summer in a bowl

I've been on a new weight loss mission. I am going to change the way I do things completely and forever and loose 100 pounds in the process. Woo Hoo Go Me!

Zen Thoughts

This morning I watched a Documentary called How To Cook Your Life. It was about the head cook at a Buddhist mountain center in California and the zen philosophies about food and its preparation. I enjoyed the movie. The two things that stayed with me had little to do with food. I keep thinking about the idea that if you are always trying to make everyone else happy you will never be happy, it's impossible to please all the people all the time.
The other idea is about meditating. About how you are supposed to think only of what you are doing while your doing it. I.e cutting carrots. While cutting carrots you are to only think about the act of cutting carrots, you mind should not wonder.
I was aware that I would not make a successful Buddhist practitioner when I got up in the middle of the movie to go take this picture.