Dogen, founder of Soto Zen in Japan, offers unique and corrective spiritual insights that differ from the commonly known onion metaphor of reality, emphasizing the importance of a wider view of spirituality and spiritual practice through his main written work, the shobogenzo.

‍♂️ Dogen's teachings on time and being focus on the totality of each particular thing, seeing everything as time and being, and going beyond the concept of space while revealing how dynamic everything is.

‍♂️ Dogen's Soto Zen emphasizes experiencing the universe as one point in time and space, understanding things for what they are without being related to other things, and perceiving things in their "suchness" without the concept of timeless awareness or hidden spiritual nature.

Dogen's teachings focus on realizing the universe as the self and being actualized by myriad things, with no emphasis on pure awareness or consciousness.

‍♂️ Dogen's philosophy emphasizes the importance of realizing the uniqueness and inherent characteristics of a particular thing through total experience, achieving a state of self-fulfilling activity that is undefiled by dualities and attachments to perception and intellect, and seeing the unity of being and time in all things.

Dogen's unique view of Buddha nature as already complete and perfect, impermanence as buddha nature, and non-thinking in Soto Zen meditation.

‍♂️ Dogen's view on enlightenment and delusion differs from traditional beliefs, as he emphasizes the dynamic interplay between them, recognizes that enlightenment is not a final destination, and emphasizes non-dual teaching that reality cannot be defined in conceptual dichotomies.

Dogen's teachings offer different ways of spiritual realization and liberation, with a fluid concept of time and a focus on external reality, while acknowledging the value of questions and the essence of love that unites all beings.