Zen Teahouse Practice - Jane Hirschfield

“Teahouse practice means that you don't explicitly talk about Zen.  It refers to leading your life as if you were an old woman who has a teahouse by the side of the road.   Nobody knows why they like to go there; they just feel good drinking her tea.  She's not known as a Buddhist teacher, she doesn't say, “This is the Zen teahouse.”  All she does is simply serve tea - but still decades of attentiveness are part of the way she does it.  No one knows about her faithful attention to practice, it's just there, in the serving of tea and the way she cleans the counters and washes the cups.”