The inclusiveness of tea: Tea can be the immediate water when you're thirsty, gulped down to quench your thirst, where the aroma and taste of the tea matter less.

Tea can also be the slow life you savor sip by sip, enjoying the falling petals in the courtyard and the lightness of clouds and breeze.

About mood

Every time you drink tea, it's the first and the last. No matter how many people are drinking or how many pots are brewed, everything fades away with the tea's aroma, leaving only memories in each heart.

About interaction: To understand tea, you need to respect every type of tea with your heart, just like meeting someone destined—no matter their status, you can find something to appreciate in them.

To understand tea, you need to engage with it sincerely, like with a friend. Once you know all its experiences, you understand its uniqueness and how to interact with it.

About time: Some say drinking tea isn't about the water but the flavor. Over time, it's not even the tea's flavor you're drinking but the taste of your heart and life.

Different seasons or times of the day correspond to different teas, much like the warm or cool moments in life.

The difference is that most of life is mundane, but when your heart is calm, tea always has flavor.

About desire: Good tea and the mood for drinking it are like desire and ideals. The end of desire is material possession, while the ultimate ideal is spiritual fulfillment.

No matter how good the tea, it will eventually run out, but the mood for drinking tea is inexhaustible.

Instead of endlessly pursuing better tea, it's better to always be ready with a mood for drinking tea.

About being human: Tea leaves sacrifice themselves to water to become tea, which is giving;

The leaves hold the tea's fragrance, like the scent of discipline, which is upholding precepts;

Enduring steaming, stir-frying, fermenting, and rolling, which is forbearance;

Dispelling laziness and invigorating the mind, which is diligence;

Harmony, respect, purity, and stillness—the taste of tea is one, which is meditation.

About life: Tolerance isn't about enduring or ignoring but finally learning to appreciate; there's no perfect tea, but you can brew a perfect moment with an imperfect tea;

No one is perfect, but you can learn to appreciate yourself and an imperfect life.

About cultivation: Confucians cultivate virtue with tea, Taoists cultivate the heart with tea, and Buddhists cultivate nature with tea. Whether it's a purple clay teapot or a porcelain lidded bowl, they are all vessels for tea leaves, containers for green leaves and red edges; a blue-and-white cup or a green-glazed bowl, they are all holders for tea soup, the medium for bitterness to enter the mouth.

For more tea information, search for the WeChat ID "chayewang1" to follow Tea Net.