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  • I recently wrote about shibumi - I think grace is implicit in shibumi - in "being without the angst of becoming."

    Expression 2010

  • I recently wrote about shibumi - I think grace is implicit in shibumi - in "being without the angst of becoming."

    Integrity 2010

  • I recently wrote about shibumi - I think grace is implicit in shibumi - in "being without the angst of becoming."

    grace 2010

  • While I don't expect every teacher to attain shibumi, I sure as hell expect each to understand the difference between information and learning, the difference between a capacity to spout data and the ability to find, discern, interpret, create, and communicate insight (or as my friend Larry would put it: observation, reflection, documentation, exhibition).

    Learning 2010

  • While I don't expect every teacher to attain shibumi, I sure as hell expect each to understand the difference between information and learning, the difference between a capacity to spout data and the ability to find, discern, interpret, create, and communicate insight (or as my friend Larry would put it: observation, reflection, documentation, exhibition).

    shibumi 2009

  • While I don't expect every teacher to attain shibumi, I sure as hell expect each to understand the difference between information and learning, the difference between a capacity to spout data and the ability to find, discern, interpret, create, and communicate insight (or as my friend Larry would put it: observation, reflection, documentation, exhibition).

    10 posts from December 2009 2009

  • I recently wrote about shibumi - I think grace is implicit in shibumi - in "being without the angst of becoming."

    8 posts from January 2010 2010

  • I recently wrote about shibumi - I think grace is implicit in shibumi - in "being without the angst of becoming."

    grace 2010

  • While I don't expect every teacher to attain shibumi, I sure as hell expect each to understand the difference between information and learning, the difference between a capacity to spout data and the ability to find, discern, interpret, create, and communicate insight (or as my friend Larry would put it: observation, reflection, documentation, exhibition).

    shibumi 2009

  • In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.

    10 posts from December 2009 2009

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