The Chinese Tea Ceremony has absorbed the essence of Confucian and Taoist thought. The doctrine of Taoism, on the other hand, infuses the tea ceremony with ? Heaven and man and one ? the philosophical thought, set up the soul of the tea ceremony. At the same time, it also provides the aesthetic concepts of revering nature, revering simplicity, revering truth and the ideas of rebirth, precious life and nourishing life.

2. Taoism and nature

The Chinese tea ceremony emphasizes ? Taoism emphasizes the naturalness of nature, which encompasses material, behavioral, and spiritual values. , which contains three levels: material, behavioral and spiritual. Chinese tea ceremony that:? Tea is the southern wood? is the gift of nature? Precious wood spirit buds? Chinese tea ceremony in the tea activities, all to the beauty of nature, to the beauty of simplicity, moving clouds and flowing water, quiet as a mountain rock, smile as spring flowers, words as a mountain spring chanting, a hand, a foot, a smile should be from the natural, let the nature of the heart, no artifacts.

3. Zun Ren Gui Sheng

Chinese tea ceremony, the idea of Zun Ren in the form of expression is common in the naming of the tea utensils, as well as the understanding of tea. Tea people are accustomed to have a tray of cups called ? Sancai cup? Cup tray for? The ground? and the lid of the cup is? Heaven? and the cup is? Man. This means that the sky is big, the earth is big, and people are even bigger. If even the cup, tray, cup cover together with the end up to taste tea, this cup holding technique is called? Three talents in one? Your life is to focus on the health of the tea as well as the function of the pleasure and nourishment.

4. Sit and forget

? Sitting in forgetfulness? is the Taoist in order to achieve in the tea ceremony? The Taoist tea ceremony in order to achieve the "to emptiness, keep quiet and certainty" realm. The Taoists proposed the method of tranquility in order to reach the realm of "to the extreme of emptiness, to keep the tranquility" in the tea ceremony. Influenced by the thought of Lao Tzu, the Chinese tea ceremony puts? Jing? as one of the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths One of the four meanings. How to make your state of mind when tasting tea? A selfishness does not remain, a dust is not stained, a delusion does not exist? How do you achieve the ethereal state of mind when tasting tea? Taoism also provides the tea ceremony into the quiet door, which is called? Sitting in oblivion?

This is the first time I've been to a tea ceremony in the United States.

5. No few

The Taoist "no self" is the "no self" pursued in the tea ceremony. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the ego from the physical body, but from the spirit of eliminating the opposition between the object and the self, so as to achieve the harmony of the nature, the heart of all things. No self? is the highest pursuit of the Chinese tea ceremony for the state of mind.

History of Zen and the Tea Ceremony

In the Western Han Dynasty, in 52 B.C., Wu Lizhen planted seven tea trees on Mount Mengding in Sichuan, creating the world's first artificial plantation of tea, which was honored as the Ancestor of Tea. In 4 B.C., after the introduction of Buddhism to China, Wu Lizhen took off his hair and practiced in Mengding Mountain, also Buddha and tea, the first? Buddha tea family? and was honored as Zen Master Ganlu. Tang Dynasty people Feng evolution in the "Feng's see and hear" recorded the northern Zen practice tea scene? Learning Zen service to sleeplessness, and do not eat at night, are allowed to drink tea. People from the pocket, cooking and drinking everywhere, and from then on to follow the example of the custom?

The Tang Lu Yu is honored as the Sage of Tea, monastery origin, at the age of three, [4] was adopted by the Zen master, from childhood, practiced a handful of picking, cooking tea of superior skills. He wrote the "Tea Classic" describes the history of tea, planting, processing, and tea utensils, tea tasting customs.

In the Tang Dynasty, Zen monks of the Southern Zen system also focused on tea. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, Hebei Zhaozhou Zen master to ? Eat tea to go? of the machine to attract disciples. According to Jingde Chuanluan Dengluo Volume 10, Zhaozhou asked the newly arrived monks: "Have you ever been here? Have you been here before? The monk replied: ? I have been here before. Zhaozhou said: ? Eat tea. He asked the monk again, and the monk replied: ? I have never been there. Zhaozhou said: ? Eat tea. This is a famous story in Zen history. This is the famous case in Zen history. This is the famous case in the history of Zen Buddhism.

