ИСТОРИЯ ИДЕЙ — Ваби-саби

The old video of the tea ceremony is available somewhere on YT? Can you help me to find it, please?

I'm not into wabi so much, anymore. But I like sabi, a balance between nature and man-made. Savvy.

Reminds me of how a truck looks more like a real truck after it gets it's first scratches. And greyhounds with scars are considered more authentic. Also from what I understand, Japanese were tired of the perfection of Chinese silk and pottery, and wabi-sabi is kind of like the first hipsters making stuff look bad on purpose because it was cool.

Wavvy savvy

there is an misunderstanding here. If you know a little Chinese or other Asian culture, you would figure it out. Japanese zen still remain a great concern of desired objects or environment which follow Japanese aesthetic. It’s different from the imperfect beauty you mentioned at the beginning. In contrast, in China, both the daoism and worship of the individual subject morality was emphasized as the unique value ignoring any other perfect objects. There was a famous article in 4 century named Loushiming. Compared to this, we could get the idea that the artifact of Japanese zen is more like a perfect selection similar to what you mentioned in western classical aesthetic, the only difference is the different of beauty such as portion or color, rather than the worship of imperfect like what China did. If it’s hard to understand, you could compare the zen between Japan and China. You would find the difference between imperfectionsim and perfectionism

Wise and wonderfully presented. Thank you.

There can be beauty is assymetry and symmetry may lack beauty

A little over-confident in your reason assessment over Rikyu's seppuku....it is undecided but most likely had to do with the power dynamic between the two.

So your broken heart proves the point.

WAH be SAH be
Pronunciation is imperative when presenting a documentary style video.
Otherwise, nicely done ⛩️🎎

not pronouncing wabi-sabi in english correctly

All of this research, and you still mispronounced the word Wabi Sabi. Japanese phonetics are SUPER simple and you still messed it up. You also messed up Kyushu and Eisai's name. You couldn't have confirmed with a native speaker before making this video?

The concept of wabi sabi can be traced back to the Heart Sutra of Buddhism and the Shanti Mantra of the Vedas. The foundational Shanti mantra states the importance of peace in one's heart, peace in others, and peace within the cosmos.

It’s so rude - surely the powers that be can find another narrator.

You don't have to belittle one to show how lovely the other one is.

There is much to appreciate about Wabi -sabi for sure. Keeping things simple and appreciating the natural way of things, perceived flaws and all. I love and relate to the idea of cracks in pottery being more interesting than a perfect piece, like bubbles in glass. Same with a freshly cleaned path with some newly fallen leaves on it. Retreating is a big one also, and de-existing from chaos would be a dream.

Japanese are still perfectionists and all the Wabi-Sabi I see is pretty posh and expensive. This is bogus. The Japanese would love the homeless that have pissed their pants.

Well, isn't "rustic" just that: a love of nartural things, which are perfectly imperfect, simply because nature made them "this way," including us--the imperfect and yet very interesting bunch of people with manifold characters? More and more technocratic societies LOVE rustic bread, rustic furniture, rustic log homes, handmade clothing, etc., or rustic lifestyle altogether. So... I don't get the difference. And, yes, we DO love many Japanese handmade things (not only art and artisan creations), sometimes even more than their perfectly robot-manufactured hi-tech. The latter has its rightful place in every society (not just iPhones), but still, what an indescribable pleasure is a simple bite of rustic bread (especially of you're hungry) with nothing but a pinch of sea salt and maybe some rough village spice mix of wild “thingies” ;-) Godspeed!

