Disharmony as Intelligence - Tetragrammaton

mono no aware, a wistful pathos at the transience of things, the kind of poignant sadness that deepens an experience instead of detracting from it. The kind you feel once you’re no longer grasping at the moment, thereby undermining your experience of it, but stepping more fully into it. Feeling yourself a part of it. Being it.

I think that our traditional Western way is to try to capture life in a net of words. But I think one can realize that the net of words is a part of life. The danger is not in using the words; the danger is in clinging to them, clinging to their meaning, and saying, “Oh, now I have spoken a great truth.”

A profound regard for te underlies the entire higher culture of the Far East, so much so that it has been made the basic principle of every kind of art and craft. While it is true that these arts employ what are, to us, highly difficult technical disciplines, it is always recognized that they are instrumental and secondary, and that superior work h

perhaps one could define the four tenets of wabi sabi as follows: Everything in the universe is in flux, coming from or returning to nothing. Wabi sabi art is able to embody and suggest this essential truism of impermanence. Experiencing wabi sabi expressions can engender a peaceful contemplation of the transience of all things. By appreciating thi