Dogen · Theology

Being-Time

Dogen's most audacious teaching: time is not a container we move through - being is time. Mountains are time, oceans are time, the twelve hours of today are the whole of reality, and impermanence itself is Buddha-nature.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Dogen's uji identifies being with time (no container-time flowing past separate things), that each being abides in a dharma-position that is a moment of time, that time nonetheless ‘passes’ as kyoryaku (spring flowing through spring, not away from us), that the twelve hours of today are th…

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