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Description

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.

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First Sentence

When I first began to study Zen, my teacher gave me a koan, a Zen question, to answer: "How do you go further from the top of a hundred-foot pole?"

Authors & Contributors

  1. Bernard Glassman (Author)
  2. Rick Fields

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