How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to EnlightenmentThis 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. 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. |
Contents
HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE Jinsei Ryōri no Hon by Kōshō Uchiyama Rōshi | |
The Tenzo Kyōkun and Shikantaza | |
Concerning the Religious Life | |
The True Form of the Self | |
Everything You Encounter is Your Life | |
Seeing the World Without Holding Worldly Values | |
Having a Passion for Life | |
Direction and Goal | |
Making Life Calculations | |
Working with Clear Vision | |
Living Through the Life of the Self | |
On Life Force and Life Activity | |
The Function of a Settled Life | |
Throwing Your Life into the Abode of the Buddha | |
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Common terms and phrases
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