Tea Ceremony
| In this workshop students participate in a traditional tea ceremony at the Urasenke Chanoyu Tea Center in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The tea ceremony helps us ask, “How do we move forward in harmony with our environment, our community and ourselves?” The principles of tea ceremony are harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. The spirit of tea is the search to do good and not to do evil. |
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Mr. Yamato, a tea master and master of the Samurai sword, guides the students through the tea center and hosts the ceremony. Students gather in a library, take off their shoes and pass over a bridge and through a garden where they enter a teahouse and sit on tatami mats. The sliding paper doors close and we are in Japan. The students are all very touched by the ceremony—its respect, perfection, simplicity and attention to detail. At Jamaica High School we take two groups of 25 students. While one group is sharing tea, the other group is playing in Central Park, exploring, jumping Double Dutch, posing for photos.
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