‘The tea-drinking that is known as cha-no-yo in Japanese and as “tea ceremony” or “tea cult” in the West is not just drinking tea, but involves all the activities leading to it, all the utensils used in it, the entire atmosphere surrounding the procedure, and, last of all, what is really the most important phase, the frame of mind or spirit which mysteriously grows out of the combination of all these factors.’
D.T. Suzuki
‘The tea ceremony is a technology designed to recapture a lost nature. Artificial and formalized in its every movement and gesture, the tea ceremony removes excess in order to exalt the simple clarity of being.’
Michael Heim
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