WABI - SABI RESOURCES

TERMS 

fresh/ ancient

simple / patina

beauty / ugliness

elegant / rustic

ocean / sky / earth / space

masterpiece / antique

intentional / random

lightning / snail

living / dead

melancholy / acceptance

perfect / broken

quiet / cacophony

grace / raw

upaya / duhkha

humility / passion

creation / destruction

surrender / action

destiny / revolution

reason / emotion

ordinary / everyday

DNA / chaos

absolute / relative

here / now

making / healing

LITERATURE

1 Shambala Dictionary of Buddhism & Zen, Shambala Publications

2 Concise Guide to to World Religions - Eliade/Couliano, Harper SF

3   Grassroots Zen - Besserman/Steger, Monkfish Book Publishing

4   Wabi Sabi- Art of Everyday Life - Diane Durston, Storey Publishing

5   Wabi Sabi for Artists & Poets -Leonard Kohen - Stone Bridge Press

6   Wabi Sabi-Art of Impermanence - Andrew Juniper - Tuttle Publishing

7   Artist’s Way / Spiritual Path-Julia Cameron, Tarcher/ Penguin Putnamnovitch New World Library

9   Free Play - Stephen Nachmanovitch, Tarcher / Perigee Press

10  Only Don’t Know -Seung Sahn -4 Seasons Foundation / SF

11  Taking the Path of Zen - Robert Aitken Roshi - North Point Press / SF

12  Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Shambhala Press / Berkeley

13  Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Buddhism Gary Gach, Alpha / Pearson Education

14  In Praise of Shadow - Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (In Ei Raisan), 1933

 15  The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzo, (Cha No Hon), 1906

16  Winds from Afar -  Kenji Miyazawa translated by John Bester, graphic art by Bernhard Leach, Kodansha International, 1972

17  The Japanese Tea Ceremony Cha-No-Yu - A. L. Sadler, 1933

MANGA

1  Kappa No Sanpei - Mizuki Shigeru 1968/69

FILM

1  The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama Bushiko), Shohei Imamura, 1983

2  Stalker, Andrey Tarkovsky, 1979

3  The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog, 1974

4  Death of a Tea Master (Sen Rikyu), Kei Kumai, 1989