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Wabi Sabi

Author : Andrew Juniper
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462901611
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Wabi Sabi written by Andrew Juniper and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed out of the aesthetic philosophy of cha-no-yu (the tea ceremony) in fifteenth-century Japan, wabi sabi is an aesthetic that finds beauty in things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, wabi sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in the things that bear the mark of this impermanence. As much a state of mind--an awareness of the things around us and an acceptance of our surroundings--as it is a design style, wabi sabi begs us to appreciate the simple beauty in life--a chipped vase, a quiet rainy day, the impermanence of all things. Presenting itself as an alternative to today's fast-paced, mass-produced, neon-lighted world, wabi sabi reminds us to slow down and take comfort in the simple, natural beauty around us. In addition to presenting the philosophy of wabi-sabi, this book includes how-to design advice--so that a transformation of body, mind, and home can emerge. Chapters include: History: The Development of Wabi Sabi Culture: Wabi Sabi and the Japanese Character Art: Defining Aesthetics Design: Creating Expressions with Wabi Sabi Materials Spirit: The Universal Spirit of Wabi Sabi

Autumn Light

Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 045149394X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Autumn Light written by Pico Iyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.

The Beauty of Impermanence

Author : Frances Curtis Barnhart
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535229692
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Impermanence written by Frances Curtis Barnhart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's (r)evolution as lived within the context of our human evolution. In this captivating memoir, Barnhart takes us on her eight-decade journey as an artist, spiritual explorer, community organizer, interfaith minister, self-styled evolutionary, mother and grandmother. The backdrop of Barnhart's story is the NYC art scene, a San Francisco Bay houseboat, the Zen temples of Japan, Maine's deep woods, a wild California canyon and the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she moves into a self-imposed exile. Along the way, the author encounters great spiritual practitioners, dubious gurus and loving guides. She takes her place as a leader on a spiritual path then jumps off it again into the dense forest of personal exploration. In the aftermath of 9/11, Barnhart finds herself studying at a seminary, where some aspects of her life fall apart and others come together. Journey with Barnhart as she heals through childhood abuse, an invisible disability, personal betrayal, divorce and unexpected love, finally arriving-as we all must-into the grand field of infinite possibility. Ultimately, she crafts her own unique version of social activism and artistic expression. Barnhart's life is a blueprint for any woman with a passion for personal and global transformation.

Daniel Ost

Author : Paul Geerts
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714870526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Ost written by Paul Geerts and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive monograph available on the internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer Daniel Ost. Daniel Ost's work in floral design gores far beyond table arrangements to bridge the gap between floral design and art. Using elements from the natural world – flowers, branches, and plants of all varieties, Ost crates large-scale, site-specific constructions that at times enter the realms of sculpture and set design. Ost has created exquisite installations for royal residences, embassies, temples, international art exhibitions, and the fashion industry. Daniel Ost presents 80 of his most important projects while accompanying essays explore their significance and the inspiration behind them. Lavish photography illustrates each project in this visually inspiring sourcebook for all creative and design professionals. Texts by Dutch author Cees Nooteboom and Japanese architect Kengo Kuma reflect on the impact of Ost's career.

The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy

Author : John Brehm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614293422
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy written by John Brehm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy received the Spirituality & Practice Book Award for 50 Best Spiritual Books in 2017 by Spirituality and Practice Website. The poems expertly gathered here offer all that one might hope for in spiritual companionship: wisdom, compassion, peacefulness, good humor, and the ability to both absorb and express the deepest human emotions of grief and joy. The book includes a short essay on “Mindful Reading” and a meditation on sound from editor John Brehm—helping readers approach the poems from an experiential, non-analytical perspective and enter into the mindful reading of poetry as a kind of meditation. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy offers a wide-ranging collection of 129 ancient and modern poems unlike any other anthology on bookshelves today. It uniquely places Buddhist poets like Han Shan, Tu Fu, Saigyo, Ryokan, Basho, Issa, and others alongside modern Western poets one would not expect to find in such a collection—poets like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Jack Gilbert, Ellen Bass, Billy Collins, and more. What these poems have in common, no matter whether they are explicitly Buddhist, is that all reflect the essential truths the Buddha articulated 2,500 years ago. The book provides an important poetic complement to the many prose books on mindfulness practice—the poems here both reflect and embody the dharma in ways that can’t be matched by other modes of writing. It’s unique features include an introduction that discusses the themes of impermanence, mindfulness, and joy and explores the relationship between them. Biographical notes place the poets in historical context and offer quotes and anecdotes to help readers learn about the poets’ lives.

