Wabi-sabi is not only an aesthetic, it is also a philosophy born out of a Japanese world-view based on Taoism and Zen Buddhism. In Taoist cosmology, it is believed that all things that are manifest in the world come from the great void know as the Tao, and eventually everything shall return to the Tao. [...]
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The Spirit of Wabi Sabi
Posted in Feng Shui, Sustainability, tagged aesthetics, architecture, art, art of impermanence, beauty, feng shui, fengshui, imperfection, impermanence, japanese aesthetic, life-force, natural beauty, nature, sabi, spirit, taoism, wabi, wabi-sabi, zen buddhism on July 15, 2011 | Comments Off
Wabi-sabi
Posted in Feng Shui, Sustainability, tagged aesthetics, architecture, art, beauty, feng shui, natural beauty, nature, wabi-sabi on June 15, 2011 | Comments Off
I recently learned about the Japanese aesthetic referred to as “wabi-sabi.” For many years I’ve been trying to describe this very thing with my somewhat limited English vocabulary. When I stumbled upon the term wabi-sabi in Mother Earth News, it was as if my personal view of the world had finally found a place to [...]