Kitchen Koan

It is a blessing to realize that when a carrot can be appreciated as a carrot, you can just be you.

- Edward Espe Brown (in his "Eating Wisely" column in the July/August 2001 issue of Yoga Journal)

the walk of life - a quote by R.H. Blyth

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being lucky or unlucky, winning or losing.  It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.  We walk, and our religion is shown (even to the dullest and most insensitive person), in how we walk.  Living in this world means choosing, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself.