Shinshu Roberts Boeken

""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 many sources--and offers simple everyday examples to illustrate points that seem at first abstruse. If this text causes you to doubt your most cherished concepts about your life, it will have done its work."--from the Foreword by Norman Fischer

Der japanische Zen-Meister Eihei Dōgen Zenji gründete die Sōtō-Schule und verfasste das Werk Shōbōgenzō, in dem er Sein und Zeit aus einer nicht-dualen Perspektive betrachtet. Er ermutigt dazu, grundlegende Fragen über die menschliche Erfahrung zu stellen, um den Buddha-Weg im Alltag zu verwirklichen. Dōgens Gedanken beeinflussen sowohl Zen-Praktizierende als auch philosophisches Denken weltweit.