There was a group
of elderly gentlemen in Japan who would meet to exchange news and drink tea.
One of their diversions
was to search for costly varieties of tea and create new blends that would
delight the palate.
When it was the
turn of the oldest member of the group to entertain the others, he served tea
with the greatest ceremony,
measuring out the leaves from a golden container. Everyone had the highest
praise for the tea and
demanded to know by what particular combination he had arrived at this exquisite
blend.
The old man smiled
and said, "Gentlemen, the tea that you find so delightful is the one that
is drunk by the peasants on my
farm. The finest things in life are neither costly nor hard to find."
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