Wabi-Sabi, beauty in the impermanence / imperfectness

Wabi-Sabi is a Japanese concept, of finding beauty in the imperfect, incomplete and impermanence world. The roots of the concept travel deep into Buddhist traditions and philosophy. Anyone who is in search of meaning of life would have understood that the nature by default is an ever-changing impermanent flux of energy and matter. It is really not necessary to chase behind what "matter" is and what "energy" is. We can call it even a universal soup, if you do not like the name matter or energy. Whatever, you name it, it would just be a name, and the thing you point, is going to change from one form to another with the passage of time so you can never exactly point to anything before it disappear, and same is applied to yourself too.

I would call this philosophers' nightmare. Some may call it a "crisis in existence". Once, one really understands the true nature of the things, there is the question of meaning of life. The validity of all the big questions of life disappears. Any question, any problem would disappear when we consider universal time scale. As, these are just local phenomena in a specific time in a specific consciousness.

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So, how can someone make sense of the world? Otherwise, which has no meaning?

Beauty of the impermanence / imperfectness -> Wabi Sabi

This is where wabi-Sabi comes in as a philosophy. Instead of looking for perfection and permanence, this invites us to see the beauty in the imperfection. Instead of keeping perfectly square tidy house, happiness can be found in untidy, ragged edged places. If you take a walk in the nature often you would see that, naturally forests, trees and bushes are chaotic. They tend not to make patterns often. They might make "apparent" patterns to the human eye. Like fractal patterns which found in nature. Yet even these patterns do not repeat themselves infinitely. Except in mathematical concepts, infinity is not found in nature as patterns. But we can call infinity is found as a "change".

So, these smart Japanese people have found ways to find happiness in their imperfect gardens, by embracing the Wabi-Sabi nature. Even in Japanese Poetry Like Hiku and Tanka, they use uneven numbers of words, to represent the uneven nature of it. Kintsugi is a Japanese technique of repairing broken ceramic bowls with an artistic twist. Once repaired, with the markings of imperfections they see.

Often, I am confronted by perfectionists when I do not care about the wrinkles in my shirts, curls on my hair and broken English I use in my posts. Sometimes, they criticize loopholes in my arguments, the imperfect nature of my philosophy and paradoxical effects of the big picture of what I write. Do, I care about these comments and views? Absolutely not. I enjoy making art from words, like Jean-Michel Basquiat. What fun is there to life if everything is a perfect square and everyone walks in a line according to the rules of the society? So, what is imperfect in your world. Or are you worried about taking action due to perfectionism?