Being-Time Audiobook By Shinshu Roberts, Norman Fischer - foreword cover art

Being-Time

A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji

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Being-Time

By: Shinshu Roberts, Norman Fischer - foreword
Narrated by: Leslie Howard
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A tour-de-force guide to Zen Master Dogen's most subtle and sophisticated philosophical premises: that being and time are inseparable.

Being-Time thoroughly explores Dogen's teaching on how we practice as Buddhas by understanding the relationship between being and time as it is—and as we perceive it to be. Using Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji (The True Dharma Eye, Being-Time), Shinshu Roberts offers a twofold analysis of this teaching: the meaning of the text and practice with the text, giving examples how we apply Dogen's complex teaching to our daily lives.

©2018 Leilani Shinshu Roberts (P)2022 Tantor Buddhism Sacred Writing Zen
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I have read her book and listened to this several times. Highly recommended to deep practitioners 🥇

profound when you are ready to hear it 👍

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Much to say about something fundamental but could be encapsulated in a paragraph. Its acceptance is what is hard, and I don’t think this book does a great job at helping bridge that gap.

Everything is triangulating to you right now.

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I'm not sure why there is another review down-voting the narration, maybe it is a language barrier?
In my opinion this audiobook has one of, if not the best, narration I've come across, and I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I find the narrator's voice very soothing and engaging, it is almost a meditation in and of itself to listen to Uji being read. Shinshu Roberts of course also does an excellent job breaking down each line of Uji and offers penetrating insights to what is often considered one of the most difficult Zen texts.

A Wonderful Book with Excellent Narration

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Very hard to get past the poor quality of narration.

The narrator seems to think this is a novel or something that needs extra emotive emphasis on her part, really irritating.

Also, adds bizarre tones speaking Japanese words like "dogen" and "tatagatha".

it was free but I'm giving it back!

Worst narration

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