{"id":738,"date":"2009-09-08T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/09\/instructions-for-the-cook.html"},"modified":"2009-09-08T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T08:44:31","slug":"instructions-for-the-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/09\/instructions-for-the-cook.html","title":{"rendered":"The Zen Way of Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     <b><font style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\">( Dogen&#8217;s Instructions for the Cook &#8211; I )<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">For our ongoing 100-day ANGO &#8230; <i>let&#8217;s start cooking<\/i> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>If you would like to find the complete translation we will be using &#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hcbss.stanford.edu\/research\/projects\/sztp\/translations\/eihei_shingi\/translations\/tenzo_kyokun\/translation.html\">SOTO ZEN TEXT PROJECT<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\">_____________________________<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; 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