Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being TimeA Japanese master offers a Zen perspective on the nature of time and being, further exploring the concepts of impermanence, living in the present moment, and more It’s easy to regard time as a commodity—we even speak of “saving” or “spending” it. We often regard it as an enemy, when we feel it slipping away before we’re ready for time to be up. The Zen view of time is radically different than that: time is not something separate from our life; rather, our life is time. Understand this, says Dainin Katagiri Roshi, and you can live fully and freely right where you are in each moment. Katagiri bases his teaching on Being Time, a text by the most famous of all Zen masters, Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), to show that time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the universe and everything in it—and that to understand this is to discover a gateway to freedom from the dissatisfactions of everyday life. He guides us in contemplating impermanence, the present moment, and the ungraspable nature of past and future. He discusses time as part of our inner being, made manifest through constant change in ourselves and our surroundings. And these ideas are by no means metaphysical abstractions: they can be directly perceived by any of us through meditation. |
Contents
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Right Seeing of Buddha | 27 |
The Root of Buddha Way | 32 |
PROFOUND HUMAN DESIRE | 37 |
Seeking Satisfaction within Constant Change | 40 |
Best Time Best Place Best Person | 128 |
The Flow of the Rhythm of Life | 131 |
Changing the Structure of Time and Space | 136 |
Commentary on an Excerpt from Dogens Zazenshin | 140 |
How to Make Your Life Mature | 159 |
The Circle of Nirvana | 166 |
The True Meaning of Effort | 169 |
CREATING THE FUTURE | 173 |
Fundamental Suffering as Truth | 47 |
Touching the Present Moment | 52 |
Passage to Freedom | 57 |
A Deep Sense of Human Value | 63 |
TIMELESS FREEDOM | 69 |
Time Space and Being | 72 |
The Pivot of Nothingness | 76 |
Real Time and Daily Life | 80 |
Commentary on an Excerpt from Dogens BeingTime | 83 |
Total Dynamic Working | 105 |
Delusion and Suffering | 109 |
Practice and Enlightenment | 113 |
Living in Real Time | 117 |
THE PRACTICE OF CREATIVE ACTION | 125 |
Creating the Future | 175 |
The Law of Causation | 178 |
Individual and Notindividual Karma | 182 |
Manifested and Unmanifested Karma | 186 |
Karma and Causation | 191 |
Turning a New Leaf | 200 |
Freedom from Causation | 207 |
Eternal Possibility | 213 |
Living with Great Hope | 217 |
Finding Time in Buddhas Dharma | 224 |
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About the Author | 241 |
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