Find

the essence

the choiceness

the needle

the crucial

the few

the true

In ‘The Book of Tea’ Okakura Kakuzo tells us that Laotse, the founder of Taoism, described how to find the essential by using the metaphor of a vacuum:  “The usefulness of a water pitcher dwelt in the emptiness where the water might be put, not in the form of the pitcher or the material of which it was made.”