Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

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The Buddha, somewhat rebelliously, declared that, instead of a god or guru, the starting point of our path to awakening is our very own imperfections.

No two humans are completely alike so why should we assume that there is a specific way to do certain things or a specific way to be? He helped to transform the tea ceremony as it was previously practiced, with luxury utensils and exuberance, into a refined ritual.Traditionally, the imperfect of languages such as Latin and French is referred to as one of the tenses, although it actually encodes aspectual information in addition to tense (time reference).

It boasts a simple structure: a rough bamboo pipe, open at both ends, with five holes and a bottom end made from the root end of the bamboo stalk. However, in many cases the habitual nature of the action does not need to be explicitly marked on the verb, and the simple past is used: "We always ate dinner at six o'clock.Whatever it is — a feeling, an aesthetic, a philosophy – the connotations of wabi-sabi are layered and elaborate.