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In this episode I am once again joined by Stephen Snyder, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of several books including ‘Buddha’s Heart’, ‘Trust in Awakening’, and his latest release ‘Liberating the Self’.
Stephen emphasises the importance of working with personality structures even after Buddhist awakening, and offers methods to resolve trauma and destructive patterns to unlock hidden spiritual strength.
Stephen warns about the dangers of achieving enlightenment without dealing with one’s personality patterns and trauma, reflects on the inner experience of enlightened Zen masters who behaved badly, and gives his advice for teachers and practitioners who think they no longer need to practice.
Stephen also reports a high success rate of awakening and other mystical experiences among his students, shares his approach to retreats and 1-1 teaching, and describes advanced Theravada meditation techniques such as kasina and skeleton meditation.
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Topics include:
- Intro
- High rate of awakening at Stephen’s retreat
- What is the secret sauce?
- Limitations of the Zen retreat style
- Stephen’s experimental approach and heart emphasis
- Minimum requirement to qualify for Stephen’s retreats
- Why the Theravadans struggle the most
- Stephen’s online trainings
- The art of 1-1 meditation teaching
- Seeking confirmation for spiritual experiences
- Stream of consciousness sharing
- Stephen’s new podcast
- Liberating the Self and Stephen’s writing output
- Zen ignores personal and psychological work
- Theravadan shamata and no-self practices
- Reifying awakening and reassertion of the sense of self
- Bad behaviour by enlightened people
- Work on your incongruent behaviour before or after awakening?
- Post-awakening work vs therapy
- We all have a full range of negative emotions and personality patterns
- Stephen’s childhood hatred
- Transforming negative emotions
- Misbehaving Zen masters
- What is the inner experience of a misbehaving Zen master?
34:5 0 - The benefit of Western depth psychology
- Is Stephen done?
- Advice for advanced meditators and teachers who think they’re done
- Stuck in a good place and shifting to concepts
- Recognising when you have gone off track
- Contentment vs complacency
- Challenging emotions and outdated personality patterns
- Resistance to peace
- Destabilising effect of spiritual practice
- Why bother with the deep path?
- Unlocking profound spiritual qualities
- Awakening stories
- The traditional kasina meditation path
- Skeleton practice and skeleton visions
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Previous episode with Stephen Snyder:
- guruviking.com/search?q=Stephen%20Snyder
To find our more about Stephen Snyder, visit:
- awakeningdharma.org
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For more interviews, videos, and more visit:
- www.guruviking.com
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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James
