# Wabi-Sabi

I don't know if I can explain correctly, but since there are many
misunderstandings I want to explain as much as I can.


## Wabi

Nobleness of being remote from the human society. The human societ
y is overly complex, full of noises, desires, and dirty things. Wa
bi is free from all of them. It is the intellectual nobleness of a
monk and a hermit. It is what you feel from reading Walden by Thor
eau. It is frugal, clean, simple, quiet, &c. I think enoughness an
d satisfying are the most important. You already have enough, and
that's the point.


## Sabi

Appreciating of decline and fall. The most important point is the
perception of eternity. If you think about eternity, you will know
that everything in the physical world declines. I will die at some
point, and this post will be forgotten. You will also die, and wil
l become the nothingness. The universe will end in the future.

Then here comes a question.

"If everything declines and will become the nothingness, why do yo
u live from the start?"

Sabi is an answer. It says decline and fall are not bad things. Th
ose make us sad and melancholic, but it appreciates that feeling.
That feeling is called 'Hakanai'. Decline and fall are what give h
uman humanity. Sure, everyone will be dead, but because of that th
e circle of life exists. Without death, we don't need a birth.

I like late summer. Because after that the sun of the year will st
art to die, and other lives will die too. The death of the sun mak
es late summer special, fall and winter melancholic, because it is
a fall of lives. What I feel from fall and winter is Sabi, and the
overall feeling of [late summer - fall - winter] is Hakanai. Howev
er, what you shouldn't forget is that fall-winter is not a bad thi
ng. It is just a part of the cycle, and makes a whole with spring-
summer. Going through the cycle is the life. Denying the cycle is
denying the life.

A cup may have scratches, but those are a history of the cup. Remo
ving the scratches means removing the history, and denying the lif
e. The cup will be broken at the end anyway. Embrace and appreciat
e the scratches.

Sabi appreciates natural body over plastic surgery too. This examp
le is very modern though. You can be more beautiful with a plastic
surgery, but you will be ugly as you get old anyway. A plastic sur
gery objectifies our body, and removes our individuality too. Do n
ot try to artificially fix. Embrace and appreciate the flaws. Whit
e hair and wrinkles are beautiful.