The famous Zen master of the Song Dynasty, Yuan Gokqin, wrote the first book of Zen in Hunan, Biyan Lu, and realized the way of Zen tea. He had handwritten? Tea Zen one flavor? He gave it to his Japanese disciple, Eisai, who was studying in Japan. To this day, the original handwriting of Yuanwu is still kept in the Daitokuji Temple in Nara, Japan, and the Japanese tea ceremony is also known as "Tea Zen Ichiban" (茶禅一味). Tea Ceremony The Japanese tea ceremony is also known as the "Zen Tea Ceremony". In the Tang and Song dynasties, there were special tea houses in Zen temples. Chalet? for the monks to eat tea; in all the squatters Division fried tea with a specialized position, called the tea head? Tea head? Jungle rules require daily tea in front of the Buddha, ancestors before, before the spirit; new abbot Jinshan, there is a bit of tea, point soup ceremony; and even specialized in tea soup feast, beautifully named? Tea will be?

Japanese Zen temple courtyard also has? Tea Pavilion? Chalet? Tea pavilion building elegant, tranquil environment, is our Zen temple? Chatang? Chatan? Development in Japan. It can be said that China's tea style began in the temple, prevalent in the temple, after the Tang and Song dynasties, tea style is more prevalent. Then popularized to the literati, the scholar, the palace aristocracy, until a wide range of society at large.

The relationship between Zen and the tea ceremony

According to legend, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, that is to say, tea has the effect of antidote medicine. Historical records, the Eastern Jin Dynasty monks, has been planted in Mount Lu tea, Dunhuang pedestrians, in order to drink tea Su (tea and ginger, cinnamon, orange, dates and other spices cooked together into tea soup) to help repair. With the development of Chinese civilization, evolved to the Tang Dynasty, and the emergence of tea culture. Tea method from the Tang cake tea, Song tea, Ming leaf tea, to Qing Gongfu tea; tea drinking method from the Tang tea, Song tea, Ming bubble tea, and Qing tea. Tea from medicinal use and drinking, and art, and Zen use; by the upper class? Elegant play? Into the popular for the folk? Tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea. Open the door to seven things. Tea hospitality, tea to meet friends, tea fixed marriage, tea gifts, tea trade, folk customs, are inseparable from the tea. Tea culture is an important part of traditional Chinese culture.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha flicked a flower to show the crowd, Gaye smiled, and then there is a heart to pass on the heart of the teachings of the outside of other passages, the North and South Dynasties by the Dharma passed on to China. Legend has it that Dharma Shaolin face wall, uncovered the eyelids fall into the ground and become a tea tree, the matter is nearly absurd, and its Zen tea is not separated from the purpose of life, it has a deep meaning. Subsequently, Ma Zu created the jungle, Baizhang set up clear rules, Zen monks to tea as a meal, the capital of cultivation, tea guests, wide range of good karma, gradual cultivation of enlightenment, clear mind and see the nature of the formation of Chinese characteristics of the Buddhist Zen, evolution to the Tang Dynasty, and the rise of the Zen culture. Zen permeates all aspects of Chinese culture, including language and history of Zen, Zen history, discourses, and lamps; literature and art of Zen, Zen poetry, Zen music, and Zen paintings; architecture and craftsmanship of Zen temples, Zen pagodas, Zen chambers, and Zen utensils; and academic thought of Zen, Zen theory, Zen learning, Zen path, and Zen style. Zen is one of the qualities of Chinese Buddhism, and Zen culture is an important part of traditional Chinese culture.

A tea and a Zen, two cultures, the same and different, not one and not different. One thing, one mind, two kinds of law, phase and no phase, not that is inseparable. Tea culture and Zen culture with the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the tea by drinking and art and Tao, tea and Zen a flavor, which began in the Tang Dynasty, Zen monks raised, Zen temple growth of the tea saint Lu Yu. Its book "Tea Scriptures", the opening of a generation of tea art new style. Buddhist Zen temple in the high mountain jungle, unique, cloudy, extremely suitable for tea tree growth. Agriculture and Zen for the fine tradition of Buddhism. Zen monks farming, most of the planting of trees, planting tea. Tea and tea drinking, and the habit. Many famous tea, initially out of the hands of Zen monks. Such as Buddha tea, Iron Goddess of Mercy, that is, Zen monks named. The tea planting, harvesting, roasting, brewing, tasting method, much creation. Chinese Buddhism not only created its own unique Zen culture, but also matured China's original tea culture, and make tea and Zen into one and become China's tea and Zen culture. Tea is not only an aid to the cultivation of the capital, the art of health, but also become the opportunity to realize the Zen, show the way to show the law of the tool. Cover the water for the world's most clear thing, tea for the water to the clear flavor, its? The original color and taste? The tea is the purest flavor in the water, and its original taste is the same as that of the Zen masters, who are indifferent to nature and far away from attachment. The ordinary state of mind? It is in line with Zen's "ordinary state of mind" of being indifferent and natural, and free from attachment. A sip and a drink, manna moistens the heart, a reward and a heart to heart. Tea and Zen culture of the subtle, its gain in the world's hearts and minds more.

