"Everybody loves raking as a temple activity," my friend Gil explained to me after he returned from his sojourn practicing Zen in Japan and vipassana in Southeast Asia. "In Japan they say, 'When you rake, watch your mind.' So in Japan the monks can be seen raking energetically, sometimes stirring up a cloud of dust, while in Southeast Asia, the monks sometimes stand unmoving with a rake in their hands."
-Edward Espe Brown, No Recipe: cooking as a spiritual practice
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