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| Carrie @ tea bone zen mind 20 hoot kiam road tel :63344212 |
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tea bone zen mind
@
20 hoot kiam road
Tel : 65 -63344212
Open mon -sat
Tea sampling only with appointment.
Shop is open 11 am to 7 pm
The universe in a tea pot
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| A late Qing dynasty Yixng Tea pot @ tea bone zen mind 20 hoot kiam road tel : 63344212 |
Feed the gold fishes
remember to feed the fishes when u visit our blog
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@ tea bone zen mind
20 hoot kiam road
tel : 65 -63344212
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@ tea bone zen mind
20 hoot kiam road
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
life is a cup of tea .. Life is cuppa of tea
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| Life is a cup of tea |
Singapore tel :65 - 63344212
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
茶 人
茶
人 Modern Chinese tea culture
traces its roots to Ming dynasty. When tea culture evolved into a pursue of the
perfect life style.
With
the Chinese culture there has always been a pragmatic and materialistic
orientation. Chinese in its 6 millennium of culture has only produced 2
indigenous “spiritual” movement. Daoism and Confucianism both of which
concentrated mainly on the here and now.
The
purpose of man in this world is an irrelevant question to the Chinese. Rather
how a man should live, eat, sleep, talk, war, sex and conduct of politics is a
more central preoccupation of Chinese.
Within
this pragmatic milleu evolved this special spiritualness of the Chinese. Tea
culture would be one of this expression.
Brewing
tea, making tea, drinking tea is a everyday daily affairs for everybody.
Whether rich, powerful or poor. It is an experience of here and now. Be with
ourselves.
Kg
@ 20 Hoot kiam road
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
20 hoot kiam road
We are at
20 Hoot kiam Road
To drive:
Follow river valley road towards alexandar road
Turn right at zion road , into hoot kiam road towards paterson road.
Meaning you turn right at the juntion before boon tong kee Chicken rice store.
Taxi :
if you have problem with the cab, just drop at great world city shopping centre, Ask to be dropped at the zion road side of the shopping centre. Walk down Zion road towards hoot kiam road. The church/ ST Benadate church should be on your left. Cross the junction and straight down the role of peranakan shop houses. We are no 20.
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20 Hoot kiam Road
To drive:
Follow river valley road towards alexandar road
Turn right at zion road , into hoot kiam road towards paterson road.
Meaning you turn right at the juntion before boon tong kee Chicken rice store.
Taxi :
if you have problem with the cab, just drop at great world city shopping centre, Ask to be dropped at the zion road side of the shopping centre. Walk down Zion road towards hoot kiam road. The church/ ST Benadate church should be on your left. Cross the junction and straight down the role of peranakan shop houses. We are no 20.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Tea Form
Forms and Matters of Tea Life
色空
即即
是是
空色
Form
is emptiness
Emptiness
is Form
I
had deliberately chosen the word color to represent this section. In ancient
Tang character it stands for forms and matter.
I feel it represent perfectly my experience of tea ceremony and Tea
wares 茶器
Formality
is so important in social situation for an uncontrolled social gathering can
frequently and quickly decent into Chaos which can be embarrassing to the host.
The guest’s inability to react to the requirement of a social occasion also can
cause endless shame and embarrassment. Tea ceremonies and all its various form
evolved from this principle.
Tea
wares are not just utilitarian but give pleasures to our senses. These wares
not just serve a function for tea life but they go further to bring us into the
state of Tea life.
I
also understand it is quite meaningless to repeat what is found in technical
books on tea ceremony or learned directly from a tea teacher. What I want to
achieve is the readers has a basic knowledge on tea ceremony and appreciate the
fine Tea ceramics and porcelains. From this appreciate the cup of Tea better.
For what is life without tea?
Kg
@ 20 hoot kiam road
Living with nature
共
生To live with nature
This
is an old Chinese idiom; we must learn to live with nature.
The
current fad of everything organic is driving places like China, Vietnam to
clear virgin forest for this selfish quest for so called healthy organic
food. Medically organic food has not
proven itself to be more nutritious and healthy! The question of whether
organic is really more healthy is still out there?
If
the farmers put tons of organic fertilizer which destroy the water source and
poison the lake and ponds. With run off of rain causing erosion and landslide,
is it really ethical? Do we have the right to destroy Nature with our dreams of
longer and healthier life?
A
traditional Taiwan tea farmer told me, “ tea made traditionally is already
organic, all this organic this and organic that is really just a marketing tool
to make more money!”
Better
to go with tradition. Go for the mid mountain tea with an altitude of around
1500 meters and let the farmers get on with traditional farming method. The
farmers are more worried about their environment then you. For if they destroy
their land they suffers the consequences.