Impermanence

Author : David Hodge
Publisher : Shambhala
ISBN 13 : 1559399333
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Impermanence written by David Hodge and published by Shambhala. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean that we are constantly changing? How do people confront ideas like death and change? Asked to contribute to an exhibit celebrating the work of the Dalai Lama, multimedia artists David and Hi-Jin Hodge interviewed over a hundred people about impermanence and change in their lives. Their subjects ranged from philosophers, gardeners, economists, spiritual leaders, doctors, and patients. The result was incredibly moving. The Hodges's installation consisted of a large circular arrangement of mounted iPods on which the interviews played simultaneously, each on its own screen. Now this unique record has been made available for a wider audience; it includes links to access the video so that the interviews can be viewed as they were seen in the original exhibit. Though impermanence is a central Buddhist concept, it's also a universal concern. We all grow up, change, and eventually pass into another state. Impermanence: Embracing Change provides a range of voices both profound and heartwarming that address these questions.

Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

Author : Leonard Koren
Publisher : Imperfect Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0981484603
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers written by Leonard Koren and published by Imperfect Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskrivelse: Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional.

Wabi Sabi

Author : Mark Reibstein
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316075825
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Wabi Sabi written by Mark Reibstein and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto, Japan, had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant. At last, the master Says, "That's hard to explain." And That is all she says. This unsatisfying answer sets Wabi Sabi on a journey to uncover the meaning of her name, and on the way discovers what wabi sabi is: a Japanese philosophy of seeing beauty in simplicity, the ordinary, and the imperfect. Using spare text and haiku, Mark Reibstein weaves an extraordinary story about finding real beauty in unexpected places. Caldecott Medal-winning artist Ed Young complements the lyrical text with breathtaking collages. Together, they illustrate the unique world view that is wabi sabi. A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book for 2008!

Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away

Author : Ajahn Chah
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823993
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away written by Ajahn Chah and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-03-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful Buddhist teachings, demystified—from the spiritual mentor of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield Previous books by Ajahn Chah have consisted of collections of short teachings on a wide variety of subjects. This new book focuses on the theme of impermanence, offering powerful remedies for overcoming our deep-seated fear of change, including guidance on letting go of attachments, living in the present, and taking up the practice of meditation. Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away also contains stories and anecdotes about this beloved master's life and his interactions with students, from his youth as a struggling monk to his last years when American students were coming to study with him in significant numbers. These stories help to convey Ajahn Chah's unique spirit and teaching style, allowing readers to know him both through his words and the way in which he lived his life.

The Beauty of Impermanence

Author : Marc Sheridan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320106054
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Impermanence written by Marc Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a photographic exploration of the Japanese aesthetic “Wabi-Sabi.”Nothing is perfect, nor will it last and neither can it remain unchanged.Wabi is an acceptance and glorification of a life that is simple and not materialistic. Humble and appreciated. Wabi is natural, peaceful and serene while Sabi is transience. Anything that shows its age and conveys that to the viewer. Sabi is the appeal of the broken-down barn on the side of the country road.Together, Wabi-Sabi represents an aesthetic that appreciates impermanence, incompleteness and imperfection.Wabi-Sabi is the acceptance of the natural cycle of growth, decay and death. It reveres the effect that time, weather and use have on everything.Wabi-Sabi reminds us that everything is temporary; that our bodies and the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Wabi-Sabi awareness is a way of being fully present, being attentive and appreciative of life and thus living in each moment while also accepting that it will not last.

Love in the Time of Impermanence

Author : Matthew McKay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644113996
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Impermanence written by Matthew McKay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Shows how the certainty of change and loss can support rather than diminish love • Shares practices and meditations to help love endure in the face of loss, disappointment, change, or any of the ways relationships and circumstances are altered by time • Explores how to cultivate gratitude for every expression of love we encounter, strengthen compassion for others, and recognize the power of love after life Collaborating with his late son, Jordan, psychologist Matthew McKay offers five ways to keep love alive in a world of impermanence. He explores how to see and know what we love, how to actively care for what we love, how to have compassion for the suffering of others, how to set the daily intention to act with love, and how to turn toward rather than away from the pain of impermanence. McKay shares practices and meditations to help love endure in the face of loss, disappointment, change, or any of the ways relationships and circumstances are altered by time. He examines what love is and is not, including how not to mistake yearning and neediness for love, sex for love, and attraction to beauty for love. He shows how to cultivate gratitude for every expression of love we encounter, learn to care for things we don’t like, and recognize the power of love after life--a love that reaches beyond death. He also provides concrete exercises for communicating with and channeling messages from loved ones who have crossed over. Ultimately, McKay shows that, by running from pain, we run from love. By avoiding pain, we lose the pathway to connection. Yet, by recognizing love in the heart of pain and loss, by knowing that change and impermanence are inevitable, we can navigate life with a compass pointing to love as true north, learning to love more deeply and making what we love more cherished.

