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The Book of Tea (Paperback)
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The Book of Tea (Paperback)
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Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Tea began as a
medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century,
it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The
fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of
aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of
the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It
inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the
romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the
Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something
possible in this impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy
of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the
term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our
whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it
enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in
simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral
geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the
universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by
making all its votaries aristocrats in taste.
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