His work on Japan has dealt with some of the most important philosophical thinkers, notably Dōgen and Nishida Kitarō.
I would suggest that people pay more attention to Zeno’s paradoxes, to McTaggart's paper on Time, and perhaps also to the writings of the thirteenth-century Zen teacher Dogen Zenji in his Genjōkōan.
In 2013 he compiled a guidebook outlining his personal philosophical outlook, based on traditional Japanese philosophies from Miyamoto Musashi, Tsunetomo Yamamoto and Dogen.
Ejō accompanied Dōgen to Kamakura, then the capital of Japan, during a six month visit starting in 1247 on which he taught Hōjō Tokiyori, the shōgun's regent.
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Following his master's death, Ejō left for Kannon-dōri-in (later changed to Kōshōhōrin-ji), Dōgen's newly established temple in Uji, where he would finally become his student.
Dogen, the 13th-century Japanese founder of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, used the Lotus Sūtra often in his writings.
A few days later, after Jack and Hurley too escape, Miles is left behind with the "infected" Sayid and the Others when Claire Littleton, also "infected," shows up to talk to the Others' spokesperson, Dogen (Hiroyuki Sanada).