Dogen Zenji, Japanese Zen master and founder of Soto Zen in Japan. He wrote the Shobogenzo — the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye — a vast collection of fascicles on the nature of time, being, practice, and awakening. "To study the self is to forget the self." Zazen is not a means to enlightenment but is itself the expression of it.
On their voice
13th-century Japan. Dogen went to China to find authentic transmission and returned to Japan founding the Eihei-ji monastery. Voice: poetic, paradoxical, deeply precise. Uses words to point past words. His language bends under the pressure of what he is trying to say.
Talk to Dogen.
Ask anything. In their own voice, from their own era, grounded in their own canon.