I'm drinking a cup of jasmine tea as i write. I love the smell of the jasmine as much as the taste of the green tea. But then i wonder why i do not like Earl Grey, which is black tea infused with bergamot (which is not bee balm but a bergamot orange).
Jasmine tea is pleasant.
Earl Grey unpleasant.
Perhaps you find Earl Grey pleasant and jasmine tea unpleasant.
No matter. We actually don't have a choice about this perception. It simply occurs. Pleasant or unpleasant. Then we have a choice whether to simply let it be--a sense perception arising and just as quickly ceasing. Or whether to believe our perception and make it into a view, an opinion.
Views. Opinions. Judgments. There be dragons. And suffering.
Much safer to simply notice pleasant and let it go.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Lovely Jasmine Tea
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