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The Zen monks used the arts as a vehicle for the serious business of communicating their understanding of life to their fellowmen, but within their work there was also humor, satire, and an exquisite sense of beauty.
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
A man asked a gardener why his plants grew so beautifully.
The gardener replied: “I don’t force them to grow. I remove what stops them.”
No one’s heart seemed to be changing, and though that might be the point of a boring koan, for me this koan was like an apple tree that had always been in the garden but had never flowered. Some passages in life seem plain or nondescript, yet they might make life sing, the way an anonymous brown bird hopping under the orange tree makes the garden m
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
a key aspect of wabi sabi design: that of a love for the unconventional—not simply for the sake of being unconventional but rather because unconventional art stimulates different ways of perceiving art.