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Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
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 fu...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
July 10th 2007
by Shambhala
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a great book on the zen concept of time-being.
a rumination on dogen's ideas of time-being.
deeply mind blowing and perspective changing.
one of the best zen books i have read so far.
a rumination on dogen's ideas of time-being.
deeply mind blowing and perspective changing.
one of the best zen books i have read so far.
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Zen students, all of them
One of the most amazing Dharma books ever. (May write a larger review later.)
This book is a marvel. It starts off explaining the Buddhist concept of time: a series of incredibly small mind-moments, tiny slices of time during which nothing moves or changes and between which anything is possible. Or something like that...
I have never made it all the way through this book and hope to some day. The first few chapters are so heady and my resonance with them so variable, that multiple readings over years have been required.
I gather that the later chapters are even meatier, so...more
I have never made it all the way through this book and hope to some day. The first few chapters are so heady and my resonance with them so variable, that multiple readings over years have been required.
I gather that the later chapters are even meatier, so...more
I've suffered my whole life from anxieties that I'm wasting time, that I'm not making the most of my life, etc. These feelings seem to be common in our culture. This book has really helped me look at time in a more gentle, affirming way. I've got many pages dog-eared, and I know I will return to the book again and again.
I found the book surprisingly approachable, too. There are some Buddhist terms thrown in here and there, but because the book is based on lectures, I found the book to be an enga...more
I found the book surprisingly approachable, too. There are some Buddhist terms thrown in here and there, but because the book is based on lectures, I found the book to be an enga...more
While still a Zen neophyte, I was able to make some sense of Katagiri's book on time. Needless to say, my intellectual goal of better understanding time, or the perception of it- was not aided by this book. Instead, it relates the concept of time to the practice of Zen. The march of time is described in terms of impermanence, birth, death, and rebirth, karma, and the dharma. This is a book I would buy and hold on to- the reading is not easy and at least for me, had to be read and reread before t...more
Beautiful. Profound. Funny. Mind Boggling. In places impenetrable but always interesting.
This is a book I will want to go back to again and again. Partly because it is so fascinating and partly as it is so complex. Hopefully in time I will come to understand time a little better.
This is a book I will want to go back to again and again. Partly because it is so fascinating and partly as it is so complex. Hopefully in time I will come to understand time a little better.
Interesting, but as it is based on a series of talks it does get repetitive, and then, well, zen does get a bit too esoteric at times...
This book is a challenge, but I have a leg up because Norman Fischer used it as his text for the sesshin I went to in June. It's about time. Heady stuff.
Jul 06, 2007
Michael
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Sometimes I wonder how I keep getting sucked back into Heidegger and all that stuff when there are simpler, clearer, and more profound paths like this.
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