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

by Shinshu Roberts, Norman Fischer Narrated by Leslie Howard

Overview

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



Being-Time thoroughly explores Dogen's teaching on how we practice as Buddhas by understanding the relationship between being and time as it is-and as we perceive it to be. Using Dogen'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 Dogen's complex teaching to our daily lives.

Editorial Reviews

Ruth Ozeki

"In Being-Time, Shinshu Roberts gives us a wise, kind and wonderfully patient guide to one of Dogen’s most important and enigmatic texts. Now, more than ever, these profound old teachings are relevant to our lives in the here and now. This is a book I will treasure and return to time and time again."

James Ishmael Ford

A powerful and compelling reflection on one of the great Zen texts by Eihei Dogen, founder of Japanese Soto Zen, and one of the signal Mahayana Zen figures. Shinshu Roberts brings intelligence, grace, and a fully lived life to this book. Both scholarly and intimate, I recommend this book to anyone hoping to delve more deeply into the Zen Way.

Shohaku Okumura

This book is one of the excellent fruits of American Zen. I deeply appreciate Shinshu’s work.

Jan Chozen Bays

This book is a great achievement. Articulate, nuanced, and wonderful.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175106719
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	11/29/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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