Introduction to Sen no Rikyu's Hundred Verses (translated by Gretchen Mittwer) part 1

Dear, Tea lovers!!!

here I want to introduce a 100 Rikyu's verses, that are basically a set of rules for the way of Tea. As I started learning the way of tea (in Seoul Urasenke School, Korea), I was eager to know more about it from what the founder himself was teaching. And his poems was what I have found. Here I want to present Rikyu's verses one by one, and write my understanding of it.  

(Note: as I am copying these verses from the book "Sen Genshitsu talks about The Enjoyment of Tea" by Sen Genshitsu, Urasenke Grand Master XV, and as I don't know Japanese, while writing down the Japanese version I might make some mistakes. Mismatches with book will be marked in red. For this reason please don't print this poem as original. If there is no red marking in the poem, it might mean that I was successful in finding the correct spelling. But my future plan is to correct all the mistakes when checking it with my Japanese friends.) 

The first verse goes as follows:

1. Sono michi ni iran to omou kokoro koso

    Waga mi nagara no shisho narikere.

  その道に入らんと思ふ心こそ

  我が身ながらの師匠なりけれ

   To have the mind to enter this path is,

   Indeed, to have an inherent teacher.

My insight: 

The way I understand this verse is: having desire to study the way of Tea means that I have an inner teacher who can guide me. Now my mind goes in two direction, gives me two main thoughts. One - only the one who wants to learn can be on this road. If one doesn't want, there is no way that one would find oneself following this way. And the second thought - no matter how good teacher we might have, in the end acquired  amount and value of knowledge will depend only on us. Because the knowledge on this way can't be evaluated by any kind of test, or proven by any kind of certificate. The level of mastery is the the ultimate change of the life quality. Our internal world is in our own hands. Our perfection is our own responsibility. In the end it is me who is walking this way...