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Bodhidharma's Cup-O-Tea
By Olaf O'bilo
Many a good story has been told surrounding the origins of drinking tea and how it came about that tea leaves found themselves mixed with hot water. By all accounts it took an adventurous soul to dip his or her lips in the accidental brew before the delicate art, not to say cult, of drinking tea established itself as a global trend. One such story upheld to legendary heights tells of Bodhidharma, an Indian Prince of adopted Buddhist faith, who travelled to China on a quest of proselytization. Ritualist in the virtues of constant meditation and prayer, he is said to have been partial to chewing leaves from the tea plant to stimulate him into permanent consciousness. If tea contains roughly half the amount of the stimulant caffeine as a comparable dose of coffee and setting aside any considerations as to a pathology of insomnia, the brave Prince appears to pioneer beliefs in the spiritual virtues of Camellia Sinensis (the tea plant). A variant account has Bodhidharma falling asleep while meditating. Furious at his weakness, he cut off his eyelids and threw them to the ground in disgust. The discarded eyelids then sprouted where they lay in the dust and from these grew the first tea plant. An enlightened epilogue to a nasty temper which does nothing to distract from the pure enchantment of savouring a well deserved cup-o-tea! |
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