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Zen Master Dogen

Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; 26 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), and Busshō Dentō Kokushi (仏性伝東国師).

Originally ordained as a monk in the Tendai School in Kyoto, he was ultimately dissatisfied with its teaching and traveled to China to seek out what he believed to be a more authentic Buddhism. He remained there for four years, finally training under Tiāntóng Rújìng, an eminent teacher of the Cáodòng lineage of Chinese Chan. Upon his return to Japan, he began promoting the practice of zazen (sitting meditation) through literary works such as Fukanzazengi and Bendōwa.

He eventually broke relations completely with the powerful Tendai School, and, after several years of likely friction between himself and the establishment, left Kyoto for the mountainous countryside where he founded the monastery Eihei-ji, which remains the head temple of the Sōtō school today.

Dōgen is known for his extensive writings like the Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, considered his magnum opus), the Eihei Kōroku (Extensive Record, a collection of his talks), the Eihei Shingi (the first Japanese Zen monastic code), along with his Japanese poetry, and commentaries. Dōgen's writings are one of the most important sources studied in the contemporary Sōtō Zen tradition.

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Dharmakaya Practice and Spiritual Bypass

Serial: TL-00778

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Koun Ejô, Samadhi, Soto Zen
Jan 07 2024
Hybrid

Excerpts from Dogen’s Extensive Record

Serial: TL-00814

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Extensive Record, Practice, Time, Dogen
Oct 22 2023
Hybrid

Online Seminar: Dogen’s Extensive Record, Eihei Koroku

Serial: TL-00813

ADZG Saturday Seminar,
Online Seminar

Dogen, Extensive Record, Dharmakaya, Buddha Nature, Dogen, Buddha, Lotus Sutra...
Oct 21 2023
Zoom

Dogen’s Extensive Record - Radiance, Intimacy, and respecting Causality

Serial: TL-00812

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Extensive Record, Buddha, Time, Practice
Oct 01 2023
Hybrid

Objectless Meditation and Serene Illumination

Serial: TL-00809

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Zazen, Samadhi, Meditation, Practice, Zazen
Sep 04 2023
Hybrid

Core Soto Zen

Serial: TL-00807

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Dogen, Bendowa, Zazen, Buddha, Practice, Zazen
Aug 14 2023
Hybrid

Buddha Work and the Ancestors: Teachings of Hongzhi

Serial: TL-00805

ADZG Monday Night,
Dharma Talk

Hongzhi, Dogen, Bendowa, Buddha, Work, Practice
Jul 31 2023
Hybrid

Bodhisattvas’ Four Integrative Dharmas

Serial: TL-00797

ADZG Sesshin Day 3,
Dharma Talk

Vimalakirti Sutra, Sesshin, Shobogenzo, Dogen, Generosity, Practice, Time, Buddha...
May 21 2023
Hybrid

The Buddha Way is a Conversation.

 Dogenzenji's vow and the practice confession and repentance.  Confession and repentenance includes both social and solitary aspects of practice. "The Snowman" poem by...

Dogen, Confession-and-Repentance, Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Evil, Repentance,...
Sep 03 2022
Zoom

Zen Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

Lovingkindness, Mahayana, Dogen
Jan 2022

Wholehearted Zen: Ethics in Practice

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Dogen
Jan 2022

Embodied Awareness: Beyond Duality

Serial: RB-03180

Door-Step-Zen_City-Groups

Practice, Dogen, Culture
Aug 2019
Johanneshof

Denko Roku 1: Shakyamuni

Serial: BZ-02662

Study Sesshin Day 1

 

true dharma, Transmission, Liberation, Nirvana, Dogen, Soto Zen, Chanting, Buddha...
Feb 16 2019

January 2019 talk, Serial No. 04461

Intimacy, Zendo, Dogen
Jan 2019

Creating Time Through Presence

Serial: RB-03449

Seminar

Time, Practice, Dogen
Oct 2018
Hannover

Steady Intimacy With Present Being

Serial: RB-02236

Practice-Period_Talks

Practice, Dogen, Time
Sep 2018
Johanneshof

Suzuki Roshi Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

Serial: BZ-02621

Sesshin Day 5

 

Birth-and-Death, Practice Period, Emotions, Intimacy, Attachment, Dogen, Bell,...
Jun 17 2018

Save the World Save Yourself

Serial: BZ-02586

Day 5

 

Impermanence, Berkeley Zen Center, Harmonizing, Composure, Rinzai, Priest, Mandala,...
Dec 07 2017