Chinese tea Zen culture into Japan, so there is a Japanese tea ceremony? Tea ceremony? ; Into the United Kingdom, and then there is London? Afternoon tea? ; Passed to Europe and the United States, there is the so-called? Christian Zen? The. Tea and Zen culture affects the world civilization, the real deep and far-reaching. Tea Zen is the epitome of culture,? A sand a world, a leaf a Buddha? It can be seen in the connotation of different cultures of different countries and the spirit of the times. Tea and Zen is the source of culture, Confucianism to tea norms of etiquette and morality; Buddhist to tea meditation and enlightenment; artists to tea painting and calligraphy poetry; appraisers to tea aesthetic appreciation. Tea makes human exquisite thought and perfect art can be created. Tea Zen culture can be Xing, view, group, grievances, as small as the pleasure of temperament, to cope with the advancement and retreat, as large as the international exchanges, cultural exchanges, sincere reform and opening up, purify people's hearts, enlightenment of the wisdom of the necessity, but also for the promotion of the national culture, the promotion of the spiritual civilization of the construction of the duty.

The late President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Zhao Puchu, who was a simple man and a good tea drinker, viewed the development of the world's civilization as an interesting trend, and felt the gradual replacement of tea and Zen culture in the motherland, and remembered the kindness of my ancestor, and elaborated on the true meaning of the tea and Zen, I have initiated the Tea and Zen Society, in order to liaise with my colleagues and devote myself to the construction of a new spiritual civilization in China, and to carry forward the culture of tea and Zen in the new era, and to inspire ideals, protect morality, and develop culture, as well as to promote the development of the culture. It is also a way to add bricks and mortar to the center of economic construction and to build bridges and pave the way. We are all of the same mind, and we are all of the same reason. Zhao Pu Lao hopes that the majority of? Tea people? and aspiring? Tea culture? The Chinese Tea Ceremony, which has been on the verge of annihilation, will be excavated and organized, restored and inherited, and carried forward. China Tea Zen Society to follow the wishes of Zhao Pu Lao, is also working hard for this.

Tea Zen culture is a large capacity, wide range, very rich in content of the large cultural circle. It is not limited to Buddhist culture, but its mainstream is indeed the Chinese Buddhist tea ceremony. It rises from Zen, followed by Zen and maturity, and finally due to Zen and achievement. Although it is also a historical development process, but its vein is consistent by the Buddhist tea ceremony.

The human body has three major elements of color rest and mind branches, life, food, breathing, sleep, three major activities of the need (Confucianism is called food and rest and sleep, Taoism is called the essence of the spirit, Buddhism is called color rest and mind, the Tibetan secret is called the pulse of the gas point, the essence of a), the door that there is RuLai Zen, secret Zen, ZuShi Zen, the three major systems of the categories. There are various classifications of Zen, and this classification is based on the color, breath and mind, which are interconnected and inseparable, but are practiced with some emphasis. Rulai Zen focuses on the method of rest, to cut off confusion and prove the truth, and to turn consciousness into wisdom; Secret Zen focuses on the method of color, to enter into me and become Buddha; and Ancestor Zen focuses on the method of mind, to see the nature of the heart, and to become Buddha. Meditation is also developed through the three major systems of Dharma. Tea and Buddhism, these three kinds of meditation are bonded, giving the tea Zen culture is extremely rich in connotations, so that the secular tea drinking activities gradually sublimated into the Buddhist tea ceremony.

