Chris,
Despite it all, as a tea-server, I always carried a small kitchen towel over my
shoulder, as well as carrying the tea pitcher in the hands. In dimly-lit
zendos in early morning on sesshin, a spill was never inevitable, but when it
happened, the towel was there to save the feet of all of us practicing kinhin
later. As a woodworker and a lover of wood, I was also protective of the wood
floors. But they could not be hurt. On the other hand... a wet foot, being no
tragedy, might wake a person up. Talk about "karma"! Yet, I erred on the side
of "no spills".
And, I say: who's to say whose fault a spill is: it's a partnership. ;-)
By the 7th day, one (two...) is pretty good at this; and then, alas, it's time
to lay off for a while. ;-)
Welcome; but sad.
So goes practice.
But we also served tea at 7:25 AM every Saturday before the first sit of three
25-minute periods in Tucson, with chanting (Morning Service) at 9:00 AM. They
still do that now, I think. I've resigned after a quarter Century!
--Joe
> Chris Austin-Lane wrote:
>
> Good karma is pouring tea attentively. Bad karma is pouring tea
> inattentively.
>
> The transition from inattentive to attentive is a thing we do not cause but
> by stopping allow to happen.
>
> Good karm might result in a calm zendo and bad karma might result in a mess
> or a burn, but that's incidental at the time of pouring.
>
>
> > please clarify chris....merle
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