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Kakuzo Okakura: The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura: Das Buch vom Tee

Kapcsolódó kiadói sorozatok: Penguin Little Black Classics Penguin angol · Insel-Bücherei Insel


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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.

The Schools of Tea

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: tea
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The Tao is in the Passage rather than the Path. It is the spirit of Cosmic Change, the eternal growth which returns upon itself to produce new forms. It recoils upon itself like the dragon, the beloved symbol of the Taoists. It folds and unfolds as do the clouds. The Tao might be spoken of as the Great Transition. Subjectively it is the Mood of the Universe. Its Absolute is the Relative.

Taoism and Zennism

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Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

Taoism and Zennism

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Chinese historians have always spoken of Taoism as the “art of being in the world,” for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from tomorrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings

Taoism and Zennism

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Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence, owes its name to a passage in the Taoteiking. In jiu-jitsu one seeks to draw out and exhaust the enemy’s strength by non-resistance, vacuum, while conserving one’s own strength for victory in the final struggle. In art the importance of the same principle is illustrated by the value of suggestion. In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up to the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

Taoism and Zennism

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He who had made himself master of the art of living was the Real Man of the Taoist. At birth he enters the realm of dreams only to awaken to reality at death.

Taoism and Zennism

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Zen is a name derived from the Sanskrit word Dhyana, which signifies meditation. It claims that through consecrated meditation may be attained supreme self-realization. Meditation is one of the six ways through which Buddha-hood may be reached, and the Zen sectarians affirm that Sakyamuni laid special stress of this method in his later teachings, handing down the rules to his chief disciple Kashiapa.

Taoism and Zennism

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Like Art, Tea has its periods and its schools. Its evolution may be roughly divided into three main stages: the Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea. We moderns belong to the last school.

The Schools of Tea

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When will the West understand, or try to understand, the East?

The Cup of Humanity

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The coffee houses of London in the early half of the eighteenth century became, in fact, tea houses, the resort of wits like Addison and Steele, who beguiled themselves over their “dish of tea.” The beverage soon became a necessary of life—a taxable matter. We are reminded in this connection what an important part it plays in modern history. Colonial America resigned herself to oppression until human endurance gave way before the heavy duties laid on Tea. American independence dates from the throwing of tea chests into Boston harbor.

The Cup of Humanity