TeaLife Audio - Chado the Japanese Way of Tea

Hosts Marius Anthony Adam Aaron  Ula TJ   Miokuri - The last episode of TeaLife Audio   Jiku 壺中日月長 kochū nichigetsu nagashi Sacred time/place, found at the bottom of a jar -or- Days and nights are long inside the jar (this is more literal) Information Refererenced: Every day is a good day - https://amzn.to/45PI7uo Tea Life Tea Mind - https://amzn.to/3Lcq2wW Wind in the Pines - https://amzn.to/3xJnH9I Adams podcast Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/72SCSLQ6e5Ncsoc9JlHCWZ?si=FFx90TijQQirD_jD6bA2Ww YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/S%C5%8DmuStation/podcasts

Hosts TJ Anthony Tanja Jiku/Poem 拈華微笑（nen ge mi shō）literally means “holding a flower, subtly smiling.” Information referenced Sweets sakura mochi Recipe: https://www.justonecookbook.com/sakura-mochi/ hanami dango Recipe: https://www.justonecookbook.com/hanami-dango/ kusa mochi Recipe: http://www.the350degreeoven.com/2012/06/pastries-pies/yomogi-daifuku-or-kusa-mochi-japanese-mugwort-mochi-with-red-bean-filling/   Koan/Poem:   Decorate the heart of the beholder,  for the Buddha of the flower hall is nowhere else.  Master Yodo   Excerpted from: The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-five Centuries of Awakened Women - edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon   Associated study materials: Zen Flowers: Chabana for the Tea Ceremony - Henry Mittwer The Art of Chabana: Flowers for the Tea Ceremony - Henry Mittwer The Woman Who Raised the Buddha: The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati - Wendy Garling The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker Wagashi: The Art of Japanese Confectionery - Kazuya Takaoka, Mutsuo Takahashi, Hiroshi Yoda Tea room map showing calendar aligning Hana Matsuri and nijiri-guchi: https://www.chanoyudecoded.com/writings/april-in-japan-following-elephants/   Photo of Hana Mi Dō

Hosts Anthony TJ Lindsey Hinamatsuri Jiku Hana wa kurenai, ha wa midori  (Flowers are red, leaves are green)  花ハ紅, 葉ハ緑 -or- 花紅, 葉緑 Alternatively: yanagi wa midori, hana wakurenai (willows are green, flowers are red)  柳ハ緑、花ハ紅

Hosts TJ Anthony Guest: Palmer-sensei   Show notes:     福 fuku good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck​   Information referenced: Nihongi - English translation by W.G. Aston Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson   Otafuku sake cup https://www.chanoyudecoded.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Kakemono-Hanabusa-Otafuku-scatter-beanswm-768x855.jpg   For more of Palmer Sensei's talks, writings, and photographs, visit Chanoyu Decoded at: https://www.chanoyudecoded.com  

Hosts: Anthony TJ Adam   Shogatsu   和気満山川 Wa Ki Yama Kawa ni Mitsu Harmonious energy fills mountains and rivers.    

Hosts - Marius - TJ Omotesenke Guest Etiquette Zengo 無事是貴人 buji kore kinin non-attachment creates nobility   Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KH8KcFqTzCI

Hosts Anthony TJ Guest Lindsey Poem: 開門多落葉 kai mon raku yō o-oshi -or- mon wo hirakeba, raku yō o-oshi Opening my door, leaves piled up -or- Opening my door, only leaves

Host Marius Guests Rebeca Michelle Helena Diana   Information referenced: - Mizusashi pirouette: https://youtube.com/shorts/Vhs2qtVsEuA

Hosts Aaron Marius   A detailed walkthrough of the guest etiquette of Urasenke. Useful both for the Urasenke practitioner who wants to brush up on the details and also for students of other schools who want to prepare for an event.

