There is a scene that always fascinates people: a rainy night outside the window, the warmth inside the house, a handful of fragrant teas and a volume of poetry books. It is a great pleasure to add fragrance to tea!
If so, love tea. Whether casual or arty, I still dare not say "taste" but only "drink", but I have learned the bitterness of tea from drinking only to smelling, and now. Life without tea really feels dull and boring.
As far as I'm concerned, I like to make a cup of green tea on a lonely rainy night, sit by the window alone, watch the falling leaves, listen to the sound of rain knocking on the window lattice, taste the shallow bitterness and think about the deep and faint thoughts in the dense tea fog and faint tea fragrance.
Gently shake the teacup in your hand, look at the faint green tea or needles or tablets, up and down, ups and downs around, ups and downs, changing different postures, trying to find a best balance point of your own, sipping tea, let the shallow bitterness ripple between the tip of your tongue and fill your teeth and throat. After that, I took a deep breath, and the fragrance filled my lips and spread in my heart, washing away all fatigue and indifference. People seem to be drunk and unwilling to wake up for a long time. It's night, the tea in the cup changes from light to strong, floating and sinking, gathering and dispersing, and slowly realizes in the bitter fragrance: life is like tea.
Nine, a cup of green tea
Listen to tea, the legend of tea, the mystery and profundity, and the tea culture. When you look at tea, you see the etiquette and politeness of tea, and you are exposed to tea and tea culture. And drinking tea means making friends with tea, quenching thirst with tea, and nourishing the heart and nature with tea. Tea has changed from a cultural symbol to real life. Tea is a real color and smell, and tea is a normal, natural and appropriate life and mood.
I like to sit alone and drink tea slowly, like to drink slowly in the silence of the teahouse, like to taste new tea alone, and like to drink tea alone. There is a cup of tea, there is a quiet, taste tea in one's quiet, and then taste life and world life because of tea.
Drinking tea is a pleasure. Make a cup of tea when you are upset and exhausted. Slowly watch the tea spread its body and branches in the water, produce beautiful flowers, and watch the yellow petals dye through the whole glass of water. The fragrance of tea is diffuse, but the years and mood are concentrated in the texture and faint fragrance of tea, forgotten in camellia tea, crystal clear and fresh, or hazy red. Being in the boundless ice and snow in the north seems to be immersed in a rainy tea garden in the south of the Yangtze River, as if dancing with camellia in the wind, as if hearing camellia quietly telling. Holding a cup of tea, listening to the wind and rain in the fragrance of tea, reading, drawing and writing. A cup of strong tea or weak tea, a long or short silence. X. Monologue (Poetry)
Not that I am cheerful, but that I also have a lot of sadness. There are also many sleepless days that devour me. Life is never just brilliant. It's just that I like laughing, fresh and hearty air, and tea. I want to keep my bitterness in my heart, and all the fragrance is emitted. XI。 Tea and Zen
Tea and Zen have always had a mysterious connection, and the meaning of tea can lead to Zen. As for gradual enlightenment or epiphany, it depends on your nature. Legend has it that the founder of Dharma tore them off and threw them on the ground because he couldn't open his eyelids after nine years of customs clearance. A dwarf tree grew in that place. His disciples picked leaves from trees and soaked them in water to drink. They found that water is magical and abnormal, which can keep the meditator awake and clear-headed, and can understand the true meaning of Buddha more thoroughly, so they have the saying of "Zen tea".
Although it is a legend, tea and Zen are inseparable in temples. There were various rules of "serving tea soup" in the Song Dynasty, and the etiquette of drinking tea in temples was just like the rules that must be observed in Buddhism, such as no blowing, no dripping, no noise and so on.
