With every practice in tea, there are two parts to our development. The first is to practice the skill, repeating it over and over so that we get better. We practice pouring water from the kettle, for example, until our kettle becomes so familiar and the muscle memory so easy that we can forget about it and abandon any need to focus on this skill, letting it flow on its own without effort. But there is also a second part to our development: sensitivity. Along with our practice to develop a skill, we also learn to become more sensitive to what that skill is doing. These two aspects are the Yin and Yang of learning any skill, like learning to finger pick a guitar and then learning to hear the differences that distinct styles of picking make. Also, the sensitivity we cultivate in one tea skill will help us improve others. #gongfu #gongfutea #teapot #chadao #globateahut