When the tea bowl is cracked, the crack is not a flaw to be hidden. It is the bowl's history, and the gold that mends it is the bowl's honour.
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Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness — the cracked bowl mended with gold, the moss on old stone, the single flower past its peak. Three plain truths sit under it: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect. M…
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