The second edition of The Zen Monastery Cookbook has arrived and contains fabulous vegetarian recipes plus personal accounts from the monks-in-residence of what it's like to be the cook at the Zen Monastery Peace Center.
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This wonderful book, originally published in 2001, recounts a spiritual journey as it moves from meetings with Asian masters to encountering an American woman teacher, Cheri Huber, who turns macho Zen inside out. What distinguishes it is the unflinching frankness with which personal difficulties are described, the growth that takes place in spite of the difficulties, and the revealing interactions between student and teacher. More...
Excerpt from the back cover:
“Sherry Richert Belul once turned her birthday pie, fallen on the floor, into a lovely lemon crumble. Her son’s middle initial is Q. She has four cats, one named Monkey. She owns 92 hats. She practices Zen Buddhism and the art of celebrating the human spirit.”
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