Who is the Japanese Buddhist teahcerin the black-and-white archive film scenes?
Doris Dorrie: Thats Suzuki Roshi, the teacher of Edward Brown. He came from Japan to San Francisco in the 1960s. At the outset a wild group of hippies were his followers. They founded a Zen center in the mountains of California, in Tassajara. Suzuki Roshi follows the tradition of Master Dogen, who brought Buddhism from China to Japan in the 13th century. Until today the tenzo kyokun, the old text from Master Dogens Instructions for the Cook is sung in the kitchen in Tassajara: “Select the rice and prepare the vegetables by yourself with your own hands, watching closely with sincere diligence. Carefully protect these ingredients as if taking care of your own eyes. You should not attend to some things and neglect or be slack with others for even one moment. Do not give away a single drop from within the ocean of virtues; you must not fail to add a single speck on top of the mountain of good deeds.” Cooking like Edward Brown does, is realization of these teachings. A request for mindfulne
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