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The Beauty of Wabi-Sabi
There are two bowls. One looks flawlessly brand new. The other is a bit deformed with cracks and stains, and yet looks clean, well-used, and maintained. Given these two options, which one we could call beautiful? The wabi-sabi aesthetics tells us the second bowl is “beautiful.” There is another anecdote. One old Zen master instructed…
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Inclusive, Exclusive Faith
Should our faith be inclusive or exclusive? It is one of the most sensitive questions in human histories, which is derived from the birth of our self-consciousness. Once we are aware of ourselves, we would inevitably ask such questions as “Who are we?” and “Who are others?” Since the birth of our self-consciousness, we have…
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