Sarei
Sarei ( Japanese 茶 礼 , literally: "tea etiquette") describes a Japanese tea ceremony in Zen Buddhism , in which the practitioners in the dojo take green tea at the beginning of a meditation day or between two meditation periods. Sarei is a mindfulness exercise as part of the Zen practice in the Rinzai school and goes back to the Zen master Eisai , who also brought tea from China to Japan in 1191 .
The small tea ceremony Sarei is significantly shorter than the large tea ceremony Sadō of the Japanese tea route and also follows a different sequence.
The Jikijitsu (meditation leader) gives the signal to start the Sarei, for example by hitting the Takus (batons) twice. The jisha (tea donor) fills the cups, starting with the jikijitsu and then clockwise. The tea is drunk in four sips, which are introduced with the words clarity, respect, harmony and silence.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keyword 茶 礼. Wadoku Project, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Mariko Fuchs: The Pedagogy of the Zen Master - Presentation and Analysis. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, accessed on April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Behavior in the zendo - "forms". (No longer available online.) Zen-Kreis Munich, archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
