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by Sierra Truong
This month, I am in the middle of the Mindfulness Mentor Training with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield & the Banyan’s crew. So, every Wednesday’s mo...
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by Sierra Truong
This blog post is selected from one of my email newsletters in June 2024
“One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become ...
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by Sierra Truong
“The only path that can carry me home is the path of self-compassion”
~Tara Brach, Radical Compassion
When I was 27, I went through a dark period o...
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by Sierra Truong
Tea drinking ritual, despite its recent rise in the West, has a longstanding history intertwined with the evolution of Taoism and Buddhism in ...
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by Sierra Truong
Lu Yu, the Sage of Tea and author of "The classic of Tea (Cha Jing 茶經)", who lived during the Tang Dynasty, referred to tea as “the sweetest dew o...
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by Sierra Truong
Since ancient times, water has been considered as the mother of tea. Tea was first boiled in water, and tea, these days, is still being brewed in ...
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by Sierra Truong
A sitting with tea is all about listening, not just with our sense of hearing but with all of our being. When we drink tea in silence, we could hea...
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by Sierra Truong
What is Cha Dao?
茶道
Cha Dao, with Cha is Tea and Dao is The Way in Chinese, means The Way of Tea. It is a practice that is rooted in the philosoph...
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by Sierra Truong
"The Way of Tea is about embracing a fully engaged way of living in this world, while being able to let go of our personal judgment to life. The Wa...
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by Sierra Truong
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land,...
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by Sierra Truong
In January 2023, I started to host regular mindful tea ceremonies in Auckland. My intention was to share this art of tea as a meditation practice f...
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by Sierra Truong
In 2023, The Grounded Circle hosted the first "Throat Chakra Activation" workshop for women with a different approach to the usual public speaking...
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