Even though her family has nothing to do with tea, but she learnt the importance of consuming tea correctly in daily healthy diet based on the Chinese traditional medicine principles in Yin-Yang and 5 elements from her family when she was very young.
She entered the tea learning in Taiwan since 1985, left her root because of marriage in 1991 helped her to expand her learning from original inward-out views to 360 degree. She started to promote the authentic knowledge about tea and wisdom in Chinese tea culture in Belgium since 1995.
Tea has always been and will continue be her best teacher. In front of Nature and Tea, she remains as an innocent child, a life-time learning student.
2020 is waiting at the coener，before wishing for #peace，#harmony，#joy and #prosperity for the coming year，it is time for us to reflect for what have happened that affected not only to our life， to our health， most importantly what have our actions have affected the change to the Mother Nature.
How true for what Rajiv wrote me back in his comment
The entire way of life has to be changed if we want to co-exist with the Nature”.
It is time to increase the awareness not only ecological but alao economical issues in every consumption in daily life.
Good quality tea provides us not only fine flavors and good tastes，each of those fine quality teas should also meet our believes and supports to the eco-balanced principles to the Nature，meanwhile provides us various lovely and healthy choices for a sustainable economical lifestyle because of the possibility for multiple brewings.
Let’s don’t just talk about our worries for the Nature and fears for the future，let’s take actions to show our determination to protect the Nature and for a better peaceful and harmonous future by spreading essence of #sharing，#respect #equality #peaceandharmony through tea，through goidcquality Eco-tea.
The path of tea is more than a tea path or passion for tea, but is more about how to become a better person with clear conscioysness and capability to maintain the inner peace from a simple moment of inhale and exhale.
If one can’t even respect tea, can’t even honest to own body, what is the chance for s/he has geniune respects and honest to others?
Wellness is not just what should you do or which tea you should but is about actions on energy balance in body and mind, everyday.
How does learnings from tea can link with leadership developments? Have a cup of warm tea, lean backwards, close your eyes and walk with me ……..
Imagine the peaceful conditions you need for the health of your body ……..
Imaging the positive and well streamlined energy to facilitate positive energy in mind ………
When you can consciously relax your sub-consciousness, when you are willing to listen and respect…. how that feeling of empowerment and trust do your body and mind?
This is what Lu Xun, a famous Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic writer in the early 19th century, said about what can tea do for us:
Drinking tea helps to improve IQ, EQ and sense of happiness in life almost by 86.4%.
In other words, a critical thinker as Lu Xun also confirmed what we can profit from drinking tea based on his personal mexperience. Drinking tea not only helps to improve health conditions by serving the needs for healthy lifestyle; a tea time also means we are giving ourselves a quality moment to enjoy the tranquility and calmness with a cup of tea that helps to elaborate the level of thinking and feeling in more peaceful and joyful manners without being impulsed.
But Lu Xun left us a silent smile to the question : Where to purchase the good quality tea.
There is time from the Heaven to stimulate the growth of the Nature
There are plenty of minerals in Earth to neurite the growth of the Nature
Only those People who are wise know how to adapt and mange the Nature.
The interpretation of the meaning of universal based on the humane values by great Confucian scholar in Ming Dynasty, Chen Lai of Li Ji (禮記, 禮運篇), he wrote “Human, the heart of heaven and earth; the beginning of five elements”.
Can his interpretation be applied to understand problems that we are facing today in the world? The answer definitely is positive. When we examine the cause of those global warming chaos that we are facing today from the Nature and in the world, it all points directly to the source of decayed hearts – Greediness﹑Insanity﹑Idiotic; Jalousie﹑Hates and Desires.
If the heart beholds respect, believes in the greater good, then Buddha is in his/her heart, why bother to search from far? If we could treat the Nature and people with kindness and beholds greater love in our heart, then love is in everywhere.
If we could
open our mind to embrace universal humane values and without differentiative
minds, we all respect morals and willing to follow the boundary of laws and
orders, in this case, there will be peace in the family and society, then
eventually we can think of peace in the world.
The removal
of the devil from heart can only be dealt with by finding peace in heart, by
controlling egoism and shaping behaviors. Starting from self but not expecting
from others.
Those people say they know but can’t act based on what they know are actually not knowing.
The greatest stupidity in the world is driven by egoism and selfishness.
When we look
at the mirror everyday what and who do we see?
Before
pointing finger towards others, perhaps should first examine the self that the
other three fingers are pointing at. Therefore, before trying to correct other
people’s wrong doing, we should first examine if we also made the same
mistakes; before preaching good manners and morals, should first ask ourselves
if we have been acting according to morals with good manners, to who, when,
where and how. Still today, I remember what my late father said to me repeatedly
in my upbringing:
You can connect
with the best teacher from within if you could examine own deeds at least three
times a day.
