Tea Drinking and Meditation

Please reflect on the following questions. Your response should be two pages long double spaced. You do not need to answer every question but try to answer at least a few different ones. 1. How has mindful tea drinking changed/shifted your mindset? 2. Have you incorporated any lessons about tea drinking or meditation from class in your daily/weekly routine?3. Favourite tea of these few weeks + why? 4. Reflect on the differences between teas. 5. Monk Da Xing always emphasizes that we must focus on the tea in front of us — that this sip will be different from the next sip. What are your thoughts? Have these comments changed the way you live your life at all? If you don’t agree, what is more compelling to you & why? 6. What are some thoughts/ruminations you’ve had in the past few weeks that have come out of your tea practice? 7. In having conversations over tea, how have you noticed yourself interacting with others? If it’s different from your normal way of interaction, describe why this environment has surfaced this part of yourself. This is a reflection paper on drinking different types of traditional chinese teas gonfu style and how it aids in the meditation process and how meditation has helped you personally. Types of tea to reflect on are red, black, white, light oolong, dark oolong, puerh, and green teas. Thank you!