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Aesthetics

A collection of 3 posts
Wu wei (无为) — The art of not forcing
Philosophy

Wu wei (无为) — The art of not forcing

The controlled accident. Sometimes it gets mistaken for "do nothing" or "doing nothing". Because the characters 无为 (wu wei) mean nothing (wu, 无) and doing (wei, 为). So although a literal translation would be doing nothing, it doesn’t mean the same as sitting around all
04 Jun 2023 3 min read
ai-generated water colour painting of a girl dancing in a field
People

My favourite kind of people: those with joie de vivre

Here’s to the excited ones.
22 Jul 2022 3 min read
Computer generated image by craiyon.com, prompt "watercolour painting of birds flying behind clouds"
Aesthetics

Yūgen: When the birds fly behind the clouds

Learned about a new Japanese word yesterday. Yūgen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics#Yūgen] (幽玄). As with many Japanese words the translation gets blurred when it comes to English. But I understood it as the feeling you get when you watch a flock of birds fly behind a
26 Jun 2022 1 min read
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