A piece of wisdom from
March 8, 2020 · Sunday
The quote
“Box breathing — four seconds in, four hold, four out, four hold — is the breath the SEALs use under fire. It works because it is the slow lever on the autonomic nervous system. Do it for two minutes; you will move from sympathetic to parasympathetic state.”
— Andrew Huberman · Mental Toughness
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
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Wabi-Sabi. The beauty of imperfect, impermanent, incomplete things.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 18.47
श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्। स्वभावनियतं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम्॥
“Better is one's own duty, though imperfect, than another's duty well performed. Performing the work fitted to one's own nature, one incurs no sin.”
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