Tea and Ceremony: Experiencing Tranquility - Softcover

Saltoon, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931191181 ISBN 13: 9780931191183

Publisher: Robert Briggs Associates, 2004

Synopsis

Tea and Ceremony is about far more than tea. The book deals with the American fascination with Zen, meditation, and the value of simply living. It's about experiencing tranquility, about ceremony and removal and how removal improves the quality of life by providing detachment from those trials and limitations that inhibit awareness of the present.Whether simple or elaborate, a ceremony creates a rare opportunity to do something wise and compassionate, not only for yourself but for others. The author shows how many different ways of tea – even alone or out-of-doors – can be equated with removal in which one becomes centered in quiet spaciousness where it is possible to accept whatever comes. It explains how this can bring calm and focus to both the host and the guest. The book embraces the reader in the spirit of ceremony while creating a sense that it would be easy to follow on your own.

Tea and Ceremony is beautifully illustrated, with an introduction by Taoist author, Deng Ming-Dao. It is an autobiographical account that reflects the rewards of tea ceremony and proves that, along with its many medicinal properties, tea offers unusual moments of tranquility.

About this title

About the Author:

Diana Saltoon began practicing Zen in 1981 and was introduced to Chado at the Green Gulch Zen Center near San Francisco. She received a certificate of Chamei from the Urasenke School in Kyoto and is a teacher at the Wakai Association in Portland, Oregon. A member of the Zen Community of oregon, she gives presentations on Chado as a way of Zen and is the author of FOUR HANDS: GREEN GULCH POEMS (1987), and THE COMMON BOOK OF CONSCIOUSNESS (1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Briggs Associates
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0931191181
• ISBN 13: 9780931191183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192