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...with potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and--at its origins, at least--lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...Well, no. I mean, it's such a crap shoot, you know? You can't go out thinking that every swing is going to be a home run. It really is a sort of zen thing. You have to let the audience decide, "We love this character, we think this is funny, we want to see this again...
...with potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls - the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and - at its origins, at least - lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...Harvey is talking to people in Japan and Europe who are intent on organizing their own festivals. "I'd like to change the f______ world, and I think we've got a good shot at it," he says as a beautiful woman in a tight shirt who calls herself Zen Paradise places an ashtray at his knees. Frederick Law Olmsted never inspired that kind of devotion...
...obsessive child prodigy still calibrates the details of his life to maintain a Zen-like calm. "There are things in your life that you don't feel are quite right, so you change them," he told TIME. "And you've got to tweak them every day--because it's very easy to get out of balance and not have everything exactly as you would like to have it. It could be that you're sleeping too much or not sleeping enough. Or you're not eating enough or eating too much. You've just got to keep the right balance...