「Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century,it entered the realm of poety as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.」
"The Book of Tea"(Chales E..Tuttle Co.,Rutland,Vermont-Tokyo,Japan) From chapter;The Cup of Humanity pp.3-4.
The enjoyments of tea drinking and/or tea cult mean to find the beauty and the philosophy in daily life. The key word is The Imperfect.
We have to ask, seach and feel the beauty of The Imperfectin everyday phenomenon.
Yet, The Imperfect doesn't mean to find the satisfaction against somewhat inchoate,lazy,defective and incomplete. We need to ask TheImperfect beyond The Perfect.
Let me show an example. Imagine the beauty of the waxing and waneing moon.
If you find and prefer the beauty in full moon, you loveThe Perfect.
"Every flow has its ebb." If you feel the beauty in waneing moon and/or moon among a rift between the clouds, it's mean you love The imperfect.
However, don't forget to make efforts to accomplish The Perfect in daily existence. That is my understanding of The Imperfectin the way of tea in daily life.
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