Well, it is finally happening. This site is finally being overhauled. After many months of procrastination, I finally decided that it would be better to post what I had instead of waiting until all of the blank spots on my mental map of this site were filled.
If you have been here before, you will notice that this site has been renamed and restructured though the concept remains the same; if you are new here, welcome.
First, let us explain a bit about this new site...let's start with the name. The orginal name of the site was On The Road: not very original, but very effective in expressing the original intentions and motivations behind the genesis of this site. Here is why we called ourselves and this site, Sencha Satori:
Sencha: is a type of Japanese green tea which, when brewed properly, has a very delicate and refreshing taste and a slightly grassy aroma. The combination of the hot liquid in your belly and the ever so slight amount of caffeine contained in green tea, make you both relaxed and alert at the same time. Green tea has been used for hundreds of years by Buddhist monks in conjunction with meditation and the Japanese tea ceremony, Cha-no-yu, has taken the act of making and drinking this tea to the level of meditative Enlightenment.
Satori: is basically synonymous with Enlightement, a topic perhaps best not summarized.
Sencha Satori: is intended to express not only the potential for Enlighenment through Tea, but to remind us of the potential for Enlightenment contained within even the most apparently mundane daily activity.
There is also a Sencha Satori e-mail discussion group dedicated to discussing anything and everything that you find interesting. The content of this site will mostly be dictated by the ideas and contributions of Sencha Satori members. If you would like to join the list, just use that handy form over there on the left. If you would rather just send in a submission or a comment, that is great too; all input is most welcome!
We hope you enjoy our site!
"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be a falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields."
Henry David Thoreau from Walden
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