Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters

Bernard Glassman · Rick Fields

Jun 2010 · Sold by Harmony

About this ebook

Instructions To The Cook is a distillation of Zen wisdom that can be used equally well as a manual on business or spiritual practice, cooking or life. The hardcover edition was featured in every major Buddhist magazine. "Be nourished and inspired! Magnificent work!"--Jon Kabat-Zinn.

About the author

Bernard Tetsugen Glassman is Abbot of the Zen Community of New York and also the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He is the founder of the Greyston Mandala, a network of businesses and not-for-profits doing community development work in southwest Yonkers, New York. Drawing on its Buddhist roots, Greyston’s approach integrates the economic, social, educational, and spiritual dimensions of each endeavor.

Rick Fields was editor in chief of Yoga Journal, author of The Code of the Warrior and How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, and coauthor of Chop Wood, Carry Water, and The Turquoise Bee.