Week 3: Baking Bread

Buddha wanted to find out how human beings develop this ideal character—how various sages in the past became sages. In order to find out how dough became perfect bread, he made it over and over again, until he became quite successful. That was his practice.

—Shunryu Suzuki

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

  

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

― Billy Collins 

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.

― Rumi 

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

― Mary Oliver 

 People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

― James Baldwin 

How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like kleenex? 

- Julia Childs

Rather a piece of bread with a happy heart than wealth with grief.

 – Egyptian Proverb

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. 

― Richard Wright

 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

― Mahatma Gandhi 

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. 

― Robert Louis Stevenson 

Actual practice is repeating over and over again until you find out how to become bread. There is no secret in our way. Just to practice zazen and put ourselves into the oven is our way. 

—Shunryu Suzuki


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