Tea is a miraculous medicine for nourishing life and a wonderful art for prolonging age.

Over eight hundred years ago, the Japanese tea master Eisai attributed the most wonderful and magical effects to tea.

If you wish to remain forever young, if you long for a long life of a hundred years, then raise this bowl of miraculous Chinese tea before you!

Tea can strengthen the body, clear the mind, cultivate elegance, and bring delight.

A good cup of tea can not only improve our health but also brighten our mood.

However, life is often unsatisfactory, with eight or nine out of ten things not going as planned.

We often fail to recognize the impermanence of life and the brevity of our time.

Instead, we tend to dwell on the helplessness and sorrow of past events.

When you are depressed and troubled, your heart also seems to be forcibly blocked by an unknown object.

You dare not breathe deeply, fearing a deeper touch of pain.

We do not have good ways to settle our emotions of irritability, sadness, depression, and entanglement.

We find that the older we get, the less happy we become.

Even occasional laughter is often forced, mixed with a faint melancholy amidst the bitterness.

Tea, when sipped alone, brings spiritual clarity.

We try to use this cup of tea to soothe our melancholy hearts.

Brew a cup of tea with a calm and focused mind: preparing the utensils, selecting the water, waiting for the perfect boil, infusing the tea, and savoring it quietly.

Each step requires your inner clarity and presence in the moment.

Only at such moments can you face your inner feelings so truthfully.

The joy or sorrow within is there, real and profound.

Tea never asks you to forget but helps you better face your inner self.

The way of tea never makes your troubles disappear but seeks moments of perfection within an imperfect life.

On the path of life, if you can comprehend the wisdom of tea, it will best provide you with warm comfort and the strength to move forward.

Tea is a drink that can lead to your inner self.

Warm like tea, delightful like tea.

Tea is like the vast, snow-covered earth, where the inner emptiness is touched by the green grass revealed through cracks in the stones.

I believe that through the practice of the tea ceremony, you too can find such experiences and feelings:

The first drink washes away drowsiness and dullness, filling heaven and earth with clear and bright thoughts;

The second drink clears my spirit, like sudden rain sprinkling light dust;

The third drink leads to understanding, why bother to painstakingly break free from worries?

Three drinks of tea, and all worries vanish.

Tea can enter the heart, tea can cultivate elegance.

A cup of tea reclaims a beautiful state of mind filled with peace and joy.

Is tea not the best drink to reach our inner selves and cleanse our souls?