Taichi practice and tea tasting

This time in our practice and meet up next to the Pyramid of Cholula, we had in addition to the usual healthy breakfast in Healthy Garden the special occasion of enjoying a tasting of imported teas with Sarai Calderón, tea sommelier and founder of the brand @tesbrote, who accompanied us and lovingly shared all his knowledge and experience about ceremonial tea from the East.

In the midst of an enriching talk in very pleasant company, the attendees were able to taste different types of black tea, white tea, green tea and some of their mixtures (blends). We also learned about infusion times, the differences and nuances in flavors, depending on whether we tasted the first, second or third infusions, and we were able to awaken our senses to a world of new sensations.

Tea ceremonies

Ceremonies of tea in China and Japan, in addition to a strong cultural and social component, are intrinsically linked to spiritual and meditative practice.

When the tea ceremony is understood and practiced to foster harmony in humanity, promote harmony with nature, discipline the mind, calm the heart, and achieve the purity of enlightenment, the art of tea becomes theism.

Zen Buddhism has also influenced the development of the tea ceremony. The elements of the Japanese tea ceremony are the harmony of nature and personal cultivation, and enjoying tea in a formal and informal way at the same time. The Japanese tea ceremony developed as a transformative practice.

In this way we see that drinking tea with a certain disposition, focusing our attention on the act itself, and on the sensations that arise, without adding anything more than our own presence, can lead us to understand that states of mind can be experienced. higher consciousness while we are immersed in any daily act.