Wait a minute. Here, tea is a kind of cultivation, and drinking tea is a process of enlightenment. The famous story of "Zhaozhou Tea" illustrates the position of tea in Buddhism: someone called on the Zen master of Zhaozhou and wanted to consult Buddhism. The Zen master asked him, "Have you been to this temple?" The answer is no. The Zen master said, "Please have tea first." Soon someone came again, and the Zen master asked, "Have you been to this temple?" Answer that I have been here. The Zen master said, "Please have tea first." The little monk next to him was puzzled and asked Jackson Zhao Zhou, "Why do you have to have tea when you come to live in the future?" The Zen master said, "You also have tea." Here, tea and Buddhism have become an organic whole, and Zen and tea have reached a unity. From tea, we can realize the existence of all wisdom, all sorrow, great power and equality, and we can also get the blindness of Zen. However, "meditation" is only a restriction on the human body. It is difficult for a conformist to reach an impressive height without spirituality and understanding of "authenticity". Cha Sheng Lu Yu is an abandoned orphan. Since childhood, he was adopted by the abbot of Longgai Temple, Master Zhiji. According to divination, he was given the surname Lu and the word Hung-chien. Lu Yu learned to read, write, recite Buddhist scriptures with yellow scroll lanterns and bells and Sanskrit, and learned to make tea with Master Zhiji. His skill was superb and won the appreciation of the Master. Young as he is, he has a great personality. When he was nine years old, Master Zhiji asked him to convert to Buddhism, but he questioned: "A disciple is born without a brother and dies without an heir. Confucianism says there are three kinds of unfilial, and there is no queen. Can a monk be called filial piety? " According to today's point of view, he is not superstitious about authority and has the courage to express his ideas, which is commendable. But at that time, Lu Yu was regarded as "defiant and contemptuous of his elders". The Zen master Zhiji was afraid that he would "go astray" and used all kinds of heavy "rough work" to temper him and let him "sweep the temple, clean the monk's toilet, practice the mud wall and bear the burden of building a house." At the age of twelve, he escaped from Longgai Temple unprepared. Since then, he has traveled all over the world, accumulated tortuous and colorful life experiences, and studied tea studies with a heavy heart. "He often wears a shawl and rattan shoes, walks alone in the wild, goes deep into the farmer's house, picks tea for springs, tastes tea products, or sings poems, strikes trees with a stick, makes running water with his hands, hesitates, and is often exhausted when it is dark. Lu Yu used her understanding of the five flavors of life to enter the Tao with tea, and finally became a saint. A "Tea Classic" promoted the tea affair to a tea ceremony, and completed the harmonious unity of matter and spirit. It can be seen that the entrance of the Tao is not only in an empty net, but a normal state of mind is the Tao, and having a "natural" state of mind is the true meaning of Zen. Some people say that people who can drink tea and taste Zen are free and easy, those who don't taste tea can go straight to Zen are detached, those who have tea but don't stick to tea or Zen are beyond it, and those who don't taste tea can correspond to tea ceremony Zen everywhere is a miracle. In my opinion, you don't have to taste tea to realize Zen, and Zen is not an unfathomable mystery. A flower is a world, a tea is a life, and the real taste is between drinking and eating at ordinary times.
12. A cup of herbal tea to get rid of gas.
I don't know when I became fascinated with herbal tea. There are several cans of small glass bottles in the coffee cabinet, which have not only been expanding their fields, but also showed signs of replacement recently. It contains all the magical powers of nature: roses, incense, chamomile, thyme and lavender. When my friends came home to chat, they all looked at me with suspicion when they saw the glass pot I took out: I am addicted to drinking black coffee and actually drink weak herbal tea? Enjoy sunshine and freedom in herbal tea.
Xu, I was fascinated by its warmth! Last winter, my cousin gave me a can of dried roses as a birthday present. In the dead of winter, scoop a few flower buds in a glass basin with hot water temperature, and then rush into hot water; Wait quietly for 5 minutes. Dark golden tea flowed out of the pot, warming my hand holding the cup. Every time I take a sip, my throat overflows with soft flowers. Looking at the small round rose buds floating in the basin, I suddenly felt a kind of pure beauty. I not only drank the fragrance of flowers, but also flowed into my body with the smell of sunshine and wind, which was unspeakable warmth. And roses really have the effect of promoting blood circulation and nourishing skin! Once I began to be curious and found that there are so many kinds of herbal tea and the curative effect is different. I can't help buying one or two cans every time I pass by the store.
In the dull and restless afternoon, I always steal a pot of tea, sometimes chamomile and sometimes rosemary. By the way, move a chair to the window and watch the fallen leaves of street trees flying in the air; Or turn your glass with the sunshine, stare at the bright refracted light, and fantasize about traveling to a distant place, where there are endless flower fields and a small house with a red tile roof, which makes people free. Although I still like to drink black coffee, I know more about the clean and soothing feeling brought by herbal tea. Friends who are used to drinking coffee and have a strong taste see me drinking herbal tea and all ask me suspiciously if there is tea flavor in it; And friends who like to drink light tea are terrible when they see black coffee.
Is it really so strange that people who like black coffee will fall in love with herbal tea? I don't think so. Because you know the deep and bitter taste, you can feel the lightness and freedom better. Like degas's circle; Cold. Transcendent, cynical, but there is a trace of longing for the light and unspeakable loneliness.
