How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

Eihei Dogen; Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

ISBN 10: 1590302915 / ISBN 13: 9781590302910

Editore: Shambhala, 2005

Codice articolo EBBV.1590302915.N

Riassunto:

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. 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.

Informazioni sull?autore: Dogen (1200–1253) is known as the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect.

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Titolo: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen ...
Casa editrice: Shambhala
Data di pubblicazione: 2005
Legatura: Brossura
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