Domyo’s Essays by Category
How to Develop Your Zen Practice
- Zen Practice as Path – Six Tips
- You Can’t Walk the Path Without Help from Your Friends
- Zazen: The Incredibly Difficult Practice of Not-Doing
- Five Ways to Make Your Work Spiritual Practice
- Deepening Your Zazen: When It’s Good Not to Be Satisfied
- What Zen “Acceptance” and “Non-Attachment” Really Are
- The Effort of Non-Effort (Meditation Is Not Something You Do)
- The Power of Questions
- The World Needs the Concept “Bodhisattva”
- Bursting the Mindfulness Bubble
- Zazen as Practicing Great Ease and Joy
- What Self to Have Faith In?
Samadhi Power: Stopping and Seeing
- Uselessly Doing Nothing: Zazen without Techniques
- Testimonials! Zazen Is Not (Just) Meditation Practice
- Bendowa: Zen Master Dogen on Why Zazen Is Such a Big Deal
- Two Sides of Practice Part 3: When We Neglect Samadhi Power, and How the Two Sides are Complementary
- Two Sides of Practice Part 2: When We Neglect Karma Relationship
- Two Sides of Practice Part 1: Samadhi Power and Karma Relationship – Definitions
- Renewal in the Stillness and Silence of Meditation
- The Experience of Less-Self
- Step One – Commit to Stillness, Don’t React
- The Courage to Face Our Shit
- Paying Attention No Matter What
Karma Relationship: Taking Care of Your Life
- Two Sides of Practice Part 3: When We Neglect Samadhi Power, and How the Two Sides are Complementary
- Two Sides of Practice Part 2: When We Neglect Karma Relationship
- Two Sides of Practice Part 1: Samadhi Power and Karma Relationship – Definitions
- Skillful Means: The Buddhist Teaching on How to Share Your Wisdom – Part 3
- Skillful Means: The Buddhist Teaching on How to Share Your Wisdom – Part 2
- Skillful Means: The Buddhist Teaching on How to Share Your Wisdom – Part 1
- Willpower and the Buddhist Perfection of Virya, or Energy
Understanding: Fundamental Teachings to Investigate
- The Buddha’s Five Things to Consider Before Speaking
- Right Speech: Refraining from Lying, Divisive or Abusive Speech, and Idle Chatter
- A Handy Chart for Understanding Absolute and Relative
- It-with-a-Capital-I: The Zen Version of God
- How Physically Sitting Zazen Keeps the Precepts Perfectly
- Genjokoan #13: If Everything’s Okay, Why Do Anything?
- Genjokoan #12: We Don’t Have to Be Other Than What We Are
- Genjokoan #11: The Nature of Truth
- Genjokoan #10: The Individual Versus the Universal
- Genjokoan #9: The Nature of Life-and-Death
- Genjokoan #8: The Paradox of Seeking, and Everything Is Moving
- Genjokoan #7: Learning the Self
- Genjokoan #6: Our Experience of Absolute and Relative
- Genjokoan #5: What is the Nature of Awakening?
- Genjokoan #3: Mahayana Teachings and Dogen’s Take on the Great Matter
- Genjokoan #2: The Basic Buddhist Teachings
- Dispelling Illusion
- The Empty World
- Not Misunderstanding Dukkha
- The Experience of Not-Self
The Great Matter: Always Going Deeper
From My Journey of Conscience
- When Religion Refrains From Explaining “Why”
- Everyone Is on a Path Toward Greater Wisdom and Compassion
- Let’s Start a Global Movement!
- Remembering There’s Nothing We Can Do to Prevent Change
- My First Protest Rally
- Back to the Drawing Board with Meditation for the Homeless
- When It’s Time to Speak Out as a People of Faith
- Three Ways Activists Alienate People – and What They Can Do about It
- We’ve Got to Passionately Love Life Itself
Things to Understand About the Nature of Practice
- Zen Is Not a Self-Improvement Project – Or Is It?
- You Don’t Need to Improve or Get Anything to Fulfill the Buddha Way
- Two Sides of Practice Part 2: When We Neglect Karma Relationship
- Two Sides of Practice Part 1: Samadhi Power and Karma Relationship – Definitions
- Why Does God/Buddha Nature Let Bad Things Happen?
- What Is Meant By Zen “Practice”?
- Questions Are More Important Than Answers
- Do All Beings Have Buddha Nature? No.
- Am I Practicing Hard Enough?
- Enlightenment as Choice, Not Skill
- “Religious” Versus “Spiritual” Versus “Practicing Being Human”
- Conundrum and Koan
Adjusting Your Attitude: Changing the Heart as well as the Mind
Your Zen Toolbox
- Uselessly Doing Nothing: Zazen without Techniques
- The Sangha Jewel: Community as a Medicine for Modern Ills
- How Important Is It to Study Buddhist Teachings?
- The Practice of “Not-Knowing:” Relief of Stress, Ground for Effective Action
- The Importance of Sangha Part 5 of 5 – Sangha As Service
- The Importance of Sangha Part 4
- The Importance of Sangha Part 3
- The Importance of Sangha Part 2
- The Importance of Sangha (the Buddhist Community) Part 1
- Instructions for Zazen in Eight Verses – Explained
- Provocative Zen Teachers
- What’s the Good of Zen Teachers?
- Why Meditate for Eight Hours a Day for Six Straight Days?
- Zen “Forms” (Established Ways of Doing Things) and How They Can Be Liberating
- The Paradox of “Taking Refuge” in a Non-theistic Religion
Personal Musings
- Uselessly Doing Nothing: Zazen without Techniques
- Missing Kyogen Carlson and His Dharma
- How Physically Sitting Zazen Keeps the Precepts Perfectly
- The Power of Questions
- Random Violence: a Symptom of Society’s Fatal Illness
- Why Offer Zen without Religion?
- When Religion Refrains From Explaining “Why”
- Belonging
- A Personal “Translation” of the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts
- How I View After-Death Experience