6 articles on Zen tea life Life is like a pot of Zen tea

In the realm of Taoist philosophy, life is like tea is a dynamic metaphor, and Taoism condenses the arduous experience of people's lives in a pot of tea. Tea tasters know: the first water, the second tea, the third tea is the most essence, and the fourth is sweet and charming.

Therefore, the juvenile world is at a loss to describe the turbidity of the freshly brewed first tea, and the foam should be abandoned and the tea set should be rinsed, so that the tea soup in the later narrative can be crystal clear and charming! The young and middle-aged period of life is compared to the second tea, because the second tea began to drink, and the second tea contains the most theophylline and tea polyphenols, and it is also more or less mixed with other miscellaneous tastes, so it tastes strong green and bitter, so the green and bitter taste of this second tea is used to describe the hard work period of life when you are young and strong. The third tea when tasting tea is the real embodiment of the charm of tea leaves, this tea soup is the most mellow, the sweetest, and the most charming, so it is most appropriate to use this tea to describe the harvest period after middle age.

When the tea leaves are brewed to the fourth tea soup, the tea is light and charming, which will make people reminisce about the charm and refreshment of the previous one.

Therefore, the fourth tea is used to describe the light and pan-flavored life in old age, and because of this, the elderly often share with others the experience of hard work in the prime of life and the joy of harvesting results! This is the origin of the phrase "life is like tea" that people often use to describe life. I always feel that tea can relieve worries and annoyances.

Although he is no longer young, his heart washed away by the world still has times of irritability and anxiety, and he will frown every time he encounters troubles. Then I will think of drinking tea, quietly take out the tea leaves, and brew myself a cup of light tea. Tea must be boiled before it has a strong fragrance, and life must be tempered before it can mature, so that it can calmly face all kinds of difficulties and tests.

In order to truly achieve "pampering and not being shocked, watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court; Go and stay unintentionally, look at the clouds in the sky".

Tea is reborn because of water, and water is fragrant because of tea. The encounter between tea and water nourishes life and stirs life. Making tea is like life, and you need to negotiate the benefits:

The time is short, the tea has no flavor, and it is light; After a long time, the taste is too strong, bitter, life ups and downs, like a cup of tea, bitter as tea, fragrant as tea. Light name, light profit, no contention, no grabbing. Floating like a dream, a cup of tea to relieve worries!

Life is like a cup of tea, like a cup of bitter tea, tasting the bitter taste, but the aftertaste is a sweet smile. It's like the suffering that you have endured silently in your efforts, but after the ordeal, you have an incomparably bright smile. In life, don't leave yourself any regrets, and face everything in the world with the truest smile.

In fact, we will find that the world is not so cruel, as long as there is a smiling heart, everything in the world is still beautiful.

Tea has a way, and the heart has no boundaries; Watch "Seven Bowls of Tea Poems": one bowl of throat kiss moist, two bowls of loneliness. Three bowls of dry intestines, only 5,000 volumes of words.

Four bowls of light sweat, life injustice, all to the pores. Five bowls of muscles and bones, six bowls of fairies. Seven bowls can't be eaten, but the two armpits are used to the breeze....Gain three pounds every festive season, hehe......

Different tea drinkers have different tastes in life, successful people feel sweet when they drink tea, people who fail to drink tea feel bitter, people who drink tea with vicissitudes have endless aftertaste, and the same kind of tea can taste thousands of flavors in different people. Lao Li's feeling of drinking tea is: bitter first and then aftertaste, maybe it is bitter and sweet!

As the saying goes, "tea is like life, the first tea is bitter like life, the second tea is fragrant like love, and the third tea is as light as the breeze".

There are six types of tea, and each person's personality can correspond to each type of tea. Some people are like flower tea, you can always hear their laughter in life; Some people are like green tea, they can give people a green feeling wherever they go; Some people, like white tea, like clean, can give people a natural fragrance wherever she goes; There are also people like noble Pu'er tea, which is not easy to get close to, but in fact, they also have a fragile heart.

The reason why tea can exude a variety of fragrances is that it can blend with water to bring out a variety of tea aromas. Whether it is the top West Lake Longjing or Tieguanyin, if it is not brewed and drunk, then it is always a small piece of tea. This is the same as life, no matter how strong a person's ability is, or how good-looking he is, if he does not integrate into the society and contribute to the society, then his ability will not be known, and no one will see her beauty.

Therefore, tea begins to bloom when it encounters boiled water, and our life is like tea, and it is only after integrating into society that we begin to experience all kinds of bitterness, sweetness, success and failure. A small piece of tea is so fragile, but after brewing, you can release yourself without reservation, bring the fragrance of tea to the tea tasters, and people's lives must also contribute all their youth and years after entering the society, so that the society can understand our value. This may be that life is like tea, and tea is like life.

Zhuangzi Yun: Serving for life without seeing its success, and being tired without knowing where it is going. Roughly speaking, many people are subjected to hard labor all day long, but it is difficult to see success; Many people have a hard time in their lives, but they don't know where to belong, is this your current situation?

