Quotes
Tea is like a mountain.
The mountain itself isn’t the goal - the beauty is all the things you find on the mountain. “I’m on the mountain, but then I look down and oh, look at this beautiful flower! How can I use it?” And we keep walking, and maybe on the other side we see some other people on the mountain. Maybe they don’t know tea, but they still find their own beautiful things on the mountain.
Tea has many gates for people to enter.
I’m hacking tea. The form is set, but what can I change within that.
You can’t just look down at your footsteps. You need to look up and see where you’re going. (wrt why bamboo utensils, and in this day and age)
Everybody’s tea can be the best tea. (wrt is not caring too much about the actual tea type)
It’s said that the host gets 70% of the enjoyment of tea. But the guests also think that they’re getting the 100% of the enjoyment. That overlap is omotenashi. (my idea: that overlap is what you create. Tea isn’t a zero sum game)