It Came from Beyond Zen!: More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan’s Greatest Zen Master — Vol. 2 of a Radical But Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye - Brad Warner Audiobook

Written by Brad Warner
Read by Brad Warner
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

In Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died — and the world barely noticed. That man was the Zen monk Eihei Dogen. For centuries his main work, the Shōbōgenzō, languished in obscurity, locked away in remote monasteries until scholars rediscovered it in the twentieth century. What took so long? In Brad Warner’s view, Dogen was too ahead of his time to find an appreciative audience. As Warner writes, “He understood aspects of human nature that we take for granted today but that there weren’t even words for in his time.” In order to bring Dogen’s work to a bigger audience in the West, Warner began paraphrasing the Shōbōgenzō, recasting it in simple, everyday language. The first part of this project resulted in Don’t Be a Jerk, and now Warner presents this follow-up volume, It Came from Beyond Zen. Once again, Warner uses humor and pop-culture references to bridge the gap between past and present, making Dogen’s words clearer and more relevant than ever before.