Speed-Of-Light Awakened Mind

It's been snowing here in Boulder: gentle, slow, sweetly-magical. Perfect days for inviting friends over for tea ...

In A Taoist Tea Ceremony, Robert Santee shares the meaning of various aspects of the formal ceremony, including how the tea itself is taken sip by sip, with periods of sitting meditation in between. The scent of incense and the sound of a zheng (Chinese zither) intermingle with the taste of the tea -- so all the senses are involved.

This Taoist tea ceremony integrated all of the senses and the mind into the process of drinking tea in the here and now ... To be able watch this entire dance before your eyes was a pleasure indeed. Yet, amongst the entire changing process, stillness permeated the hall.

Was whirling around the corner on my bicycle, all caught up in this or that mental cogitation -- thoughts trying to solve themselves -- when some angel induced me to lift my gaze ...

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Double Play

victory or defeat.

~ emr

In honor of Winter Solstice -- or maybe just because I'm a cat lover .... in either case, what I wanna know is: which is which?

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