Buddhist Books Podcast: Zen Buddhism · Edward Reib

Buddhist Books: Zen Buddhism - Part 18

·47 min·4 clips
Dogen reveals that real existence is only this exact moment, and the whole universe exists in individual moments of time.
The host reads and discusses the 'Uji' (Existence Time) chapter from Zen master Dogen's Shobogenzo, exploring the Buddhist philosophical concept that time and existence are inseparable, with all phenomena being moments of time. He concludes by announcing that the next episode will begin studying Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka teachings.

As heard by us

A patient, personal reading of Dogen that makes time feel inseparable from practice.

Uji, translated here as Existence Time, sits at the center of this reading, and the host treats Shobogenzo as the book that really got him started.

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A slow, lucid pass through Dogen's time-and-existence puzzle, with the host thinking out loud.

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