Most flowers are gone, the grass is getting rusty dried, trees are getting bold and the wind breeze is getting colder, the re-examination of those old moral learning in this cold greyish afternoon keeps my heart warm. Even though I am more than ten thousand miles away from my birthplace for many years, but the family rules and Chinese traditional moral teachings are always crystal clear as Autumn moon in heart. People probably will forget me one day, but I will never forget who I am, and I will continuously walk on the path that I chose cheerfully.
Life can be simple and yet can be very complicated when we fail to feel the truth based on actual situations. When only want to believe or draw the judgement based on what we think but not based on reasonable facts, the chance being mislead is big.
The most critical learning in life is not what can achieve, but how well can we maintain a good balance in body, mind and energy, and how,well can we consciously sustain the inner peace in life by
Water is mother to tea. The alkalinity in water would influence the color and taste in tea.
Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto, devoted his life in the research the frequency in water. Amazingly his researches discovered how water could react to the energy to the energy wave.
The frequency that we can’t see would influence the alignment of molecular in water and that can, too, influencevthe color and taste of tea.
Those researches open opportunities to companies who provid mineral water or those who manufacture water filter system. Before hurrying into a decision making to invest in water purification system, perhaps what yoy can do is first to check with the community adminstration department to find out more anout the quality in the local drinking water.
Simple tips to remember for good water are,
of course, the first thing would be the color should be clean, clare and transparent
Dao（導）means “Guiding”, Yin （引）means “Attracting the streamline”, Qigong （氣功）means energy exercises. DaoYin Qigong has been practising by Chinese more than 3000 years according to ancient scripts and there are at least more than 3000 different forms of qigong exercise. Therefore Daoyin Qigong is not form constrainted exercise, it is a state of mind that works with the body.
〈靈樞．官能〉： 緩節柔筋而心和調者，可使導引行氣。 Those who can loosing up and enable flexibility with calmness are able to guide and streamline the energy flow
Before stretching, first learn how to relax and extend.
Before strenthening, first learn how to align, listening and respect.
Principles of breathing techniques and fundamental energy exercise in Daoyin Qigong are also applied in the most commonly known Chinese martial arts and energy exercises, such ad Taiji Chuan and different disciplines in martial arts （gongfu）.
Daoyin Qigong emphases more than relaxation as many people like from Taiji Chuan, it emphases on functional healing in body and mind.
There are some ancient forms, but each can be practised separately without form constrain.
Relaxation and healing start from breathing, strengthening muscles through yielding, stretching and twisting movements
Consciously relax the sub-consciousness, allows you to control the body and mind by seems not controlling.
Integrate the Daoist wisdom of Wu-Wei （無為，Act Not）and Wu -Wo （無我，Me Not）and Zen meditation in simple movements.
Simple breathing and relaxation exercises for everyone regardless age or physical conditions.
Daoyin Qigong helps
To warm up and relax muscles
To improve and to enhance energy flow
To leach up blocks in body that hidden the energy flow in body while relaxing body and mind
To maintain calm and assertiveness in body and mind
In Daoyin Qigong you learn
Breathing techniques
Enhance alignments, correct postures
stretching and twisting for muscles warm-up, relaxation and strengthening
Zen meditation
Healthy lifestyle begins from paying attention on every detail that aims to improve the immunity system in the attemp of preventing trouble conditions to occur.
The understanding in simplicity enlarges the capacity to manage complexity.
The advancement in internet technologies provide us a lot of convinces, but we can easily become more egoism and put more focus on the cyber space of Center-Me, in the wheel of change, unconsciously it increases a lot psychological stress because we do not having enough time for the True-Me.
There is no way to create time or gain more time than 24 hours if we can’t even give ourselves some time.
Mei Lan Hsiao started to learn and practice Daoyin Qigong in 1985 when she was diagnosed for spinal shift on low back due to previous excessive incorrect aerobic exercises. She was fortunated being accepted by Martial Arts Grand Mater of Northern Praying Mantis, Lan Shu-Ru, due to her physical pain so she focus only on the healing aspects in Daoyin Qigong with Master Lan, and later with Master Lee Qing-Han.
Mei Lan knows how to apply the wisdom learning in Tea and Daoyin Qigong in healing based on her past unpleasant experience in physical injuries, psychological burn-out and emotional chaos. Mei Lan knows not only about theoriesis behind each movement, she is a living example of how to live by practicing.
Agenda of Daoyin Qigong workshop in Antwerp:
Tianxin Zen Tea, Quellinstraat 29, Antwerp
Thursday 10:00-11:30
@the -park, Uitaslaan 84, Boekenberpark, Deurne
Sunday 11:30 – 12:30
For more infirmation, please contact Mei Lan Hsiao, Tel : +32 494 506 899, email: info@chinesetea.be
