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Instructions to the Cook - A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life that Matters (Paperback)
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Instructions to the Cook - A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life that Matters (Paperback)
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Zen is not just about what we do in the meditation hall, but what
we do in the home, the workplace, and the community. That's the
premise of this book: how to cook what Zen Buddhists call "the
supreme meal"-life. It has to be nourishing, and it has to be
shared. And we can use only the ingredients at hand. Inspired by
the thirteenth-century manual of the same name by Dogen, the
founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, this book teaches us
how we can "enlarge the family we're feeding" if we just use some
imagination. Bernie Glassman founded Greyston Bakery in Yonkers,
New York, in 1982 to employ those whom other companies deem
unemployable-the homeless, ex-cons, recovering addicts, low-skill
individuals-with the belief that investing in people, and not just
products, does pay. He was right. Greyston has evolved into an $8
million-a-year business with clients all over New York City. It is
the sole supplier of brownies to Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, and
has even sold cakes to the White House. But financial profit is
only one of two bottom lines that Greyston is committed to. The
other one is social impact, and this goal is certainly being met.
The bakery enterprise has led to the creation of the Greyston
Foundation, an integrated network of organizations that provide
affordable housing, child care, counseling services, and health
care to families in the community. Using entrepreneurship to solve
the problems of the inner city, Greyston has become a national
model for comprehensive community development. Its giving back is
more than just sloughing off a percentage of its profits and
donating it to charity; it's about working with the community's
needs right from the beginning- bringing them from the margins to
the core. As its company motto goes, "We don't hire people to bake
brownies. We bake brownies to hire people." This book is as much a
self-manual as a business manual, addressing such concepts as
Beginner's mind The Middle Way of
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