A piece of wisdom from
August 30, 2019 · Friday
The quote
“Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.”
— Naval Ravikant · Financial Freedom
The concept
Wabi-Sabi
The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things.
Wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness, the cracked bowl mended with gold, the moss on old stone, the single flower past its peak. Three plain truths sit under it: nothing lasts, not…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Wabi-Sabi. The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.48
योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय। सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते॥
“Established in yoga, perform action, having abandoned attachment, and remaining even-minded in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called yoga.”
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