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The Four Basic Steps
Set the environment, brew, drink, and take care afterwards. The basic procedure of Tea Gong, for shedding social position and passing emotion and returning to the plain self.
The lessons are narrated in Japanese.
How to turn on English subtitles
- Start the video and click the CC button to switch captions on.
- Open Settings (the gear icon) → Subtitles/CC → Auto-translate.
- Choose English.
These are machine-translated from the Japanese captions, so expect some roughness — particularly around tea terminology. The text on this page is a proper translation, so read the two together.
Here is the basic procedure of Tea Gong.
Set the environment, brew the tea, drink the tea, and then take care afterwards. Through these four basic steps you come out as someone new.
Every condition and every gesture in this process exists so that, by way of tea, you can return to the plain self — the self with social position and passing emotion stripped away.
And it is from there that the new self begins.