Most of the first Chinese Buddhist meditations were the four Zen and eight Rulai Zen, Rulai Zen is a sitting meditation, which emphasizes the resting method of resting and resting, which is different from the later Zu Shi Zen's Zen, which is Zen, and the walking, living, sitting, and lying down. Sitting meditation requires meditation and concentration, and the mind is one with the nature of the realm, while the tea itself? Tea has the following properties: fire-reducing, refreshing, food-reducing, detoxifying, non-fatiguing, and so on. And so on the medicinal properties of the drug, its function is exactly to help take the mind into the fixed, so tea and meditation combined, is very natural and inevitable thing. The earliest record of sitting meditation with tea is found in the book of Jin? Art biography ": the monk single road to open sitting meditation, day and night without lying down,? Day service Zhenshou medicine several pills, as big as a sycamore, medicine with pine honey ginger, cinnamon and poria gas, when drinking tea Su one or two liters only? Monks sit in meditation and practice meditation, must hold? Do not eat at noon? The fasting, cover by the precepts of the fixed, by the fixed evidence of wisdom. Therefore, the jungle does not make the evening meal, but allowed to drink tea to help repair. Tang Dynasty tea ceremony, more related to the Buddhist food law, known as? Eat tea rice? Tang with tea cakes, so need to cook and drink, such as cooking rice. The jungle said that the diet after noon is a small medicine, so the tea is also called tea soup, such as medicine soup. That is why Zhaozhou said? The first thing I want to do is to eat the tea.

In the Tang Dynasty, the temple drinking tea to help repair, gradually popularized, the Tang Feng Yan "Feng's Winking Book" contains: ? Kaiyuan, Taishan Lingyan Temple, a demon-subduing division, the great Zen religion. Learning Zen service in sleeplessness, but also not night food, are allowed to drink tea, people from the pocket, everywhere to drink, and from then on to follow suit, and then became a custom. From this, we can see that the monks' Zen meditation and tea drinking helped to form the tea drinking custom which was copied by the people. And the sect also listed sitting meditation and drinking tea as the sect's rules and regulations, which were written into the "Baizhang Qing rules". The Buddhist jungle system was created by Zen Master Hyakujang of the Tang Dynasty, who established the Hyakujang Qingji. Baizhang Qingji Dharma weapon chapter" and? Going to tea? The tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea Danwang patrol hall tea? The tea is a great opportunity for the Zen master to make his own tea. Abbot's Tea for the Walking Hall and other provisions of the jungle tea meditation and its practice order. The following are some of the provisions of the Jungle Tea Chan and its practice order. Inviting a new abbot In the article, it is written? The new abbot was asked to gather the congregation by ringing the monk's hall bell, set up a tent under the three gates, set up a seat inwardly, and talk about the tea and soup rituals. Greetings to sit and burn incense, greetings to incense to return to the seat, accompanied by eating tea. That is, in the Dharma Hall set up two drums: in the northeast corner is called? Dharma drum? and the one in the northwest corner is called the "tea drum". Tea drum. Lectures and sayings to beat the law drum, set the crowd to drink tea to beat the tea drum. Dharma drum? Where the abbot on the hall, small senators, Pu said, into the room and hit it, on the hall when the two passes. Tea drum long hit one? Summon the monks to drink tea.

And every sitting meditation after an incense burner, the monastery supervisor for the monks to drink tea, said? Playing tea? The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea to have a good time with the monks. line tea four or five turns? Tea courtyard also specializes in? Tea Hall? for monks to sit and discuss the Road, arguing the Buddha's principles, or to entertain the givers, with the use of the Senate; there are? Tea head? Deacon, specializing in boiling water to cook tea, tea offerings for guests; specializing in? Tea Monks Tea for pedestrians to give tea; tea planted in the temple, known as the temple tea. Temple tea? ; on the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas and generations of ancestors of the tea, said? Dien tea? The temple's annual hanging list, according to the? The precepts are given in accordance with the length of the precepts. The tea is served successively according to the length of the precepts, and is called "precept tea". Precepts tea? The abbot or almsgiver invites all the monks to drink tea, which is called? Pu tea. Tea will become the content of Buddhist activities. All of these are derived from sitting meditation tea, the purpose is to help meditation, and then follow the habit, implicitly, become a Buddhist jungle of the Dharma door rules and regulations. Baizhang Zen Master has:? Eat tea, treasure, rest? Three tips, Tang Kyauk Ran tea poem has? Three drinks will get the way? The words, Liu Zhenliang said drinking tea with? Ten virtues? The five lamps will be Yuan contains the so-called three bowls of tea after meals, the monk's family style. Visible tea in the Tang Dynasty, has been indispensable for the life of the monks. Tea to honor guests, but also the monastery routine. Since the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, organized tea banquets, has become a regular activity of the monastery. Such as Zhejiang jingshan temple that has nearly a thousand years of tea feast history. Tibetan Buddhist temple, generally held tea. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Grand Lama Temple had organized thousands of lamas to participate in the puja, sometimes lasting several days. This shows that tea is not only with Hinayana, but also with Tantra; not only with Chinese Buddhism, but also with Tibetan Buddhism are closely related. In short, the above said that these are sitting meditation drinking tea tea ceremony, can also be said to be the practice of RuLaiZen? Sitting Zen? Tea ceremony.

