Mon July 28, 2025
How to Cook Your Life: No Recipe! with Author and Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown, PZI Live Online, Host Jon Joseph Roshi
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A Pacific Zen Luminaries Series Online Event
How to Cook Your Life: No Recipe! with Author and Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown
Monday, July 28th, 2025
Live Online at 6 p.m. Pacific Time
Edward Espe Brown found his way to Zen practice in 1965, and dove in whole-heartedly. He was the first head cook, or tenzo, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and in 1970 his best-selling book, The Tassajara Bread Book, was published. His teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, ordained him as a priest in 1971, giving him the dharma name Jusan Kainei ("Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea"). In the years since, Edward helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook, and has written several other cookbooks, including The Complete Tassajara Cookbook, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, and in 2007, he was the subject of a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film entitled How to Cook Your Life, directed by Doris Dörrie.
In 2018, No Recipe: Cooking as a Spiritual Practice, Edward's book about finding our own way in the kitchen - and in life - was published. One of Edward's students, Danny Parker, put together a book of his lectures, selected from 30 years' worth of teaching; The Most Important Point was published in 2019.
In addition to studying Zen, Edward has also done extensive vipassana practice, yoga, and chi gung. He leads regular sitting groups and meditation retreats in Northern California and offers workshops in the U.S. and internationally on a variety of subjects, including cooking, handwriting change, and Mindfulness Touch.
Register: http://www.pacificzen.org/product/pacific-zen-luminaries-series-edward-espe-brown-with-jon-joseph-friends-july-28th/
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A Pacific Zen Luminaries Series Online Event
How to Cook Your Life: No Recipe! with Author and Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown
Monday, July 28th, 2025
Live Online at 6 p.m. Pacific Time
Edward Espe Brown found his way to Zen practice in 1965, and dove in whole-heartedly. He was the first head cook, or tenzo, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and in 1970 his best-selling book, The Tassajara Bread Book, was published. His teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, ordained him as a priest in 1971, giving him the dharma name Jusan Kainei ("Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea"). In the years since, Edward helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook, and has written several other cookbooks, including The Complete Tassajara Cookbook, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, and in 2007, he was the subject of a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film entitled How to Cook Your Life, directed by Doris Dörrie.
In 2018, No Recipe: Cooking as a Spiritual Practice, Edward's book about finding our own way in the kitchen - and in life - was published. One of Edward's students, Danny Parker, put together a book of his lectures, selected from 30 years' worth of teaching; The Most Important Point was published in 2019.
In addition to studying Zen, Edward has also done extensive vipassana practice, yoga, and chi gung. He leads regular sitting groups and meditation retreats in Northern California and offers workshops in the U.S. and internationally on a variety of subjects, including cooking, handwriting change, and Mindfulness Touch.
Register: http://www.pacificzen.org/product/pacific-zen-luminaries-series-edward-espe-brown-with-jon-joseph-friends-july-28th/
Please join us and consider posting our event to your list.
We're reaching out in these uncertain times to you, someone who may be interested in our Luminaries Series of intimate and illuminating conversations with artists, Zen scholars, translators, poets, environmental activists, writers, performers and teachers. Luminaries events support heart-mind innovators and bring inquiring communities together.
Please join us and consider posting our event to your list.
A Pacific Zen Luminaries Series Online Event
How to Cook Your Life: No Recipe! with Author and Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown
Monday, July 28th, 2025
Live Online at 6 p.m. Pacific Time
Edward Espe Brown found his way to Zen practice in 1965, and dove in whole-heartedly. He was the first head cook, or tenzo, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and in 1970 his best-selling book, The Tassajara Bread Book, was published. His teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, ordained him as a priest in 1971, giving him the dharma name Jusan Kainei ("Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea"). In the years since, Edward helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook, and has written several other cookbooks, including The Complete Tassajara Cookbook, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, and in 2007, he was the subject of a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film entitled How to Cook Your Life, directed by Doris Dörrie.
In 2018, No Recipe: Cooking as a Spiritual Practice, Edward's book about finding our own way in the kitchen - and in life - was published. One of Edward's students, Danny Parker, put together a book of his lectures, selected from 30 years' worth of teaching; The Most Important Point was published in 2019.
In addition to studying Zen, Edward has also done extensive vipassana practice, yoga, and chi gung. He leads regular sitting groups and meditation retreats in Northern California and offers workshops in the U.S. and internationally on a variety of subjects, including cooking, handwriting change, and Mindfulness Touch.
Register: http://www.pacificzen.org/product/pacific-zen-luminaries-series-edward-espe-brown-with-jon-joseph-friends-july-28th/
Please join us and consider posting our event to your list.
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Please join us and consider posting our event to your list.
A Pacific Zen Luminaries Series Online Event
How to Cook Your Life: No Recipe! with Author and Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown
Monday, July 28th, 2025
Live Online at 6 p.m. Pacific Time
Edward Espe Brown found his way to Zen practice in 1965, and dove in whole-heartedly. He was the first head cook, or tenzo, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and in 1970 his best-selling book, The Tassajara Bread Book, was published. His teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, ordained him as a priest in 1971, giving him the dharma name Jusan Kainei ("Longevity Mountain, Peaceful Sea"). In the years since, Edward helped found Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, worked with Deborah Madison in writing The Greens Cookbook, and has written several other cookbooks, including The Complete Tassajara Cookbook, and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He edited Not Always So, a collection of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, and in 2007, he was the subject of a critically acclaimed feature-length documentary film entitled How to Cook Your Life, directed by Doris Dörrie.
In 2018, No Recipe: Cooking as a Spiritual Practice, Edward's book about finding our own way in the kitchen - and in life - was published. One of Edward's students, Danny Parker, put together a book of his lectures, selected from 30 years' worth of teaching; The Most Important Point was published in 2019.
In addition to studying Zen, Edward has also done extensive vipassana practice, yoga, and chi gung. He leads regular sitting groups and meditation retreats in Northern California and offers workshops in the U.S. and internationally on a variety of subjects, including cooking, handwriting change, and Mindfulness Touch.
Register: http://www.pacificzen.org/product/pacific-zen-luminaries-series-edward-espe-brown-with-jon-joseph-friends-july-28th/
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