Tea and Zen Have One Taste - Practice

Tea and Zen Practice
Preparing for a Gathering
Path to the Tea Room
The Waiting Bench
Purification at the Stone Basin
Entering the Tea Room
Viewing the Alcove
Laying the Charcoal
The Kaiseki Meal
Seasonal Sweets
The Middle Break
Tea Utensils
Sharing Thick Tea
Relaxing with Thin Tea
The Meaning of Tea Practice
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One of the ways that nature is brought into the tea room is through a seasonal sweet served after the meal.

A round black lacquer dish sits on the tatami mat. It contains a triangular tea sweet. The top is covered with red adzuki beans. The bottom layer is a kind of sweet rice cake. A wooden pick used to eat the sweet rests across the front of the dish.

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The name of this sweet is minazuki, "month without water," another name for the seventh lunar month which is celebrated in June today. The sweet is meant to resemble ice and give a cool feeling.

Tea and Zen Have One Taste - Practice

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