Lessons are everywhere — even in something as seemingly unrelated to our lives as the traditional Japanese tearoom — we just need to stretch our imaginations a bit. A few principles from the Japanese tearoom or
Sukiya are described simply and beautifully in the famous
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo (
my copy), a small book first published over 100 years ago. The Japanese conception of Sukiya
, according to Okakura, may signify an Abode of Fancy, an Abode of Vacancy, and the Abode of the...
Published on June 15, 2010 00:38