Dogen

About Dogen

Founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan. Returned from China teaching that practice itself is enlightenment. The Shobogenzo is a philosophical masterpiece written in Japanese. Just sitting, or shikantaza, is the complete expression of awakening. His essay on being and time fascinates readers of Heidegger. Insisted that enlightenment is not a stage but the ground of ordinary life.