The Way of Cha

Largely translated from ancient Chinese texts, for centuries buried in the banks of the Huangpu tributary of the Chang Jiang River, unwittingly discovered in 1867 by the Duchess of Gladstone's favourite Pekingese searching for a secluded place to bury the remains of the housemaid, the art of tea preparation should not only, through years of painstaking practical study, become a way of transcending the infinite in such a way as to not cause the slightest ripple in the celestial fabric of the mystical Vale of Heaven, and teach the student the indefatigable Laws of Being, by which all things material and non-material must obey, lest the universal be hurled into a spiralling abyss of darkening unrealities 

- but, should also create within the household, an aura of lightness and harmony that emanates from the teapot to the practitioner, nourishing his banjo and stiffening the resolve of his djabula beads, thus easing the transition from compliant disciple to master of the Omnipotent Pot.
So think on when you next chuck a teabag in your cracked mug, ... ignorant bastards..