Virtual #BYOT Buddha's Birthday Tea Ceremony

"There are not a hundred steps to Buddhahood - Only one: right here, right now I am free!"

Buddha means The Awakened One, and we all have a Buddha within us.

In ancient lore and Buddhist teachings, the birthday of Buddha, also known as Wesak/Vesak Day, is a day when the Lord Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, went through the cycle of birth, enlightenment, and death all in one day. Today we sit in honour of the Buddha's many revered teachings, and bear in mind that there is no doctrine and indeed, this day's ceremony is not religious. After all, there is the saying that "Zen and tea are all one flavour", for Zen is the meditative mind and tea facilitates that mind-to-mind, wordless transmission between student and teacher for many centuries. Tea trees have proliferated on the face of earth long before the Buddha raised that single lotus flower in his…