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The Three Bowl Ritual
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 10:36PM The Three-Bowl Ritual
By Andrea Blum, Common Ground, August 2006
Breakfast in a Zendo
San Francisco, USA -- On a recent Saturday morning I rolled out of bed and made my way to the San Francisco Zen Center for breakfast. The 1920s brick building, originally designed by Julia Morgan for young Jewish women in need of a place to live, is now home to a throng of gentle monks in what is the largest Soto Zen Buddhist congregation outside of Asia. I was there to experience the cooking of the tenzo—the Zen cook—and a meal called oryoki, which is an elaborate ritual that involves eating from three bowls of descending sizes.
in Oryoki
Oryoki
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Well, Peanut, it's finally here! Looks great. Good luck and lotsa love.