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Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking

Name: Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking
Author: Hee-Jin Kim

A Reflection on His View of Zen

Hee-Jin Kim,

184 pages
English
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Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking

A Reflection on His View of Zen

Hee-Jin Kim,

About this book

Looks at D?gen's writings on meditation and thinking.

Thirty years after the publication of his classic work D?gen Kigen-Mystical Realist, Hee-Jin Kim reframes and recasts his understanding of D?gen's Zen methodology in this new book. Through meticulous textual analyses of and critical reflections on key passages primarily from D?gen's Sh?b?genz?, Kim explicates hitherto underappreciated aspects of D?gen's religion, such as the ambiguity of delusion and also of enlightenment, intricacies of negotiating the Way, the dynamic functions of emptiness, the realizational view of language, nonthinking as the essence of meditation, and a multifaceted conception of reason. Kim also responds to many recent developments in Zen studies that have arisen in both Asia and the West, especially Critical Buddhism. He brings D?gen the meditator and D?gen the thinker into relief. Kim's study clearly demonstrates that language, thinking, and reason constitute the essence of D?gen's proposed Zen praxis, and that such a Zen opens up new possibilities for dialogue between Zen and contemporary thought. This fresh assessment of D?gen's Zen represents a radical shift in our understanding of its place in the history of Buddhism.

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