Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji

Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji

A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogenâ€™s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.

â€œImpermanence is time itself, being itselfâ€”yet time and being are not at all as we imagine them to be. To really understand and fully embrace this point is to live in a radically different worldâ€”a world of awakening, inclusion, and love. Zen Master Dogen frames the teaching on impermanence explicitly as a teaching about timeâ€”and all of Dogenâ€™s profoundly poetic teachings flow from his seminal understanding of time, as expressed in Uji (Being-Time), the famousâ€”and famously difficultâ€”essay in his masterwork, Shobogenzo. In Uji, Dogen teaches that time itself, being itself, is luminous awakening. It is all-inclusive, all-elusive, ultimately healing, and eternal.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â In this book, Shinshu Roberts does full justice, as does no other book I know of, to Dogenâ€™s words. She offers interpretation of Uji only after careful consideration and marshaling of many sourcesâ€”and offers simple everyday examples to illustrate points that seem at first abstruse. If this text causes you to doubt your most cherished concepts about your life, it will have done its work.â€
â€”from the Foreword by Norman Fischer

Being-Time thoroughly explores Dogenâ€™s teaching on how we practice as Buddhas by understanding the relationship between being and time as it isâ€”and as we perceive it to be. Using Dogenâ€™s Shobogenzo Uji (The True Dharma Eye, Being-Time), Shinshu Roberts offers a twofold analysis of this teaching: the meaning of the text and practice with the text, giving examples how we apply Dogenâ€™s complex teaching to our daily lives.Â
Country USA
Brand Wisdom Publications
Manufacturer Wisdom Publications
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781614291138
ReleaseDate 2018-03-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781614291138

Country	USA
Brand	Wisdom Publications
Manufacturer	Wisdom Publications
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781614291138
ReleaseDate	2018-03-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781614291138

Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji

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