Tea Chan Club 2/22—Fermented Teas!

445 Colusa Avenue,Kensington CA 94707

22 February, 2022

Description

Join your fellow tea lovers in this special gongfu tea tasting of teas fermented and semi-fermented teas: yellow tea, black tea, shou puerh. Tea Chan Club is a club for college students and alumni who love tea and would like to explore the wondrous world of tea with fellow tea enthusiasts by coming together to enjoy special, themed biweekly gongfu tea tasting events intertwined with Chan (Zen) wisdom for a full meditative tea tasting experience. Space is limited (11 spots only) so RSVP now! Must be a Tea Chan Club Member in order to participate. To become a Tea Chan Club Member, please sign up here: tinyurl.com/teachanclubsignup In addition, you must be fully vaccinated in order to attend this event. If you haven't already, please upload your COVID-19 Vaccine Record here: tinyurl.com/vaccinecardupload In this event, we will be tasting three different kinds of fermented teas: a Zhejiang Yellow Tea, a 1980s black tea, and a shou puerh. Important: If you are unable to attend the event after reserving a ticket, please notify us as soon as possible so that we can give your spot to someone else. We can be reached by email at [email protected] There is a minimum donation requirement of $15 in order to attend this event. Please make your donation here on Eventbrite at the ticket checkout. If you prefer to donate in person (cash or check), we will request your donation when you first enter the Zen Center before the event starts. Each Tea Chan Club event focuses on a different theme and type of tea (e.g. aged teas, rock teas, green teas, matcha, ancient tree teas, aromatic teas, roasted oolongs, high mountain teas, ripe puerhs, etc.). Therefore, each event will have a different starting minimum donation amount according to the type and quality of the teas being used. We use premium, high-quality, organic, artisanal, whole leaf Camellia sinensis teas from mainland China and Taiwan, with many rare teas in our collection. There is no membership fee. Universal Chan is a donation-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. These Tea Chan Club events are donation-based because they help provide a space for people to perform generosity (the donor generates a lot of blessings and merit). With your contribution, you allow other people to enjoy and participate in our classes, activities, and events such as our semesterly UC Berkeley TeaCal class, weekly Dharma talk and meditation classes, Tea Chan events, gongfu tea tastings, senior center workshops, special events, hiking meditation events, half-day Chan practice, retreats, Tea Chan Clubs, and more. Without your donations we wouldn’t be able to cover the costs of our operational expenses, rent and utilities, bills, insurance, maintenance, support for our teacher and abbot who is a monastic (it is the tradition for the lay community to support the monastic community), supplies, and other costs associated with running a Zen Center. Your support will help benefit other people and to build our community. Thank you. Universal Chan International Zen Buddhist Center is a donation-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization derived from the Chinese Chan* Tradition, founded by the Chan Monk Da Xing. Your generosity will help us to continue to serve humanity. Examples of donations: Money, stocks, property, piece of land, very good condition vehicles, property/land to use for free. You may send monetary donations through https://donorbox.org/universalchan or paypal.me/universalchan. For more information, please visit https://www.universalchan.org/support-us It operates mainly in Asia, Europe, and the USA, but we are open to be active in other countries as well. Compared to China or other Asian countries where Buddhism is a prevalent religion, the USA has only been exposed to Buddhism for less than a century. Many active Buddhist schools across the USA are of Hinayana, Vajrayana, Mahayana, Chan, Japanese Zen, and doctrinal studies. All these traditions come from different countries and consequently reflect cultural influences and inflections specific to their place of origin. Although Chinese Chan Tradition is present, we hope we can give our contribution to spread this wonderful teaching. It is a great pity that the vast majority of westerners have not been exposed to Chinese Chan, and even fewer people are able to use Chan Buddhism to improve their lives. The goal of the organization and of its affiliations is to spread the Chan Teachings to deeply benefit those interested in learning the teachings of the Buddha. In doing this, we use a modern approach rooted in ancient tradition to expose people to other aspects of ancient Chinese culture connected to this teaching. *Chan (Japanese: Zen)