"Preserve what is essential" - Seasonal Tea Club Autumn 2022
Seasonal Tea ClubAutumn 2022 With this season’s offering, we conclude our fifth year of the tea club. We have two common sayings in our tea tradition that seem particularly apt...
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The Five Elements
This blog explores the Taoist Five Elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—as a living map for aligning with the seasonal rhythms of nature and life itself. By observing natural cycles of...
Some Essential Values of the Tea Ceremony
The tea ceremony, like all ceremonies, is a distillation of what we find valuable. We experience ceremonies all the time: weddings, birthday parties, graduations, funerals. These look different around the...
What is the Late Summer Season?
In the Taoist Five Element framework, Late Summer is its own, fifth season. It is the center point: when yang mellows and transforms into yin, when Summer has fully ripened...
"Expansive, open-hearted connection" - Seasonal Tea Club Summer 2022
Living TeaSeasonal Tea Club Summer 2022 “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof,...
"Nature wakes up after a long rest" - Seasonal Tea Club Spring 2022
Long before the widespread adoption of the solar Gregorian Calendar by Spain, Portugal, and Italy in 1582, many cultures observed a lunar calendar. This older calendar began in ancient times...
Puerh Tea Processing - Seasonal Tea Club Winter 2021 (part 2)
Puerh and Winter Teas For many reasons, Puerh tea is the most exotic in all of China’s vast repertoire. Puerh tea only comes from Yunnan in Southwest China, a place...
The Art of Meditation - Seasonal Tea Club Winter 2021 (part 1)
“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. You may wonder what the best approach is to helping society and how you can...
Zen, Tea, and the Zigzag Path of Parenting
Written by Living Tea Founder and CEO Colin Hudon Raising a child puts everything into perspective, for what could be more important? Children are the vital link in our chain...
"To drink the wisdom of nature’s great connectors" - Seasonal Tea Club Autumn 2021
Seasonal Tea Club 2021 The Art of Life in Autumn The tao that can be toldIs not the eternal Tao.The name that can be namedIs not the eternal Name....