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Joyful Mind in the Zen Kitchen, CC 6/29/13

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Mark Lancaster
Saturday, June 29, 2013
1:30 - 7:00 pm (includes dinner)
In the Kitchen at 300 Page Street
with Melinda Miller and Mark Lancaster

Join former guest cook Melinda Miller and Zen teacher Mark Lancaster to prepare a simple summer meal together while deepening the practice of attention and mindfulness. We will make a delicious vegetarian supper from the bounty of the season, featuring organic produce from Green Gulch Farm and Melinda's garden, and then share the fruits of our inspired efforts with the residential community at City Center. There will be time for meditation and breathing exercises, laughter and learning new ways to work together in the kitchen. No experience necessary in either cooking or meditation. Bring willingness as we creatively explore kitchen work and the practice of joyfully waking up to each moment of our lives.

Melinda: "Cooking is a big deal. When we cook, we work directly with the elements: fire, water, sharp metal and plants that lived in the ground. What is made from these elements becomes us when we eat. It is really quite an awesome task!
     The relative quiet of a Zen kitchen can help us appreciate this. We have the space to feel our whole body cook when we stir the soup, chop the onions or wash the lettuce. Can we find joy even when the soup burns? I hope in this workshop we will all have a chance to taste that freedom together (and I still hope we don't burn the soup!)."

Fees:
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Related Bio(s):

Melinda Miller
is a Zen student and graduate of The Culinary Institute of America. She specializes in globally inspired home cooking. She is currently compiling a recipe database for Zen Center and will be helping to train summer guest cooks at Tassajara.


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Mark Lancaster
Mark Lancaster is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi. He teaches and works for San Francisco Zen Center as Human Resources Director-People Development. Mark has been teaching at City Center since 1998.