Thirteen. Tea language
Drinking can be a drink and tea can be for two or three people. Drinking tea in summer to quench thirst, sitting around the stove in winter and chatting while drinking tea are also very interesting. When we look at this exquisite tea, we must look at things differently from the past. Drinking alone is boring, but drinking tea alone is full of fun. Wine can relieve worries, and tea can make you laugh. Isn't it nice to burn incense and make tea alone and enjoy a quiet night? Watching the tea soup shake in the cup, the cup is warm in the hand, and the same kind of tea has a different aftertaste every day; If it is different tea, you can experience different tastes. Playing chess has chess language, and watching flowers has flower language. The square world in this small cup is probably tea language. But this square cup is sometimes the world. To put it bluntly, you will feel that the three mountains and five mountains are at your fingertips, and the literary giant is with you. To put it bluntly, life is only between a cup of tea. After the rich aroma, we savor its taste carefully, but when we are still unfinished, the more we drink, the less we want to drink. Just between a cup, how can you have time to put down the trivial things in the world?
When I drink tea, I especially pour tea on Maitreya's tea pet and watch the water flow through him. He holds a cattail leaf fan and laughs heartily. Is that wet dew? At that moment, it was like the light stopped. It's really beautiful. I feel that I have passed away from this world. I am like a reclusive mountaineer, so quiet and happy. I am a friend of tea and a companion of Zen all day long. For this reason, I wrote this poem: Qingfen is in my arms, I want to talk about it in detail, and the flag gun is in the bowl, and the Tao comes from me.
I'm thinking, if I can really hide in mountains and rivers, gullies and valleys, I can pick fresh tea by myself every day, and after baking, monks can cook "natural tea" with mountains and rivers and charcoal.
Tea has virtue, but it is famous for its mountain scenery. It looks like vegetation, but it can actually be hidden in a lot of money. Once planted, tea trees cannot be transplanted, so tea is used for weddings. Tea has language. If you appreciate it with your heart, you can read wisdom, clarify philosophy and meditate. Tea is spiritual, fertile but not desirable. If you get attached to tea, you will have endless fun all your life.
In fact, there are many things in life, such as tea, which can be referred to in detail. Everyone is drinking wine, so who really knows the taste? Perfume and jewelry are girls' best friends, but what is their real elegance? Have we stopped for a flower, a tree, a pool and a piece of water in a hurry? "How can you be satisfied with your life if you don't do useless things?" If you can do something meaningless and aimless, it is really called the abundance of life!
14. Life is like tea.
Tea is not intoxicating, everyone is drunk, drunkenness is comfortable, drunkenness is comfortable, drunkenness is life, and drunkenness is the warmth of the world.
Zong Pu, a famous writer, wrote in Tea in the Wind: "When drinking tea, you should spread an atmosphere by touching its taste in a cup of' product'. To become a' culture' and a' Tao', what is indispensable cannot be captured. And that can't be captured, but it comes from reality. "
The real connotation of tea tasting is to taste life. With this word "product", life has a taste. Whether it is sweet or bitter, the bitterness of life is revealed from this "ordinary tea talk".
Few people understand the ups and downs of this world by looking at the color of a cup of fragrant tea in their hands and tasting its taste. And such people are often white-haired and sage-like elders. They have experienced changes in the world, and they have become wonderful and sincere. Between glasses, everything is clear. They may not care too much about the quality of tea, but a quiet mood.
Drinking tea is a kind of spiritual pleasure, which nourishes the spirit, carefully tastes, calms the impetuous mentality and relaxes the reserved expression. Then you smell the elegant tea, so you notice the swaying bamboo shadow on the window and hear the birds singing in the tall trees.
Then your thoughts become fresh and noble, and pleasure permeates every cell of your body. At this time, tea will help you unconsciously enter the realm of "tranquility and harmony" and "harmony between man and nature".
Drinking tea is a state of mind, and I feel that my body and mind have been purified. Tea is a kind of emotional appeal, a kind of silence that I want to talk about; A kind of sadness that wants to laugh. Tea is a collection of spring memories. You can feel the lazy sunshine in spring when you drink tea in any season. Sitting in the office, waiting for a cup of tea, it is convenient to rotate in my hand: tea needs to be boiled to be fragrant, and life needs to be tempered to be calm. Filtering out impetuousness, what is precipitated is deep thinking, which spreads in the heart and washes away temporary fatigue and indifference. Who can not be drunk, hazy and unwilling to wake up for a long time? It is the fragrance of the night, and the tea is overflowing. The tea in the cup changes from light to strong, floats to heavy, gathers and disperses, and slowly realizes in the bitter fragrance: life is like tea.