Status Updates From Impermanence Is Buddha-Natu...

when things are not seen as objects, the person looking ceases to be a subject. The whole structure of experience alters, shifts. This is a form of "exertion," of "practice."

the real affinities between Dogen and Heidegger lie not in their explicit conceptions of being and time, which are actually quite disparate despite the striking verbal similarity between Being and Time and uji (being-time), but in conceptions such as sustained exertion and perdurance, thinking, gathering and the Fourfold.

There is a genuine link here between Dogen and Heidegger; neither accepts objective presence as adequate to characterize the reality of things. Heidegger polemicized throughout his life against the philosophical and the commonsense view of things as static, objectively present objects. Dogen's Zen experience gave him access to a dynamism at work in things that completely escapes the average person.

Becoming transparent or emancipated yields deliverance from birth and death and immersion in birth and death; it results in discarding birth and death and crossing birth and death.

What is at steak is not whether or not we get there. When the moment of arriving has not yet appeared, the moment of not-arriving is here.

This is an interesting treatment of Master Dōgen's understanding of time and Buddha-nature.