「With the predominance of Zen individualism in the fifteenth century, however, the old idea became imbued with a deeper significance as conceived in connection with the tea-room.
Zennism, with the Buddist theory of evanescence and its demands for the mastery of of spirit over matter, recognised the house only as a temporary refuge for the body.
The body itself was but as a hut in the wilderness, a flimsy shelter made by tring together the grasses that grew around,---when these ceased to be bound together they again became resolved into the original waste.
In the tea-room fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched roof, frailty in the slender pillars, lightness in the bamboo support, apparent carelessness in the use of common place materialals.
The eternal is to be found only in the spirit which, embodied in these simple surroundings, beutifies them with the subtle light of its refinement.」 (From the Book of Tea-the Tea-Room, pp.66-67, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan)
Now, I think you can understand the spiritual back ground of The Tea-Room.
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