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

by Eihei Dogen (otherwise under Dogen)

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Info:	Shambhala (2005), Paperback, 136 pages
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I enjoyed not only Dogen's short piece, but Kosho Uchiyama Roshi's various essays about the piece.

It can be hard to summarize zen thought in a concise, understandable way, despite it being a very practical philosophy. Kosho Uchiyama Roshi manages to do so and even Dogen's "Instructions for the Zen Cook" is quite accessible in this translation. (

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