The Way of Tea
CHA DAO
Tea is one of natures great teachers. It is medicine in its purest form. The plant’s teachings are manifested and awakened through ceremony, hot water and stillness. Tea connects us to ourselves, nature and raises our awareness to both the fragility and beauty in all of the life. Giving the leaf the space to teach us lends to a life of awareness, connectedness and beauty that unfolds.
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The ritual of Tea
茶道Tea-drinking began in China, and its discovery is credited to the Indian sage Bodhidharma (aka Daruma), the founder of Zen Buddhism. From the 2nd century BCE, Buddhist monks began to drink tea to help support themselves while they meditated and to ward off sleep.
In Japanese, the tea ceremony is called chanoyu, meaning 'hot water for tea', or cha dao or sado, meaning 'way of the tea'. The whole experience was meant to involve a spiritual element, a shared moment of calm and renewal for its participants. As the old Japanese saying goes, cha-Zen ichimi - "Zen and Tea have the same flavour."
Crystal bowl meditation, combining with the Tea Ceremony, in order to reach higher states of being and bring the mind to specific frequency healing waves.
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A sitting meditation with tea used as a plant medicine and a teacher to allow you to find stillness and explore your inner world & connect to your higher self.
Tea Ceremony
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❝ A tea ceremony is such a wonderful way to come back to your center, to connect with the beauty on inner world and to gather in community. ❞
Cha Dao
茶道
The Chinese word for tea is cha 茶. The top symbol represents a plant (or grass), the middle part indicates a person and the bottom radical depicts a tree.
Dao philosophy honours the principles of balance, grace, quietude, mindfulness, simplicity and harmony with nature. Dao encompasses the whole of the universe.
Meaning “the way”, dao refers to the natural way of the universe unfolding, together with the way in which humans can live a life of balance and behave in accordance with the universal laws.
During the ceremony you are taught to recognise the sacredness of nature and that life (inclusive of yourself, animals, water, plants, mountains, soil, rivers and oceans) is interconnected and filled with chi, the essence of life itself.
The chi of the mountain where the specific tea was grown, the wind, rain and soil that nourished the tea plant, the sun and moonlight the plant absorbed, the earth that provided clay for making the tea bowl and the pure spring water you collected to brew your tea. All these energies flow through you when you drink a bowl of tea.
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TEA CEREMONY
JANUARY 15 2023
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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. ❞
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