Book: Sakura and oak
Hearing the expression
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MegaMozg 09-03-2022 / 08:48
With strictly defined movements, their beauty and regularity, the tea ceremony creates peace of mind, brings it to that state in which it responds especially sensitively to the omnipresent beauty of nature.
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MegaMozg 09-03-2022 / 08:45
To rejoice or be sad about the changes that time brings with it is inherent in all peoples. But perhaps only the Japanese managed to see the fragility as a source of beauty.
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MegaMozg 09-03-2022 / 07:48
When the Japanese say that a ceramist learns from clay, a carver learns from wood, and a chaser learns from metal, they mean exactly that. The artist already in the very choice of material is looking for exactly what would be able to respond to his idea.
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MegaMozg 09-03-2022 / 07:21
The role of the artist is not to impose his idea on the material by force, but to help the material speak and express his own feelings in the language of this material that has come to life.
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MegaMozg 09-03-2022 / 07:18
The Japanese believe that to maintain harmony is more important than to prove the correctness or to obtain benefits.
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MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 12:38
The Japanese joke that colleagues should be viewed as a relatives of his wife: like them or not - do they not go anywhere. And again destined to be in one team the entire working life, we must not forget that to spoil relations with a man is easier than to establish them.
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MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 12:38
Following the motto "everything has its place", the Japanese from time immemorial accustomed to divide women into three categories: home, for procreation - the wife; for the soul - geisha with her education; and finally to the flesh - the oiran, whose role since the ban on open prostitution took on the girls from bars and cabarets.
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MegaMozg 17-01-2017 / 20:21
Even many Japanese jokes now that to invite a geisha so stupid as to order champagne at the bar. Drunk he won't, but will make it clear to the guest that is ready for him at any costs.
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MegaMozg 17-01-2017 / 20:21
How, in fact, small bowl human pleasures and how wise are those who knows how to fill it.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 17:05
Improving is better than perfection; completion better represents life than perfection. Therefore most able to reveal the beauty that is a work in which not all the agreed to finish.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 17:05
In the West people either tell you the truth, or lying. The Japanese almost never lie, but they never come to mind to tell you the truth.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 17:05
An English pub seems to me a kind of antithesis of a French cafe. The ideal Parisian sitting at a table on the sidewalk in front of the stream of strangers. the ideal of the Londoner - to escape from the worries, feeling surrounded by familiar spin.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 16:58
The expression "he is able to live" the Japanese have their own understanding. In their view, a man who knows how to live, sees the joy of life where others pass them.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 08:26
Money in new York, brothels in Paris, but the ideals - ideals only in London.
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MegaMozg 03-01-2017 / 21:41