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

• Shambala Dictionary of Buddhism & Zen, Shambala Publications

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

• Grassroots Zen - Besserman/Steger, Monkfish Book Publishing

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

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

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

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

• Free Play - Stephen Nachmanovitch, Tarcher / Perigee Press

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MANGA

• Kappa No Sanpei - Mizuki Shigeru 1968/69

FILM

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

• Stalker, Andrey Tarkovsky, 1979

• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog, 1974

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