Having picked this up 2nd hand in Sydney, I am impressed by the way Okumura manages to guide the reader through the philosophy and poetry found in this key piece of Dogen's writing.
I especially appreciate the way the meaning of the characters is explained - I find that looking at the characters and seeing the meaning is a very direct way for meaning to appear in the mind.
For example, the word translated 'study', as is to study the self, is actually 習 - which contains self (自) and wing of a bird (羽) and is used to mean 'to become familiar with something' in a similar way to a baby bird learning to fly. This has a very different feel from the dualism of the student (subject) studying a fictional self (object).
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