The essence of Tea is knowing contentment. The Way of Tea is a means of knowing satisfaction with each and every thing. If one knows contentment, when making tea, the less things there are, the greater the pleasure. The more one knows about things and people, the more human one is. With this idea, even having insufficient utensils, one can delight in making tea. Chanoyu is the way which teaches contentment. It is just this contentment that is Rikyu's true intent.
~ Matsudaira Fumai (1751-1818) in the Tawagoto written when he was 20 years old.
Apr 3, 2010
Knowing contentment
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Lovely, and I thought it was a modern quote!
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. Matsudaira Fumai was quite the Japanese Renaissance man, even from a young age.
Lovely. Thank you for such liberating wisdom. ~ Toki
ReplyDeletetoki, welcome back and thank you for your comment.
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