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"This exceptional book combines penetrating psychological analysis with profound spiritual wisdom"
-Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain and Neurodharma
Guided by one of contemporary Buddhism's most experienced teachers, rigorously explore and deconstruct your concept of self to reach the path of freedom-living your true nature as one with the Absolute.
In Liberating the Self, Zen and Theravada Buddhist teacher Stephen Mugen Snyder carefully takes us through our patterns of behavior and helps us disassemble the beliefs we create about a separate self. With compassion and insight born of deep personal experience, he offersexamples and practices that help us identify the building blocks of our personality and self-beliefs;
instruction for transforming dysfunctional emotions, such as hatred, anger, or guilt, into authentic peace, strength, or loving-kindness;
meditations and exercises, including kasina work, for exploring our relationship to our bodies and sense of self;
protective meditations that help prepare the newly liberated self for Awakening; and
testimonials from students who share their remarkable and transformative experiences of Awakening under Snyder's guidance.
Liberating the Self shows that by examining the self we have constructed from birth, including its deep wounds, we free ourselves of that self, becoming more authentic and more readily able to experience Oneness with the Absolute.
"If you are looking for a profound guide to using reflection, meditation, and wisdom to awaken, I highly recommend this book."
-Mark Coleman, founder of The Mindfulness Institute and author of From Suffering to Peace
"Stephen offers concrete tools to ward off spiritual by-passing and more fully liberate the self."
-Katherine Senshin Griffith, head teacher, Zen Center of Los Angeles
A propos de l'auteur
Stephen Snyder began practicing daily meditation in 1976. Since then, he has studied Buddhism extensively-investigating and engaging in Zen, Tibetan, Theravada, and Western nondual traditions. Stephen was authorizedto teach in 2007 by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, a Burmese meditation master and renowned scholar. In 2009, he coauthored Practicing the Jh¿nas, exploring concentration meditation as presented by Pa Auk Sayadaw.Stephen's resonant and warmhearted teaching style engages students around the globe through in-person andonline retreats, as well as one-on-one coaching. He encourages students to turn toward awakened awareness and, through this realizing, embody their true identity. Stephen is also author of Stress Reduction for Lawyers, Law Students, and Legal Professionals and Buddha's Heart. For more information, please visit awakeningdharma.org.
