In this fifteenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores being-time as something that cannot be captured by concepts or contained by explanation. Through Dōgen’s teaching of full exertion, the commentary shows how every being, visible and invisible, completely manifests uji in each moment, calling us to meet life with our own complete presence.

In this fourteenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the limits of language in expressing realization. The teaching examines how uji can be spoken and manifested without ever being exhausted by words, inviting us beyond intellectual understanding into direct experience of being-time and the dharmakaya.

In this thirteenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the limits of viewing time as something that simply “rolls on by.” The teaching examines comprehension, awakening, and the ever-present nature of being-time, inviting us to see past, present, and future as fully alive within the reality of this moment.

In this twelfth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores how mistakes and false steps remain complete expressions of being-time without excusing neglect or erasing responsibility. The teaching shows how uji transforms error into a place of practice, inviting us to meet each moment with openness, accountability, and compassion.

In this eleventh installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores how conventional measures of time, ordinary existence, Buddha, practice, and awakening are all complete expressions of being-time. The teaching examines Dōgen’s idea of “partial complete realization,” showing how each particular moment fully manifests the whole of uji.

In this tenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the belief that the Buddha’s “golden body” is somehow separate from our ordinary lives. The teaching examines conditioned perception, guilt, shame, and Buddha-nature, inviting us to recognize every moment and every aspect of ourselves as a complete expression of being-time.

In this ninth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores time’s “virtue of continuity” and the way past, present, and future interpenetrate without forming a simple linear sequence. Through the examples of Seigen, Ōbaku, Baso, and Sekitō, the teaching shows how practice, awakening, and everyday experience each fully manifest being-time.

In this eighth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the deeply personal realization that we ourselves are being-time. The teaching examines impermanence, presence, loss, and compassion, inviting us to see each moment not as something we merely pass through, but as a complete expression of our very being.

In this seventh installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores how the belief that time simply “flies away” creates a false sense of separation and loss. The teaching invites us to awaken from habitual consciousness, discover the intimacy of direct experience, and recognize each moment as a complete expression of being-time.

In this sixth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the seamless flow of being-time, where past and present are not separate but fully included in the ever-present now. Through Dōgen’s imagery of pine and bamboo, the commentary shows how each thing completely manifests its own uji and how time is not a backdrop to existence, but existence itself.