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Plain water has flavor, subtly transcending the senses.</div>
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It precedes forms, though seeming endlessly to exist.</div>
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The Way is precious, though seeming massively to be foolish.</div>
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Inscribe designs on a jewel and it glory is lost.</div>
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A pearl even from an abyss naturally beckons.</div>
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Bracing air burnishes autumn's swelter;</div>
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Far away a single tranquil cloud divides sky and water.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-85312448438083508152014-04-07T04:13:00.001-07:002014-04-07T11:14:31.160-07:00Gassho: Peter Matthiessen (1927 -2014)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-78765450669910780352014-03-11T21:36:00.005-07:002014-03-11T21:37:43.775-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A luxurious house and the taste of delicacies are only pleasures of the mundane world. </div>
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It is enough if the house does not leak and the food keeps hunger away. </div>
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This is the teaching of the Buddha — the true meaning of Tea.</div>
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One day in the snow, I plucked a twig of winter plum</div>
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I slowly made a pot of tea then as I sipped the tea</div>
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I enjoyed the winter plum too.</div>
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Softly closing the chamber door,</div>
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Alone I await you in the empty room.</div>
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You never came.</div>
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Disappointed, I drink solitary tea</div>
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- Wang Wei (415-443)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-5545794303215300622014-02-02T11:06:00.001-08:002014-02-03T16:22:05.419-08:00Happy New Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is difficult to express the mysterious fine details of tea.</div>
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The true and mysterious characters emerge only when physical being(water) and the spirit(tea) are intact, </div>
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one must be careful not to overdo it and miss the true harmony.</div>
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Only when the true harmony is not lost can the spirit and wholeness of tea be realized.</div>
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- Dongdasong</div>
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<b>Special thanks to my friend Shane for visiting us from Taiwan and <a href="http://globalteahut.org/">Global Tea Hut</a>. </b></div>
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<b>We were treated to several bowls of wisdom and joy.</b></div>
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A couple days ago the brick and mortar store front of Cloud Mountain Tea House quietly opened. Several months of hard work by many and several years planning have finally created this beautiful space.<br />
Please stop by and visit us in beautiful Nelson, BC.</div>
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North Mountain sends down green flooding the embankment</div>
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the city moat and crescent lake shimmer in the light</div>
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counting every falling petal I forget the time</div>
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searching for sweet-smelling plants I return home late</div>
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But then you have to drink it. </div>
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When you drink it you have the real cup of tea. </div>
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But what is it? </div>
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It’s gone: it’s the memory of the taste, the sensation in your mouth.</div>
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Before the spring rain—</div>
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a baby leaf</div>
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After spring rain—</div>
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a baby leaf.</div>
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The tiny little baby leaf has died</div>
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so one cup of tea</div>
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has arrived here</div>
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I too</div>
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leaving behind eighty-four thousand bright-hued passions</div>
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have arrived here.</div>
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Two becoming one, one becoming two, we are here.</div>
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What's this?</div>
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There's not a breath of wind yet</div>
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a wind-bell is ringing!</div>
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I sit alone, deep in the mountains:</div>
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Worldly affairs are of no import.</div>
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Gate closed, I pass the days</div>
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in learning emptiness.</div>
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I examine my life.</div>
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I have no material goods,</div>
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just a bowl of fresh tea and</div>
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a book of scriptures.</div>
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- The Ven. Sonsu (1543-1514)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-65056260151005089772013-11-19T17:52:00.000-08:002013-11-19T17:52:18.050-08:00Brewing tea at Saiun-ji in Kitano<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Brewing tea by the roadside</div>
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fragrance rising from the pot</div>
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a marvelous refined pleasure</div>
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a flavor found nowhere else</div>
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The soft shrilling of the northern fields</div>
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billowing steam from the brazier</div>
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dispersing into the western clouds.</div>
