35937 Take Our Tea, For Example?
I START BY
DRINKING VERY SWEET
ORDINARY TEA WHILE READING
THE MORNING PAPER! The tea is little
more than an excuse for a sugar rush?
One day I realise that between the sugar
and the newspaper, I hardly taste the tea at all!
So I reduce the amount of sugar, put the paper aside, close my eyes & focus on the tea itself?
I begin to register its unique aroma and flavour! Soon I find myself experimenting with different teas, black &
green, comparing their exquisite tangs & delicate bouquets?! Within a few months, I drop the supermarket
labels & buy my tea at Harrods. I develop a particular liking for 'Panda Dung tea' from the mountains of Ya'an
in Sichuan province, made from the leaves of tea bushes fertilised by the dung of panda bears. Thàt's how,
one cup at a time, I hone my tea sensitivity & become a tea connoisseur. If in my early tea-drinking days you
had served me Panda Dung tea in a Ming Dynasty porcelain goblet, I would not have appreciated it any more
than builder's tea in a paper cup. You cannot experience something if you don't have the necessary sensitivity,
& you cannot develop your sensitivity except by undergoing a long string of experiences. So, what's true of tea
is true of all other aesthetic & ethical knowledge?! For after all we aren't born with a ready-made conscience!?
As we pass through life we hurt people & people hurt ùs, we act compassionately & others show compassion to
ùs?! If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, & these experiences become a source of valuable ethi-
cal knowledge about what is good, what is right & who I really am.
DRINKING VERY SWEET
ORDINARY TEA WHILE READING
THE MORNING PAPER! The tea is little
more than an excuse for a sugar rush?
One day I realise that between the sugar
and the newspaper, I hardly taste the tea at all!
So I reduce the amount of sugar, put the paper aside, close my eyes & focus on the tea itself?
I begin to register its unique aroma and flavour! Soon I find myself experimenting with different teas, black &
green, comparing their exquisite tangs & delicate bouquets?! Within a few months, I drop the supermarket
labels & buy my tea at Harrods. I develop a particular liking for 'Panda Dung tea' from the mountains of Ya'an
in Sichuan province, made from the leaves of tea bushes fertilised by the dung of panda bears. Thàt's how,
one cup at a time, I hone my tea sensitivity & become a tea connoisseur. If in my early tea-drinking days you
had served me Panda Dung tea in a Ming Dynasty porcelain goblet, I would not have appreciated it any more
than builder's tea in a paper cup. You cannot experience something if you don't have the necessary sensitivity,
& you cannot develop your sensitivity except by undergoing a long string of experiences. So, what's true of tea
is true of all other aesthetic & ethical knowledge?! For after all we aren't born with a ready-made conscience!?
As we pass through life we hurt people & people hurt ùs, we act compassionately & others show compassion to
ùs?! If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, & these experiences become a source of valuable ethi-
cal knowledge about what is good, what is right & who I really am.
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