bDainin Katagiri Roshi's meditations on time draw on Dogen's teachings in iBeing Timei to illuminate the way to live fully in every momentb pIt's easy to regard time as a commodity--we even speak of saving or spending it. We often regard it as an enemy, when we feel it slipping away before we're ready for time to be up. The Zen view of time is radically different than that time is not something separate from our life rather, our life iisi time. Understand this, says Dainin Katagiri Roshi, and you can live fully and freely right where you are in each moment. pKatagiri bases his teaching on iBeing Timei, a text by the most famous of all Zen masters, Eihei Dogen 1200-1253, to show that time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the universe and everything in it--and that to understand this is to discover a gateway to freedom from the dissatisfactions of everyday life. He guides us in contemplating impermanence, the present moment, and the ungraspable nature of past and