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🕊️ This Cup of Tea
TWO-MINUTE MONK
Ancient wisdom for modern life, every Monday.
🧘 Monk Thought
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole world earth revolves.”
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
💡 Monk Light
We rush even through peace.
We gulp our coffee, scroll through silence, multitask our calm.
Thích Nhất Hạnh invites us to stop and return to the smallest act — drinking tea.
In that single sip lies the entire world: warmth, breath, awareness, life moving quietly through you.
You don’t need to master meditation.
You only need to arrive in this moment.
The world will keep spinning — but you can slow down enough to feel it.
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) was a Vietnamese Zen master, poet and peace activist
👣 Monk Move
Today, when you eat or drink, do it slowly.
Taste fully. Breathe fully.
Say softly: “This is the axis of the world.”
And let everything else pause around it.
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