Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Roberts, Shinshu

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan

A guide to awakening buddha mind for the contemporary Zen practitioner. In the words of Eihei Dōgen,...
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Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan by Roberts, Shinshu

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan

$46.13

Meeting the Myriad Things: A Zen Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Genjokoan

$46.13
Author: Shinshu Roberts
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A guide to awakening buddha mind for the contemporary Zen practitioner.

In the words of Eihei Dōgen, the thirteenth-century Buddhist monk who introduced the Sōtō school of Zen to Japan, "To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things." Centuries later, these enigmatic words from his seminal "Genjōkōan" (Actualizing the Fundamental Point) are still studied in Zen communities the world over.

But what did Dōgen really mean when he encouraged studying the self to forget the self? In this clarifying new commentary, esteemed Zen teacher Shinshu Roberts takes readers on a journey to understand Japan's great Buddhist philosopher. Roberts applies her deep familiarity with Dōgen's work to illuminate the text as a unified story in which Dōgen reveals the nondual nature of reality.

In addition to a full translation of Dōgen's "Genjōkōan," this book includes the commentary Okikigakishō ("Notes of What Was Heard and Extracted"), written by two of Dōgen's direct students--the first time an English translation of this highly influential work has appeared in print.

Author: Shinshu Roberts
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 08/19/2025
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781645472728

About the Author
SHINSHU ROBERTS is a Dharma Heir of Sojun Mel Weitsman in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. She received her priest training at San Francisco Zen Center and from the North American branch of the Japanese Soto School. She has been appointed Kokusaifukyoshi (International Dharma Teacher) by the Shumucho (Japanese Soto Administration). She cofounded Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA with her spouse Jaku Kinst. She is the author of Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji.

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