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Mahayana

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bhikkhu

peace activist

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Vietnamese

is less about really drinking your coffee or your tea, it is about drinking your projects, drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either.

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

is impossible to love. The moment we understand them, we feel compassion towards them and they are no longer our enemy.

To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy.

is a thing you must be completely awake in the present to enjoy.

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.

is best drunk slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Nhat Hanh

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