Cooking with Rice Eyes pays tribute to Zen Master Dogen's instructions on how to live a single day of mindfulness and joy while cooking in order to bring benefit to others. Dogen's seminal work, "Tenzo Kyokun", describes how to see food and the activity of cooking with Buddha's eyes of non-dualistic wholeness and wonder. Each piece of food that you wash, chop, cook, and serve is a tasty morsel of your own undivided Being. Taisan's poems express Dogen's teachings on Zen in daily life in ways that make them accessible to Buddhists and the general public alike.
