The yellow flowers are nothing more than ordinary, and the green bamboos are all dharma bodies

Raise your hand and cast your feet

? Smile comes from nature

"Flower, tea and incense are the soul of traditional culture in China", and they are also called "three elegant ways". In the long history, flowers, tea and incense are praised and sought after by literati of all dynasties.

The essence of flowers, tea and incense is to realize the Tao by meditation, with eyes, taste and nose, and life gradually becomes meditation in silence, gradually reaching a state of meditation and making the mind enlightened. Be quiet, be quiet, think, be enlightened, pass through the rising cigarettes, imagine all things and laws in the universe through the strict etiquette of tea ceremony and appreciate the natural posture of flower arrangement, so as to cultivate body and mind and realize the meaning of life.

Flower Path and Buddhist Thought

Flower Arrangement Art For China people, flower arrangement works are regarded as a fusion of life in the universe. Feel the changes of nature and life through flower arrangement, properly intercept the branches, leaves and flowers of trees and flowers and insert them into vases and other flower devices, which can give people artistic and beautiful enjoyment. The basic spiritual purpose of various schools of Huadao is the harmonious unity of "heaven, earth and people", which is a unique natural concept and philosophical concept in the East.

"One flower and one world, one leaf and one bodhi", although the flower is small, it covers the whole world. Although the leaf is only one piece, it represents the whole law of nature. The Buddhism possessed by the flower path is boundless, which covers all the laws in the universe. "The yellow flowers are nothing but ordinary, and the green bamboos are dharma bodies." This famous saying is that the flower path can represent the Buddhist thought.

Tea ceremony originated in China, and it is regarded as the embodiment of Taoism. Tea ceremony pays attention to the harmonious integration of man and nature, and pays attention to respecting man, valuing life, sitting and forgetting, etc. In tea ceremony, all requirements are natural and beautiful, moving is flowing, as quiet as a mountain rock, laughing is like a spring flower, and words are like a mountain spring. Every gesture, gesture and smile should come from nature.

By making tea, enjoying tea, smelling tea, drinking tea, enhancing friendship, appreciating Xiu De, learning manners and appreciating traditional virtues, it is a very beneficial beauty ceremony. Drinking tea can benefit the mind, calm the mind, help to cultivate sentiment and dispel other thoughts, so as to achieve quietness, calmness, loneliness and inaction, and make one's mind diffuse with the fragrance of tea, as if one were integrated with tea and the universe, and sublimate to achieve the realm of "forgetting me".

Incense and Confucianism

Incense can mobilize the spirituality of the mind in euphoria, regulate breath, unblock the nose, enlighten the mind and harmonize the body and mind between the tangible and the intangible, and it is of infinite use.

Incense is to create an elegant and refined scene by lighting and incense agarwood and sandalwood, and forming an ethereal and nihilistic scene with the arrangement of incense utensils in the incense environment.

Xiangdao culture inherits a fresh, natural and refined Confucian spirit. Confucianism usually keeps incense as a companion when reading, sitting quietly, drinking tea and meeting friends. Confucianism can use incense to express reason, express ambition, compare with incense, respect guests, associate with incense, show elegance and preserve health. Confucianism should be benevolent, righteous, courteous, intelligent and trustworthy with incense.