Quotes

The Buddha's features are wondrous
In the Ōtsu-style painting
The Master's inscription, a single profound and
subtle verse
Praise or censure - to him it's all the same
This life he regards as the whirling foam
in a cup of bitter tea

Letting Go - pg. 70

Kerria Flowers
The tea kiln is fragrant
At Uji

Monkey's Raincoat

When you have tea and wine, you have many friends.

700 Chinese Proverbs

A wise one's way of life is
relaxed and spacious,
Pause here and breathe; tale time
to drink your tea,
It's pointless wearing yourself
out with what you're doing -
You can be certain then that no
dis-ease will be drawn
to you.

Kuan Yin Poems #31

Linked Verse

At every mile
A teahouse to welcome
The ambassador
-- Buson

Perfect for making tea
Water from a shallow fountain
-- Kitō

The Path of the Flowering Thorn

My tea is no-tea, which is not no-tea in opposition to tea. What then is no-tea? When a man enters into the exquisite realm of no-tea he will realize that no-tea is no other than the Great Way (Ta-Tao) itself...

Written for Xiao on His Sending Me New Sichuan Tea

The tea from Sichuan you
Sent me is fragrant and fine
Brewing it with Wei river water
Brings out its best qualities;
A cup of it is rich as milk
Is something wonderful to behold; now, because
I have taken too much wine, and
Because of the sorrows of spring,
It took all your tea to
Assuage my thirst.

200 Selected Poems - pg. 251

Delicious tea from India,
Finer than all the others;
I am looking at my lover,
More beautiful I've never seen.

White Crane #83

Not one care in mind all year
I find enough joy everyday in my hut
And after a meal and a pot of strong tea
I sit on a rock by a pond and count fish

#118

After porridge after rice after drinking tea
I sit by a window and gaze at the mountains
During the day throughout Jambu
Is anyone more idle than me?

#125

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