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What if the Buddha Served you tea?

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Created By: Pat
Latest Activity: Aug 25

If the Buddha served you tea

"If the Buddha served you tea how do you want to receive it? By slurping it down and demanding more, or might it be better to gracefully sip the tea, while filling up your body with appreciation for this event that The Buddha is serving you tea, and it is so delicious, and the room is so peaceful and beautiful.

So you are sipping and expressing your appreciation, and letting that appreciation saturate yourself. And your life condition is getting higher and higher. And because your life condition is getting higher The Law demands that more benefits flood over you, so The Buddha continues to serve more tea in your cup and it tastes better and better.

And that is how you should strive to be about all benefits in your life, do not slurp it down and demand more, sip, appreciate, look around and pay attention to what else there is in the environment to appreciate."
~~Pascual Olivera (Not an exact quote)

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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

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Comment by aparna on July 9, 2008 at 5:02am: I second Linda on tea!!

And thanks Kiemlan, for sharing.

Comment by aparna on July 9, 2008 at 1:39am: Wow!!!
Do you have any more stuff by Pascual Olivera?

Comment by Kiemlan on June 13, 2008 at 3:56pm: Ok I'll add a poem:

Genmaicha (June 13, 2008
)
under the clear hot water
a rice grain blooms into a golden pebblet
quiet, serene and oh so clear

this is why my forefathers said
that tea is mystical,
a mirror to the soul

You can watch your thoughts sink through the surface
until they come to rest in nothingness
all is peace in this bright pool
fish are swimming around the weeds
weaving their pace in and out
the mirror of forever

but for now I think I'll drink it
and enjoy sencha with roast rice.

Perhaps it's edible, too.

(in honour of the ever so mystical, practical Chinese :-) )

Comment by Veta on May 25, 2008 at 11:54am: I'm a tea fanatic! How wonderful to see such thoughts using tea as a source of wisdom! Now, I will definitely think about these quotes when sipping my tea! :) It is very true. Only this moment is life.

Comment by Linda on April 18, 2008 at 9:08am: The best tea is Tulsi tea, spiced with cinamon and served with a shot of southern comfort....

Comment by Pat on April 11, 2008 at 10:31am: Welcome, Kiemlan!

Comment by Kiemlan on April 11, 2008 at 8:11am: Heyy... I like this!

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