How to Cook Your Life (7/)
/Daikan offers insight into the suffering and instability we create for ourselves. In what way is the position of Tenzo (head cook) a metaphor for the settled life that is grounded in zazen?
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How to Cook Your Life (6/)
/Continuing the dharma seminar on Uchiyama’s commentary on Dogen’s Instructions to the Cook Shinmon Michael Newton asks: as this is the only life you get, how do you look deeply to know who you are?
“In attachement blossoms fall, in aversion weeds spread” -Dogen
How to Cook Your Life (5/)
/Myoshin Kate McCandless continues the exploration of Uchiyama’s commentary on Dogen’s Instructions To the Cook, delving in to Chapter 10 making life calculations and Chapter 11 working with clear vision.
“All comparing-mind is vanity and self clinging.”
How to Cook Your Life (4/
/Nin-en Susan Elbe reads correspondence between herself, Uchiyama Roshi, and Dogen Zenji as part of the dharma seminar on Instructions to the Cook.
How to Cook Your Life (3/
/Myosen River Shannon continues the Dharma seminar on Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook, offering insights into Great Mind and Parental Mind.
What would it be like to fully the taste the experiences of each day? What kind of medicine bowl can be made with what’s available?
How to Cook Your Life (2/
/Jikai Vicki Turay gives a talk on chapters 3 and 4 of Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook.
Cooking is not a distraction from the more serious pursuit of meditation but rather an entry way to a deeper understanding of how our minds are intimately connected to all phenomena and to one’s buddha nature.
How to Cook Your Life (1/
/Dai- Flo Rublee offers the first talk in a new seminar Dharma seminar on Uchiyama Roshi's commentary on Dogen's Instructions to the Cook.
What are the activities of true adults in the world today?
Dialogues in a Dream - To Be in the Garden
/Myoshin Kate McCandless gives the last talk in the dharma seminar on Musō Soseki’s writing.
“I am seeking nothing special. Even for my guests I have nothing to offer except these white stones and this clear spring water.”
