Living Awakeness: Embodying Your Awakening
About this ebook
When we deeply experience the Absolute, we are transformed by a profound, life-changing Awakening. But what happens after this realization? How do we embody and sustain it? Buddhist tradition has little to support our ongoing assimilation of these intense experiences—until now.
Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi, offers Living Awakeness as the first hands-on guide to name, explore, and practice the qualities of Awakeness, highlighting the path to truly living our Buddha nature. With this book, Snyder lays out the steps for embodying our Awakeness:
· the qualities to look for
· his experiences with them and Awakening
· thought-provoking exercises to integrate those qualities
· the roots of Awakeness as the base we’re building from
· the paths of Awakeness in both the Theravada and Zen traditions
From his first experience of knowing wholeness at three years old to his deep study of Buddhism over fifty years of adulthood, Snyder’s spiritual path has laid the groundwork for Living Awakeness’s wisdom.
Let this original exploration help you be who you truly are.
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About the author
Stephen Mugen Snyder, Roshi, began practicing daily meditation in 1976.Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively—investigating and engaging in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, and Western nondual traditions. He was authorized to teach in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in 2007 and in the Zen Buddhist schools of Sōtō and Rinzai in 2022. Stephen is a senior student of Mark Sando Mininberg, Roshi, and a transmitted teacher in the White Plum Asanga—the body of teachers in the Maezumi-Roshi lineage.
Stephen’s resonant and warmhearted teaching style engages students around the globe through in-person and online retreats, as well as one-on-one coaching. He encourages students to turn toward their true nature and, with realization of their true nature, embody their true identity. Stephen is the author of five books, including Liberating the Self, Trust in Awakening, Demystifying Awakening, and Buddha’s Heart. He coauthored Practicing the Jhānas. For more information, visit awakeningdharma.org.
