To serve tea is to govern time.
The pause between pour and sip becomes a liturgy

— an accounting of presence.
Tea was never a beverage;

it is a calculus of restraint, humility,

and sovereignty of the mind.

In the archives of Shichiken,

the Tea Rite is recorded as the final discipline —
the one that teaches stillness not as retreat,

but as the highest form of dominion.