Instructions to the Cook

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$13>)5/SPIRMUAIJTY/BUSINESS (Canada: SÍ5.95) 'Provocative recipes blending meditation practice and actions that matter in a crazy world. Look! Taste! Be nourished and inspired! Magnificent work!" -Jon Kabat-Zinn rom Bemard Tetsugen Glassman-one of America's most provocative Buddhist teachers-comes a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used equally weil as a manual on business or spiritual practice, cooking or life. In Instructions to the Cook Glassman draws on the teaching of Dogén, the thirteenth-century founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, to relate his own experiences as twentieth-century abbot-cumentrepreneur. This book, written with Rick Fields, describes Glassman's vision and hxs work, particularly with the Greyston Mandala, a network of businesses and not-for-profits Glassman established in a povertystricken section of Yonkers. It is the fruit of his long years of Buddhist practice and alsó of all the ways in which he has tried to improve the quality of life for... Tovább

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$13>)5/SPIRMUAIJTY/BUSINESS (Canada: SÍ5.95) 'Provocative recipes blending meditation practice and actions that matter in a crazy world. Look! Taste! Be nourished and inspired! Magnificent work!" -Jon Kabat-Zinn rom Bemard Tetsugen Glassman-one of America's most provocative Buddhist teachers-comes a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used equally weil as a manual on business or spiritual practice, cooking or life. In Instructions to the Cook Glassman draws on the teaching of Dogén, the thirteenth-century founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, to relate his own experiences as twentieth-century abbot-cumentrepreneur. This book, written with Rick Fields, describes Glassman's vision and hxs work, particularly with the Greyston Mandala, a network of businesses and not-for-profits Glassman established in a povertystricken section of Yonkers. It is the fruit of his long years of Buddhist practice and alsó of all the ways in which he has tried to improve the quality of life for those on the bottom rungs of society. Offering such precepts as "Use what you have," "Dont reject anything," and "Recognize your faults as your best ingredients," Brooklyn-born Glassman is forging a new, American brand of Buddhism, applying the principles of spirituality both in the communíty and in the marketplace, successfully practicmg nonattachment while swimming with the sharks. Vissza