About Sencha-en Lakshmi
Club's tea
When we read the various books, we understand that tea was
treated as the herb, the spiritual medicine and the hermitic
medicine in ancient time. In Japan, the same history repeated
through the process of spreading tea. Tea was said the medicine
of longevity and advertised to have efficacy for every disease.
Many people think the spiritual medicine and the hermitic medicine
were from China and Egypt. (There was the hermitic medicine in
Japan, too.) But when we investigate the various records, tea
was from India originally. And we Sencha-en took notice of Ayurveda.
It is the technique to help to be perfect health by using the
mineral, the herbs and various oil skillfully and handling the
human physiology. Ayur means life and Veda means knowledge .As
it is the profound system of knowledge and has enormous information,
human doesn't know all of them.
Now many clinics that have the knowledge of physical field in
various districts of India, Sri Lanka, USA and Europe have been
established. There is one thing that we have to keep in mind
about Ayurveda. We tend to pay attention to physical technique
and skill. But Ayurveda has many information about human consciousness
and organization of all things. Eventually it is important that
the technique of Ayurveda can control mind and body. By the way,
does our tea have any relation with them? We will tell you an
interesting story why we have to consider them, although you
may know.
Long ago, two young men who wanted to be doctors of Ayurveda
attained their season for graduation and had to take a graduation
examination. Their great master (who had all knowing ability
and enlightened finally.) summoned them, and said "Start
on a journey, and bring everything using for Rasayanas(have effect
for restoring human health of the mind and body)." After
some years,they came back from their journey. One man told about
people and things that he had met, and explained things he brought.
Another man said, "Master, I couldn't bring you anything,
because I thought everything could be used for Rasayanas."
And he didn't bring anything. Do you think which man passed the
examination? The latter passed. The man who didn't bring anything
passed in spite of being bidden to bring something. A staff of
Sencha-en asked a doctor of Ayurveda about the meaning of the
story. The answer was "If you want to obtain the desired
results, it is better to look for the key of special effect considering
subtle field as much as possible.
Because everything is composed of reciprocal action." Here
I will give a simple example. Let us suppose that human body
is a chord. Please remember a music lesson in elementary school.
We remember DO,MI,SO and SI,RE,SO of chords. We were taught that
it was harmonious when we played DO, MI, and SO at the same time
and in same strength.As the human mind and body are made from
various elements, they are similar. For example, when MI is weaker
than DO,SO,if someone plays MI together at the same time very
carefully,the harmonic sound of DO,MI,SO would be better and
lively.You can think about human mind and body in the same way
as the example of harmonic sound. That is, your mind and body
would be better that you strengthen the weak element about your
mind and body. In the same way it would be better that you weaken
the strong element (we have to search the reason why). But, how
do we find them? The staffs of Sencha-en were troubled with that,
too. Then the answer was in Jyotish. You may think Jyotish is
one of astrology. But Jyotish is a part of great system that
has information about natural organization of everything in the
universe. And it is a Veda from ancient India, such as above
-mentioned Ayurveda. How does Jyotish differ from other astrology?
In Jyotish, Natural Laws that actually move our relative world
are divided in group s according to its action and nature. And
stars and constellations correspond to each group . (Stars and
constellations are symbols.) Then you can know the present, the
past and the future from relations among these groups. That is
to say, you can understand mutual relationship of each group
of Natural Law and the influence of that on human mind ,body
and environment by observing the position of stars and constellations
seeing from the earth on the axis of time.By the way, it is useless
for common people to know a tragedy even if they know the future
correctly. Besides you may be pessimistic about your life even
though the prediction is correct. (Specialists of Jyotish usually
don't say the very bad fortune and things that are better for
one not to know.) But Jyotish differs from other astrology perfectly.
Because Jyotish has the means of solution. Jyotish has many techniques
to handle very subtle world in accordance with inclusive and
perfect understanding, such as Rasayana of Ayurveda.(As there
are many people who make a bad use of them, all of them are not
known generally.) Then we paid attention that jewels are used
for prescriptions of Jyotish. (Rings, bracelet, etc. designed
to bring jewels into touch with specified part of body.) Jewels
have effect to strengthen influence from groups of Natural Law
representing each stars. The influence from a group of Natural
Law is purely high because of crystallized structure of jewels.
It is more interesting that other things have same effect such
as jewels. For example, banana and milk have the group of Natural
Laws correspond Jupiter. And milk has also the nature of moon.
You may be at a loss for words.(This was the same with us.) Besides,
we hear that marine products have the nature of Saturn. After
all, everything contains groups of Natural Law symbolized stars,
constellations etc. used in Jyotish at the different rate. To
tell the truth, Natural Laws are widely everywhere and we also
are made from them..At last we will start to tell you a story
about tea. Finally, tea consists of laws of each groups at the
special rate, too. So they can adjust influence of each Natural
Laws by using various special quality of tea. Various teas gathers
in Japan from all over the world today, so we decided to get
them as much as possible and examine. It was clear that tea truly
had various special qualities, when we judged them on the basis
of Ayurveda's and Jyotish's point of view. As a result, we could
invent a special blending. This is the Sencha-en Lakshmi's blending.
Therefore we name the tea after stars. It may be the expert knowledge,
but there is Jyotish's way of thinking that a star has relation
to one or two constellations. (System of lordship)
As we blend using such relations of stars and constellations,
our tea can adjust a sign of our mind and body correspond to
groups of natural laws symbolized stars.