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Daily Meditation Podcast

Having Patience as Your Life Unfolds, Day 4 Tea Life, Tea Mind Meditations

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

"We should be centered so that wherever we are, whatever happens, we never lose the infantlike primal mind we are born with."

― Soshitsu Sen XV, Tea Life, Tea Mind

Are you feeling burned out or disengaged with life? This week you're going to be exploring the 80-20 ritual to get more done by actually doing less. For 80-20 inspiration, we'll be following along with the book "Tea Life, Tea Mind," by Soshitsu Sen XV, the current 15th grand tea master in Japan.

This is day 4 of a 7-day Tea Life, Tea Mind Meditation series, episodes 2313-2319.

YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE

80-20 Ritual

Apply the 80-20 principle to a part of your life where you're feeling burned out or disengaged.

THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES:   Day 1:  Visualization  Day 2:  Affirmation Day 3:  Breathing Technique Day 4:  Mudra Technique Day 5:  Chakra Technique Day 6:  Layer Meditation Techniques Day 7:  Reflection + Introspection   SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS   Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Episode 2316 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

0:07.0

I'm Mary Mechley and welcome.

0:10.0

How are you doing today?

0:12.0

I hope you're well.

0:13.0

We are at day four of our series.

0:16.0

We've been exploring.

0:17.0

We have a special theme this week.

0:19.0

We're following along with the book,

0:22.0

T-Life, T-Mine, by Sochi Tsusen,

0:26.0

the 15th Grand Team Master in Japan.

0:31.0

And this is a book that introduces you to

0:35.0

what I learned when I studied Japanese tea ceremony

0:41.0

in Japan when I lived there.

0:43.0

And it is the 80-20 ritual,

0:47.0

a beautiful approach to living your life.

0:50.0

It's about showing up as your best,

0:54.0

not giving your 100% best effort,

0:57.0

but allowing that things will inevitably arise

1:03.0

that will often change the best late plans.

1:09.0

And when you are in the Japanese tea ceremony,

1:14.0

you will allow for unexpected weather

1:19.0

or maybe the food or the tea

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