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So dear friends, welcome back to uh morning tea and meditation. Today for a long time we don't have uh time to enjoy tea and meditation together. Today I would like to invite you to enjoy uh tea and meditation this morning. Today topic is um you don't have to rush today. You don't have to rush this morning to do anything. just to be with yourself. So when you have a tea um you can enjoy your tea. Today I have uh red tea.
I have another cup for my ancestors and also I have um sweet sage uh powder incense to offer to ancestors. Today I on uh on the top of the mountain hidden mountain of near Park Monastery. It's uh very refreshing this morning. Fresh air. The bird singing. Enjoy your tea or your coffee in your head. rush to do a lot of things to prepare ourselves to go to work. to rush to the day to be very productive. So every morning I offer myself the time to enjoy tea. I practice I just I'm just here for myself. I don't have to rush It's so nice that you offer yourself time [snorts] to enjoy tea and you don't need to rush to do anything because now day is so many things happening.
Later on you always uh occupy yourself by the mind by the works by the screen. So you don't have a time to be with yourself. Every morning I reminded myself that uh I'm waking up and I'm still alive and I have uh 24 brand new hours. to live and to enjoy. So I truly happy to myself. I offer smile to myself and when I have a time to have a tea, I'm really um really demanding myself to be here. Breathing in, I am here for myself. Breathing out. I don't need to rush today. This morning we are so lucky that we have some time in the morning 15 minutes 20 minutes to have a tea. So we are really want to be here for
ourselves. Right? I am here for myself and I practice to be here 100%. With my tea, my cup of tea. My cup of tea is so wonderful. Have a clown in the tea. Have the earth in the tea. My ancestor in the tea. And I am 100% here for my tea. So when I enjoy tea in this way, I am mindful. I generate energy of mindfulness. It means the energy of truly present in the here and now. The energy that helps me to recognize I am here. Recognize I am alive.
Recognize that the earth and my ancestors the cloud the whole life present in the here and now and I am truly alive in this moment and that's why make me feel awake make me feel truly live my life truly present for my life so That's why I am here. It means I am here for my life. I am alive. I am truly alive in this moment. So when I have practicing in that way, when I enjoy moment like that, I smile in myself and I tell myself I say to myself that wow I'm so happy. I am so happy I am alive right now. This moment this is this moment is happy moment that I don't need to rush. I don't need to rush this morning.
I have 20 minutes to enjoy my tea in freedom in solidity and peace. So this morning I also invite you to do that because uh life is very precious. Today I enjoy the morning air, the bird singing. the mountain surrounding me, the space surrounding me and I feel so grateful to mother earth, grateful to the apartment that offer me this space. I feel grateful to mother earth that offer me the space to sit to enjoy my breathing. In my hearts there are so much gratitude. I begin my days with these moments without rushing. I am here for myself and these moments bring me throughout the day with a lot of gratitude, a lot of uh Every day um we would like to offer
the energy to the world. We want to offer a lot. We want to have the world. We want to change the world. We want to have all means, but every morning you may offer a little bit of that energy to yourself first so that you can begin your day with a lot of joy and peace and love so that you can bring that energy real energy in your heart to offer to the world. Every day I doing like that. I demanding myself. This morning I wake up, I smile to myself. I offer loving kindness to myself. I offer love to myself. I offer myself 20 minutes to enjoy sitting meditation to enjoy tea. So that I create a space of love, space of compassion to myself. And that make me
have a lot of energy, a lot of peace and love so that I be I am fresh throughout the day to offer the energy to the world to offer to my beloved ones to offer to the place I work in the office to my siblings to my brothers. So I invite you to do the same. You know before you offer energy of love, energy of uh peace to the world, you also take some time to offer a little of it to yourself first so that you can bring that energy in your heart. You embody that energy in your heart, in your body to offer to the world practically. Let us uh sit beautifully. You may uh continue to enjoy the tea in silence and at the same time you may uh offer yourself to close your eyes
to enjoy few minutes of sitting to be truly present for yourself. Breathing in I am here for myself. Breathing out. I don't need to rush this morning. Breathing in. I am here with my in breath. My in breath is my true friend. Breathing out. I smile to my outreath. My outreath is my true friend. I smile to my true friend. I am aware of my whole body. I am here for my body. My body is in the here and now. Being alive, healthy, truly present.
Breathing out, I offer myself, my body the energy of loving kindness, energy of joy, energy of compassion. I'm here for my body. Offer love to my body. Breathing in, I feel my heart full of love, joy and peace. In this moment I know that I am very alive, very peaceful. Breathing out. I would like to offer this love, this peace to the world to where people need it. Fill my hearts full of love and peace.
Offer this love and peace to the world. May all beings full of joy and peace. You may continue to enjoy sitting meditation [snorts] but at the same time you may continue to enjoy tea. Dear friends, thank you so much for joining us uh morning tea and meditation today. [snorts] And uh you may continue to uh enjoy your tea or coffee, continue this meditation as long as you would like. Otherwise, we would like to end the session now. Uh we would like to um wish you a happy [snorts] and joyful uh tea and meditation. Remember uh every morning you [snorts] can be here for yourself to offer your yourself 20 minutes to enjoy tea and meditation
and we don't need to rush uh before you offer energy your time and your love to the world. You may offer a little bit of it to yourself so that you have more energy to uh to enjoy your day and to um to offer peace and joy to your beloved ones. Okay. So again wish you a wonderful day and may you be healthy and happy.
