{"id":790,"date":"2009-11-12T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/11\/one-flavor-five-poisons.html"},"modified":"2009-11-12T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T08:56:40","slug":"one-flavor-five-poisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/11\/one-flavor-five-poisons.html","title":{"rendered":"One Flavor, Five Poisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Maybe we could say this like this …<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In cooking your life out of life’s cookbook … you had better see clearly what’s what. <\/p>\n

If you do so, you may be able to obtain a life of whole and harmonious flavor … not limited to the words in the book. <\/p>\n

If not, you may end up with a bitter, unpalatable, poisoned mess of a life.<\/p>\n

So much of the result is up to you.<\/p>\n

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You can read a bit more about Viktor Frankl’s finding meaning and peace even in a concentration camp here [LINK]<\/a><\/div>\n


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