"In this land of wuyue, Buddhism once flourished in ancient times. Jian Zhen traveled to the East, Natsume flew to the North, and preached Buddhism in Japan and Zen in Korea. Huzhou, the hometown of Xing Wu, the shore of Taihu Lake, is a land of geomantic omen and outstanding people. Scenery and culture, especially the wonderful west, tea ceremony originated from Sri Lanka, Han Zen originated from this, and tea Zen blindly originated from itself.
In the past, Wu Liang regarded the East as a good place to celebrate Buddhism and built a great temple. Miaoxi is famous for its temples, producing silk tea and gathering nobles. Lu Yu, a native of the Tang Dynasty, lived in Huzhou and Miaoxi Tiaoxi after leaving Chu, and built a house to live in seclusion so that he could learn poetry. When they handed in poems and tea, they became friends who forgot to make friends.
The instrument of making tea, Tao Teng's experience, the wonderful tea in the west and the water in the clear spring converge into clouds and drift without roots, just as everything moves, gathering and dispersing are impermanent, and all beings are disturbed by impermanence. Life is sweet and bitter, so you can't drink it all at once.
The enlightenment of drinking tea, solemn spirit, eyes, ears, body and mind, six senses, bitter and sweet taste, muddy like a cup of earth, a leaf of bodhi, human suffering, joy, enlightenment all in one drink.
Therefore, Jiao Ran borrowed wine to write poems and got the word "tea ceremony". Lu Yu seeks Tao by enlightenment, and has three volumes of Tea Classics. Tea ceremony, tea classics, spread all over the world, and in North Korea and Japan, where tea is made and saluted, Lu Yu is honored as "Cha Sheng".
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Shi Wu Qingyi, a Buddhist monk, went to Miaoxi and stayed in Wuxi to seek dharma, drink tea and meditate. Under the seat, a South Korean disciple, Puyu Taigu Xuecheng, returned to China and respected him as a national teacher, starting Taigu Zen, which was handed down from generation to generation.
Tea Zen has spread to this day. Miaoxi villagers are familiar with the nature of tea. When tea is baked, it begins to give off fragrance. It tastes bitter when sipping and sweet when swallowing. From this, I realized that "I am a piece of tea", bitter first and then sweet. The so-called tea is Zen, Zen is tea, there is me in tea, and there is no me in Zen. I feel the vastness of the universe, I know the inferiority of people's desires, I feel compassion and compassion, and I make selfless dedication in the realm of "no me". In order to show this virtue, the monument was built with ambition. 」
Hundred Years of Danhong-Tea Talk-Documentary | Tea Yi Chan Wei Xia Mu Beifei /RprEdHm