how to choose a tea bowl
why purchase a chawan
when one does not practice tea ceremony
or when
space is lacking at home
to prepare it in the proper way
why acquire a chawan
when there is no one
to whom we can give the tea
for oneself
from time to time
standing
in a corner of the kitchen
without ceremony
just for
the stimulating effect of macha
for its taste
– if it is good –
combined with the sweet
that comes with it
for this solitary pleasure
a chawan
the price of a painting
or of a trip
brings the feeling
of a waste
that we don’t deserve
an unjustified
meaningless
expense
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if several times a year
we actively create the chance
to prepare a tea for guests
then
it is the aesthetics and complicity
of norms and customs
inherited from a particular history
which lead us to choose a bowl
of this form
of this color
of this region
of this technique
to know how to choose a bowl
in this context
is to have to testify
from one’s
experience
taste
or one’s
connection
with a place
an artist
a group
we reveal
our soul
our knowledge
our limits
when choosing a bowl
to expose oneself that way
is intimidating
only few collectors dare to
or tea practitioners
who know that
that bowl
they have not seen elsewhere
or which reminds them of a museum ceramic
will resonate forever
in their palms
that this bowl will dialogue
harmoniously
with their others tea instruments
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is a chawan
therefore
just a luxury beauty
reserved
to a caste
of a thousand people?
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no
because nowadays
we miss
ceremonies
to celebrate
our dead
not
social obligation
filial duty
public demonstration
of our debt to
the lineage
the clan
we lack rituals
for our mourning
and then
once our mourning is over
rituals to celebrate
peacefully
the people we miss
and who were important
in our lifes
people
so important
that just a detail
at the corner of a street
at the corner of a page
through a melody
a landscape
a season
brings out
with a discreet smile
at the corner of our lips
and with a real smile
deep in our heart
their living presence in us
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tea ceremony
vibrates accurately
to celebrate
the memory
of those we love
a ceremony
without fuss
without darkness
that we can do alone
as many times as we want
without waiting
an anniversary
or a specific calendar day
tea
makes us able to bring back the presence
of the ones we miss
by sharing with them
a bowl
a chosen moment
tea honors them
and honors the rare and the good
of how we felt
in their contact
it is reactivating our link with them
not forgetting
the luck of this link
finding care
inspiration
security
healing
in this link
not forgetting
those we love
and who loved us
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memorial tea
is a ceremony that we offer ourselves
without feeling pompous
deadpan
or exotic
because we are accompanied
by love
and we lead
our soul
in this love
for a few minutes
at home
without the need for gods
beliefs
altars or priests
memorial tea
does not require any knowledge
nore lessons
no need
to have learned tea
in order to create
our own ceremony
without witnesses
which will be refined
over the years
we don’t even need tea
cool water in summer
hot water in winter
any drink
will do
but we need a bowl
an object
that connects us to the ones we miss
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one bowl is enough
a single bowl capable of accommodating
all the souls
of all the people we miss
is enough
but
these unique bowls
simple and humble
are rare
only masterpieces
reach this level
chōjiro
perhaps sign his genius
from this
to be able to accommodate
in total simplicity
all the souls
if you come across a bowl of this type
don’t miss it
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most often though
bowls have
a distinct personality
male or female
reserved or demonstrative
hot or cold
intellectual or erotic
imperfect or flawless
the chawans
are portraits
sculptures
of a soul
that’s why it is
so easy
to choose them
if someone places in front of you
hundred bowls
and if you are asked
to choose the one
which looks like
your grandmother
or the bowl she would have liked the most
then immediately
you know in which bowl
you will have pleasure
to prepare
regularly
a happy ceremony
in memory
for her
with her
this bowl will bear her name
it will not be a pretentious object
snob
but the trigger
reassuring
familiar
of what unites you
to
good
to what in life is worth it
instead of taking
the dust in its box
or on its shelf
these bowls are jewelry
that we take in our hands
smiling with our eyes
while getting older
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and maybe one day
someone
a friend
a love
a relative
a student
a stranger
will choose a bowl in our name
and this bowl will be the keeper
the testimony
of what was the most beautiful
in our life
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