Archive - The Backyard Buddhist

Letting the Past Unravel

A Buddhist Path Through Hurt, Anger, and Memory

10 hrs ago • The Backyard Buddhist

Living the Brahmavihāras in Everyday Life

How Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity Become a Way of Living

Mar 9 • The Backyard Buddhist

Ikkyū Sōjun: The Wild Cloud of Zen

Wild, Untamed Holy Wisdom...

Mar 9 • The Backyard Buddhist

Alan Watts and the Question of Zen

A Conventional Zen Buddhist Critique

Mar 4 • The Backyard Buddhist

The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta

The Buddha’s “Not-Self” Teaching (*A Dissection of the Anattalakkhana Sutta)

Mar 2 • The Backyard Buddhist

You’ve Never Been Anything but the Ocean

A Buddhist Reflection on Waves, Emptiness, and the Vast Field of Being

Mar 2 • The Backyard Buddhist

February 2026

When the Drums of War Are Beating:

Being a Bodhisattva in a Time of Conflict

Feb 28 • The Backyard Buddhist

Seung Sahn (1927–2004)

A Korean Zen Master for a Global Age

Feb 26 • The Backyard Buddhist

Michael Taiun Elliston Rōshi

Great Cloud Over the American South

Feb 25 • The Backyard Buddhist

The Mountain That Revived Korean Seon

Man Gong (1871–1946)

Feb 23 • The Backyard Buddhist

Keizan Jōkin: The Second Founder of Sōtō Zen

Institutional Vision, Ritual Adaptation, and the Democratization of Practice in Medieval Japan

Feb 20 • The Backyard Buddhist

Who’s Talking All of the Time (...and will He ever Shut Up)?

Ego, No-Self, and the Search for the Original Face

Feb 20 • The Backyard Buddhist

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