In this twenty-third installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores obstruction, intention, expression, arrival, and “not arriving” as complete expressions of being-time. The teaching shows how even obstacles and realization itself must be released, inviting us into a continuous practice of becoming Buddha.

In this twenty-second installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores intention, expression, arrival, and hindrance as complete manifestations of being-time. Through Master Kisei’s imagery of the donkey and the horse, the teaching invites us to see practice not as a linear progression but as the full expression of each moment of uji.

In this twenty-first installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the Buddha’s awakening, the morning star, and the raising of the udumbara flower as complete expressions of being-time. The teaching connects Uji with Genjōkōan, inviting us to forget the small self, experience profound unity, and recognize the Dharma Gate opening in this very moment.

In this twentieth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the teaching that mountains, oceans, and our own lives do not merely exist within time—they are time. The commentary examines being-time as the complete activity of existence, inviting us to release fixed ideas of self and meet the present-infinite directly.

In this nineteenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores Baso’s teaching of eyebrows, eyes, mountains, and oceans as complete expressions of being-time. The commentary examines the intimacy of perceiver and perceived, while challenging fixed ideas of right and wrong, action and non-action, as each moment fully manifests uji.

In this eighteenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores Yakusan’s awakening encounter with Baso and the limits of intellectual understanding. Through the imagery of raised eyebrows, twinkling eyes, and the iron ox, the teaching shows how awakening arises through direct engagement with being-time rather than conceptual grasping.

In this seventeenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores awakening not as a distant goal but as a complete expression of being-time. Through Dōgen’s teaching on transiting and the Zen question of the “original face,” the commentary invites us to recognize practice, awakening, and this present moment as inseparable manifestations of uji.

In this sixteenth installment of his commentary on Dōgen’s Uji, Sensei Michael Brunner explores the boundless transition of being-time through Dōgen’s image of spring and the Gateless Gate koan of the moving flag. The teaching shows that we do not stand outside time watching life pass; we are the transition itself, fully participating in the unfolding of uji.

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.