Wabi Sabi Explained: The Beauty of Imperfection in Japanese Aesthetics

wabi-sabi, the ancient Japanese wisdom of finding beauty in imperfection, in accepting the natural cycle of life, and loving things as they are.

in the love of seasons and the keen awareness of life’s impermanence they still retain a deep appreciation for things wabi sabi—an appreciation impervious to a millennium of change.

Wabi-sabi differs from one individual to another but the common thing about wabi-sabi is that: ● It is a state of the heart. ● It lies in the nature of life itself. ● It is an acceptance and appreciation of the incompleteness and imperfections of our universe. ● It teaches perspective. ● It implies stillness. ● It is living in simplicity, slow and

What do Japanese artisans, engineers, Zen philosophy, and cuisine have in common? Simplicity and attention to detail. It is not a lazy simplicity but a sophisticated one that searches out new frontiers, always taking the object, the body and mind, or the cuisine to the next level, according to one’s ikigai. As Csikszentmihalyi would say, the key is