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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.
Dainin Katagiri (1928-1990) was a central figure in the transmission of Zen in America. His first book, "Returning to Silence, " emphasized the need to return to our original, enlightened state of being, and became one of the classics of Zen in America. In "You Have to Say Something, " selections from his talks have been collected to address another key theme of Katagiri's teaching: that of bringing Zen insight to bear on our everyday experience. "To live life fully," Katagiri says, "means to take care of your life day by day, moment to moment, right here, right now." To do this, he teaches, we must plunge into our life completely, bringing to it the same wholeheartedness that is required in Zen meditation. When we approach life in this way, every activity--everything we do, everything we say--becomes an opportunity for manifesting our own innate wisdom. With extraordinary freshness and immediacy, Katagiri shows the reader how this wisdom not only enlivens our spiritual practice but can help make our life a rich, seamless whole.
For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is
Buddha--already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is
the question of how we can experience that truth in our lives. In
this book, Dainin Katagiri points to the manifestation of
enlightenment right here, right now, in our everyday routine.
Genuineness of practice lies in "just living" our lives
wholeheartedly. The Zen practice of sitting meditation "(zazen) "is
this not a means to an end but is the activity of enlightenment
itself. That is why Katagiri Roshi says, "Don't expect
enlightenment--just sit down "
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