cha-no-yu: Ceremonial Tea with Alan Watts
Chanoyu: Ceremonial Tea with Alan Watts from AlanWattsSeminars.com on Vimeo.
A conversation with Alan Watts over Japanese ceremonial tea. Literally meaning "hot water for tea", the simple art of Chanoyu is really a synthesis of many Japanese arts with the focus of preparing and serving a bowl of tea with a pure heart. Recorded in 1971 on the Pacific coast in Northern California.
So when you come to a dead end—and we are, individually and socially, at a dead end—this is the moment of which it is said 'man's extremity is God's opportunity', because we have to stop. And when we stop, we find a world that is happening, rather than being done... And that happening, as distinct from doing, is our fundamental self...It's everything around us with which we connect...
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