Heaven and Earth Are Flowers

Author : Joan D. Stamm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718690
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Earth Are Flowers written by Joan D. Stamm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lovely meditation on ikebana - the Japanese art of flower arranging - Joan Stamm shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavor converge and indeed become thoroughly intertwined. Stamm's lush, elegant voice weaves childhood memories of her mother's joy at a just-bloomed morning glory with meditations on the symbolic importance of bamboo, of pine, of the lily. She takes us with her on her travels to Japan as she learns the essential principles of ikebana, and lets us join her as she teaches flower arranging to women in a nursing home who, though they won't recall tomorrow the rules of arrangement or even the flowers' names, nonetheless partake in the joy and love that celebrates all living things, however briefly they endure. And, when Joan shows us the natural symmetry of a blossom, we find that we too have regained our balance. Includes 16 full-color photographs of the author's original ikebana.

Exploring Wabi-Sabi

Author : Miles Sun Holding Group Limited
Publisher : Authorhouse UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Wabi-Sabi written by Miles Sun Holding Group Limited and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2024-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Japanese aesthetic concept of Wabi-Sabi-the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is intended for those who appreciate the beauty of things modest, humble, and imperfect. It aims to remind us that we are all transient beings on this planet, and that all things are in the process of returning to dust. Furthermore, it delves into the delicate balance between the pleasure gained from possessions and the pleasure derived from the freedom of letting go.

Impermanence Is Buddha-Nature

Author : Joan Stambaugh
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824812577
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Impermanence Is Buddha-Nature written by Joan Stambaugh and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D?gen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Ky?to, and the founder of the S?t? school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under the Chinese Caodong lineage there. D?gen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Sh?b?genz?, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment. The primary concept underlying D?gen's Zen practice is "oneness of practice-enlightenment". In fact, this concept is considered so fundamental to D?gen's variety of Zen-and, consequently, to the S?t? school as a whole-that it formed the basis for the work Shush?-gi, which was compiled in 1890 by Takiya Takush? of Eihei-ji and Azegami Baisen of S?ji-ji as an introductory and prescriptive abstract of D?gen's massive work, the Sh?b?genz? ("Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma"). Dogen is a profoundly original and difficult 13th century Buddhist thinker whose works have begun attracting increasing attention in the West. Admittedly difficult for even the most advanced and sophisticated scholar of Eastern thought, he is bound, initially, to present an almost insurmountable barrier to the Western mind. Yet the task of penetrating that barrier must be undertaken and, in fact, is being carried out by many gifted scholars toiling in the Dogen vineyard.

Essays in Idleness

Author : 吉田兼好
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231112550
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Idleness written by 吉田兼好 and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.

Scarlet in Blue

Author : Jennifer Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593183460
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Scarlet in Blue written by Jennifer Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2023 MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK A beautiful and gripping psychological novel about a mother and daughter who, after a lifetime on the run from a dark and dangerous past, land in a small Michigan town that may hold the key to ending their fugitive lifestyle. For Blue Lake’s entire life, she and her mother, Scarlet, have been on the run from HIM—the man who Scarlet, a talented and enigmatic painter, insists is chasing them. But now, at fifteen years old, Blue has begun to resent the nomadic life that once seemed like an adventure, increasingly unsure what to make of the phantom pursuer she’s never seen. She only yearns to settle down in one place, to live a normal life. When Scarlet and Blue arrive in the beachfront town of South Haven, Michigan, it seems that Blue’s wishes might finally come true. She makes a good friend, is falling in love for the first time, and has found a piano teacher who recognizes her budding talent. But even as Blue thrives, she cannot shake her worry about her mother, whose eccentricities and art are only becoming increasingly difficult to understand. Scarlet, meanwhile, has very different intentions for their stay in South Haven. It was no accident that she brought them there and, with the help of the psychoanalyst she’s sought out, Henry, she is determined to find a way to finally escape the shadow of her traumatic past, no matter the cost. Told through the alternating voices of Blue, Scarlet, and Henry, Scarlet in Blue is a page-turning story about the ramifications of past trauma, the way art can hold our lives together, and, most of all, the enduring bond between mother and child.

The Beauty of Impermanence Bret Culp

Author : Bret Culp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320562201
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Impermanence Bret Culp written by Bret Culp and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative and timeless fine art black and white photographs from Ireland, Italy, Canada, the United States and Cuba that reveal the eternal spirit and beauty of the land while focusing on our relationship with the eternal. Included is a fitting collection of quotations, proverbs and poetry ranging from the transient to the transcendental.“The transitory nature of existence binds everything in the material world. Careful observation reveals the beauty within each fleeting moment.” —Bret Culp