Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
by Dainin Katagiri
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Author: Dainin KatagiriEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-10
ISBN: 159030408X
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Shambhala
Book Reviews of Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
Book Review: boing, pop, ohhh
Summary: 5 Stars
Andrea Martin did a pretty good job in selecting talks given by Katagiri over the years about a broad view of time.
Boing: the selections in the first chapters lay a nice foundation from which to spring forward.
Pop: the middle selections provide the essence of Dogen's teaching of "Uji" (Being-time).
Katagiri mentions that there are 6,400,099,180 moments times 65 instants in a day.
In the stillness of the night you are driving and a deer POPs in to your headlights!
At the "pivot of nothingness" POP! "Wow, a deer!" Act. Be kind! Killing Buddha!
Ohhh: the last selections, however, seem to stray from the central theme of being-time, at least as it was presented by Dogen in Shobogenzo, "Uji."
I've read several commentaries on "Uji" and neither they nor "Uji" itself deal with "karma."
Yet, Andrea Martin has thrown in many selections where Katagiri discussed karma, cause and effect, the law of causation, reincarnation. He's trying to explain how life moves, develops, matures from the instantaneous/impermanent POP to a meaningful existence.
Particularly misleading (in my mind--and probably in the frustrated mind of reviewer Asp) is the inclusion of Katagiri's discussion of the complex Buddhist psychology of "Vijnanavada." Its concepts of container/seed/perfume implies a linear progression of time applied to human consciousness.
Ohhh, maybe you can save that deer in a future life.
Dogen actually revolted against any implication of linearity in "Uji." He certainly did not want to limit Being-time just to humans.
Chapter 24, "How to make Life Mature," seems to complicate an otherwise fine treatment of the theme of time.
Nevertheless, the book as a whole is huge. Katagiri simplifies many of the deep thoughts about time.
Required reading for Zen Buddhists.
Summary of 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 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.
To learn more about the author, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, visit www.mnzencenter.org.
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