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A Sensitivity to Things
http://sensitivitytothings.com
The translation of the Japanese phrase “mono no aware” is “a sensitivity to things, and a gentle sadness at their passing.”
- Added on: Sep 20th, 2007
- Country: New Zealand
- Language: English
- Author: John
- Listed in: Personal Spirituality
- Tags: poetry inspiration humour Spirituality meditation writing
Recent Posts
Across the Ocean to Swim or Sink
As featured in Inspiration-Letters 17, a biographical account of a journey in search of self; a journey in search of the sunlit path. He was a bear of a man, with a bear-like, straggly grey beard, the last vestige and visage of the Rabbinical life-pa...
My Japanese Brother
A visit to a Zen monastery in Japan, meeting with a monk, more similarities than meet the eye. Hotel Mets, Ofuna, Japan. On the outskirts of Tokyo, a city that begins and then never seems to end. I am here on a whirlwind, week long visit with Sri Chi...
My Japanese Brother
A visit to a Zen monastery in Japan, meeting with a monk, more similarities than meet the eye. Hotel Mets, Ofuna, Japan. On the outskirts of Tokyo, a city that begins and then never seems to end. I am here on a whirlwind, week long visit with Sri Chi...
Free Meditation Classes in Auckland
I can’t speak highly enough of meditation. It has truly, irrecoverably changed my life. If someone told you that you could do something for only fifteen minutes a day that would make you happier, less stressed, have more energy and be more crea...
Free Meditation Classes in Auckland
I can’t speak highly enough of meditation. It has truly, irrecoverably changed my life. If someone told you that you could do something for only fifteen minutes a day that would make you happier, less stressed, have more energy and be more crea...
Close the Window
Out of the corner of my eye someone is waving to me. Out of corner of hearing, headphones on and music playing, someone is speaking to me. “Excuse me…” Seat 23A, right next to the window, United Airlines flight 870 from Sydney to San Franci...