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- Baisao</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-8628461667657634672013-11-08T19:50:00.002-08:002013-11-12T22:24:13.674-08:00Thoughts on opening a tea store<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Certainly, no one can expect to earn money or fame by tea-making; </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">it can only be done as a labor of love, </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">as a service to those who practice the Way of Tea.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">- </span><span class="ptBrand" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; text-align: left;">Brother Anthony of Taize</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-35071945193759714612013-10-31T22:13:00.001-07:002013-11-22T09:35:14.290-08:00Last Tea flower before winter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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'If tea isn't offered, a relationship isn't offered'</div>
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- Himalayan saying</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com0Procter, BC V0B, Canada49.618452 -116.9592319999999924.096417499999998 -158.26782599999999 75.1404865 -75.650637999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-87025386961599649492013-10-16T12:28:00.001-07:002013-10-16T22:57:05.177-07:00Letter to the wild monk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Other than the birds, who loves you?</div>
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Lordly peaks, your neighbors. </div>
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White head cold pillowed on a stone.</div>
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Gray robe ragged but not soiled. </div>
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Chestnuts pile up on your path.</div>
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Monkeys circle where you sit.</div>
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If you ever set up another zendo, I swear l'll be the one who sweeps the floors.</div>
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Kuan Hsiu (832-912)<br />
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The best tea is the one brewed with mindfulness.</div>
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With water drawn from the minds spring.</div>
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-Myokan</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com0Portland, OR, USA45.5234515 -122.676207145.1675755 -123.3216541 45.8793275 -122.0307601tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-13815907861548597182013-10-02T00:18:00.001-07:002013-10-02T10:51:36.412-07:00Mountain Living <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mountain living! There’s deep meaning here!<br />
A place where your spirits open up without limit.<br />
Lean on a pine trunk for your pillow.<br />
Wake from your nap and make yourself some tea.<br />
Mountain living! No guests arriving!<br />
The path through the bamboo grove is locked in smoke and mist.<br />
Near the front door a clear brook flows The wind carries small flowers on the water.<br />
Mountain living! Spring comes so early.<br />
Plum blossoms are everywhere you look.<br />
Their subtle fragrance captures the attention of your nose.<br />
See or smell the slanting branch just outside the window.</div>
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- Hsu Yun</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11801234128348743930noreply@blogger.com0Nelson, BC, Canada49.486790447510359 -117.278698130566449.476476447510358 -117.29886813056639 49.49710444751036 -117.2585281305664tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179939140173529543.post-29405446976845580062013-09-15T12:40:00.001-07:002013-09-15T21:15:50.697-07:00Wu-wei<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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No calculated activity, just spontaneous action in accordance with one's nature.</div>
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I have no doubt, within ten years, the fundamental way of tea will decline and perish. </div>
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When it has perished, people in society will believe, on the contrary, that it is flourishing. </div>
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- Rikyu (1589)</div>
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“Drinking tea bespeaks a quest that one offers to his friends for the beauty of gestures, </div>
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of objects and of the heart.” </div>
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~ Sogaku of the Hayami School</div>
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Sitting at night in a mountain pavilion, drawing spring water to boil tea.<br />
As the water and fire battle it out, the scent of the pine billows through the trees as I pour a cup,<br />
bathed in light from the clouds. </div>
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The profound pleasure of this moment is hard to convey in words to those of common tastes. </div>
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—Ming Dynasty Literati</div>
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Defile not its purity for drinking it expunges dust and woe. </div>
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The taste of this thing is spiritual, taking it from the mountain where naturally it grew, </div>
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I planted it in my own garden. </div>
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The bushes, to my delight, flourished, and I could invite my wonderful friends. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">I suddenly thought of my friend in the mountains</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">gathering firewood down by the creek</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">lugging it back to boil white rocks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">I wish I could bring him a gourd full of wine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">to drive off the wind and rain at night</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">but fallen leaves cover the deserted slopes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;">and how could I find the trail</span></div>
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The mind is the root from which all things grow.<br />
If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.<br />
It’s like the root of a tree.<br />
All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root.<br />
If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies.<br />
If you cut its root, it dies.<br />
Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.<br />
Those who don’t understand the mind practice in vain.<br />
Everything good and bad comes from your own mind.<br />
To find something beyond the mind is impossible.</div>
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