How to Cook Your Life
From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
Shambhala · Print & ebook · November 8, 2005
This modern-day commentary on Dogen’s Instructions for a Zen Cook reveals how everyday activities—like cooking—can be incorporated into our spiritual practice In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen—perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect—wrote a practical manual of Instructions for the Zen Cook.
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- Who it’s for
- A Zen commentary finds spiritual practice in cooking, work, and the ordinary business of living.
- Themes
- Everyday life as spiritual practice, Cooking as Zen training, Unbiased mind in daily work
- Genres
- Zen Buddhism, Zen, Japanese Cooking
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This modern-day commentary on Dogen’s Instructions for a Zen Cook reveals how everyday activities—like cooking—can be incorporated into our spiritual practice In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen—perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect—wrote a practical manual of Instructions for the Zen Cook.
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In drawing parallels between preparing meals for the Zen monastery and spiritual training, he reveals far more than simply the rules and manners of the Zen kitchen; he teaches us how to "cook," or refine our lives. In this volume Kosho Uchiyama Roshi undertakes the task of elucidating Dogen's text for the benefit of modern-day readers of Zen. Taken together, his translation and commentary truly constitute a "cookbook for life," one that shows us how to live with an unbiased mind in the midst of our workaday world.
Practice at the Stove
A Zen commentary finds spiritual practice in cooking, work, and the ordinary business of living.
Come here for
- The meeting point of kitchen work and Zen practice
- Dogen read as guidance for refining everyday life
Expect
- A modern commentary on Instructions for the Zen Cook
- Spiritual training brought into the workaday world
Where it sits
| Zen Buddhism | 96% |
|---|---|
| Japanese Cooking | 37% |
| Zen | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Zen
- Buddhist Practice & Ritual
- Zen Buddhism
- Authors
- Dogen, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
- Publisher
- Shambhala
- Published
- November 8, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Everyday life as spiritual practice · Cooking as Zen training · Unbiased mind in daily work
- Reading lane
- Zen