The Unsaparated Taste of Tea and Zen

• Main Authors: Chen Yu Ting, 陳玉婷
• Other Authors: Te Chi Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02077511972461695130

碩士 === 華梵大學 === 哲學系碩士班 === 101 === This thesis tries to investigate the implication of the unseparate taste of Tea and Zen, with the Minor Concentration and Insight(小止觀) of Zhiyi(智者大師) as philosophical guideline, supplemented with the rich content of The Book of Zen Tea by Japanese tea master Jakuan Monesawa(寂庵宗澤) and the Cha No Seishin of Kyoto school scholar Shin'ichi Hisamatsu(久松真一), with the aim of opening a new approach for the spiritual domain of Taiwanese tea culture. Chapter One: Introduction deals with the intention, goal, range, methods of the thesis and the relevance between tea and Zen practice. Chapter Two clarifies the historical relation between tea and Zen, describing the potion function of tea, and by its involvement into Zen the opening of Zen spirit. Chapter Three discusses the position of Ji(unseparateness, 即) in Buddhistic philosophy, from Ch. I of Treatise on the Mystery of the Mahayana of Jizang(吉藏) and the teaching of TianTai to the Zhiguan(Concentration-Insight、止觀) and the meditation practice of Zen. Chapter Four starts with the Minor Concentration and Insight on six senses, sensoria and Jingjie, describing the practice of Zhiguan in the Jingjie of six sensoria versus one Jingjie to reach at the continuous effect without the consciousness leaving it. Chapter Five on the TianTai Zhiguan , from Ding(定) to wisdom, while tea drinking can tranquilize the mind and awakening the spirit, in order that mind and spirit can stay in the same Jingjie together: Discussion of the level and Jingjie of the practice of the unseparated tea and Zen. Chapter Six concludes that the Zhi of Tiantai Zhiguan lies in the evasion of desires, and the Guan after Zhi is the contemplation of a clear Xin upon the Tathagatha, through the practice of the unseparateness of Tea Zen. Tea is the Kairos toward the Jingjie of great equalness and compassion of Tea Zen.