Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary

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.

• The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
• Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji
• The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life
• Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
• Not One Single Thing: A Commentary on the Platform Sutra
• Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
• Boundless Vows, Endless Practice: Bodhisattva Vows in the 21st Century
• The Wholehearted Way
• The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
• How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment