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The Japanese Buddhist word uji (有時), usually translated into English as Being-Time, is a key metaphysical idea of the Sōtō Zen founder Dōgen (1200–1253). His 1240 essay titled Uji, which is included as a fascicle in the Shōbōgenzō ("Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") collection, gives several explanations of uji, beginning with, "The so-called "sometimes" (uji) means: time (ji ...
Dōgen's conception of Being-Time or Time-Being (Uji, 有時) is an essential element of his metaphysics in the Shōbōgenzō. According to the traditional interpretation, " Uji " here means time itself is being, and all being is time."
In time this came to mean all the writings of Dogen, which thereby became the normative source for the doctrines and organisation of the Soto-school. [80] A key factor in this growing emphasis on Dogen was Manzan's appeal to change the rules for dharma transmission, based on arguments derived from the Shōbōgenzō. [80]
Genjōkōan. Genjōkōan (現成公按[1]), translated by Tanahashi as Actualizing the Fundamental Point, [2][3] is an influential essay written by Dōgen, the founder of Zen Buddhism 's Sōtō school in Japan. It is considered one of the most popular essays in Shōbōgenzō. [4]
The Finitude of Being (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992). Impermanence is Buddha-Nature: Dogen's Understanding of Temporality (The University of Hawaii Press, 1990). The Real is Not the Rational (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986). Translator of Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996).
Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵, lit. "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") is the title most commonly used to refer to the collection of works written in Japan by the 13th century Buddhist monk and founder of the Sōtō Zen school, Eihei Dōgen. Several other works exist with the same title (see above), and it is sometimes called the Kana ...
Starting in September, when his daughter starts attending preschool full-time, Dogen expects the family expenses to hit $288,396 a year. Using a 24% effective tax rate, he says he’s left with ...
Dōgen mentions the kōan in the opening of the essay while arguing how serious a position tenzo is, stating that Dongshan had this insight during his time serving as tenzo. [7] While hemp may seem unrelated to the kitchen, the Zen scholars Shohaku Okumura and Taigen Dan Leighton suggest 'hemp' (麻) may be a mistranslation and that 'sesame ...