It's a Japanese concept, and like Feng Shui it can't be understood or acquired quickly or easily. It can take a lifetime to start to grasp its meaning.
I'm reading The Wabi-Sabi House: the Japanese art of imperfect beauty, by Robyn Griggs Lawrence.
Wabi is appreciating the aesthetic of "poverty" -not indigence, but simple, humble, spare, minimalist
living.
Sabi is growing old with grace, having the patina of age, being weathered, rusty.
Together wabi-sabi is about slowing down.
It's about the beauty of things as they are, now, and as they age, valuing imperfection and transience.
It's about honoring material things.
It is uncluttering your space.
It is clean.
It's about authenticity.
It's "removing the huge weight of material concerns
from our lives."
It's doing more with less.It's in tune with Nature.
Mostly it's about respect.
It's about being considerate of others.
"If you are always thinking of other persons,
you can understand the real wabi-sabi."
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