people on topics like consciousness, science, spirituality, meditation and the renaissance in psychedelic research. Dr. James Cooke

Reddit is a social media site where users share content and join discussions in various communities called subreddits. We’ve created a new Awakening Dharma subreddit. If you are already a Reddit user, subscribing can help you keep up on what is new with Awakening Dharma. If you aren’t a Reddit user, you can join for… Continue reading New Subreddit

We’ve been heavily updating the website the past few weeks. Our webmaster did an upgrade of our entire theme plus we’ve been adding a lot of new content. Checkout out some of the new pages: The Programs and Meditation Retreats page has had a full redesign which we think is easier to use. Let us… Continue reading Website Updates

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. 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