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Today I bought a small meditating Buddha figure. The idea was to place it in a prominent position on my desk at work, to remind me to practice mindfulness.
When I got to the office, I snipped the string attaching the price label to the figure. Unfortunately, due to thinking of something entirely unrelated whilst performing this operation, I also snipped my finger.
Mindfulness? Hah!
...that swine flu is NOT wabi sabi.
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
- Hans Hofmann
"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
- Will Rogers“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
thanks to mnmlist.com for these, and to Shojin for pointing me in mnmlist's direction.
It's my birthday today. From my 9 yr old I received a box of fruit jelly sweets and a bottle of organic beer. My wife & parents clubbed together to buy me a really top-notch buckwheat hull-filled
zafu from
Blue Banyan . So - no excuse now.
A beautiful September day. Sun blasting through the atmosphere. Walking back to the rail station after work - "Do
long shadows have to do with wabi sabi?"
Answers here please...
"Working Definition: Wabi Sabi is a way of life that appreciates natural beauty, values simplicity, and nurtures an authentic self. It acknowledges that nothing lasts, nothing’s finished, nothing’s perfect, including you, but affirms that contentment is possible when you accept genuine unvarnished existence, with clarity and grace." - Richard Powell, 2003 -
see Richard's Wabi Sabi World.
"Someone once sent me a bone-shaped dog tag that you could wear on a cord around your neck. Instead of a dog's name, it said, 'Sit. Stay. Heal.'
Pema Chodron,
Taking the Leap:
The rain has started again! And the washing was out.
