Tea Thread
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Friend’s friends visited for tea today and talked about bring tea culture to this country, from A(nhui) to Z(isun), and write a modern tea book. The Tea Sutra, he said.
Sūtra is a sanskrit word means a thread or line to holds things together, most in a metaphorical way as the ‘thought threads’. When in plural form as in Vedānta Sūtras, the multiple threads weave the insight and experience into a collection of rules in the form of a manual. When in singular form as in Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra The Diamond Sutra, the thread flows through the text as a single formula.