Buddhism as Science: Empirical Enlightenment

Serial: RB-03658

Seminar_Breath_Body_Phenomena

Practice, Buddhism, Dogen
Sep 2017
Hannover

Being Time in Turbulent times

Serial: TL-00428

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Time, Dogen, Zazen
Jul 17 2016
ADZG Temple

Interplay of Form and Emptiness

Serial: RB-02923

Seminar_To_Realize_Our_Innermost_Request

Dogen, Time, Consciousness
May 2016
Rastenberg

The State of the Dysfunction

War, Composure, Separation, Non-attachment, Oneness, Attachment, Religion, Peace,...
Mar 12 2016

2015.08.23-serial.00161

Practice, Buddha, Dogen
Aug 23 2015

2015.08.21-serial.00158

Practice, Dogen, Delusion
Aug 21 2015

2015.08.20-serial.00155

Buddha, Dogen, Time
Aug 20 2015

2015.08.19-serial.00153

Buddha, Buddha Nature, Dogen
Aug 19 2015

2015.08.18-serial.00151

Lotus Sutra, Dogen, Buddha
Aug 18 2015

2015.08.18-serial.00152

Buddha, Lotus Sutra, Dogen
Aug 18 2015

Cultivating Awareness: Zen's Pathways

Serial: RB-03892

Seminar_Attentional_Awareness

Dogen, Practice, Time
Mar 2015
Johanneshof

Embodied Awareness Through Zen Practices

Serial: RB-02279

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Time, Dogen, Practice
Sep 2014
Kassel

Zen's Non-Dual Path to Healing

Serial: RB-02277

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Time, Buddhism, Dogen
Sep 2014
Kassel

Zen Meets Psyche: Bridging Traditions

Serial: RB-02915

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Japan, Dogen, Buddhism
Jun 2014
Rastenberg

Gestational Mind Beyond Unconscious Thought

Serial: RB-02918

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Consciousness, Dogen, Stillness
Jun 2014
Rastenberg

Observing Reality Beyond Dualism

Serial: RB-02906

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Time, Dogen, Culture
Jun 2014
Rastenberg

Embodied Mindfulness: Time and Being

Serial: RB-02910

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Time, Consciousness, Dogen
Jun 2014
Rastenberg

Zen Paths: Embodied Time and Unity

Serial: RB-02589

Seminar_Buddha-Fields

Time, Practice, Dogen
Jun 2014
Rastenberg

Connecting Deeply through our Mothers

Serial: TL-00334

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Time, Dogen, Practice
May 11 2014
ADZG Temple

Themes of Mountains and Water Sutra

Serial: TL-00328

ADZG Sunday Morning,
Dharma Talk

Practice, Dogen, Time
Apr 06 2014
ADZG Temple

Mindfulness in Dynamic Participation

Serial: RB-03784

Practice-Period_Talks

Time, Posture, Dogen
2014
Johanneshof

Brain Washing 1,7,3,5

Serial: BZ-02339

Rohatsu

Dogen, Tenzo Kyokun, Anger, Birth-and-Death, Emotions, Daily Life, Hate, Dragons,...
Dec 03 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

Transcending Time through Zen Insight

Serial: RB-02200

Seminar_The_Practice_of_Interiority

Time, Buddhism, Dogen
Aug 2013
Hannover

What is the Basis of our Activity

Serial: BZ-02300

Why Do We Chant?, Saturday Lecture

Chanting, Suzuki Roshi, Dogen, Sixth Patriarch, training, Lay Practice, Priest,...
Mar 30 2013
Berkeley Zen Center

A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures

A Special Transmission Outside the Scriptures
Tenshin Reb Anderson
No Abode 2013-02-02 AM

Buddha Mind, Transmission, Samadhi, Bodhisattva Vow, Dogen
Feb 02 2013
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

Breathing Time, Living Presence

Serial: RB-03767

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Time, Breath, Dogen
2013
Rastenberg

Timeless Presence in Zen Paths

Serial: RB-03768

Seminar_Zen_and_Psychotherapy

Time, Practice, Dogen
2013
Rastenberg

2012.08.03-serial.00148

Buddha, Practice, Dogen
Aug 03 2012

2012.08.02-serial.00146

Dogen, Buddha, Delusion
Aug 02 2012

2012.08.01-serial.00145

Time, Buddha, Dogen
Aug 01 2012

2012.07.31-serial.00143

Dogen, Emptiness, Buddha
Jul 31 2012

2012.07.31-serial.00142

Practice, Buddha, Dogen
Jul 31 2012

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