Seijaku isn’t about perfection. You’ll still get flustered. Things will still go wrong. But this quiet, rooted presence you practice — even for a few moments a day — can begin to shape your experience ...

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MIDDLEBURY — On Thursday, Jan. 29, the public and Middlebury College community are invited to the dedication of the timber ...

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Tea ceremony classes in Japan are bearing the brunt of an acute shortage of matcha as a recent global boom in green tea has led to soaring prices of the product. While the farm ministry is seeking to ...

One of Japan’s most recognizable cultural practices – the Japanese tea ceremony, known as chanoyu, or chado – is being reshaped by tourism, wellness culture and social media. Matcha, the Japanese ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tea ceremony classes in Japan are bearing the brunt of an acute shortage of matcha as a recent global boom in green tea has led to soaring prices of the product. While the farm ...

(ANALYSIS) One of Japan’s most recognizable cultural practices — the Japanese tea ceremony, known as chanoyu, or chadō — is being reshaped by tourism, wellness culture and social media. Matcha, the ...

(The Conversation) — Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.