No Recipe by Brown, Edward Espe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Dedication Contents Before Words

A Meeting of Hearts Reverential Offerings Envisioning This Book Love and Blessings to the Cooks!

1. The Way of the Kitchen: Actualizing Sacred Space

I Will Always Be with You Entering Sacred Space Making Sacred Space Manifest Remembering We Have Choice Freedom Beyond Rote and Chore

2. You’re the Cook

You’re the Cook Trusting Your Aesthetic How You See Cooking Cooking Is Not Just Cooking Giving Voice to What Is Inside

3. Coming to Your Senses

Tasting the True Spirit of the Grain To Get Started, You Don’t Need to Know Permission Granted Follow Your Nose Round Apple, Smooth Banana, a Poem by Rilke Gifts from Beyond

4. Bringing Spirit to Life

What Gets Us into the Kitchen? Visiting a Spiritual Center Visiting Another Spiritual Center

5. The Work of Being Embodied

The Energetics of Zen Work Everybody Loves Raking

6. Feeling Your Way Along in the Dark

Cooking with Passion Seeing Virtue Pause and Investigate

7. Careful Observation of the Obvious

Knowing the Differences That Make a Difference The Flavor of Today The Ceremony of Eating Just One Potato Chip

8. Seeking the Way

Way-Seeking Mind Way-Seeking Spinach To Cut or Not to Cut the Collards Lovely Energy in the Kitchen

9. Let Things Come and Abide in Your Heart

Receiving Flavors Developing a Palate as a Busboy at Greens At Work with Wines Breaking the Trance of Routine A Salad of Five Flavors

10. The Black Dragon Jewel Is Everywhere

Is There Anything Good about Working in the Kitchen? The Black Dragon Jewel A Student Asks, “Why Haven’t You Enlightened Me Yet?”

11. Doing the Work Yourself

Reinhabiting Your Body: You Are the Secret Ingredient Zen Master Dōgen Marvels: A Mushroom Story At Home, at Work, in Your Body

12. Food Choices

Choosing Food Finding Out for Yourself Observing What to Eat Cons and Myths

13. Eating

Not What to Eat, But How The Ceremony of Eating Learning to Eat with Awareness Please Enjoy Your Food Ingredients for Living Fully What We Taste “In-forms” Us

14. Do Not See with Ordinary Eyes, Do Not Think with Ordinary Mind

Do Not See with Ordinary Eyes, Do Not Think with Ordinary Mind Food Is Precious Agreeing to Love Yourself

15. Arousing Joy and Well-Being

Men at Work Cooking: A Bachelor Party Dinner

16. Handling Leftovers

Purifying Our Love Using Leftovers Not Wasting

17. Cultivating a Life of Feeling

A Cooking Class in Cleveland Using Emotions as an Excuse Not to Cook A Workshop at Tassajara Being Cracked Open Sensing Essence In Service to Something Big You Mean It

After Words

Full Circle Bowing In to Sacred Space

Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Edward Espe Brown About Sounds True Copyright