Dogen’s “Uji”: Reconstituting The Time-Being

Matthew Gindin
5 min readDec 2, 2020

What could be more obvious than time?

We don’t often stop to examine our most basic assumptions. Like the proverbial fish unaware of water, time is the medium in which we move. Yet on a closer examination, what time is, and how we are to understand it, is not so obvious.

Is time literally a medium, like water, that we move through? Are we separate from time, or…

--

--