Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom

Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary

Tom Wright, Shohaku Okumura, Tom Wright, Shohaku Okumura

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781614293026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614293392
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Eastern Philosophy

Insightful commentary on a beloved ancient philosopher of Zen by a beloved contemporary master of Zen. 

Famously insightful and famously complex, Eihei Dogen’s writings have been studied and puzzled over for hundreds of years. In Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom, Kosho Uchiyama, beloved twentieth-century Zen teacher addresses himself head-on to unpacking Dogen’s wisdom from three fascicles (or chapters) of his monumental Shobogenzo for a modern audience.

The fascicles presented here from Shobogenzo, or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye include “Shoaku Makusa” or “Refraining from Evil,” “Maka Hannya Haramitsu” or “Practicing Deepest Wisdom,” and “Uji” or “Living Time.” Tom Wright and Shohaku Okumura lovingly translate Dogen’s penetrating words and Uchiyama’s thoughtful commentary on each piece. At turns poetic and funny, always insightful, this is Zen wisdom for the ages.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction by Tom Wright
• Part I. Practicing Deepest Wisdom
• Part II. Refraining from Evil
• Part III. Living Time
• Part IV. Comments by the Translators
• Translators’ Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors
• Copyright