Matcha Reading Room (Page 8)

Joseph Goldstein advises to act on generous impulses immediately instead of putting them off. This reduces suffering and brings joy.

Thoughts can be like uninvited guests, but we don't have to entertain them or offer them tea. We can learn to step off the thought ride.

Tutorials

Making an exquisite cup of houjicha is even easier than prepapring matcha.

The experience of being in conscious contact with reality as it actually is can be a key to the freedom you seek.

It helps to pay attention to what we're hearing because it seems like our ears need some TLC.

We can simply accept what is, and we can change what is. Simultaneously.

Maybe what we're really after is the art of discovering that we can be fulfilled before the next thing happens, not because it happened.

Journal

A daily matcha habit -- like any daily habit -- can be an excellent opportunity to pause and simply rest.

Somehow this liminal space lends itself to pausing, and the pause is the notice.