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Bright Way Zen is a Zen community in Portland OR, USA, and worldwide via our "Cloud Zendo" (Zoom). This podcast includes talks and classes by our teacher, Rev. Domyo Burk, Sangha members, and others. More about us: https://brightwayzen.org/
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Signup to Generate a PitchBright Way Zen is a Zen community in Portland OR, USA, and worldwide via our "Cloud Zendo" (Zoom). This podcast includes talks and classes by our teacher, Rev. Domyo Burk, Sangha members, and others.
Bright Way Zen is hosted by Rev. Domyo Burk. The show has published 93 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Our Bright Way Zen Lineage - Week 9" (28 October 2026, 60 minutes), "Do You Have to Abandon Worldly Entanglements? - Domyo" (26 October 2026, 52 minutes), and "Our Brightway Zen Lineage - Week 8 - The Transmission of the Dharma" (22 October 2026, 52 minutes).
Bright Way Zen publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 50 minutes across 93 episodes.
Booking probability for Bright Way Zen is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Bright Way Zen requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Bright Way Zen's contact route on record: verified email.
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Rev. Domyo Burk hosts Bright Way Zen, a religion podcast with 93 episodes published.
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Vow and Paths of Practice & the Equality of Lay and Ordained: From the beginning, Buddhism has included both lay (or householder) and ordained/monastic practitioners. Each path is very different, but in our lineage both...
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At our annual Continuous Practice retreats, we study excerpts from Dogen's Gyoji, which includes a section that seems to suggest that we abandon all worldly entanglements...but is this what is expected of us all...
Authentic transmission of the Dharma through the generations requires teachers – lay or ordained – who have verified the truth through their own direct experience, and have demonstrated to their teacher that they embody...
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Using Tang-era Chan master Guifeng Zongmi's "Five Zens" framework, Anjo explores our relationship with zazen and the way it can change over time.
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In this recording, Sangha holders Guzan and Jinryu discuss the important role of Sesshin in our Zen practice and invite fellow sangha members to speak to their experiences in Sesshin.
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In Fukanzazengi, Dogen says "Learn to take the backward step that turns the light and shines it inward." In this, he indicates the essential point of our practice: studying the self, and turning your awareness toward...
In this Tuesday talk, Sangha member Tyler leads a Sangha discussion around our personal Zen path and our relationship to it over time. Using prompts from Dogen's Uji, as well as his experience reflecting on his Zen path...
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The Zen Buddhist instructions to let go of ideas of right and wrong, true or false, good and evil, love and hate, and deluded or enlightened, might sound familiar to you - if you've read through everything in our chant...
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In this episode Domyo talks about the establishment of Westside Zen Circle in 2009, incorporation as Bright Way Zen, the evolution and mission of our Sangha. This talk includes pictures, as well as words from BWZ...
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The Buddha's basic teaching is that life is marked by Dukkha, often translated as "suffering", and the cause of that is Tanha, sometimes translated as "craving" or "thirst". However, in order to practice and maintain...
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In this episode, using journal enteries and poetry from her early life, Domyo guides the Sangha through her path of Soto Zen
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Why are we intensifying our practice during Ango? In Zen, the question of effort vs. non-effort in practice is, in itself, a Koan. Should we aim for vow, intention, motivation, with the urgency of "putting out a fire on...
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Bright Way Zen's Sangha opens a new season of practice with acknowledging all who have practice roles, chanting the Heart Sutra, and singing "Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva."
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In the second week of our study series on our Bright Way Zen Linieage we look at the Dharma Cloud lineage including Sanghas established by Kyogen and Gyokuko Carlson and their students. We begin with Roshi Kennett and...
Our guest speaker leads Plum Blossom Zendo in Vancouver, Washington, and is a teacher and resident of Great Vow Monastery. Here, she shares a little bit about vows and how her community works with them, the difference...
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In this episode, Domyo has returned from her sabbatical and begins our series on The Bright Way Zen Lineage. Starting with the Bodhi Dharma, Domyo begins tracing our lineage through China and Japan and it's move to...
Before Katie joined Bright Way and accepted Jukai, she made a list of religious elements that mattered to her. She called the list "natural religion" because it came from human values and experience. How does American...
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Carson brings us into the field of his vocation: river restoration, which is to return river systems to their natural conditions. Inspired by Zen teachings, his work has shown him the preciousness and interconnectedness...
Hokaku introduces us to Koans, and relates how Case 7 of the Blue Cliff Record has knocked him off-kilter and destroyed his life, exactly as it is supposed to. He also talks about Buddha-nature, completely losing touch...
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In the latest talk in our Sangha Voices series, Jeff, a physician specializing in psychiatry and addiction medicine, compares and contrasts the tenants of science and Buddhism and invites the attendees to consider...
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