Wabi Sabi
The Wisdom in Imperfection

Q: It is said there was a monk in charge of the garden of a Zen monastery in Japan who had a peculiar habit. When sweeping the fall leaves from the stone path, he would let one leaf fall to the ground just before going back inside his house. (c) Q: ... the Japanese spirit of wabi sabi, which regards th......more

"Hạnh phúc là thực tế mà chúng ta sống trừ đi những gì chúng ta khao khát và hy vọng đạt được." • Biết đủ là hạnh phúc. Wabi sabi (ngày xưa khi lần đầu bập vào khái niệm này, tui hay đọc là wasabi 🙄) không quá khó để thực hành. Triết lý này rất đơn giản, hãy tối giản mọi thứ, từ đồ vật đến tâm trí, cố......more

This is a book full of great quotes, with quick intro to many great concepts apart from wabi saving - kintsugi, naturalism, ichigo ichie, danshari and Zen. Beautiful book, can do with more depth. “Accepting our imperfections is not an excuse for sliding into conformism and standing still. We must tak......more

This book was great! It's the type of self-help book I like—the kind that teaches you something new while also making you pause and think. The concept of Wabi Sabi is fascinating, and I would love to learn more about it. The structure of the book was well thought out, featuring meditation prompts and......more

I'm surprised that this book has just 100 ratings because it's a fantastic intro to this sort of Eastern philosophy! It doesn't go super deep into the various aspects of Wabi Sabi and Zen Buddhism, but that was never its aim (in fact, it explicitly says so right in the foreword). But still, there is......more