How to Cook Your Life

<b>This modern-day commentary on Dogen's <i>Instructions for a Zen Cook</i> reveals how everyday activities--like cooking--can be incorporated into our spiritual practice</b> <p/> 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 <i>Instructions for the Zen Cook</i>. 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. <p/> 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.