Max Pamies i del Campo's Key Ideas from The Book of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura

Tea started as a medicine and ended up being a drink.

In China in VIII, tea emerged as one of the most educated entertainments.

Teaism originated in Japan and is the cult for the adoration of beauty in cotidianity, inculcating purity and harmony. It is a cult to the imperfect, it's an aim of achieving an impossible along the vast inmensity of impossibles thorughout life.

Philosophy surrounding tea is not just aesthetic, it also expresses oriental values on:

• Ethic and Religion
• Point of view of human being and nature
• Hygiene
• Economy
• Moral geometry
• Spirit of democracy