(Download Book) Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji - Shinshu Roberts
Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen?s most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.?Impermanence is time itself, being itself?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 world?a world of awakening, inclusion, and love. Zen Master Dogen frames the teaching on impermanence explicitly as a teaching about time?and all of Dogen?s profoundly poetic teachings flow from his seminal understanding of time, as expressed in Uji (Being-Time), the famous?and famously difficult?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. ??????????? In this book, Shinshu Roberts does full justice, as does no other book I know of, to Dogen?s words. She offers interpretation of Uji only after careful consideration and marshaling of
Product details: Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
Author : Shinshu Roberts
Pages : 288 pages
Publisher : Wisdom Publications
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ISBN-10 : 1614291136
ISBN-13 : 9781614291138

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