Notes from Dogen
Daily readings from a 13th-century Zen master, for clarity in modern life.
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Focus Is Not for the Talented
On days stacked with meetings, evening would arrive and I had nothing to show for it. The hours were spent, and nothing was left in my hands. I had attended everything, nodded in all of them, and not one piece of my own work had moved.
So...
Picture It and It Won't Come
You replay the finished project in your head. Again and again. The version of you who pulled it off. The life that changed.
Let me be honest. When you picture it, it feels good. A little.
So you picture it again.
And then you sit down to...
You Can't Find Yourself by Looking In
I’m not a people person.
I’m not a morning person.
You say these the way you would state a plain fact about yourself.
It feels honest. It feels like you know yourself well.
But every time you say it, you talk yourself out of one more ch...
What Is Zazen? A Beginner's Guide You Can't Get Wrong
If this was worth your time today, tap the ♡ at the top or bottom. It quietly helps someone else find these letters.
Zazen (坐禅) is seated Zen meditation. You sit upright and still, awake and present, in a stable posture. It is the core pra...
The Books Won't Change You
You’ve read three books on it.
You’ve saved a dozen articles. You watched the videos at one and a half times speed. You could hold your own in a conversation about it.
You just have not done it. Not once.
And still, you feel like you alr...
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I read Dōgen — one of Japan’s greatest Zen masters — in the original 13th-century Japanese, and pair his ideas with modern behavioral science you can actually use. The Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, one talk at a time, for busy overthinkers.
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