On Feb 20, 12:51*am, icetea wrote:
way of tea, tea tao/dao, chadao, *confusing for a westerner to
understand and easterners to agree on
I think is a problem linking chinese tea ceremony/arts/brewing/culture
to tao/dao because in most english speakers understand of tao/dao is
one the spelling differences and two the fact that it is used to
represet tao/dao(ism), which is not a good representation of tea
studies and higher more devotion to tea to even living with tea, and
being part of one's life. *Some people today still say the japanese
tea ceremony is tea dao/tao or chado and sado, in japan they concider
chinese tea an art not a tao/dao, which also is strange becaus tao/dao
we are talking about *came from china "Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching", so
even easterners dont have it down clear, i think we all know what art
and culture is in the west and east, but "tea tao/dao" is still
debated of what it is.
Lore in the sense of -" knowledge gained through study or experience,
traditional knowledge or belief, a particular body of knowledge or
tradition"

Dao/Tao in the sense of not Daoism or Taoism but the Chinese word only
and its meaning with learning an Art with devotion and living the Art
and assimilating it into one's life.
http://tea-and-tea.blogspot.com
Lore may refer to a number of different definitions, subjects, but
strictly speaking: *something that is learned, knowledge gained
through study or experience, traditional knowledge or belief, a
particular body of knowledge or tradition
Archaic: something that is taught: *lesson
Middle English, from Old English lâr; akin to Old High German lçra
doctrine, Old English leornian to learn
Date: before 12th century
ORIGIN Old English, instruction; related to LEARN.
Not to be confused with folklore, legend, or myth. Lore may refer to
different definitions when combined with other words. Yes as with most
words there are some other accepted meanings for lo *the stories
and traditions of a particular group of people folk lore; also weather
lore, Celtic lore, and folklore.

It's weird!