Showing posts with label simplicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simplicity. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

How to cook your life

 93´ film. Spanish subtitles.  Overview+Synopsis, from . http://dogwoof.com/films/how-to-cook-your-life .Esker mila Joli!

Overview: 

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook (Edward Espe Brown ) author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

Synopsis:

HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE is a cheerful documentary about the art of cooking and the art of cooking your life without burning it, putting too much salt in, or overcooking it.

Doris Dörrie and the cooking Zen priest Edward Espe Brown demonstrate that eating is more than just the intake of food. Cooking is a festival of senses, and an act of love and generosity. During the summer of 2006 Doris Dörrie and her crew filmed Edward Brown at his cooking classes at the Buddhist center Scheibbs in Austria and the two Californian Buddhist centers, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center in San Francisco, where he teaches people of all generations.

His recipes are simple but rich in taste and aroma. HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE refrains from using any commentary. The camera is like a participant of the cooking courses. It captures the flour-covered wooden table, the dough, the radishes, oranges and carrots. One learns to understand the anatomy and liveliness of yeast as cakes, pizza, and bread are baked. The camera joins the lectures of Edward Espe Brown, which are based on the ancient tradition of Zen master Dogen, the founder of the Soto Zen School. Already in 1283 Dogen wrote a cookbook in which he encourages his readers to discover Buddha in simple kitchen chores, like washing the rice or kneading dough.

Practical and entertaining, Edward Espe Brown knows how to translate those philosophical thoughts into today’s zeitgeist.

What is the meaning of cooking and eating for the community and the individual?

Is cooking a political act?

How does cooking reflect our attitude toward life and the world? 

Edward Espe Brown is a happy priest, but for sure no saint; to him, the whole world can be found in a watermelon. In his pots, rivers and mountains are cooked.

HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE can change your view on cooking, eating and your own life. You will never again cut your vegetables the way you used to.

Love,

@Eleder_BuM    
www.burumapak.blogspot.com 

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? Jon Jandai



From TED´s page: 
Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It regularly hosts training on simple techniques to live more sustainably. Outside of Pun Pun, Jon is a leader in bringing the natural building movement to Thailand, appearing as a spokesperson on dozens of publications and TV programs for the past 10 years. He continually strives to find easier ways for people to fulfill their basic needs. For more information visit http://www.punpunthailand.org

12:37: "food, house, clothes and medicine must be cheap and easy for everybody, that is the civilisation!"



Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

Monday, September 19, 2011

BRIGHT LIGHT



I picked this video from @SunniBrown on Twitter. First thought was just wooow. Then, as ever, I realized there are always more faces on every reality. Reading the comments always is educating. It´s people who owns the knowledge. Each one has a part of the truth. That is,in fact, the spirit of Open Space.

Some comments from youtube viewers...

If any video deserves to go viral, this is it. Please share with everyone you know. TheBillysabu

solar power with a plastic bottle... they live day by day just enjoying life... thinking of other ways to live a natural life... todokiki

love this! love it! - to bad it is pepsi caps all over it     pzest
solar bottle skylight or the like, or look at the related videos for this. It works! They sell commercial products called Solar Tubes that do the same thing for a lot of money. ke6gwf
Of course part of it is also "clever" filming. If you got a camera you will know, that on film dark areas look even darker and filming any bright spots makes them shine even brighter,... YanaFramework

ideas tan sencillas y maravillosas hacen pensar que sí se puede tener una vida sostenible. Pero lo mejor es tener ventanas y aire en las casas  androgynonatus


Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Sormena
www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus)   @Eleder_BuM  (Twitter)
www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (esp)   www.flowandshow.blogspot.com

Sunday, September 4, 2011

WE ARE THE USKI'S (R&R)




This band (The Uski´s) is getting me very high these days, yahoooo! And this could be said to be the presentation of their spirit. They are from Ibarrangelua (near coastal Mundaka, whare I live :)! Sorry I didn´t find the piece with higher volume...


We have a language
we have a culture
we have no fear
we have a feel
we have the sun
we have the rainbow
we have the wave

We are The uski's for you
We are The uski's for you

We have no girl
we have no Money
we have good life
we have good friends
we have this music
we have this song
we have this voices
we want to sing

We are The uski's for you
We are The uski's for you

We have a river
we have a house
we have the night
we have the sky
we have no problem
we have no god
we are the color
we are the light

We are The uski's for you
We are The uski's for you
 
Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Sormena
www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus)   @Eleder_BuM  (Twitter)
www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (esp)   www.flowandshow.blogspot.com

Monday, April 18, 2011

Friday, December 3, 2010

Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity




















A good recommendation,I guess, from a new acquaintance. Thanks @eukenebarrenetxea :-)!

Enjoy life!

Eleder
BM31_Bilbao: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
Twitter: @Eleder_BM