Cha Dao · 茶道 · Curious eyes would brush it off as: "It is just Tea drinking"...
Perhaps so, and yet, not all just about drinking Tea. 😉
📿 A chaxi · 茶席 · is a stage in which Tea is the star. 🌟
🌕 It is a place where we connect with the energy of the cosmos. A place where we connect with the great mandala of love in which we sit as we share Tea together in this present moment.
🌌 But more than that, it is connecting us to a greater mandala that weaves together past and future with the present.
🌠 We feel into the vortex of those who will drink Tea and connect to the heart field like this; and we also connect with the ancestors and predecessors who drank Tea before us, like this.
🍃 The chaxi changes constantly just as the Universe does; a constant flux that also reflects the change that happens within our bodies, our hearts, our minds.
🌊 The chaxi also reminds me to constantly empty out to be filled up again with something even beyond my protective ego could plan or foresee.
🕯 The chaxi reminds me that when I hold space, I am Divine Incarnate, and that if I let myself go completely into Dao, I can become a vessel of wholeness bringing down into my body the mysterious limitless energy of the cosmos, ringing out the messages of God as clear as a bell.
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Last time I did a retreat with Chaxi as the central focus, I loved seeing all the amazing setups with which my students came up.
💗 I would love to see yours.
🧝🏻♀️ Tag me and I would love to pop in to your Tea space virtually.