Guest guest Posted June 20, 2001 Report Share Posted June 20, 2001 Hey, Hey, hey...tea on the house! Joyce is the teahouse lady! She's baaaack.... Love, Glo Where was there to go? Teahouse practice means that you don't explicitly talk about Zen. It refers to leading your life as if you were an old woman who has a teahouse by the side of the road. Much laughing...anyone who has met old teahouse lady knows that she natters on endlessly about everything as is the nature of old tea house ladies. This is her practice to which she gives faithful attention. This is the way *it* does her (in). Tea brewing, Cookies on the plate, One bite from one side of cookie Lets you grow very tall, One bite from other side, Lets you grow very small, What fun is tea time! Love, Joyce (fooling with words, celebrating Silence) Nobody knows why they like to go there, they just feel good drinking her tea. She's not known as Buddhist teacher, she doesn't say, "This is the Zen teahouse." All she does is simply serve tea - but still, her decades of attentiveness are part of the way she does it. No one knows about her faithful attention to the practice, it's just there, in the serving of the tea and the way she cleans the counters and washes the cups. ~~by Jane Hirshfield >From "Fooling with Words:A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft" by Bill Moyers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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