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

Kerria Flowers
The tea kiln is fragrant
At Uji

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

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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?