Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic, which finds beauty and truth in our simple, ordinary experience. It originated in Japan in the 16th century when the term ‘wabi’ referred to poverty, ‘sabi’ to loneliness. At that time, while hermits were living this poor and lonely life, a cultural shift happened and this simplicity of living took the place of luxury as the highest aesthetic.
The Dharma teaches that samsara has three marks, things are impermanent, insubstantial and painful. Yet transforming our experience isn’t about moving away from life, it’s about going more deeply into it. It is in the depths of conditioned existence that we find the doorways to freedom.
“The laksanas can cut like blades sometimes. While the dewdrop world, is the dewdrop world, but yet, but yet…”
