Wabi-sabi van tour
Looking for the wabi-sabi aesthetic in Eddie the Van
Hello dear friends,
I thought it was time for a little wabi-sabi, and I’ve made you a wabi-sabi video tour of Eddie the Van.
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept. It’s not easy to explain. In fact, in Japan the saying goes, ‘those who know do not say, those who say do not know.’
However, after years of introducing this concept to others through courses and retreats, I’ve come to see how it’s easy to recognise wabi-sabi in our own lives. People often thank me for putting a name to something that was already important to them.
Is wabi-sabi already a part of your life?
Read more about wabi-sabi:
Wabi-sabi, an ordinary beauty
Discovering wabi-sabi
Wabi-sabi Dharma
Wabi-sabi can help us reflect on the key Buddhist teaching of the 3 lakshanas, the truth of; impermanence, insubstantiality, and unsatisfactoriness.
It helps us find beauty in this teaching, and beauty, like love, enables us to go deeper.
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
A beauty of things modest and humble.
A beauty of things unconventional.Leonard Koren
I’ve been teaching on this theme for the past 30 years and am still finding it as inspiring as ever. Join me for a 28-day online retreat, November 2023, and discover wabi-sabi for yourself.
Find all the details on the Red Ladder Studio Website. The full price is £120.00 but readers of my newsletter can get 25% off by using the code WSNOV25 before the 18th of October.
I’ve made you a little video tour, below, of Eddie the van to show how this wabi-sabi aesthetic shows up in my van life.
Material Qualities of Wabi-sabi
Let’s start with Leonard Koren’s ‘material qualities of wabi-sabi’. Taken from his book ‘Wabi-sabi, for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers’. I consider it the wabi-sabi bible.