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Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

To Drink Tea Is to Taste the Earth

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel reflects on drinking tea as meditation practice.

By Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

Mar 13, 2021

Five Drinkable Remedies for the Five Hindrances

Practice instructions and tasty recipes for wrestling with desire, aversion, laziness, restlessness, and doubt.

By Bo-Mi Choi

Mar 11, 2018

Trike Daily History & Philosophy

How Tea Became the Symbol of Enlightenment

What’s the story behind Chinese Zen and tea culture’s intimate relationship?

By Andy Ferguson

Jun 12, 2013

A Perfect Cup of Tea

How to avoid the many pitfalls of tea brewing

By Noa Jones

Fall 2012

Who discovered tea?

Was it Bodhidharma (the Indians and Zen Buddhists think so) or Emperor Shen Nung (all of China thinks so) who discovered tea? The emperor found that it kept his soldiers alert, while Bodhidharma, marathon meditator that he was, discovered that it helped keep him awake in meditation (in his commitment to stay awake, Bodhidharma severed […]

By Tricycle

May 31, 2010

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