Hosts Anthony TJ Tanya Adam   Tsukimi - Moon Viewing Poem Jiku - Master Kidō 掬水月在手　 Mizu o kiku sureba/ tsuki te ni ari I scoop up water and the moon is in my hands   Enlightenment Poem  - Chiyono: also known as Mugai Nyodai (1223-1298)   tonikaku ni/ takumishi oke no/ soko nukete/ mizu tamaraneba/ tsuki mo yadorazu   With this and that I tried to keep the bucket together, and then the bottom fell out. Where water does not collect, the moon does not dwell - Translation, Merle Kodo Boyd, 2013. Information referenced https://www.youtube.com/@adamsomu/videos

Hosts: Tanya Anthony TJ     Poem 菊の露 若ゆばかりに 袖触れて 花のあるじに 千代は譲らむ   Kikunotsuyu waka yu bakari ni sode furete/ hana no aruji ni chiyo wa yuzura/ mu Murasaki Shikibu Diary poem, Modern translation: Chrysanthemum dew I brush my sleeve to gain a little youth But let she who owns the flowers have the thousand years they bring Link to Makura Jido: Noh Performance held at Horinji, Arashiyama, on 9/9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=zxtTLfpcZrw

Hosts Marius Anthony Guillermo State of Mind 無心  

Hosts Anthony TJ Guest Tanya   Obon   Poem: by Saigyõ   sute-gataki omoi naredomo sutete idemu makoto no michi zo makoto naru beki   Hard it is  to leave the world yet leave I will for the true path is the truth Information referenced: Books Mentioned : Hungry Ghosts - Andy Rotman Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude - Saigyõ  Film Mentioned : Tsuruko's Tea Journey:

Host Marius Guests Guillermo Nico Music of Tea   Poem 諸行無常 shogyō mujyō  all things are impermanent

Hosts Tj Adam Guest Palmer-senei   Tanabata     鳴な虫別るる恋はほしにさへ。 小林一茶  Nakuna mushi wakaruru koi wa hoshi ni sae. Ko-bayashi I-ssa. (After the death of his wife.)   Cry not insects divided love even stars among.  Little-grove One-tea. (literal translation)   Oh, insects, cease your cries that pierce the heart.  Lovers, even among the stars, must part. (Translated by Harold Stewart.) (Harold chose the form of the Heroic couplet when translating Haiku.)  From his, ‘A Chime of Windbells’. (Courtesy of Allan Sōsei Palmer Sensei)

Host Adam Anthony Marius   Main Topic - Marius Secret Project  Project home page: https://eternal.builders/ Project YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eternalbuilders Project Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eternal_Builder   Zengo "一期一会" (Ichi-go ichi-e): "One time, one meeting" "静中行" (Sei-chu-kou): "Action in quietude" "和敬清寂" (Wa-kei-sei-jaku): "Harmony, respect, purity, tranquility" "有心無心" (Yuushin-mushin): "Mindful, mindless" "空即色" (Ku-soku-shiki): "Emptiness is form" "色即是空" (Shiki-soku-ze-ku): "Form is emptiness" "無我無人" (Muga-mujin): "No self, no others" "瞬時永劫" (Shunji-eigou): "A moment is eternity" "万法一如" (Banbou-ichinyo): "All things are as one" "一切皆空" (Issai-kai-ku): "All is emptiness" https://chat.openai.com/    

Hosts TJ Anthony Topic - Start of summer and festivals Zengo 竹葉々起清風 take yōyō seifū o okosu "A refreshing breeze comes from the bamboo leaves."     Information Referenced Minazuki Recipe https://www.jpsmart-club.com/minazuki-wagashi/

Hosts TJ Anthony Guest Marius   Topic - Boysday   Zengo 花紅葉綠 hana (wa) kurenai, ha (wa) midori "flowers are red, leaves are green" -or- 花紅柳綠 hana (wa) kurenai, yanagi (wa) midori "flowers are red, willow is green"   Information referenced Recipe https://www.japancentre.com/en/recipe/150-kashiwa-mochi   https://foodinjapan.org/japan/chimaki/#index_id8   How to make an origami kusudama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0z7fZBwsQ  

Hosts: Adam Anthony Marius Topic: Oiemoto system in today's world Zengo:  一花開天下春 Ikka hiraite tenka haru nari   A single blossom opens and the world is in Spring

Hosts: Adam Anthony Marius Jiku: 日々是好日, 雲門日日是好日, 雲門日々是好日, 雲門好日, and 雲門十五日 Hibi kore kojitsu, or Nichinichi kore kōnichi