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study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』31

31「如何ナルカ 是レ茶 陀羅尼」

           柳宗悦『心偈』

 What's tea?  It's darani.

 I ask you to "What's tea?"

The answer is "It's darani."

What is tea is in brief that it is darani.

What is darani?

It's a magic word  containing mantra  in secret.

Therefore it is the ignorance of knowledge breaking  the intelligence question of what it is at a stroke. 

People sully the things incomprehensible called darani, well what is remain?

what do you gain, if you can explain clearly?

The thing that you can judge it intellectually doesn't have depth without the bottom.

It is darani that there is no verbal solution.

If "tea" is profound, you make tea profound, you ought to find secret intention that you cannot explain but you try to explain.

This secret intention is the life of tea.

It has the character like darani.

It goes over sense that you understand it or not.

 For the thing that is in deep depth the question of what it is already doesn't have a power.

You had better watch the meaning in the tea that cannot ask  thoroughly.

 

「茶偈 」終わりました。