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Real Beauty of Imperfection

Gypsy Moth
Jun 25 |02:21

Real Beauty of Imperfection

Imperfection is real beauty
Food for imagination
Ego with humility
Life with curiosity
True soul in humanity

Ikebana is the art of Japanese flower arrangement.
There are strict rules in how and what to be arranged. I studied from a Japanese teacher from Ohara School of Ikebana. I followed the rules and learned the rules. Along the way, I have found the beauty of Ikebana is not the way the rules apply but the philosophy. I understand while I look at every flower and every leaf with respect.

When we believe that something is perfect. We stop searching for anything else; we shut our perception for any alternative. We allow ego to play significant role. Ego is good; it helps increase energy and drive. Too much of it, we lose respect to others. Ikebana teaches me to respect every twig of flower, every branch of leaves and trees. For me they represent each life experience. It is not always perfect, but full of stories to be explored. If we are open-minded enough and curious enough to learn.  Read more...

 

Discovery

Gypsy Moth
Jun 25 |02:19


When I was young my boss gave me a book he wrote. He personally wrote on the first page to me as a young executive,

“Idea makes money. Money doesn’t make idea.”

For me it remains true for myself. I see many successful people who are successful because they love what they do; because they have the passion; because they have unique ideas.

I have a friend who loves leather. His bag designs are very unique. He takes proud of it. He makes bags and he sell bags. Does selling bags make him rich? No, he doesn’t want to be rich. But he wants to enjoy his life. It makes him a good living while he has time to enjoy with his friends, spending sometimes to teach people who want to know how to make bags, buying pet foods for street dogs around his house. He loves what he is doing.  Read more...

 

The world don’t smile

Gypsy Moth
Jun 19 |05:23

 

If you don’t smile, the world will stop smiling at you. It is a give and take. People are selfish. They would try to avoid anything that will make them feel uneasy, things that will not make their day. The world is cruel. The world is not that friendly. The world will only be friendly with the person who is friendly to the world.

Take things easy as it comes. Take things easy as it goes. Take things the way it is. Just take it. We cannot control what comes to us. But we can control how to take it. Many times we take it harder than it actually comes. Why? Because it concerns with the set of value, the set of hopes, the set of aspirations that we have. We protect our territory. We guard it with fear and aggression. We just hope that we would be right at all time while we are not really bothered whether it would wrong someone; yes, as long as it is proven to us that we are right, even by ourselves, alone.  Read more...

 

In search of what

Gypsy Moth
Jun 19 |01:36

In a lifetime of a man, he is always on a search, never-ending search. He thinks he will find, but when he arrives, he starts another search again, because what he thought he was looking for is really not what he is looking for. He looks to further satisfy himself.

Is satisfaction the end of the search? Satisfaction is the feeling that one obtains what he wants; what he thinks it is worth the want; what he thinks it will make him important; what he thinks it will make him unique; what he thinks the society will praise; what he thinks fits with his frame of value; and what he thinks it will end his dissatisfaction.

I, as well, am in the same trap for search. I, many times, just keep searching, open the hole, go to the corner, walk a far distance, go anywhere, but I don’t really know what I am looking for. Sometimes it is just like trying to spend all the time I have in, what I believe, a meaningful way. I search, I search, I search, but what I have been finding is just nothing. What I have found so far is rejected by my mind. It is not what I want. In fact, I don’t know what I need.  We are trapped in the world of confusion, the wants and the needs. We want so many things in life. But when we have gotten it we know really well that it is not what we need. Some times and many times, we actually know in advance that it was not we need, but we still go there and try to find.  Read more...

 

Happiness

Gypsy Moth
Jun 19 |00:58

 

Life is to live.
We live like life is unending.

Life starts when one first breathes. Life ceases when one’s breath stops.  The gap in between is the living.

Life starts the same way. Life stops the same way. One lives so differently from one another. All are in search of how to best live.

Life starts with insecurity, being sucked out from the warm secured womb. One cries for the first breath that one can grasp. And one has no choice except to start living.

We all search for happiness in life. We all live not totally happy life. Do we really know what the happiness in life is? We hear of course people talking about happiness.
But does anyone really have true happiness?
How can we get our life to live a bit closer to the moment of happiness?
How can we learn to live with the happy moment longer?
Life is to live.
We live like life is unending.

Life starts when one first breathes. Life ceases when one’s breath stops.  The gap in between is the living.

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