Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

xii, 242 pp. Katagiri bases his teaching on Being Time, a text by the most famous of all Zen masters, Eihei Dogen (1200 - 1253), to show that time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the universe and everything in it - and that to understand this is to discover a gateway to freedom from the dissatisfactions of everyday life. He guides us in contemplating impermanence, the present moment, and the ungraspable nature of past and future. He discusses time as part of our inner being, made manifest through constant change in ourselves and our surroundings. And these ideas are by no means metaphysical abstractions: they can be directly perceived by any of us through meditation.