My tea ritual is not just about tea, it is about many things. One incorporates everything over time, as the ritual progresses. This is a clue into what the Greeks might have thought about techne. Every discipline starts with an act of focus, which gradually reveals much of what is attached to the object in focus, as the discipline advances.
Anywhere where one moves through the world, one must choose where to start, in order to progress. To influence something, one must become that thing, in a sense, or at least appeal to its nature. This influence changes material reality, and it also changes oneself.
