Maintaining Your Composure When Things Go Wrong, Day 5 of Tea Life, Tea Mind Meditation Series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
"In teaching the proper attitude for Tea, Rikyu emphasized maintaining a certain margin for error in one's preparations for hosting or attending a tea gathering." (page 38)
― 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 5 of a 7-day Tea Life, Tea Mind Meditation series, episodes 2313-2319.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,317 of your Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Mary Mechley and welcome to Day 5 in our series this week. |
| 0:15.5 | How are you doing? |
| 0:17.3 | I hope you're enjoying your challenge. |
| 0:20.6 | Your challenge is to apply the 80-20 principle to your life, especially if you choose one |
| 0:29.4 | area of your life to allow yourself a little more grace and to allow us and the world a |
| 0:38.0 | little more grace as well. |
| 0:41.1 | Your best laid plans don't always work out the way you had anticipated, whether different |
| 0:49.2 | events happening in the world, or maybe you didn't get a lot of sleep so you woke up |
| 0:55.8 | feeling fatigued and moody, and you hadn't anticipated this. |
| 1:01.2 | So something you're looking forward to turns out to be a disappointing event. |
| 1:09.5 | All of this and more can happen. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm sharing with you this week Wisdom from T-Life T-Mine, from Sen Sochitsu the 15th Grand |
| 1:22.6 | Team Master in Japan. |
| 1:25.4 | He's actually retired, he's 98 years old, and his son is oldest son is now the current |
| 1:35.0 | grand team master of Japan. |
| 1:37.6 | So this line of team masters has remained unbroken for centuries. |
| 1:45.8 | In today's episode you'll be guided as you tap into your inner truth and consider what |
| 1:55.2 | it is you're focusing on this week, some part of your life where you'd like to give |
| 2:01.5 | yourself a little more slack, also to give others a little more slack. |
| 2:08.0 | If you're finding that you'd like to go a little more deeply into this topic we're exploring |
| 2:14.4 | this week, you can find the full half hour guided meditations on the SIP and OAM meditation |
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