Dōshin 道心 Way of the Heart 

// THE DRIVER: DōSHIN 道心 Way of the Heart

Dōshin | Zen Buddhist Practitioner | Data Engineer | FE1 Operator

I exist at the intersection of logic and intuition.

By day, I am a Lead Data Engineer. My world is governed by rigid schemas, SQL logic, and the absolute truth of a zero-exit code. I build pipelines that bring order from entropy.

By practice, I am Dōshin ("Way of the Heart"), a student of Mahayana Zen Buddhism. My training is governed by acceptance, the study of the self, and the absolute truth of the present moment.

Why the Civic Si? Because it is the physical embodiment of the Middle Way. It is not the fastest car (excess), nor is it a basic commuter (deficiency). It sits perfectly in the center: engaging, precise, and demanding.

I approach this build not as a mechanic seeking horsepower, but as a practitioner seeking clarity. In a world of automatic transmissions and unhandled exceptions, the manual gearbox remains one of the few places where intention and action are perfectly synchronized.

The Lineage Continues. Just as I bow to the teachers and ancestors who came before me, I respect the engineers who iterated this chassis from 1984 to today. This site is my documentation of that respect.