With Buddha's Heart, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder reveals an original and clear path to the powerful brahmaviharas. These practices offer rich, soothing support for the soul and a portal to spiritual awakening and deepening self-realization.
Informed by Snyder's experiential understanding, and suitable for those at any level of meditation practice, Buddha's Heart leads us step-by-step through:
- traditional teachings on wholesomeness and concentration meditations to establish a supportive bedrock for our personal discovery;
- guided, heart-opening meditations on loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity;
- further guided practices for deepening awareness, including gratitude, forgiveness, and opening to the Oneness of Reality;
- exploratory exercises for each meditation practice, illuminating the psychological blocks to accessing our deeper nature's heart qualities; and
- embracing mindfulness and warm attunement in everyday life--opening our hearts to the profound depths of reality and the Absolute.
Buddha's Heart teaches what seems counterintuitive but is undeniably true: the more we open our hearts, the more resilient and flexible we are. And the more authentically vulnerable we are, the safer and more protected we become.
Buddha's Heart: Meditation Practice for Developing Well-Being, Love, and Empathy; Stephen Snyder; Buddha's Heart Press, Paperback, 218 pages, $16.95
Stephen Doetsu Snyder began practicing meditation in 1976. He has studied Buddhism extensively, including Zen, Tibetan, Theravada and Western non-dual traditions. He was authorized to teach in the Theravada tradition in 2007 and the Zen schools of Soto and Rinzai in 2022. He is a senior student of Roshi Mark Sando Mininberg. Stephen encourages students to turn toward their true nature and embody their true identity. He is author of four books, including Buddha's Heart and Demystifying Awakening.
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