This is a tale about going Nowhere, the sacred place where the light first kissed the Earth.
In the pure silence and stillness of a pre-dawn morning
Nature giggled
and the Sun fell in love with her mountains, her valleys, her peaks and her rivers.
Gazing speechless,
the Sun created time so he could take time to be astonished by all the little miracles hiding in plain sight.
He stretched his light far and wide,
and the first harvest was born: a gift to honor their union.
Wise hands shaped by tradition found the tea leaves infused with their love story and brought them home;
to the Teapot, to the Fire, to the Water.
Life does not answer to reason,
she speaks to the future in her own way; the way of memory.
And so it was that in the company of others, they celebrated a ceremony to remember.
The Teapot sings a song of remembrance.
Quiet and yet uncensored,
like a wave, the song comes alive.
A warm sound that calls you to bow to the ground
in utter praise and appreciation, reverence and devotion,
to find a moment of wakeful tranquility.
In this ceremony, we go Nowhere.
Like the Sun, we train our attention to be astonished.
Through the song of the Teapot we infuse the world with stillness and time created through the generosity of tea.
Are you finding ease inside of you?
Can you find tranquility in the unknowable?
Can you let your inner landscape become your place of refuge?
It is only when you stop moving that you can be moved from within and find perfection in the world as it is.
When you find yourself wondering
where to go
where to be..
...go here
go now
go Nowhere
Let nothingness dance joyful and free
Let the light infuse your entire being
and follow the call of the warm sound
that summons you to the place
where the Teapot sings
Latente Studio x UBUNTU for SOU Tea
Inspiration from Adyashanti, Ayla Nereo, Pico Iyer
Illustrations from Amanda Mijangos @amandamijangos
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