Achaan Chah, the Thai meditation master, devised a simple mind-shift that loosens our grip on the impossible notions of perfection and forever.
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When Broken Tools Reveal New Usefulness (Su Tung Po)
The other day I was reading a poem written by Su Tung Po in 1097, over a thousand years ago, and realized that it was talking about me, right now in 2015, using such perfectly wrought words, I saw the most ordinary moment differently. Here is a fragment*
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Dept of Impermanence: Ode to Broken Things
When our favorite 50’s coffee cup slipped off the counter and into the sink SLAM, right into a delicate glass for a double whammy of perfect breakage, we got an early morning reminder that this beautiful stuff we have is just that and NOT what’s essential. With Ai Weiwei and Pablo Neruda.
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mistakes and broken things can yield unexpected beauty
We know this was Maria Robledo‘s favorite cup. Broken in an instant, another kind of beauty came through (which the inimitable Maria ‘got’ and showed us). The handle looks like a perfect little sculpture of an ear. Related posts: maria robledo’s stunning instagrams will change your view a blue passionflower’s crazy inspiration freehand, no-rule flower…
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