Just when the tea ceremony of sitting meditation and drinking tea was prevalent, the three great masters of the Kaiyuan (Good Fearless, Vajra Wisdom, Bukong) came from India to China's capital city of Chang'an to spread Tantric Buddhism. Tantra is the secret Zen practice of becoming a Buddha, and all practices can be described as offerings. Tea has become one of the best offerings, and from the very beginning, it has been linked to the practice of Tantra. Successive emperors of the Tang Dynasty rewarded the monks and great masters, mostly with tea offerings. Such as the death anniversary of King Kong Zhi, held a thousand monks, Emperor Xuanzong gave tea one hundred and ten strings (the Tang Dynasty is a cake tea, so the line can be used through the string), for fasting. Daxingxian Temple Manjushu Pavilion on the beam, Emperor Dai Zong gave a thousand monks meal, reward on the beam of red money 200 Guan, steamed cake two thousand, Hu cake two thousand, tea two hundred string.

Huiguo master in the first six years (760) into the Palace, in the Hall of Eternal Life for the country to hold more than seventy days of remembrance, returned to the time, each given thirty silk, tea twenty strings. Zhenyuan fourteen years, Huiguo into the inner dojo, give a silk, tea ten strings. Huiguo often given tea in exchange for the purchase of raw materials for painting mandala, see the Tang Dynasty Emperor that is to feed the tea tea for Buddha and monks of the senior courtesy. Famen Temple Palace offerings, there is a series of Tang Dynasty tea set, the Department of Tang Xi Zong since used for Buddha and Zhi Li (Xi Zong ranked fifth, breast name?). Small five? The tea set ink book has? Five? Character abbreviation, is the most precious royal tea set, is also the world's only existing oldest tea set. (Now stored in the Famenji Museum). Japanese literature records, the Taimi Sect ancestor most Cheng and Yongzhong monks, returned to Tang Dynasty, with tea planted in the than? The tea was planted at the foot of Mt. Monk Yongzhong offered tea to Emperor Saga, the Emperor praised and ordered the local (Uji Prefecture, etc.) universal planting of tea, is the earliest record of the transmission of tea in Japan. Nara Uji produced by the Uji tea, is still commonly used in the Japanese tea ceremony tea. Jiangmen, Guangdong legend of a line of the Tantric Tantric A Zhi Li had a temporary residence in Jiangmen Bayshui, day planting tea, night observation of celestial phenomena (a big astronomer in China), Chen Wu Dao, a scholar to build tea Temple, and a line of statues and monuments. All of these can prove that tea and tantric fujian relationship.

