Tea Meditation Quotes

#1. If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

Rajneesh

#2. In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

Frederick Lenz

#4. In all of us is the design of the world, We have the ability to access and understand the universe. To become other forms. It's tea you drink now, in six hours it becomes you.

Matthieu Ricard

#5. A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

Toshimi A. Kayaki

#6. Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Ikkyu

#7. Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.
Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.
Is the glass part full or part empty?
Take another sip.
And now?

Vera Nazarian

#8. Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Rajneesh