Tea Ceremony

After Mattins,
before breakfast, I sit outside and enjoy a
cup of tea. I
don’t
even
feel
guilty about
having
impulsively
just decided to not
keep the traditional and
lovely practice of silent
meditation with the others.
Not to
observe
prayer and
quiet at the beginning of each day
really would be a
shame, but
then,
underlying most practices, even morning tea,
vast possibilities lie,
waiting to be
explored by
yet another Way,
zen or otherwise.