Reading series · 4 essays

Chai & Zen

Attention, ritual, ordinary pleasures and the art of being here.

  1. 1Part 1

    Biscuits in Tea

    A small manifesto for attention, curiosity, chai and the dangerous few seconds between a crisp biscuit and surrender.

  2. 2Part 2

    The Most Important Cup of Tea in the World

    Zen, attention, and the radical possibility of doing one very ordinary thing completely.

  3. 3Part 3

    The Biscuit at the Bottom of the Cup

    A very small meditation on impermanence, attachment and why every biscuit eventually loses an argument with hot chai.

  4. 4Part 4

    The Mathematics of Dunking a Biscuit

    Capillary action, porous structures, competing timescales — and the quest for the perfect dunk.