Steven Harper - Meal Chant Stew
Chef Sati Invites You to Dinner Chef Sati—a chef and Buddhist teacher—invited us to dinner to introduce us to the art of mindful cooking and eating. He promised that his dishes would enlighten our senses and that the evening would simply be an opportunity to touch the joy of life, but we would all have to take an active part in the meal. He placed
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The Five Contemplations 1. This food is the gift of the whole universe: the earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard, loving work. 2. May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it. 3. May we recognize and transform our unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation. 4.
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The words of the liturgy felt like a mother rocking me, singing over me, speaking words of blessing again and again. I was relaxing into the church like an overtired child collapsing on her mom.
Tish Harrison Warren • Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
A meal is the whole universe that food exists within—a universe that deserves its own type of ritual and honoring before getting into the containers of it.
Hanif Abdurraqib • There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Michael Norton, who wrote The Ritual Effect. Apparently, every time his family has meatloaf, they put candles on it and sing, “Happy Meatloaf to You,” to the tune of the birthday song. They started it to get their daughter to eat meatloaf but it became a tradition.
Imagining, for Grown-ups: On Making Up Rituals Lei Wang 5
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