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(More customer reviews)This is a hard review to write. This is, as is already pointed out in the Amazon description, a classic text by Eihei Dogen. I can't say anything about this book that someone else hasn't already said more eloquently.
If you don't know who Dogen is, or even what a Tenzo is, then I will state now that this book probably isn't for you. There are better introductions to the subject available. On the other hand, if you know you need this book, then you don't need me to tell you so.
The only thing I feel qualified to comment on is the binding; and I find the binding to be excellent. It seems like a solidly constructed book that will hold up to years of use.
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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 ofInstructions for the Zen Cook . 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. 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.
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