Learn The Art of Drinking Tea
Drinking tea is a lost art if you are not paying attention to its joys. In Asia, where there is a long tradition to tea-drinking. To enjoy tea fully, you have to savor the fragrance, color and flavor of the tea as the brew becomes stronger. You learn about the world from your teapcup when you engage your senses as you drink.
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has one of the best advice for us when drinking tea….
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Delights of Drinking Tea
Lu Tong (790–835) was a Chinese poet of Tang Dynasty known for his lifelong study of the “Tea Culture”. A translation of his “seven cups of tea” is as follows….
“The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration – all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup – ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.”
Feel the urge to have some tea now?
Tea Drinking Invitation
So here’s my invitation to you…it is something that I wrote while I had a brewed cup myself this evening….
Let’s have tea together someday;
Let’s grace the session with our full presence;
Let’s engage our hearts as we speak.
Through each in-breath, we fill our senses with the aroma of the tea leaves;
Through each sip, we taste the earth in our teacup;
Through each space between words, we listen intently;
Pouring our souls over the poetry of life.
Our smiles say everything –
The peace in our hearts.
Moments of connection
Through drinking tea.
Always in Abundance,
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Evelyn Reply:
October 12th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Hello Arsalan,
Thank you for sharing your comments about my blog. I will be writing to you in response to your personal question.
With best regards,
Evelyn