Public Welfare Classes for Winter Vacation寒假公益课程-教师禅茶班
2018-12-09 12-27-03 来源: 作者： 点击:次
Removing the travel fatigue along the way and seeking a place of meditation.
February 3, 2013, the first day of students’ winter vacation. There was such kind of teachers who just got off the podium and came to Boshan Zhengjue Monastery from various places to take part in the Chan-Tea Class for teachers. 
Open slightly the wooden door of the tea room, suddenly bump right into pureness and freshness, rows of orderly tea tables, plants of fragrant white orchids, lines of black tea boilers, and pieces of immaculate lotuses......
Long time absence of this place of tranquility! Longtime lost of this kind of mind clear! Suddenly all people found it the place of peace and quiet from the noise and were full of infinite gratifying and being moved seemingly. 
When the light and fairy Chan music was on, another flow of pureness and freshness injected into our hearts. Bubbing the spring water, dropping bamboo dews, singing by oriole and tapping on the brushwood door......such beautiful melody coming from nature thus transparently cleared everybody’s heart like spring water. Exhausted body and mind then became calmed gradually, listening silently, feeling quietly, following the instructors softly to perform graceful and gentle Chan-Tea acts. 
Chan practicing in fact is embodied every where of our daily life, just as it is said: Moving is in Chan, sitting is also in Chan, no matter being silent or motionless or moving, as long as you experience the status of peacefulness and naturalness, you are in Chan. Holding your heart on while being not nervous, feeling relaxed and joyful while your mind being not turned with the change of the outward. Chan-Tea made the mind and music in one, made the actions stretched naturally with the music melody, a pleasant Chan practicing.
Music, poem, teaing, art and Chan practicing. During the period of one-day training and in the beautiful music melody, all of us were intoxicated in it unexpectedly, forgetting chores, forgetting oneself also.
One table, one cup of tea, a song of sounds of nature, a piece of Chan poetry, the best taste of the world is nothing more than this. 
Photographer: Zhang Yang, Jixiu