Perhaps owing to the calamitous pandemic years, a wealth of books extolling the benefits of Zen meditation has appeared on the market recently. “Master Dogen’s Zazen Meditation Handbook” is one such ...
Zen has a way of saying uncomfortable things plainly. This line by Dogen doesn’t try to console or inspire in the usual sense. It simply points at how life actually behaves when no one is negotiating ...
The Shobogenzo (SBGZ) by Eihei Dogen is considered one of the masterpieces of Zen literature, but its length and the many opaque, philosophical koans often prevent general readers from approaching the ...
Eihei Dogen (1200-53), founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, is a key figure in the intellectual history of Japan, but for many centuries his work was not widely read. This changed in 1926, when ...