Having Patience as Your Life Unfolds, Day 4 Tea Life, Tea Mind Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K 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.
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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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