[NondualitySalon] Gloria Lee: TeaHouse Practice

[Guest guest]

Thanks for sharing this, Gloria Lee. It makes me want to find more of Jane

Hirshfield's writings. Teahouse practise applies to so many areas of life.

I was just reading something by a Zen chef who says something to effect

that he doesn't clean the kitchen to make it clean, so much as to make

everything look as if attention had been paid to it.

 

David

>"Gloria Lee" <glee

>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. 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.

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> ~~by Jane Hirshfield

>From "Fooling with Words:A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft" by Bill

Moyers

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