When you are real

January 26, 2014

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. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


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    Sally S

    January 26, 2014

    beautiful wording… nice

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    Timothy Mckiness

    January 26, 2014

    That's funny Jendhamuni I have tea before and after I meditate each night, with music. Lol I have a tendency of worrying to much.

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    Atul Shukla

    January 27, 2014

    Very beautiful. Just like work while you work and play while you play.

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    Lucky Triana

    January 27, 2014

    And that's called mindfullness. 'Being presence, Being here at the moment', focusing our body and soul on whatever we're doing. It sounds so simple, but not easy doing that. But if we willing to give it a try, it will lead us to a better performance, a peaceful mind, a better us. I believe that…Thx for the great post, Jen! I come up often on your posts today, ya 🙂

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