The Buddha Serving Tea

"If the Buddha served you tea how do you want to receive it? By slurping it down and demanding more, or might it be better to gracefully sip the tea, while filling up your body with appreciation for this event that The Buddha is serving you tea, and it is so delicious, and the room is so peaceful and beautiful.

So you are sipping and expressing your appreciation, and letting that appreciation saturate yourself. And your life condition is getting higher and higher. And because your life condition is getting higher The Law demands that more benefits flood over you, so The Buddha continues to serve more tea in your cup and it tastes better and better.

And that is how you should strive to be about all benefits in your life, do not slurp it down and demand more, sip, appreciate, look around and pay attention to what else there is in the environment to appreciate."
~~Pascual Olivera (Not an exact quote)

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Drink your tea slowly and reverently,
as if it is the axis
on which the world earth revolves
- slowly, evenly, without
rushing toward the future;
Live the actual moment.
Only this moment is life.

Thich Nhat Hanh