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Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea - The Spiritual Path
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The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection ... was different [from Confucianism and conventional Buddhism]. The dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection was sought than upon perfection itself.
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth.