Sado: The Way of Tea

Sado, the Way of Tea, is practiced at Korinji in the Kogetsu Enshu-ryu Zen Sado tradition.

 

This school preserves principles of Buke-Sado, the tea practice of the samurai. It emphasizes seriousness, directness, integrated body usage, and simplicity, rather than tea as social display.​ At Korinji, tea is not treated as an ornament or pastime, but as a form of embodied Zen training: a way to cultivate clarity, peacefulness, and refinement in daily life, in keeping with the Zen-Ken-Sho model of training.

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The ultimate aim is the integration of tea into one’s life as a source of deep spiritual fulfillment: the realization of Chazen Ichimi, “Tea and Zen are one taste.”
 

Korinji is one of the founding supporters of the Kogetsu Enshu Tea Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the teachings of this school. Members may access online resources through the Society. For more information on Kogetsu Enshu-ryu Zen Sado and our Soke, Nyosen Nakamura Sensei, please see the official website. Please see our Calendar for classes and special events.