The Japanese Tantric Sixth Grandmaster Zhi Zhen master Yuan Zhen "line calendar copy" recorded its first to Chang'an to meet Fa Quan (Tang Tantric ancestor monk Huiguo's law grandson), led to? Qinglong Temple southwest corner of the Pure Land Courtyard upper room, with tea and rice to eat. Three days later, Yuan Zhen? To the Qinglong Temple to worship monks, into the dojo, after the ceremony, to facilitate the courtyard to eat tea and rice? This shows the relationship between tea and tantric temples and tantric pedestrians. Famen Temple underground palace in the eight treasures of the Yakushi mandala, the Yakushi like the East Secret "Jue Chan notes" heart Jue's left hand holding a bowl in the right hand holding a tin stick of Tang Ben Yakushi like exactly the same, indicating that the underground palace has also been used to tea for the Yakushi. The Yakushi Dharma is an early Chinese Tantra, and was most widely practiced during the Tang Dynasty. Despite the different details of the Tantra, but the inheritance has not ceased. Pharmacist method is to get rid of life and death, to drugs as the body, to the nature of the nature of the empty to understand life and transform life now under the feet of the ground to start repairing the Dharma. The essence of Medicine Master Dharma is to practice Medicine Master's Fixation. To practice the Medicine Master's Fixation is to teach one to understand what one's own color, breath, and mind are made of and how to use them to become a man of the heavens and the earth. In other words, it teaches one how to realize life and death in life and how to live in the realization of life and death. Yakushi jing is also the jing of secret zazen. It integrates the secret Zen practice of color, will be the Zen practice of Ru Lai rest of the Ao, through the Zen practice of the heart of the master of the wonderful, with a large food method (digestive physiology) to repair the color, to solve the problem of food and color; with the method (circulatory physiology) to repair the rest, to solve the problem of respiration; into the awake method (brain physiology) to repair the heart, to solve the problem of sleep and mental problems, and actually do things for the life of the Zen is also done now. Tea offering, tea offering, tea party with Medicine Buddha method is a good and convenient use of secret Zen tea offering. Because tea and Zen are one and the same, Zen and secret are one and the same. Tea as an offering, for the view of emptiness, not only easy to realize the theory of karmic emptiness, but also reveal the reality of the law is not empty. Tantra use tea as an offering, can be expressed as the mouth, as the taste, as the intention, this is the practice of secret tea tea ceremony, can also be said to be the practice of secret Zen? This is the tea ceremony of secret tea offering, which can also be said to be the practice of secret Zen. The tea ceremony can also be said to be the practice of secret Zen.

Since the human body is a complete whole, the sitting meditation of Rudraksha Zen, the secret meditation of secret Zen, and the Zen meditation of Zu Shi Zen are interconnected, and are gradually revealed from three different levels. Therefore, in sitting meditation and tea drinking, secret meditation and tea offering, and Zen tea flavor, there are both interconnected **** the same point, and there are also different layers of difference in sequence. Cultivation of Zu Shi Zen? Tea Zen? (i.e., tea Zen one flavor) of the tea ceremony is to the Song Dynasty Zen development process was finally formed. That is to say, tea from the Zen Xing, tea from Zen drinking tea to tea into the Buddhist affairs, listed in the clan regulations, and even tea as a tantric offerings for the Buddha fasting monks. The tea offerings of the Famen Monastery, Yuan Zhen's? Eating tea and rice? and even Zhaozhou's "Three Calls". Eat Tea? Tea as a carrier of the wonderful transmission of the seal of the heart, tea practice Zen practice as a whole, tea flavor Zen flavor a taste, tea secret Zen secret as a whole, which completes the three levels of Chinese Buddhism, color, breath, mind, the three methods of the same, empty, false, the three meanings of the Chinese Tea Ceremony. That is, the tea ceremony of sitting meditation and drinking tea, the tea ceremony of cultivating secret tea and the tea ceremony of using tea to seal the heart of tea and Zen one flavor. The tea ceremony of offering tea is mainly to offer tea as a view, to make the view of emptiness, to be pervasive and clear, to enter into the original non-existence, and even to be free from the edge of the Great Middle Kingdom, the everlasting bliss and my purity. The tea ceremony is mainly to purify the mind with the flavor of tea, to make the self-mind present, to keep away from the four sentences, and even to see the original face of the mind, to see the original face.

? Tea Zen one flavor? Is proposed by the Song Dynasty Linji Sect master Yuan Gokqin, he compiled in Hunan Sandwich Temple, "Biyan Collection" in the Zen door has a great impact, known as the Korean ? The First Wonderful Book of the World? His handwritten book? Tea and Zen Four words of truth, by the Japanese students passed on to the Japanese monk Ikkyu Zongchun hands, become Japan's national treasure passed down from generation to generation. Japan Linji Zen Master Rongxi sent Song to study abroad after returning to China, the tea planted in the Zen temple, and with "eating tea health records". After that, Da Ying introduced the Chinese temple tea drinking method to Japan. After Da Ying, several Zen monks went to China to learn the tea ceremony and became tea masters. After the Daitokuji monk Ikkyu passed the tea ceremony method to his disciple Jukou, who integrated the characteristics of Japanese culture and created the Japanese tea ceremony with a rich flavor of the East, which became an important part of Japanese traditional culture. Later, Chirikyu improved the tea ceremony and popularized it among the people, which was called Chijia-ryu, advocating the concept of "Harmony, Respect, and Silence". The spirit of the tea ceremony, which is now known as the Japanese tea ceremony, is the spirit of harmony, respect and tranquility. The spirit of the tea ceremony, that is, Japan's current Richenka tea ceremony. Now there are several streams of Japanese tea ceremony.

