HeyJared72 Seasons of Tea 🍃
Life, interrupted • 100+ essays and conversations on tea through Zen, Taoism, and Japanese learning • Lived in 14 cities, 7 countries • Malaysian mother of two, Kyoto-based.
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秋分 Autumn Equinox (opens the original)
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Bai Juyi (白居易), the Tang Dynasty poet, wrote: 不明不暗朧朧月，非暖非寒慢慢風。Neither bright nor dark, the hazy moon; Neither warm nor cold, the gentle breeze.It is the Autumn Equinox today, as we enter my favorite Libra season. The shift into autumn comes not with dramatic changes or sharp opposites, but literally, this is a day of balance. I felt ease meditating this morning. The gentle morning breeze and the incense I lit moved through the soft sounds
Whispering Waves (opens the original)
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不二 Beyond Binary Opposites (opens the original)
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Master Hsing Yun (星雲大師) was the founder of Fo Guang Shan (佛光山), whose Dong Zen Temple (東禪寺) in Malaysia is the temple I have been going to since high school. With its headquarters in Taiwan, the Buddhist organization has a presence around the world.He approached calligraphy as an expression of the heart. His unique one-stroke calligraphy, or yibizi (一筆字), emerged as his eyesight deteriorated due to severe diabetes. What began as a physical limitation became a unique form of artistic expression,
KL: Bookstores, Architecture & the Invisible (opens the original)
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Southeast Asia splits in two: One lives with innovation, progress, and wealth. The other with pollution, displacement, and poverty. — Kriangsak Teera-Hong in Asian Labor FuturesThis is a post I drafted around this time last year, but never got around to publishing it. This time around, there is even more that feels difficult to put into words. Some words first, then mostly pictures.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn
Learning Japanese in Kyoto (opens the original)
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“What is worthy of life’s dedication does not want to be known by us in ways that diminish its actual sense of presence. Everything true to itself has its own secret language and an internal intentionality with a secret, surprising flow, even to the person who supposedly puts it all in motion.”— David Whyte, Ambition in ‘Consolations’, 2014Have you ever felt this dense, unsettling sensation — like suddenly finding yourself enveloped in a deepening mist of fog — not even sure what the next few st
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