Each Moment Is the Universe

by KATAGIRI, DAININ

• ISBN13: 9781590306079
• ISBN10: 1590306074
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-12-02
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

We often speak of time as a commodity-as something we "save" or "spend"-or as something that slips through our fingers before we can accomplish what we want. The Zen view is radically, wonderfully different: time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the world and everything in it. Understanding this-that there literally is no time to "lose"-is the door to freedom. "Move over, Martin Heidegger. The late Japanese Zenmaster Katagiri Roshi conveys a zest for Zen understanding that differs from the calm inscrutability of other Zen Buddhists."-Publishers Weekly (starred review).

Author Biography

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1928, Dainin Katagiri was trained traditionally as a Zen teacher. He first came to the United States in 1963, to help with a Soto Zen Temple in Los Angeles. He later joined Shunryu Suzuki Roshi at the San Francisco Zen Center and taught there until Suzuki Roshi’s death in 1971. He was then invited to form a new Zen center in Minneapolis, which, in addition to a monastery in the countryside of Minnesota, he oversaw until his death in 1990. He left behind a legacy of recorded teachings and twelve Dharma heirs. Katagiri is the author of several books, including Returning to Silence and You Have to Say Something.