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Living Wabi-Sabi
by architect Tadao Ando
"If a friend visits you, make him tea, wish him welcome warmly with hospitality," Jo-o, one of Japan's earliest tea masters, wrote. "Set some flowers and make him feel comfortable." This is embodied in a common Japanese phrase, "shaza kissa," which translates, "Well, sit down and have some tea." What if we adopted that phrase and learned to say it more often-when the kids get home from school (before the rush to hockey and ballet), when our neighbor stops by, when we feel our annoyance level with our spouse starting to rise? If we just allowed ourselves to stop for a moment, sit down together, and share a cup of tea, what might that moment bring?
In learning tea, we're constantly reminded that every meeting is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion to enjoy good company, beautiful art, and a cup of tea. We never know what might happen tomorrow, or even later today. Stopping whatever it is that's so important (dishes, bill paying, work deadlines) to share conversation and a cup of tea with someone you love-or might love-is an easy opportunity to promote peace. It is from this place of peace, harmony, and fellowship that the true wabi-sabi spirit emerges.
Wabi-sabi is not a decorating "style" but rather a mind-set. There's no list of rules; we can't hang crystals or move our beds and wait for peace to befall us. Creating a wabi-sabi home is the direct result of developing our wabigokoro, or wabi mind and heart: living modestly, learning to be satisfied with life as it can be once we strip away the unnecessary, living in the moment. You see? Simple as that.
The Japanese view of life embraced a simple aesthetic that grew stronger as inessentials were eliminated and trimmed away.
-architect Tadao Ando
Living Wabi Sabi
by Taro Gold
What is Wabi-Sabi?
Even in Japanese the exact meaning of the phrase is difficult to pin down. It is first and foremost a beauty seen in aged or worn objects; objects that contain deep patterns, patina, character, or qualities of authentic individuality. "
~~Richard R. Powell
"Japanese world view is nature-based and concerned with the beauty of studied simplicity and harmony with nature."
- Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wabi-sabi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic. It is difficult to explain wabi-sabi in Western terms,
- Resurgence issue 203 - A CULTURE OF SIMPLICITY by Leonard Koren
- The sixteenth-century Japanese tea master and Zen monk, Sen no Rikyu, refined the culture of wabi-sabi.
- What Is Wabi-Sabi?
- The Japanese view of life embraced a simple aesthetic that grew stronger as inessentials were eliminatedand trimmed away. -architect Tadao Ando
Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of - North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
- Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi, and the Tea Ceremony
Aesthetics In the Western world, aesthetics is considered to be the branch of philosophy that is concerned with concepts of value and beauty as they relate to the arts. Philosophers from Plato unt
Wabi Sabi
by Semyon Kobialka
He plays a CELLO like a slap bass guitar -- which creates a completely unique sound in these recordings.
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Living Wabi-Sabi
- A wabi-sabi home in 10 easy steps
- Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of imperfect beauty that is the new trend for home decorating. Intimately tied to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi brings a subtle spiritual component into the home reminding us that home should be a sanctuary. Is wabi-sabi the new feng shui? Learn more at iVillage.com
- Awakening your wabi-sabi mind
- Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of imperfect beauty that is the new trend for home decorating. Intimately tied to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi brings a subtle spiritual component into the home reminding us that home should be a sanctuary. Is wabi-sabi the new feng shui? Learn more at iVillage.com
Wabi Sabi on Rice Paper
Wabi-Sabi Thought
"Be as a stone cast upon the water, that the positive influence of your action may extend far beyond the power of a mere pebble in the hand of a man."-- unknown
Wabi Sabi: A New Look at Japanese Design
by: Lennox Tierney
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Joan4 wrote...
Oh what a wonderful place/feeling - Wabi Sabi is the comfortable joy you felt as a child, happily singing off key, creatively coloring outside the lines, and mispronouncing words with gusto. I loved that!
JaguarJulie wrote...
I feel thankful that I ventured onto this lens at the end of a very full and tiring Saturday. Thank you for the uplifted feeling this lens brought me!
grandma_deal wrote...
I just learned of wabi-sabi at hobbything.com. For more in-depth info, I did a search here at Squidoo and found this lens. I am fascinated by the concept of wabi-sabi. Thanks for explaining it more fully. This student was ready, and thus, the teacher appeared.
TrixiJahn wrote...
I had never heard of this before! Real neat lens...and I learned something new!
Keep up the great work Pat!
Greetings from Germany
Trixi
WABI SABI TRAVEL to Hawaii
Wabi Sabi is about Nature, simplicity and beauty. Where else in the world will you find a better example than Hawaii?
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What Does Twitter Say About Wabi Sabi?
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- lithiumpearl
- http://twitpic.com/p2lkt - At Wabi Sabi in Columbia City with Sahar for dinner. Baked scallop roll!
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- CCitizens
- RT @philedry Wabi-sabi (new #ColumbiaCity sushi) looks good in this Stranger article: http://bit.ly/27d5OD Good press guys!
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- mfcm
- A Poke-oke, Kaizen, Wabi-sabi afternoon.
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- philedry
- Wabi-sabi (new Columbia City sushi) looks good in this Stranger article: http://bit.ly/27d5OD Good press guys!
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- Leftsider
- Wabi-sabi occupies roughly the same position in Japanese aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West.
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Grandma whose passion includes tea, T'ai Chi, movies, traveling, Asian cultures, & "sharing in crazy conversations with brilliant people."
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