— The most inspiring shit I’ve ever read about bread
Making bread, one cultivates wisdom.
By seeing well-kneaded dough as well-kneaded dough and poorly kneaded dough as poorly kneaded dough one cultivates discernment leading to release as well as really good bread. Loaf after loaf, reflecting on the bread’s qualities - hard or soft, dense or fluffy, chewy or crunchy, moist or dry, sour or sweet - one sees penetratively “Bread will possess these qualities when made in this way and those qualities when made in that way.” Contemplating the process of bread making thus, one discerns that bread is anatta - without an enduring self - merely the results of impersonal causes and conditions - not separate from laws governing nature’s unfolding. Comprehending in this way that indeed one’s very own mind is exactly like this loaf of bread and the processes that brought it about, one cultivates wisdom, delights in wisdom, and becomes gift of wisdom to the world.
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