{"id":752,"date":"2009-09-25T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T12:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/09\/accepting-was-is-given-improvi.html"},"modified":"2009-09-25T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T12:11:25","slug":"accepting-was-is-given-improvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/09\/accepting-was-is-given-improvi.html","title":{"rendered":"Accepting what is given …"},"content":{"rendered":"

( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – VII )<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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Cheerfully accepting what one is handed …<\/p>\n

… yet sincerely and carefully doing one’s best to make it good <\/p>\n

**(<\/b><\/i>Before the noon meal, the tenzo conducts a service in the kitchen<\/span> for Soko Shinsai, a Chinese folk deity and the guardian spirit of the oven who came to be enshrined in Chinese Zen temples, later brought to Japan.<\/font>)<\/b><\/p>\n

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