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A collection of 14 issues

A Poem to Commemorate the Completion of Book 1 – On Theory, Meta Theory, and Culture

The Editorial team and I have just published the final installment of our first book in the series An Introduction to the Art and Science of Chinese Tea Ceremony. Please do check it out on www.teatechnique.org! To commemorate the publication of the first book, I’ve written a

A poem on how I study

I’ve been asked about my method for studying Chinese tea and culture many times, and unfortunately my answer has and always will be “time and patience”. While I don’t have any revelatory insights on faster methods of study, I do have a new poem that I hope inspires

A Poem to Commiserate the Long Recovery from Knee Surgery

After 10 years of waiting, the partial tear in my ACL (high-school fencing injury) finally snapped (rock climbing injury). Since the surgery a few weeks ago, I’ve been in a full leg brace and have very limited mobility, which will last for another 5 – 6 weeks, when I will

2017 Summer in Japan and Korea: the teaser trailer

The stupa shrine, a mountain of the mind; in the bright sky the tea shines; radiant white, cups of light, four people, one time, climbing Nogodan; divine

Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist

It’s a poetic anomaly, There is no right theology, It’s phenomenology you need to Witness the reality: No koan spoken understood; No vista below the gaze undertook; No path you know underfoot; The crucible denied because even though you tried the reality you saw was caused by the

Guest Post – A tea poem by Jonathon Ready

Guest Post by Jonathan Ready: I was sitting in her tea house. My breaths came harder every time. The air was thick with the steam from the boiling kettles. Drip Drip Drip the water runs off my nose falling on the Tatami mats. FFFF exhale, FFFF exhale, humidity coating my

This is not a poem – Guest Post

Guest post by Emily Huang: Slowly the leaves are standing up, That means i’ll have good luck! Bowls, leaves and stems. Calm, still and quiet. Happy chinese new year! The snake is awake, Coming from some tea, Bringing luck to everyone.

Chaxi at the 7 river bends

While not an extreme chaxi, this was a beautifully memorable one. Our host in japan, Mr. Yasuo Koike, has been of the most gracious sort, and we are now in Shizouka, a tea growing Provence. We made a special 2 part chaxi on top of Asahi Dan Mountain overlooking a

Last Day in Taiwan

past reflections like shimmering ripples fading fading like the aches in the spring Nothing like a good soak your last day, though I hear Japan beats Taiwan on this count. See you on the flip side. Migrated Comments Brett Is this the public bathing house at Beitou? It looks so

An Unexpected Gift

ChowYu strikes again, this time literally with his calligraphy brush. After our last discussion at Wisteria, Yu asked me “what can I do for your Institute” and the first answer out of my mouth (before I could ask for HongYin) was “ART”. We had spent a lot of time talking