Tea Musings

Tea Industry Tea is nearly 5,000 years old and was discovered, as legend has it, in 2737 B.C. by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. In the 1600s, tea became popular throughout Europe and the American colonies. Now, tea is consumed as a beverage throughout the world and grown widely in countries of Asia, Africa and the Near East. Earliest mention of tea is from China in 350 B.C. It found its way to Europe in 1559, to England in 1615, and to Indonesia in 1684. Commercial cultivation began in India in 1823, and in 1867 in Sri Lanka (Wickramasinghe, 1978)

To be mindful is to be fully present with whatever we are doing. If you are drinking tea, just drink your tea. Do not drink your worries, your projects, your regrets. When you hold your cup, you may like to breath in, to bring your mind back to your body, stop your thinking and become fully present. In that moment, you become real and the cup of tea becomes real. In this state of true presence and freedom, you enjoy simply drinking your tea.

Thich Nhat Hanh

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis

I like the pause that the tea allows.

Waris Ahluwalia