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Dogen: A Guide to His Works
Dogen: A Guide to His Work This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this series or [...] -
A Walk with Dogen into Our Time
In 1954 poet Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem called “Song” that acknowledges the weight of our human circumstance and suffering in a particular and somewhat unusual way. I believe it may also provide a gateway to the following writings by Zen master Eihei Dogen, who addressed the nature of reality as he came to understand the world of people and things through his lifetime practice of Zen.
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Hidden Treasure - The True Dharma Eye
The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans, Translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and John Daido Loori The notion that koans don't belong to the Soto Zen tradition can't withstand the fact that Soto's founder, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), compiled this monumental collection. Dogen collected the three hundred koans contained in this work called in [...]
