by Admin on
28/3/09
Zen Tea
法净禅茶
Our
life is like a cup of tea, no one can taste it for us -
bitter or sweet, that is our own unique experience. Drink
it right now, and feel it, and savour it, and reflect on
it, and then ask yourself, who is here drinking the tea.
人生就像一杯茶，喝茶要当下。 吃茶去！
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19 March,
2009, monks from
Pure Way Buddhist Monastery in Hangzhou are on
their way to tend the tea crops in their farms as
a way to cultivate the Buddha seeds in their
hearts
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A young
yet well cultivated monk purifies the tea crops
with enlightened bliss
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A young master is roasting green
tea to eradicate dust and bitterness from the raw
plants
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A young master is serving tea to
all visitors regardless of their faith and status
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The advanced tea culture was initially
developed in Chinese Buddhist monasteries, as a way to help refresh spirit
during meditation. The nature of refinement of greet tea
has best reflected the ritual-less while highly
sophisticated Zen approach to the enlightened liberation and wisdom, thus Zen Tea came into being.
One
of the best brands of Zen Tea is called "Dragon Well Tea in West Lake" (西湖龙井茶), produced by monks at Pure Way Temple (法净寺) in Hangzhou (杭州), one of the most picturesque
cities in China.
The following is a Zen Tea poem
composed by Du Xiaoshan (杜小山), of North Song (北宋: 960 - 1279):
寒夜客来茶当酒，
竹炉汤沸火初红。
寻常一样窗前月，
纔有梅花便不同。
(Source of info & photos: 王定昶, 施健学, xinhuanet.com）
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The Life of a Dying
Parasite
Listen
carefully, my serfs, if I'm gonna go to Vajra
Hell,
you must all go with me! Understand?
Dalai Lama and his
followers, the exiled former slave and serf
owners, lived like a bunch of blood
suckers, quite literally, when
they were in Tibet, live a parasitic life
style relying on the handouts of their West masters when they are in
Indian, and hope to keep living a life at
the expenses of other human beings in
future, therefore recently called on
Tibetan farmers to stop cultivating their
farms during this crucial sowing season
as a way of protest.
Over the decades,
ethnic Tibetan Chinese enjoy various
special benefit allowances from the
central government, including free
schooling and free medicare which the
main ethnic group people, Han, had and many
still have no access to, not to mention
the regular wages paid to Tibetan lamas that other
religious groups in China are not
entitled to receive. However, the
majority of Tibetan people still rely
heavily on the crops as their main source
of income; and due to the hash climate in
Tibet, the land on the rooftop of the
planet can only bring production once a
year. If the farmers have missed the spring sowing
season, imagine what would leave
them in the next year?
It seems that Dalai Lama, while no longer
having opportunity to suck the blood of
his former serfs, wishes they could
return to a life of stricken poverty that
they experienced during the time under his reign.
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