Let us start with the first point of your bullshit, the west being obsessed with perfection, hate to tell your this fact but many societies are with perfection. Your just another looser who wants to make money without working, how is that for Zen. Sadly anything even Zen can be perverted.

it is amazing how intellectually superior eastern religion are compared to middle eastern ones yet they are humble

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"the most perfect practitioner of wabi sabi"...

oh god i knew i was in for a ride the second i heard you pronounce it wabby sabby

I came in contact with Wabi Sabi from japanese car culture, and adapted it when i got my current car, which was meant for the press. i rescued it, fixed it up, replaced parts, made it running, pass inspections and all that.
But its not perfect, the paint finish is flaking off on the roof, there are dents, scratches, the interior is aged, showing discoloration. but all in all, i wouldnt want it new and shiny and flashy. 23 years made it what it is - to me its beautiful.
and understanding all this, helped me with other aspects of life. not always, no, but it helped!

I love this idea. I spent my earlier years trying to improve my home and garden with not enough money to do it. One day it clicked. Enjoy that beautiful tree and stop worrying about having it trimmed into a perfect shape.

Couldn't you do a nanosecond Google search on how to pronounce wabi-sabi?????
Tf is wabby Sabby??? Yikes

Good name. It sounds like what it means.

There's an aesthetic in Santa Fe that is sort of wabi-sabi--a mixing of bright colors, expensive old things, cheap plastic things, layers of paint that are allowed to chip so the old colors show through. There's a belief that the accidental can end up being beautiful in a way that could not have been planned. It is not fussy, and doesn't need to be expensive either, but creating it demands a pretty refined aesthetic. One ends up with objects or buildings where creativity and decay combine in a pleasing way.

A complete misunderstanding of the topic....

I like this but my appreciation was amplified - not by Zen Buddhism which I practiced for several years and which was concerned with ritual and meditation rather than upliftingness - but Theravada Buddhism , the way of the Elders. Here is original Buddhism: the ideas of Dukkha, Anicca, and Anatta (look them up!) are core to understanding and releasing held beliefs patterns of thought and habits. The result may be an appreciation of Wabi and Sabi (I prefer to keep them separate) or something even more spiritual and far-reaching (in a cool way!).

This is wonderful: elegant, full of interest, deep and unpretentious. On a friendly and not so serious note, the pronunciation of some of these key Japanese concepts/names is way off; Shogun, Eisai, Edo et al can be easily learnt to pronounce properly. Jem

Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world. He died for the people that you hate, the people that are neglected daily, the people that are abusing drugs, he died for murderers, thieves, homosexuals, people that cheat on their partners, people that falsely accuse others, and more. Jesus is the only way to heaven. Anything else is a deception. With Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, He set an example for us. We now work out our salvation by changing the way that we live by imitating Christ. We are called to no longer live in sin, but fight against it for the rest of our lives with the help of Jesus

Basho was a melancholic, not a depressive - huge difference!

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I love the beauty of a leaf covered tree in summer time, giving shade to those to sit under it - however I also love the beauty of those same leaves that are withering in autumn and falling to make a crinkling, rustling carpet beneath our feet. I love the beauty of the wrinkled face because it tells so many stories of each person's life.

May all those who use this pronunciation of "wabi sabi" not mind the laughter that may ensue.

Just allowing everything to be just the way they are.

So basically they like old things right?

This a well-done video with a lot of great information in it.

I couldn't help but notice some of the pronunciation in this video could use a little bit of a tweak:
九州 (kyushu) pronounced: queue-shoo
京都 (kyoto) pronounced: key-yo-toe
千利休 (sennorikyū) pronounced: cen-noh-ri-queue
豊臣秀吉 (toyotomi hedeyoshi) pronounced: toe-yo-toe-mi he-day-yo-she
江戸 (edo) - pronounced: eh-dough

"the most perfect practitioner of Wabi-Sabi" lol

Amused at how perfectly worded some of the rich, thoughtful comments here are 🙂🙂🙂

“Dang it, Bobby! Cut the Benihana talk”
-Hank Hill

beauty of nature and it's uncertainty. this idea deeply resonates with me

LV - pure commercial rubbish in the service of turning Japanese into a herd formation, something Zen was always in opposition.

"Wabby sabby"?? Ugh! Pronunciation alert...

I am gradually working my way through all these videos. The BBC used to provide this sort of education, but its factual programmes are now largely personality driven.