When I’m serving tea to someone… mostly I’m serving tea for myself, trying to get the most enjoyable and “true” expression of the tea out of it, in the way I think it’s best (not trying to make it “pleasant”or even easy or accessible for the other person). The other person just happens to be …
In short: my Tea practice allows me to forget the stories about myself. And I find it very satisfying because the constant thinking of “I’m like this” or “I need to solve that” is exhausting. What I believe is true, is true. If I believe life will be a struggle, it will be. If I …
Also see detailed video at How to brew. This is a very basic “starter guide” for making your own Tea ceremony. It’s not meant to be complete or very technical (focuses more on the meditation aspect of Tea). If you have no idea where to start or if you know how to steep Tea but …
Last night I was reflecting about how easy it is to be in default “fault finding” mode: finding faults with other people, with our life situation, with things we interact with. The media loves tearing down people, and we get some perverse satisfaction from seeing people humiliated, exposed, shamed, ridiculed… it’s so “default” that it’s …
I went to my first Tea ceremony, I wasn’t interested, but it was my girlfriend’s birthday and so we went. At the end I was so still I couldn’t talk for a long while. Love at first sip and I drank Tea daily since, with so much inspiration and desire. Around one year later I …