Tea and Zen Have One Taste - Practice
Table of Contents
- 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
- Slide 16
Text and Images from Slide
After the meal and break in the garden, guests are summoned back to the tearoom with the same kind of gong used to call monks to "dharma combat" with their spiritual teacher (roshi).
