Stand barefoot, and listen.
A soft light, a gentle breeze. Take off your shoes, step onto the ground, and ask yourself a small, quiet question — where is your weight resting?
Japanese Wellness
Notes from a Japanese acupuncturist
— a craftsman's journal
Beauty is health.
Health is harmony of body and mind.
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A soft light, a gentle breeze. Take off your shoes, step onto the ground, and ask yourself a small, quiet question — where is your weight resting?
A line from a book I read as a child. Plato said beauty is eternal; Chanel said a woman becomes interesting at forty. Years apart, they were describing the same thing.
I was thirteen when my body first broke. For one hundred and eighty days, no one could hear my pain. Then a coach said a word I had never heard before — and everything began.
A single press of the thumb is, at the level of the cell, an injury. At the level of the whole body, it is healing. The same pressure, two opposite things at once — and the whole art lives in where the balance tips.
A person stands on two legs upon the earth. That is all the character 人 was ever meant to be — not two figures leaning, but one, standing alone. And yet a later people prayed something into it.
There are two ways to make a beautiful thing. You can take away, until nothing more can leave. Or you can add — a thousand layers — until nothing more can enter. Both arrive at the same place.
A quiet morning. Before you reach for the door, look down at the shoes by the entrance, pick one up, turn it over. The sole tells a story.
Flowers, arranged in colour. A shop window, dressed with care. A shop window catches your reflection. Which side are you carrying your bag on?
A peaceful morning. A night when the rain plays its quiet music. Through all of these, we do not forget to eat. Today, let us pause at the thing we do without thinking.
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