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coffee vs. tea
iamthezenmaster
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How do you guys look at coffee and tea from a fifth precept point of view?
I consider high cafaine beverages as intoxicating for body and mind such as coffee and energy drinks.
Tea (green, black, herbal) is a lot healthier (anti-oxidants) and they contains a lot less cafaine, as I see it.
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Decaf or non-caf tea is great. There are so many varieties out now, it's an adventure to explore them all.
yeah it's about cafaine.
and anti-oxidants..
and taste..coffee without milk and sugar is horrible.
tea without milk and sugar is just fine.
also look at the density of coffee and tea.
coffee is like tar. can't see through it.
Like anything, it's not the "thing" but our relationship to it that matters.
I know.
How many of the real coffeedrinkers out there are NOT able to start their day without their cafaine-shot????
life is an intoxicant = life is suffering because intoxicants create attachment = there is a way out of suffering = the teachings of the buddha.
Now that you mention it, I do remember that most OTC migraine meds have caffeine in them...I was thinking I wouldn't be able to take them due to the palpitations.
meditation is a great morning jolt too...
same as yoga
:)
lol
altough not the most enyojable.
grey murky water...or clear blue tropical ??
rich in color and texture... or clear blue tropical? Mind the sodium count!
It's a beautiful toasted brown color and you CAN see through it to some degree. As far as the ocean and other bodies of water, some of the most dangerously polluted waters can be crystal clear, while some of the safest/cleanest can actually be the color of (weak) coffee, called "cedar water" in these parts....
as for the original question regarding the 5th precept; I don't consider caffeine 'intoxicating' or leading to intoxication. I personally take the 5th precept to mean that I should always avoid intoxication and subsequent heedlessness. No more, no less.
When I drink coffee, I taste the beans, all toasty and roasted and flavorful. When I drink tea of any sort, I taste... well, I taste DIRT. Moist, rich-tasting, dirt.
To me drinking coffee is drinking the juice of the 'fruit' (really beans) it bears; while drinking tea is drinking the juice of the leaves and stalk itself, instead of the fruit.
Which kind of explains the whole 'dirt' taste, I guess...
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Maybe the 'problem' is I've never had really good, well-made top quality tea? And maybe you've never had really good, well-made top quality coffee? ;-)
I've really tried to like tea, honest. Just doesn't do it for me though. But I can understand how you don't like coffee either.