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here in Japan, we have a concept called ‘yutori,’ and it is spaciousness. It’s a kind of living with spaciousness. For example, it’s leaving early enough to get somewhere so that you know you’re going to arrive early, so when you get there, you have time to look around.
Accept graciously, let go easily
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of the fleeting, changeable, and imperfect nature of the world around us. Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete.
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When I taught in Japan, I learned how to say yasashikuyawarakaku, which encompasses “slowly, softly, and gently.”
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form. As Zen master Dogen says, “Flowers fall with our attachment, and weeds spring up with our aversion.”
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wabi-sabi, the ancient Japanese wisdom of finding beauty in imperfection, in accepting the natural cycle of life, and loving things as they are.
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The word omakase comes from the Japanese word 任せる (makaseru), which means “to entrust.”