Editor's Preface    vii
Acknowledgments   xi

Part One: The Cosmic World of a Moment   1
1. The Naked Nature of Time   3
2. The Search for Meaning and Security   6
3. Taking Care of Expectation   13
4. Making Your Life Vividly Alive   18
5. Right Seeing of Buddha   27
6. The Root of the Buddha Way   32

Part Two: Profound Human Desire   37
7. Seeking Satisfaction with Constant Change   40
8. Fundamental Suffering as Truth   47
9. Touching the Present Moment    52
10. Passage to Freedom    57
11. A Deep Sense of Human Value    63

Part Three: Timeless Freedom   69
12. Time, Space, and Being   72
13. The Pivot of Nothingness   76
14. Real Time and Daily Life   80
15. Commentary on an Excerpt from Dogen's "Being-Time"   83
16. Total Dynamic Working   105
17. Delusion and Suffering   109
18. Practice and Enlightenment   113
19. Living in Real Time   117

Part Four: The Practice of Creative Action   125
20. Best Time, Best Place, Best Person   128
21. The Flow of the Rhythm of Life   131
22. Changing the Structure of Time and Space   136
23. Commentary on an Excerpt from Dogen's "Zazenshin"   140
24. How to Make Your Life Mature   159
25. The Circle of Nirvana   166
26. The True Meaning of Effort   169

Part Five: Creating the Future   173
27. What Is Karma?   175
28. The Law of Causation   178
29. Individual and Not-individual Karma   182
30. Manifested and Unmanifested Karma   186
31. Karma and Causation   191
32. Turning a New Leaf   200
33. Freedom from Causation   207
34. Eternal Possibility   213
35. Living with Great Hope   217
36. Finding Time in Buddha's Dharma   224

Selected Bibliography   233
Index   235
About the Author   241