…all the senses go, and eventually you find you're quiet and you're centered and still. But don't make an exercise of it. Dogen, the Great Japanese Soto Zen master, always told his students: do not practice zazen to attain satori, sit just to sit. This…

…the Zen center, he's a good disciple of dogen, who brought Zen, a certain School of Zen, to Japan in the 13th century. Dogen said: you can't sit and meditate unless you're already a buddha, in which case why meditate? Well meditation is just the way a…

…the buddha and everybody's invited to listen. Well you know, it's a very funny thing, it doesn't make any sense. So this shobo Genzo Dogen has a lot to say in it about the nature of time and the nature of change. And the basic thought here is this,…

…been very much discussed by Taoist Writers it's been more discussed by Buddhist Writers, but it's all based on the same thing. Dogen, the great 13th century Japanese Zen Buddhist, studied in china and he wrote a book called shobo Genzo a roshi recently…