Eihei Dogen’s teaching on time is found in the essay titled “Uji” translated as “Time Being” or “Being Time.” While aimed at freeing us from socially-conditioned concept of time, Dogen’s teachings are always urging us to awaken completely from delusions of all kinds.

See our Spring 2024 six week class on “Time Being” here.

Translations of Dogen’s “Time Being”

“Being Time,” in The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, translated by Norman Waddell and Masao Abe

“The Time-being,” in Moon in a Dewdrop, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Dan Welch

“Sometimes,” in Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, translated by the Soto Zen Translation Project

“Existence-Time,” in Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-eye Treasury, translated by Guido Nishijima and Chodo Cross

Contemporary Commentaries on “Time Being”

Being Time, Shinshu Roberts (our primary text for Practice Intensive)

“Notes on Dogen’s “Being-time,” a short introduction by Shinshu Roberts

Every Moment is the Universe, Dainin Katagiri
Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama
Visions of Awakening Space and Time, Taigen Daniel Leigton