Instructions for the Zen Cook
How to Cook Your Life
By Andō
We all want to live a meaningful life.
Tenzo Kyōkun, instructions to the cook, is a text written by Eihei Dōgen Zenji, in 1237. It is not a recipe book, or a kitchen manual, but a complete teaching for a meaningful life.
The tenzo is the cook in a Zen monastery. A task requiring focus, with long wor…