Being Cooking
An inspirational text from Mutsuko Johnson
Sometime ago, I felt how important cooking is.
I began to call it ‘Being’ cooking.
This is different to what I have been practicing for so many years.
I discovered being in the cooking. Being Home cooking.
Until this time I never acknowledged that whenever I begin cooking I become calm.
I always felt like I was being at home. Being centered. Cooking completed the day.
It is very clear to me that cooking is the most practical and powerful way to practice Being.
Once we learn how to cook in this way, it can become ‘doing cooking.’ It becomes easy to act automatically. With awareness, being present, being now.
Being cooking! Being here and now!
Cooking can create Being Now, Being Present, Aliveness, each and every day.
Fresh foods can connect us with Nature.
Connect us with seasons.
It brings us such joy and happiness.
Cooking is a transformation of foods. It creates the art of life.
Transforms nature into our body.
We are not alone.
We are the Nature.
We are the Universe.
We are One.
The Heart of Zen Home Cooking with Mutsuko Johnson
‘As we Cook, we create Inner Peace’
Sunday January 24 – Saturday January 30
(4 evenings and 2 weekend days)
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Still recoiling from a weekend programme run by David Norris at the Concord Institute, addressing the issue of ‘Leadership.’ Not from the perspective of ‘telling people what to do’ but in relation to accessing our own leadership, and manifesting our own heartfelt visions. Truly remarkable.
‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.’ – Goethe
Inspiration as a cooking ingredient
I think inspiration is one of the most important ingredients to create menu and cooking.
When we are present, we get inspired.
Nature provide us such a inspiration.
Blue sky, fuzzy cloud, sunrise, sunset, shape of the moon, moonlight, trees, buds, flowers, little aunts to powerful hawk.
Vivid sun, kind rain, Sleepy Cloud, Wind like ocean. Noble snow.
It is all condensed into one vegetables or an apple.
What an amazing gift from the Nature.
The season is talking to us.
The weather is calling for us.
Our body is communicating with us.
Listen, just listen.
What is suited for Today.
This very day.
Not yesterday or tomorrow.
Just Now.
What is?
And How?
Inspiration.
Cooking with inspiration is dancing with weather, season, occasion, age, activity for us.
That is the true power of Home cooking.
Happy cooking
Mutsuko Johnson
One day before Obama
Whakataka te hau
Whakataka te hau ki te uru
Whakataka te hau ki te tonga
Kia maakinakina ki uta
Kia maataratara ki tai
Kia hii ake ana te atakura
He tio, He huka, He hauhuu
Tihei mouri ora
Cease the winds from the West
Cease the winds from the South
Let the breezes blow over the land
Let the breezes blow over the ocean
Let the red-tipped dawn arrive
With a sharpened air, a touch of frost,
the promise of a glorious day
I am alive