Questioning the Time Being
Dogen’s nuanced teaching on temporality is revisited in the book Being-Time.
Matthew Gindin
Matthew Gindin is a journalist and meditation teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia. A former monk in the Thai forest tradition, he recently edited Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Courage, Clarity, and Compassion, by Koshin Paley Ellison.
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