Summary: What exactly is the role of respect in our life? Monshin Nannette Overley delves deeply into this often-used word, and infuses new feeling and meaning into an attitude which is too frequently bereft of its sacred manifestation. Her talk looks at respect through the eyes of a Yurok elder preparing a feathered wand for ceremony. It looks at the respect payed to each individual vegetable used in cooking for the homeless. Nannette explains three types of respect: respect for the other, respect for values and principles, and self-respect. Quoting Zen Master Dogen’s famous, Instructions to the Cook, she reads, “Treat utensils such as tongs and ladles, and all other implements and ingredients with equal respect. Handle all things with sincerity, picking them up and putting them down with courtesy.”<br>
