The Sacred Simplicity of Tea Ceremony
From the talk “Sense of Smell” by Alan Watts
âThere is a special incense which the Japanese use in tea ceremony. Tea ceremony is a peculiar thing. It’s a ceremony that is, as it were, non-religious and yet very religious. All we’re doing in tea ceremony is just drinking tea, and there are no images, icons, or religious symbols present. There is just drinking of tea in a completely, fully attentive way, in which everything that you do is done as if it were the only important thing in the universe. You see, tea ceremony is completely living in the present, being absolutely with what you’re doing, but in a kind of relaxed, easy way… living in the Eternal Now, which is actually the only place there is to live.â
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