We can show our support by not buying cheap commercialized mercantile
traded tea. We should not support slave labor trade and uncontrolled
exploitation of nature. This will fundamentally change the economy of tea
industry in Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka and China. By using Nature’s
limited resource to produce quality affordable tea we contribute to the well
being of mother earth.
Kg
@ 20 hoot kiam road
tel : 63344212
Friday, June 15, 2012
Do Chai tea cups
Kg
@20 hoot kiam road
tel : 63344212
Eating rice or eating rice 吃米还是吃饭
Eating rice or eating rice
吃米还是吃饭
This was one of my encounter with the Grandmaster of Chinese
Tea.
A young and over eager enthusiastic me : “Instruct me in the
way of Tea ? “
Master Sim : “ when u are hungry, what do you do ? “
Me : “ Eat “
Master sim : “ When u are thirsty , what do u do ? “
Me : “ Drink, drink water to be precise.”
Master Sim : “ When you eat rice do you eat the uncooked
rice or cooked rice ? “ “吃米还是吃饭”
Me : “ Cooked rice ! “ 吃饭
Master sim : “ Very good , do you understand ? “
After some months of pondering,
My answer : “Eating
rice is different from eating rice. But Eating rice is still eating rice! “
吃饭不是吃米, 吃饭也是吃米 !
Master Sim : “ So what is your problems! “
Master Sim : “ The way of tea is nothing but tea and water .
“
Me : “ there is eating rice and there is eating rice”
“吃米还是吃饭”
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@ 20 hoot kiam road tel : 63344212
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
our yumilious yummy tea egg
Featured in hk's apple daily !
@20 hoot kiam road only .
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carrie is featured in hong kong
http://www.sharpdaily.hk/article/sup/20120426/83269
Tea bone zen mind was featured in the hong kong's news paper !
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@ 20 hoot kiam road
tel : 63344212
Tea bone zen mind --how to get there
Tea bone zen mind is at 20 hoot kiam road
if you are taking a cab , tell the driver it is near great world city. it is between zion road and paterson road. Zion church is 3 doors away. St benadette catholic church is just after the traffic light.
on Hoot kiam road we are on the right side, opposite a tire shop.
We have a traditional red banner outside our house. you cannot miss it.
2 car park ava.
suggest park at great world city and walk down zion road towards paterson road. 2 minute excercise.
Buses : 16 , 14.
tel : 63344212
if you are lost , stop or park at great world city. Go to the taxi stand at zion road side of the shopping centre. There is toast box there. We will guide you / fetch you from there.
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if you are taking a cab , tell the driver it is near great world city. it is between zion road and paterson road. Zion church is 3 doors away. St benadette catholic church is just after the traffic light.
on Hoot kiam road we are on the right side, opposite a tire shop.
We have a traditional red banner outside our house. you cannot miss it.
2 car park ava.
suggest park at great world city and walk down zion road towards paterson road. 2 minute excercise.
Buses : 16 , 14.
tel : 63344212
if you are lost , stop or park at great world city. Go to the taxi stand at zion road side of the shopping centre. There is toast box there. We will guide you / fetch you from there.
kg
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Puer tuo cha
The 30 year old tuo cha taste of Linzhi and woody under tone. Very smooth liquor, with a golden rim on thee edge of the liquor. After taste was surprisingly sweet!
kg
@ 20 hoot kiam road
kg
@ 20 hoot kiam road
Passionate passion fruit vine
Which is the central teaching of Islam. One must be productive in one life.
This value has been assimilated into chinese culture.
it has become a Chinese value .
kg @ 20 hoot kiam road , 63344212
茶
言
禅
语
Tea
Polemics and Zen Rhetoric
The
most maddening question I get :
“Why
do I drink Tea ?”
The
answer :
“Go
drink Tea !!!”
Happy
?
Satisfied
with the answer ?
Of
course not !!
So
why do I drink tea ?
“Go
drink Tea !!!“
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tea bone zen mind is at 20 hoot kiam road tel 63344212
For more zen : zen-encounter.blogspot.sg
For more zen : zen-encounter.blogspot.sg
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Hearing the song of tea
Hearing
Grand Master
sim :
“Have you
ever heard the voice of tea? “
Me : “ Hmmm,
not really. Being to Tea mountain and bath in virgin spring water –does that
count?”
Grandmaster
Sim :
“You can
hear them right now—the mountains. Spring rain, the wind, the earth and stones
of the mountain!”
Me : “ How ?
“
Grandmaster
Sim :
“Sit up
straight, stop slouching, face forward, put the fragrance cup near to your
nose, inhale . Do you hear them now ?”
Well in that
moment I really did heard the mountain , the rains, the earth and the Tea .
So when you
drink tea do you hear the tea voice ?
Tea bone zen mind is at 20 hoot kiam road , tel : 63344212
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oolong dongding tea steamed fish
Only at 20 hoot kiam road .
The recipe for the fish is in my new tea book. Tea polemics and Zen Rhetorics.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
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