{"id":1097,"date":"2015-05-12T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:20:27","slug":"thich-nhat-hanh-tea-is-an-act-complete-in-its-simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2015\/1097\/quotes\/thich-nhat-hanh-tea-is-an-act-complete-in-its-simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Thich Nhat Hanh: Tea is an act complete in its simplicity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">The rest of the world dissolves.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">There are no worries about the future.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">No dwelling on past mistakes.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">I am informed by the tea, changed.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">There is only the tea, and me, converging.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.The rest of the world dissolves.There are no worries about the future.No dwelling on past mistakes.Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.I <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2015\/1097\/quotes\/thich-nhat-hanh-tea-is-an-act-complete-in-its-simplicity\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[274],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-the-zen-of-tea","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}