Timelessness, Change, and Everyday Life

About this episode

The episode introduces a study of Dogen’s essay on time and its relation to practice rather than philosophy.

This talk was given as an introduction to a multi-week study of Dogen’s essay Being-Time (Uji) during the Boulder Zen Center Everyday Bodhisattva Practice Period. It doesn’t go into the details of the text yet but sets the ground for engaging Dōgen (or any difficult dharma text) not as philosophy, but as practice. The question isn’t about the nature of time (what it is), but how we relate to time in ways that bind us or free us. Our ordinary assumptions about time operate invisibly, shaping a...

People in this episode

Host: Zenki Christian Dillo

Topics covered

• timelessness
• change
• Dogen
• Buddhism
• everyday life
• practice
• time

Keywords

• Dogen
• Being-Time
• Buddhism
• time
• practice
• Everyday Bodhisattva
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boulder Zen Center

Books & works: Being-Time (Uji)

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