Domei is for unruly contemplatives

The core of the practice is simple:

Slow down. Pay attention. Stay.

That’s it.

Domei – Plant practices for deep nature connection

Of course, there is a time and place for thinking, planning, and analyzing. We just need to learn when it is appropriate to think and when to let it go and instead inhabit our physical sensory world.

Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild

Domei isn’t a concept.

It’s not a belief system.

It’s not a lifestyle or a brand.

It’s a practice.

A way of showing up to the more-than-human world.

Of listening.

Of noticing.

Of letting the land shape how you pay attention.

Domei – Plant practices for deep nature connection

Goethe, the great naturalist and observer writes, “If you want to reach the infinite . . . explore every aspect of the finite.”

Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild

You might find a plant and sit with it.

Not naming. Not analysing.

Just being there.

Noticing what it’s like to meet something

without trying to understand it.

You might let your body listen —

feel the way a tree shifts your balance,

how your feet rest on the soil.

Let the encounter happen

without needing to shape it.

This is wordless knowing .

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Domei – Plant practices for deep nature connection

Domei doesn’t require faith.

Only practice .

Only the willingness

to return.

To stay.

To attend.

Even when nothing happens.

Especially when nothing happens.

Domei – Plant practices for deep nature connection

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