Haiku and Tea

Awakening Through Tea Series.

November 16

New Moon in Scorpio

This tea is called ""Beautiful Stillness". It is an oolong tea. Oolong means black dragon in Chinese. So as I was practicing tea ceremony today, one little leaf of the tea fell upon the reed mat. I looked very close at the leaf and saw the little dragon, the spirit of oolong tea. I picked up the leaf carefully with my bamboo tweezers and placed it upon the Red Autumn leaf. Thus a poem was born from such a simple act. If you look closely at the tea leaf you will see the little dragon with an open mouth.

This tea is grown in the high mountains in Taiwan. It was a gift sent to Andreas and I from Alok Hsu Kwang-han. Alok is a Master Calligrapher and he is here on Facebook. You might enjoy his wall where he displays his Zen Calligraphy. I always enjoy his paintings and the poems that have inspired Alok's art work.

But this tea has another little story. It was organically grown by a lady named

Lonica. You might enjoy seeing her website, the growing grounds of Beautiful Stillness Tea. Here is her webpage with very beautiful pictures. http://www.osho-lonica.tw/

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So, Beautiful Stillness has traveled from Lonica high in the mountains of Taiwan, to Alok who now is living in the Red Deserts of Sedona , to my tea cup here in my little apartment in Paris, and now to you. May we all partake together in this cup of "Beautiful Stillness . I just love Facebook.