Talk:Wabi-sabi

Praise for this article

I am a long-time Zen practitioner and student of spirituality and general, and I must say, this is an excellent description of this concept! It truly captures this subtle, beautiful, deep and spiritual feeling quite well. Well done folks! Jan 16, 2006

Plagarism deleted; contributions needed!

It appears the article in its previous form was a word-for-word copy of text in the unt.edu link under external links. I've deleted that text from the article and left it here. Sadly, I've labelled this article a stub now until more can be written under the GFDL. All I had time to contribute is an additional quoted definition and a couple of book references. --Ds13 05:44, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

removed, apparently plagarized, text... (from http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/asian/wabisabi.html)

Wabi-sabi is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

It is the beauty of things modest and humble.

It is the beauty of things unconventional.

The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen was first introduced from China around the 12th century. It emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi-sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.

All things are impermanent
All things are imperfect
All things are incomplete

Material characteristics of wabi-sabi:

suggestion of natural process
irregular
intimate
unpretentious
earthy
simple

Can someone check that the Kanji for Wabi-sabi in is correct ? I suspect that sabi should be the Kanji for rust, patina and not the one for sadness, loneliness. --82.249.64.130 20:20, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Windows 3.x emulator

Wabi, which redirects to this article was also the name to a Windows 3.x emulator by Sun Microsystems. -- Darklock 10:43, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]