I can't finish this life with mediocrity.

In fact, life is not long, only a cup of tea.

A leaf, starting from picking, has gone through hardships and transformed into a leaf of tea. This is very much like a person, from birth to growing up, and then entering the society, crawling and rolling, becoming a unique person with a unique temperament. Some people will ask, different tea processes are not the same, what kind of tea is this tea?

What kind of tea is this? Who knows. People are not vaguely called people, they have different upbringings, environments, choices, and ultimately different identities, such as engineers, programmers, cooks, carpenters, teachers, and so on.

Who knows. Becoming a piece of tea seems to be over, but in fact it is just the beginning. Eventually, it will meet water. A handful of clear water, flowing out of the mountain stream, gentle and delicate, crystal clear, how dreamy under the light, how magnificent! Water is soft, such as a woman's tenderness, which can benefit all things and can be matched with tea.

The Book of Poetry, National Style· There is a passage in "Wild Vines": "Encounter and encounter, suitable for my wishes", the fate of unexpected encounters, beautiful as desired, is suitable for expressing this situation. Tea and water are an encounter, and they love each other.

Aren't people? Walking and stopping in this world, I don't know that ** is belonging. I only know that the people around me are busy making money, and it seems that I don't make money by myself.

We're not happy, but we're trying to make money, which makes us feel more "gregarious". Until they meet the person they like, they are attracted to each other. Only then did I realize that the real purpose of my life was to be with this person.

Together, it's all roots.

You never know what the next cup of tea will taste like because each leaf receives different amounts of sunlight, air, humidity, and nutrients; These factors make each cup of tea unique and unknown. Only when you taste it with your own mouth, the answers will be revealed one by one; Perhaps, this is the reason why there is a little expectation before drinking tea.

Life is the same, you never know what you will taste in the next second, ups and downs, joys and sorrows, life is far more than a hundred flavors. This is the charm of life, it is both unknown and has infinite possibilities, only if you take the initiative to embrace it, can you meet the beautiful.

Life is a piggy bank, and every effort you put in will be returned to you one day in the future. What others have, as long as you are willing to give, you can also have it.

People who like to taste tea should be able to feel that the tea has a natural, fresh and refined taste, this taste has the characteristics of Zen, so people often like to pay attention to the artistic conception in the process of tasting tea, a kind of Zen artistic conception, gradually, people are used to calling it tea Zen. What is the artistic conception of Zen? My personal understanding is that it is a "light" word, indifferent and calm, and indifferent to see the success or failure of the light, simply put, "let go", let go of the troubles and distractions in the heart.

I don't think the world's largest and quietest meditation room is in the ancient temple or temple, but in the hearts of people. Drinking tea can make people meditate, let people taste life, and let people realize many truths of life, so that they can learn to let go and know how to let go.

In fact, I personally do not have any special preferences for drinking tea, and I have no concept of tea and the grade of tea, my favorite is the process of drinking tea and the environmental atmosphere of drinking tea, every time I drink tea, I always like to smell the residual fragrance on the empty cup, a natural fresh and refined taste makes me feel at ease, so I like to meditate in this state of mind to comprehend "let go", to interpret the "indifferent" state of mind. Because I think that the letting go of tea is the same as the indifference in life, after all, life is like tea, and the empty cup is right!

The usefulness of each container lies in its "emptiness". Only an empty cup can hold more. "Empty" is a measure and mind, "empty" is the possibility and premise of "being", just like the emptiness of the teacup can allow us to drink tea, but also to drink different tea, and every time you want to drink tea, as long as the empty cup is right, there is endless good tea.

Isn't life like that? Our hearts are like this teacup, and when the empty cup is right, there is endless joy and emotion.

Every success and failure in life will be in the teacup of our life, all we have to do is when your teacup is full, if you want to taste another good tea, you have to keep your teacup in an empty state. Therefore, in the process of drinking tea, we will realize that in fact, many unhappiness and unhappiness in life are due to the fact that the cup capacity in our hearts is too small, and a little trouble occupies our entire mind. Only by making one's own heart become broad-minded, the capacity of the inner cup will become larger.

And once you empty the cup full of troubles, you can be quiet and quiet.

Think about it, when a person's heart is always full of unhappiness and unhappiness, how can there be space for happiness and joy? If you don't get rid of all the pain, melancholy, and resentment in your heart, how can you put happiness, joy, and laughter into it? Therefore, life should learn to empty the cup, pour out the negative energy in the heart, let go of the things that should be put down, and let your heart make more space to fill in new things, fill with things you like, and fill with positive positive energy ......This should be the inner truth of tea Zen, right?

Let's pour out the cup of tea that has already been cooled in our hearts, usher in a warm and hot new tea in the empty cup, and taste life with a state of mind that has no intention of staying and strolling leisurely, and ...... casually and leisurely