Pensamiento - Chapter 15

Do you know how to drink a cup of tea?

When we say that you do not know how to drink a cup of tea, we mean that you do not know how to drink it corectly. You are not drinking it mindfully. You are not experienceing the tea and the whole process of drinking it. You are not living in the present. You are not present from moment to moment as you drink the tea. You are unmindful and forgetful od the tea. Even as you drink, your mind flits here and there, preoccupied with thoughts about yesterday or tomorrow, thinking, brooding or mulling over something or other; planning or worrying; being everywhere except being in the present with the tea!
THe problem is that we are not capapble of being alove in the present moment. We tend to postpone being alive in the future, So we never live in the present. And that is a great pity because the only moment to be alive and aware is now, in the present, not in the past, which is gone, or in the future which is yet to come.