"HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE"

[thoreau]

One my favorite documentaries of the last year is out on DVD today!

I found this documentary fascinating. As I've been studying Buddhism in the last few years - and enveloping that into a discussion of food helped me see food in a whole new way. Personally, I think kitchenbeard lives this a lot more each day than I do and is a MUCH better example, but....

I know there are a fair number of buddhist thinkers on my friends list - so I thought I'd share this....

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"HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE"

Move over “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance!” Here comes Zen and the Art of a Good Meal! Filmmaker Doris Dörrie turns her attention to Buddhism and that age-old saying, you are what you eat. In How To Cook Your Life, Dörrie enlists the help of the charismatic Zen Master Edward Espe Brown to explain the guiding principles of Zen Buddhism as they apply to the preparation of food as well as life itself. “How a person goes about dealing with the ingredients for his meals” explains Dörrie “says a lot about him. How To Cook Your Life teaches us to be attentive in our everyday dealings with the most mundane things and also open our eyes to one of the most beautiful occupations: cooking.”

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add it to your netflix que or pick it up at Blockbuster - you'll be glad you did.

Comments

[snousle.livejournal.com]

I imagine it's influenced by this, which I read regularly.

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

That is SO you.

[snapperboy.livejournal.com]

I'm ordering it tonite.

Snark

[anziulewicz.livejournal.com]

I have a few friends that would prefer a book entitled, How To Cook Your Wife.

[septimuswarren.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. I kept seeing the trailer at the theater when it came out and it looked so boring. Perhaps it's time to give it a look.

I'm curious to hear what you thought of Shortbus.