Thursday, July 28, 2016

Just One Tea

"Tea is bitter". Oh! So sad that English has done injustice to the feelings of almost 2 billion people who drink tea regularly. Or may be that English does not have the right word to mean the taste of tea (not even the taste of one variety of tea).

Drive, is the word that comes to my mind when I sense (with one or more sense organs) the proximity of tea near me, because drive is what tea does to me. Tea is the catalyst for my mental reactions. It drives away the stress and brings in a new energy, simply cleaning up the brain junk. In other way it drives the stream of thoughts to a higher speed.

There is an interconnected roadways through which the various memory regions of my brain are connected. Mood outs, heart breaks, tiring works, disappointment, anxiety and many more damages the roads quite often and the signals are lost, and the paths look untraceable. Then comes tea to repair the damage. It dissolves the road blocks and precipitates them in the gaps to form bridges. Then that invincible feel resumes. Wow!

Modern Buddha philosophy to reduce anxiety says, "Take a moment and have a tea". Drinking tea makes the drinker cool; it gives mental stability and creates peace of mind; it keeps the drinker off negative thoughts; it minimizes the effects of anger, revenge and sorrow does to one's mind. Tea is hence the new symbol of peace. That justifies why Dalai Lama says, "the world is moving towards peace" because tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, first being water.

It is  not wrong to say, a human is reborn every time he consumes tea. Fresh thoughts, refined thoughts make the person feel alive and feel brisk, just like a reboot to the computer after opening multiple applications at once.

Tea fits almost everyone because it comes in multiple flavors, with wide variety of configurations, specifications, additional components and personal taste features. A person's personality is reflected in the flavor of tea, he drinks. Psychologists could actually use tea habit as a criteria to figure out the personality of a consumer.

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