#andrewjuniper

[gleaningatlas]

AMBIGUITY

Instead of trying to define a term, the Japanese prefer to maintain the vagueness that it represents. (…) While Asians tend to prefer intuition and emotion-based decision making, there is in the West and underlying preference for clarity and logic that goes hand in hand with the deference for science.

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“Those who do not know speak, those who know speak not.” (…) There is a tradition in Zen of maintaining ambiguity so that the mind does not get trapped focusing on the wrong thing.

  JUNIPER, Andrew. Wabi Sabi. The japanese art of impermanence, p.48

[wabi-sabi-story]

"If an object or an expression evokes a deep feeling of melancholy and a spiritual yearning, then one can say, this object is wabi-sabi."