Yamagami Zongji's tea book, "Yamagami Zongji" said that the tea ceremony came from Zen Buddhism. Tea ceremony is from Zen Buddhism, and at the same time to Zen Buddhism as the basis. Sawan Zongpeng "tea Zen with one flavor" said: "Tea is Zen. Tea is Zen, Zen is no tea. If you do not know the flavor of Zen, you do not know the flavor of tea. Zen Master Zhu Guang said: "The root of the tea ceremony is to clear the mind. The root of the tea ceremony lies in the purification of the mind, which is also the center of the Zen ceremony. A taste of purity (clear mind), Dharma happiness and Zen joy, Zhaozhou knows this, Lu Yu has never been here. People into the tea room, but outside the appearance of people and me, the internal storage of the virtue of softness, to the intersection between each other, careful and respectful, clear and quiet, and finally to the world (the heart of the country) peace. Legend has it that Zen master Zhu Guang held tea to drink, teacher Yixiu lifted the iron Ruyi a broken drink, the hands of the tea bowl smashed, Zhu Guang fierce province. A Hugh asked again how Zen, Zhuguang replied that? Willow green and red? The first time I was in the tea ceremony, I was in the tea ceremony, I was in the tea ceremony. Zhuguang specializes in the tea ceremony to protect the income, and finally proposed? The Buddha's teachings exist in the tea soup. and eventually came up with the idea that the Buddha's teachings existed in the tea soup. Chirishu also wrote in the Southern Record: "The teachings of Buddha are the essence of tea. The teachings of Buddha are the essence of tea. Drawing water, collecting firewood, boiling water, ordering tea, making offerings to the Buddha, giving to others, sipping to oneself, arranging flowers and burning incense are all acts of practicing Buddhism and cultivation. The secret of the tea ceremony lies in the breaking up of the tea. The secret of the tea ceremony lies in the white dew that breaks down the landscape, the grass, the trees, the tea house, the host and the guest, the utensils, the laws, the rules, the thoughts of nothing, and the peace of mind that comes from doing nothing. This piece of white dew, as far as certain realms of the tea ceremony have been clearly revealed, is still only a shallow level of prajna, not yet reaching the realm of practicing deep prajna paramita, and is still only the realm of "karmic emptiness". It is still only the state of "karmic emptiness". It is still only the center view of karmic emptiness, but not the great center view that is free from edges. To raise the level, this piece of white dewy ground is the great perfection of Ru Lai Zang, the original consciousness, the inner light, the original face, the original face of Ru Lai Zang, the original face of Ru Lai Zang, the original face of Ru Lai Zang. There is Ru Lai in Ru Lai Zang. The original foundation of Rulai Zang is the original realization, the inner light, the original face. The original foundation of the Buddha's existence. which is the pure Dharma of the Dharma. The original non-existence? which is free from all marginalization. This is not the "eternal bliss and purity" of the worldly truth. This is not the secular meaning of ? Tea is Zen and Zen is tea. in the worldly meaning of "tea is Zen and Zen is tea". Tea is Zen and Zen is Tea. in the worldly meaning, but rather, in the Sheng Yi meaning, there is no practice, no evidence, no tea, no Zen, no non-tea, no Zen, no words, and an unbelievably clear and unambiguous state of being, which is? Tea Zen I am now a Buddhist. Into the difficult to enter the lenga, live in the non-residence of the original interstices, Dharma's two into the four lines, Cao Xi's one flower and five leaves; the ancestor of the West to come to the intention of the heart with you in peace, in order to understand the flavor, please you? The first thing I want to do is to have tea.

The metaphysical is called Tao, and the metaphysical is called ware (art). Road without ware does not appear, ware without road is not clear, so the tea ceremony is not completely away from the tea ceremony.