A piece of wisdom from
December 30, 2021 · Thursday
The quote
“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.”
— Japanese proverb · Wabi-Sabi
The concept
Wabi-Sabi
The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things.
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, not…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Wabi-Sabi. The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 6.35
असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम्। अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते॥
“Without doubt, O mighty-armed, the mind is difficult to control and restless. But by practice and by dispassion, it can be brought under control.”
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