Tea Zen

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Author: Lin Guzhen
Publisher: Gandha Samudra Culture Enterprise Co., Ltd.

Content Summary:
Entering tea through Zen, awakening to Zen through tea
The Way and the vessel attained together; tea and Zen, one single flavor
The author Lin Guzhen, with the eye of a Zen practitioner, speaks of "tea" and expounds "Zen" with true and heartfelt feeling, and further draws out the vast and subtle delight of "tea-Zen."

Tea, though an everyday thing, in its grandest sense unites both the Way and the vessel.

Zen, by contrast, is the subtraction of life. The character of Zen can be set forth in four phrases: "Not relying on words and letters, a transmission outside the teachings; pointing directly at the human mind, seeing one's nature and becoming Buddha." In history, Zen may be called a movement of return to the heart of the Dharma; in cultivation, Zen is the thorough resetting of life to zero.

And whether "tea" or "Zen," each has its own scenery; as equal subjects, they can also complement each other. The way of tea originally need not lie in Zen, but when one enters tea through Zen, the flavor of tea can truly answer to the present moment, fulfilling what is called "a single color, a singl...

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