Instructions to the Cook
A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters
1st Edition
Published on 9. June 2010
192 pages
978-0-307-53260-2 (ISBN)
Description
Instructions To The Cook is a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used equally well as a manual on business or spiritual practice, cooking or life. The hardcover edition was featured in every major Buddhist magazine. "Be nourished and inspired! Magnificent work!"--Jon Kabat-Zinn.
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Bernard Tetsugen Glassman is Abbot of the Zen Community of New York and also the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He is the founder of the Greyston Mandala, a network of businesses and not-for-profits doing community development work in southwest Yonkers, New York. Drawing on its Buddhist roots, Greyston's approach integrates the economic, social, educational, and spiritual dimensions of each endeavor.
Rick Fields was editor in chief of Yoga Journal, author of The Code of the Warrior and How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, and coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water, and The Turquoise Bee.
Rick Fields was editor in chief of Yoga Journal, author of The Code of the Warrior and How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, and coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water, and The Turquoise Bee.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About Author
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: Preparing the Menu
- Part 1 - The First Course: Recipes for Spirit
- Chapter 1 - The Making of A Zen Cook
- Chapter 2 - How to Cook
- Chapter 3 - Cleaning Kitchen is Cleaning: Mind
- Part 2 - The Second Course: Recipes for Learning
- Chapter 4 - Beginner's Mind
- Chapter 5 - Basic Ingredients
- Part 3 - The Third Course: Recipes For Livelihood
- Chapter 6 - Greyston Bakery
- Chapter 7 - Time and Money
- Part 4 - The Fourth Course: Recipes for Social Change
- Chapter 8 - Who are You Cooking for?
- Chapter 9 - Greyston Family Inn
- Chapter 10 - Baby Buddhas
- Chapter 11 - That Ain't Garbage
- Chapter 12 - The Meal of Self-Sufficiency
- Part 5 - The Fifth Course: Recipes for Community
- Chapter 13 - Indra's Networking
- Chapter 14 - Socially Conscious: Confectioners
- Chapter 15 - To Profit or Not to Profit
- Chapter 16 - Serving and Offering
- Chapter 17 - How to Eat
- Chapter 18 - Clearing The Table
- Chapter 19 - Starting Again
- Epilogue: The Third Vow
- About the Authors
- Other Bell Tower Books
- Copyright
