Beginning Thursday, February 9th, Stephen will offer a new Monthly Sangha Gathering. This group will explore the teachings and practices featured in Stephen’s book Trust in Awakening.

Stephen’s New Monthly Sangha Gatherings
January 13, 2023
January 13, 2023
Beginning Thursday, February 9th, Stephen will offer a new Monthly Sangha Gathering. This group will explore the teachings and practices featured in Stephen’s book Trust in Awakening.
September 23, 2022
Steve James at Guru Viking podcast welcomed Stephen and Mark Mininberg in a dialogue to speak about:
September 22, 2022
Stephen is pleased to announce the publication of Trust in Awakening: A Zen Teaching on Accessing the Absolute. It is a modern presentation of the ancient Zen poem “Faith in Mind.”
In the poem’s seventeen stanzas you will find the path of no path revealed as none other than your True Nature.
July 26, 2022
In the Zen tradition, a teacher authorizes a student to begin teaching through the process and ceremony of transmission. It is a transmission of empowerment of the sacred realizations of the past Zen masters of the lineage.
April 1, 2022
Stephen joined Steve James at the Guru Viking podcast for this bonus episode in which he offered a guided Absolute Peace Meditation.
Stephen’s students have found this meditation helpful when working with the fear and anguish of the war in Ukraine.
March 18, 2022
Steve James at the Guru Viking podcast recently interviewed Stephen about his new book Demystifying Awakening. You can view the video recording or stream audio here: www.guruviking.com
The discussion delved into topics of energetic resonance of awakening, facsimiles of awakening, confusion around awakening, how to work with intensity and blocks, fear of no-self, and much more.
February 21, 2022
Thank you to James Burns for inviting Stephen as a guest for a wonderful dharma discussion on the inaugural episode of JB Podcast.
James’s thoughtful questions invited an interesting discussion about jhāna (absorption concentration), Four Elements meditation, and how the ancient Buddhist heart practices can lead to transcendent states arising within awareness and consciousness.
Thank you to Forrest and Rick Hanson for inviting Stephen as a guest on their Being Well podcast. Their thoughtful questions invited an interesting discussion about awakening, deepening self-realizations, and nibbāna itself.