Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time Paperback – December 2, 2008

This book, recommended by my Zen teacher, came at a ripe time in my life and Buddhist study. Like taps from a masters bent stick, it startled my mind and redirected my awareness. It answered many questions I’ve had about the Buddhist understanding of reality and the true nature of human beings. It also validated my explorations into the present moment, past, and future, karma, and reincarnation.Katagiri’s enthusiastic voice, direct speech, and use of personal allegory helped and encouraged me greatly. There are a few of his talks available on YouTube. Hearing his live voice illustrates that the editor of this book did a great job of capturing his intent, voice, and natural being.Zen practice can seem regimented and cold at times, but in Katagiri’s capable hands the effervescent life and spontaneous joy of practice is infectious and available to all who open their hearts to listen and be still!Give this book a try and experience Katagiri for yourself. Like me, you may find his words clear, uplifting, and transformative! Nine bows to Kayagiri for sharing his Zen with all of us!!

Overall very good quality especially for the price. Good quality paper and binding. Overall well made book

This is very profound, yes. I just picked this up again after seeing the movie on Steven Hawking's life and his talk about time and space and the "singularity" of life---and I knew I had read about this somewhere else....so I remembered I owned this book. So I found it again on my bookshelf and am glad I did.I remember reading it about 5 years ago and only a few of the chapters hit me as a "wow" moment--but I still appreciated Katagiri's heartfelt attempt at explaining time-being-space and the importance of our lives!I have now since finished my second read (after more years of zen practice) and this time, its depth and compassion really speak to me. I have to say, it is mind altering and life enhancing.

An amazing work that I came across after many years of vaguely wondering about the real nature of time and how it seems we have so little of it or are always 'behind' it, etc., Each chapter of the book in my estimation and practically every page seems to give amazing pieces of perspective on what time really is and/or can and should be viewed, and how it relates to our lives and how to live our lives. I rarely re-read a book but am on my second thorough read of each chapter, and am picking up much more. It's of the nature that with re-reading you will see new insights. Highly recommend!

This is one of the best books on Zen, and on Buddhism in general. that I have ever read.It will cause you to appreciate single moments, and possibly every single moment, in a way that you may have never thought possible.He has definitely decided to SAY SOMETHING; in this phenomenal book. Katagiri-Roshi writes about Buddhism in a way like none other, his writing is both intimate and profound.

Dainin Katagiri's teaching of Dogen's "Being Time" seems so difficult but at the same time, so simple and obvious. This is a book to read slowly, practice, and then read again. It's beautiful to grasp that we are the very universe expressing itself each and every impermanent moment. A profound teaching from one of America's greatest Zen teachers.

This is a special book! If your search is for the mystical, if you are a student of esotericism this book is for you.Not having much of a Buddhhist background this was not an easy read for me, I will be re-reading this one.

I have many books on Buddhist thought ~ this one is unique and adds an entirely other dimension.It's worth owning and can be read many times. Thanks to the person in my retreat who suggested it.

This is one of those books that tells us how it is. Katagiri takes Dogen's Being Time to point us towards living in the moment.Most of us would rather live in our thoughts and fantasies than to live in our real life. So if you are tired of just talking about the Zen life, this is the book for you.By the way, I have had this book since it came out in 2007. So even though I have heavily underlined the pages, it is apparent I wasn't prepared to live in the moment myself.This is a very good book that is not meant to be rushed through. Read a little bit and let it percolate in your mind. But most importantly - Practice Zazen.

Um grande livro. Katagiri Roshi transmite os ensinamentos mais profundos com muita habilidade, tornando-os compreensíveis para todos.

Great read for anyone who practices any form of meditation. Highly recommend it.

Warning: This book could change your life - for the better! These edited versions of the late Katagiri Roshi's talks at his Zen Centers in the US in the last 20 years of his life have been assembled (helpfully) according to the structure of the Four Noble Truths. Katagiri Roshi, as presented here, used concepts of time as an entry to Buddhist practice - how to move from dissatisfaction and suffering to joy.The chapters do not need to be read sequentially, as each is a perfect teaching on its own. In some the path of Katagiri Roshi's argument requires concentration but the investment of time and reflection is well worth it. In others, the simplicity of his words are profound and breathtaking.As a practitioner of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition I was new to Katagiri Roshi. His words here lovingly and skillfully offered from an audio archive assisted me enormously in putting knowledge into practice. I will read and re-read his ideas in this work, and look forward to accessing others.

It's easy to regard time as a commodity--we even speak of "saving" or "spending" it. We often regard it as an enemy, when we feel it slipping away before we're ready for time to be up. The Zen view of time is radically different than that: time is not something separate from our life; rather, our life is time. Understand this, says Dainin Katagiri Roshi, and you can live fully and freely right where you are in each moment.Katagiri bases his teaching on Being Time, a text by the most famous of all Zen masters, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), to show that time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the universe and everything in it--and that to understand this is to discover a gateway to freedom from the dissatisfactions of everyday life. He guides us in contemplating impermanence, the present moment, and the ungraspable nature of past and future. He discusses time as part of our inner being, made manifest through constant change in ourselves and our surroundings. And these ideas are by no means metaphysical abstractions: they can be directly perceived by any of us through meditation.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: Zen Practice in Everyday Life) and You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight."In this book, Katagiri Roshi presents Dogen Zenji's teachings on `being-time' and teaches how the blossom of our life force can flourish amidst the flow of change. I recommend this book to all Zen practitioners and to anyone who wishes to enrich and ripen their life."-- Shohaku Okumura Roshi, Director, Soto Zen Buddhism International Center