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Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time |
Author: Dainin Katagiri
Published: 2007-07-10 |
List price: $21.95
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 Profound!
This is absolutely one of the most profound Buddhist books I've ever read. I can see why some folks would consider its middle chapters on "being-time" do be a little bit difficult to comprehend, as he's speaking about the experience of seeing the world (time, space, and being) through the awakened mind. But what a vivid description! There were parts I didn't grasp, but that didn't bother me. To the contrary, I found it an inspiring vision of an enlightened mind.
A trasnformative discussion of reality
A direct road to realization of one's mind is to understand, deeply, the nature of impermanence and time.
This is a remarkable teaching. Get comfortable, RELAX and bring all of yourself into reading each chapter sequentially, carefully and over a period of time. Then come back to the book at the beginning and read it again the same way. It is just possible you may begin to understand the feeling of profound truth and sense of freedom it brings.
A reviewer in this section states that the book will always be by his side; mine too.
 I Simply Couldn't Understand It!
This is the first and only Zen book that I have ever had any trouble understanding. I can reading Dogens stuff from the 1500s and there's not problems. I can read Kataghiri's other books and there's no problem. But this one I had to give up on.
Apparently, Kataghiri wants us to dissolve the usual dichtonomy of Time and Space; collapse it so that only time remains. As such, everything is time, even space. And that's why "Each Moment is the Universe".
His teaching then goes on to say that you yourself is nothing but time. Well enough, but unfortunately he remains silent on what this means for us.
One of the Zen tenets is not to overcomplicate things and I suspect that that is what Kataghiri has done in this book. But I like his other books very much! I would get "You have to say something" instead.
Food for wholehearted living.
So much of our life squeeze revolves around the tension between impermanence and our interdependence with all sentient beings. This focus on the deeper nature of time and space is so richly presented, filled with examples that take a deeper understanding to the core of our bones.
"So if you want to know yourself and society as it really is and live comfortably in the transient reality of a moment, make your body and mind calm. Settle on yourself as if your body and mind were a huge building rising toward the sky from your round cusion. Open your mind again and again to see what impermanence means."
This will be a book always by my side. Highly recommended.
Yes!
I've been waiting for this book since last Fall. Katagiri Roshi's words always carry such warmth and care; so far, Being Time does not disappoint.
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