wabi-sabi

Wabi-sabi: A way of looking at the world. A seeing that is at rest in the acceptance of transience, imperfection. A kindness in appreciating beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, incomplete.

ALL our experiences are impermanent, imperfect. Sensations, perceptions, feelings, thoughts come and go. In wabi-sabi, I receive each experience as beauty. A self-replenishing fountain of beauty expressing itself through the transient experience of body, mind, world. A delicious way to fall in love with life.

A reasonable question: How can bad experiences be beautiful? But maybe another question is possible: What beauty is temporarily veiled yet seeking to emerge? What veiled beauty but my own thinking? And now that I am clear, how can I aid what seeks to emerge?

Only when I appreciate what is just as it is, perfect in imperfection, can I be so intimate with what is that I can build on its inherent potential, create something even more radiant, per chance better. For sure, it’ll be imperfect, impermanent in turn. Sheer appreciation moment to moment. Letting this be the guide to my work. So clear.

Nothing hurts when I approach life with this still, appreciative discernment.

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