Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

[Hoyu]

Attention All Filmgoers,
Break out your tickets and take a seat because or next film is about to begin.....Jundo, could you please dim the lights.

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Available to rent:
Netflix
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/How-to-Coo ... kid=222336

Youtube(only $2.99!)
http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=--wa5SHd-60&ob=av1n&feature=mv_sr[/video]]

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Or for purchase:
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Cook-Your-Life-Ed ... 033&sr=8-1

Discussion will begin October 1st
Gassho,
John(Treeleaf Usher)

[Dosho]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Hi John,

Very glad to hear about the next movie...and to find out it's one I've seen. So, while I'll try to see it again to refresh the memory, I'm just glad I'll be able to chime in this time either way!

Looking forward to it and thanks as always for coordinating this!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Amelia]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Looks like a fun one.

[Shohei]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

I have this one on dvd, and it is a very good watch

Gassho
Shohei

[Nindo]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Yes, indeed! I attended three retreats (not cooking) at the Austrian centre where part of the film was shot - such a wonderful place. Funnily the one scene that stuck with me most is when he gets angry with the packaging of a slab of cheese :P

[Hoyu]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Nindo wrote:
I attended three retreats (not cooking) at the Austrian centre where part of the film was shot - such a wonderful place.

That's awesome!

Gassho,
John

[Amelia]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Watching this movie gave me an afterglow of joy. Genuine people. I took good notes.

[Nindo]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Nindo wrote:
I attended three retreats (not cooking) at the Austrian centre where part of the film was shot - such a wonderful place.

That's awesome!

Gassho,
John

Yeah, that used to be my Buddhist home base before I became a Zen nomad :wink:

[Kaishin]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Just watched this recently...will watch again. What I remember liking most about it is how imperfect it is. Not only the film, but the people.

[Shohei]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Hiyas
I have this one on hand and have watched a couple of times. Im with you Matt, i love the oh perfectly imperfect it all is! Certainly worth a rewatch (re re re re watch?).

Gassho
Shohei

[Dosho]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Hi all,

I decided to order the DVD and it arrived yesterday! Looking forward to watching it again and hope my wife will watch it with me. I'd like her to watch Zen with me sometime too, but thought I'd start with something in English before Japaneses with subtitles!

Looking forward to the discussion.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Hoyu]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Hi All,

I thought this was a great film. One(of many) of the things I take away from it is a better understanding and appreciation of what our Ango PPE assignments(which, like this film, have revolved around food, eating and working in the kitchen and how they all tie in to our practice) are about!
I though of my poor friend Choco(who has given up breads for Ango) while they had the chapter of scenes on all the yummy looking breads Hope it didn't drive you too crazy Choco!

I love the Freegan lady with the dreadlocks who was foraging from the neighborhood trees.

Another great scene was when Edward Espe Brown used the analogy of the sponge and the sink when pointing out how we have a tendency to want to destroy that which we cannot control. I laughed because I too have found myself threatening inanimate objects when they "misbehave".

I don't want to hog all the great scenes in this review so please feel free to share what you liked(or not) about this film.

Gassho,
John

[Kaishin]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

I must say, watching Americans chanting sutras still makes me laugh. It just sounds so awkward!

He's quite an emotional guy, very interesting to watch. The part where he starts crying over his being a "busted up pot" was oddly moving.

[Kyonin]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

I wasn't familiar with Ed, but I simply loved how he takes on life and it's caveats.

As a non professional cook myself, to be watching a pro chef and Buddhist monk was fantastic.

Unlike the other two movies we watched, this one was a documentary, which was a nice change of narrative.

It was really touching to see how he got emotional telling the story about the beat tea pot. I think it's a Masters' lesson to find those kinds of teachings in everyday objects.

It was very hard for me not to take this film on a personal level. I love to cook, I have done it since I was a teenager and watching Zen philosophy going nicely along with the art of preparing food was simply wonderful.

There is a lot of wisdom on this film and I think it must be watched several times to really get all the messages.

[Kyonin]

Re: Now Playing: How To Cook Your Life (2007)

Hope it didn't drive you too crazy Choco!

LOL Yes, while I looked at all those wonderful loafs of bread my mind was racing and urging to go and make some bread. Luckily the documentary is so good I just had to stay and keep on watching.

I really liked when he compares hand made bread to modern bagged bread you find on super markets. They are soul less flavor less pieces of junk. His words made me realize the sad truth that there are kids right now that don't know what is to have a home that smells like fresh baked bread.

We live so fast and are so centered on entertaining and productivity, that we don't take the time to prepare the most basic thing of our nutrition anymore.

Me as an adult, I have just baked bread 4 times in my life, but as soon as I can I think I will start learning how to make bread too.