'Liu Bai' is the general term for the significant blankness in Chinese arts. 'Liu' means 'leave'; 'Bai' means 'blankness'.
Luo ping
Bamboo and Rocks, Zheng Xie
There I was, joyfully considering what color to paint the new extra room, and where to place all the plants, when my son interrupted, asked me please not to spend much time and attention on it. "If we really plan to move, then I don't think we should make this place too comfortable" he said. "We'll just keep delaying and delaying." I could hear his disappointment in signing the lease again.
I pushed back a little, thinking of a year as a long time, but in the end promised not to spend on things that don't directly encourage our physical health and move us closer to stated goals: I'll buy a rug and large yoga mat, possibly a reading chair, also maybe a weighted Hula-hoop like Laura wrote about. 🙂 That's all. The room will be an office sometimes, so I'll also have to figure out the background for video calls, but we'll make do. And otherwise make way.
A year isn't a long time at all. There's an art style I've written about before, which speaks to this sensibility of leaving space, and accords beautifully with Taoist sensibilities. Click on the name of the author of the quote above for a short essay, if inspired. I almost titled this post On Not Generating Karma, because perhaps it's a similar kind of thing.
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