Life Of Tea: Recent Episodes
Global Tea Hut
In this episode Jaanus talks to Jasper Hermans about his interesting job in a social enterprise, about experiencing interbeing through tea and how his life has changed since recently becoming a father and the life lessons he has learned in the process.
Album mentioned:
Here Be Dragons by Oded Tzur
Book mentioned:
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966 by Thich Nhat Hanh
In this episode, Jaanus and Andy Taylor discuss the Eight Branches of Chinese Medicine, tea & life lessons.
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In this episode Jaanus talks to Stephen & Tracy McCarty about rainbows, raw vegan cheesecakes and maintaining a tea practice as parents and while running a magical gift shop.
Stephen and Tracy are long time Global Tea Hut members and both of them have also been featured in the magazine. They are kind and lighthearted people who love bringing joy to people’s lives.
Musical artists mentioned in this episode:
Constance Demby - Skies Above Skies
Steven Halpern - Spectrum Suite
Paul Horn - Inside The Great Pyramid
Iasos - Inter-Dimensional Music
Georgia Kelly - Seapeace
Books:
Zen Roots by Red Pine
Mother of Knowledge: The Life of Ye-shes mTsho-rgyal by Nam-mkhai sNying-po
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In this episode of Tea Wayfaring Jaanus talks to Andy Taylor about his Traditional Chinese Medicine practice and how tea is connected to it.
Books mentioned in this episode
Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
by Harriet Beinfield & Efrem Korngold
The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine
by Ted Kaptchuk
Tea music
Winged Victory For The Sullen
Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jyxAm1QcmL0ABYQNjGaeR?si=18b127c4c7a24370
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The first episode in the Tea Wayfaring series is an interview with Cade McConnel about his unique process of cooking and serving food to people and how his tea practice is connected to it.
The energy of Tea fuels some great work in this world, and we are honored to share some of the stories of wonderful people in the global tea community, about the work that they do and how it all connects to tea.
Books mentioned
Soulcraft - Bill Plotkin
The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller
Monk - Yoshihiro Imai
Music for tea sessions
Void VII by Chihei Hatakeyama
Transitoriness by Nobuto Suda
Journey Through Mind by Holloway
Connect with Cade
https://www.om-cade.com/
https://www.instagram.com/om_cade/
Grab yourself a bowl and find out what Shen Su has to say about why having a hobby in your life to express creativity is beneficial and how to find the time for it.
"...I’ll sit with that bowl of tea and look at those leaves and it will remind me of how life can be lived.” -Katrine Friis Olsen
We had the good fortune to discuss life, tea and zen with an airline pilot. Put on a kettle and join us!
"Every day before I go to work I have a silent tea session. The idea behind this ritual is that it’s meant to remind me to be always making tea, to be focused, to be in that state of mind. And in that sense Zen and the practice of it is conducive to good science work" - Neil Barrie
Join us for the second part of the discussion between Wu De and particle physicist Neil Barrie on Zen and science.
"When you are in harmony with Nature, when you are in harmony with what is happening, you cease to suffer" - Wu De
New podcast episode just out! Join us this time for a conversation between Wu De and particle physicist Neil Barrie on the similarities and differences of the Zen and scientific world views.
"You come to realise that it is not the thing that you do that is important but rather the energy you put into it.”
- Frederik Wallin
Join us this time for a discussion on the life lessons that are found in service and in giving back to the community.
"The simplicity, in practice, in Zen is about living wholly and without reminder. It’s not an adding something onto it. It’s not doing one’s activities while in some superstate. It’s doing the activities wholly and completely with the whole of yourself unified, so you’re not thinking about your facebooks while chopping spring onions."
- Wu De
In this episode we explore the relationship between Zen, Tea and simplicity.
A life of tea is a life of self cultivation. And what every artist in any craft discovers eventually is that beyond the skills, beyond the techniques, beyond even talent, and then of course, beyond the instruments and tools and medium, is the artist herself.
- Wu De
In this episode we discuss the ways to improve our tea and our practice. Brew yourself a bowl of tea and join us!
Little things, over time, build to be big things and they build to be a lifestyle. -Kathrine Aplin
In this episode we discuss the meaning of sustainability and how we, as chajin, can live a life more in harmony with the environment. Also be sure to check out an exciting announcement at the end of the episode!
Grab yourself a bowl and join us as we discuss how to cultivate optimism in life in the face of adversity.
The first lesson the Buddha gave after his enlightenment was that the source of our suffering is due to our constant arguing with reality. We want what “is" to be "is not” and what “is not” to be “is” and we are in a state of antagonism with our lives and reality itself. Creating a vision that suits the world is about healing our relationship to our life. - Wu De
In this episode we discuss how to create a vision that suits the world as opposed to expending our energy constantly trying to create a world that suits our vision.
An element of creativity is about being connected with your environment and seeing things that you don’t normally see, that are around us everywhere, and then using that for inspiration for something that people aren’t used to noticing. And through your noticing that thing and then accentuating it they notice it too. That’s where I see the power of chaxi as an art form - you’re sharing the mind that’s aware and reverent of the environment with other people and letting others access it through that. - Sam Gibb
In this episode we discuss chaxi, cooking, art and creativity.
Most of our days are a stimulation overdose from food to sounds to you name it. I would definitely recommend fasting from technology for at least a day. You will find it very beneficial and relieving to let go. Some of us are going years or decades without a single day without fasting from those things. - Shen Su
In this episode we discuss how to organise your own tea & meditation retreat.
The big step is not always what we need to take. We need to start shifting our orientation towards it and taking those smaller steps. The first one might just be talking about it or going for a tea session. The goal isn't to heal all the pain and hurt in one go. - Sam Gibb
In this episode we discuss how to pick yourself up after you have fallen down.
"Because it’s not about me, it’s about all of us getting together and doing something better than one person can do alone" - Erika Houle
In this episode we discuss the rewards and challenges of building a tea community in a big city.
There is an important distinction between seeing and knowing. Seeing is something more intuitive and knowing is based on data and research and facts. There is sometimes this idea that we can be a scholar of something and from the knowledge we can get to the seeing. But that is actually the reverse order. The natural order of things is that we see first and from this intuition we can create knowing. This is the Zen perspective.
In our tradition we start with leaves in a bowl tea. Put some leaves in a bowl, add hot water and sit with it in quiet. As the intuition develops, knowledge will come later, easily.
This is the first of a two part discussion where we outline the extended history of tea. Grab a bowl of tea and join us!
"The ironic thing is that the best form of self cultivation is actually service to others" - Shen Su. In this episode we discuss vision, devotion and surrender on the path of Tea.
"The leaf is the tree's expression of its relationship to its environment" - Wu De. In this episode we discuss one of the most fundamental aspects of Cha Dao - living tea.
In this episode we discuss the merits of service, self-discipline and what it is like to return to the world after serving at the Tea Sage Hut.
In the seventh episode we unpack and discuss the second half of the Eight Bowls of this tradition of Cha Dao
In this episode we discuss the first half of the Eight Bowls of our tradition. Join us in the next episode for the second half of the discussion!
In this episode we discuss what it's like to serve a 10-day Intro To Cha Dao course at the Tea Sage Hut.
Inspiring and insightful conversations about the Way Of Tea (Cha Dao). In this episode we discuss lessons learned from service on the path of Cha Dao