Japanese Tea Ceremony

Just a quick watch of a Japanese Tea Ceremony, well it's not quite a quick watch, infact it's quite long winded. Reason I've watched this is because of a brainwave I had when doing some work and thought that I might look into it to maybe spark some thoughts off.

Little snippet from www.japanese-tea-ceremony.net to begin ' The Japanese tea ceremony is called Chanoyu, Sado or simply Ocha in Japanese. It is a choreographic ritual of preparing and serving Japanese green tea, called Matcha, together with traditional Japanese sweets to balance with the bitter taste of the tea. Preparing tea in this ceremony means pouring all one's attention into the predefined movements. The whole process is not about drinking tea, but is about aesthetics, preparing a bowl of tea from one's heart. The host of the ceremony always considers the guests with every movement and gesture. Even the placement of the tea utensils is considered from the guests view point (angle), especially the main guests called the Shokyaku.'

 I just like the way they take so much care over what they are doing, every part of what they do in the ceremony is precious and thought about and mastered. There is no rushing, no mistakes, it is perfect (well to the outside viewer who doesn't know much about it). But maybe that's an interesting point, that some things that are believed to be mastered and to be done a certain way, because a group says so, always look perfect to the outsider because they wouldn't be able to tell you what that person was doing wrong? That sounds like a load of woffle, mostly because it is, but I just can't seem to put that point into words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tt7NBIVeMY&feature=player_embedded#!