Daikuin

�@The Daikuin (kitchien) is a three-story building with a basement. Meals are prepared in this large kitchen for all the resident priests and those guests who stay on the second floor. All food is vegetarian. In the "Tenzo Kyokun" ("Instructions for the Zen Cook"), Dogen Zenji wrote, "A dish is not necessarily superior because you prepared it with choice ingredients, nor is a soup inferior because you made it with simple greens. The many rivers that flow into the ocean become the one taste of the ocean. Upon flowing into the pure ocean of dharma, there are no such discriminations as delicacies or plain food; there is just one taste, and it is the Buddha dharma, the world itself as it is."