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><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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.