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21 Cards in this Set
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Bonsai
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The way of cultivating Japanese dwarf trees
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Chado
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The way of tea
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Shodo
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The way of calligraphy
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Origami
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The way of paper folding
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Kabuki
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The way of a particular kind of theater
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Ikebana/kado
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The art of flower arranging
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Wabi
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Elegance with a feeling of austerity
, It literally translates as “poverty.” The idea is that what is beautiful is not limited to the expensive, formal, and ostentatious (showy). Instead, it is unaffected, simple, deep, simple, natural. An example is a single, straight line in shodo, which is the most difficult to make – it is simple but is most revealing. In martial arts a single swift uncomplicated move can elegantly defeat an attacker. |
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Sabi
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Non
- dual feeling of the connection to all things Objects evoke the resonance and unevenness that time bestows, best expressed by the use of natural objects. This evokes a connection beyond the aloneness experienced as a solitary self, such as in being alone and see ing and appreciating the moonlight, or in feeling and appreciating a teacup that has passed through many hands. |
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Wabi-Sabi
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Wabi
Elegance with a feeling of austerity , It literally translates as “poverty.” The idea is that what is beautiful is not limited to the expensive, formal, and ostentatious (showy). Instead, it is unaffected, simple, deep, simple, natural. An example is a single, straight line in shodo, which is the most difficult to make – it is simple but is most revealing. In martial arts a single swift uncomplicated move can elegantly defeat an attacker. Sabi Non - dual feeling of the connection to all things Objects evoke the resonance and unevenness that time bestows, best expressed by the use of natural objects. This evokes a connection beyond the aloneness experienced as a solitary self, such as in being alone and see ing and appreciating the moonlight, or in feeling and appreciating a teacup that has passed through many hands. |
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* Mono no Aware
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The beautiful pathos (sadness) of impermanence
Relates to the fleeting, relative, transient world, as opposed to the non - dual world. Everything is momentary, but n othingness is permanent. Experiencing the fragility of life affirms its value. Examples: the moment of a dancer caught in midair, breeze fl uttering the leaves, the leaves or blossoms all pouring down. Closely related to shoshin below. To wholly see beauty, the mind must be in the moment. Beauty is now. To have this appreciation requires beginner’s mind; a mind that lets the past dissolve and is open to the creation of what is next. Beauty is beauty because it is always spontaneous and new, special because it cannot be preserved or recreated. With mono no aware beauty is seen in every fragile facet of life, in the aging of a friend or the fadin g of the flower. |
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* Shoshin
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Beginner’s mind
Each moment is fresh and different. Repetition and knowledge can lessen quality of experience, like the freshness of a first encounter, like a first kiss. No matter the past experience, a beginner’s mind rests in the moment. It dwells in the instant, able to experience what is, instead of our representation of what is with all our past prejudices. |
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* Shibumi
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Unpretentious elegance
Artlessness, balanced imbalances, elegant, fulfills the soul not through reasoning, “good taste” not too loud, like a touch of red on a scroll of black calligraphy, like a single stone artfully placed in a garden. |
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* Shizenteki
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Reverence for nature
Examp les: houses built around mountains rather than the mountains cut away, houses are built with holes in roof to allow the tree to come through rather than chopping it down. However, nature expressed in the Do, such as Bonsai, is not nature as it is, but natu re in concentrated form, using less for more, like no flowers on the way to a tearoom to height the awareness and impact of seeing a flower arrangement as one enters. |
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* Ma
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Interval or space
The right distance between people depending on the relationship and purpose. Ma is space, like the white space between calligraphy letters. It needs to be the right distance apart. |
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* Ichi-go, Ichi-e
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One encounter, one opportunity
Every second alive and moving. Examples: No touching up or redrawing allowed in shodo. Erasing is not possible. One must use skilful means to meet the present. If things do not go as planned, you must move forward with the flow of events. It is now or nothing at all. Experiencing life completely without indecisiveness or regret. If the mind remains in the now, it is impossible to regret or worry |
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* Zanshin
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A pause at the end of movement
T he instant following the action, where motion and stillness merge, where doing and not doing merge, like at the end of a marital arts move, or the final no te of a musical composition. |
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1. Harmony
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In viewing the object, all possible aspects should be in harmony. For example, the view
outside the window should be in harmony with the flower arrangement, the season should be a part of the arrangement, and in the creation of something the artist’s ki sh ould be in harmony to make the arrangement, the mind and body should be one. This creates extends the harmony to all things. |
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2. Asymmetrical Balance
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Asymmetry reflects change, implies movement, incompleteness, like in nature. It is more
natural. Symmetry is static implies permanence. For example, in Ikebana, flowers are not symmetrical in Japanese poetry there are an uneven number of lines. |
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3. Artlessness
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No affectation, natural, unadorned truth, the self is not present in the execution of
moment or t he outcome |
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4. Impermanence
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An appreciation of impermanence, the fading, the falling, the old, the transformation into
death and birth |
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5. Unity with the Universe
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The art attempts to discern then liberate the essential nature, it unites with nature
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