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"I find it is challenging for Westerners to interpret Eastern concepts."

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Honoring a flaw? Seriously...? Honoring the black spot on a white dinner jacket, rather than accepting, leave alone hiding or cleaning it? Gimme a break!

It is one thing to call imperfections being human - they may even be sympathetic in certain cases (ever wondered why?). Still - most people strive for perfection, no matter what they do. Would this "wabadaba" concept be taken seriously, all plastic surgeons would cry for their Mamas to save them from a soupkitchen dinner. All folks would be proud of their big noses and would honor their 55 kg of body fat.

OK - this is the human side. Art is probably another!

Question: Any stone cutter should honor the big black spot of iron ore that suddenly appears, after hours of meticulous cutting work in/on his otherwise flawless stone? He should not throw this stone out of the window, he should not even accept the flaw, nope, he should go on his knees to honor it? Would like to meet this noble man!

Any opera-singer gets frenetic applause, when hitting the wrong tone for every moron in the audience to hear? You bet!

Classic dancers smile in joy and suddenly appear to be extremely sympathetic, when eff'ing up a Cambré?

No way - nobody is happy with any unsuspected flaw, any mistake, any black spot. Not in everyday life and certainly not in art.
"Waabsi-Baabsi" is nothing but a sugar-coating concept to live with the problem. Live with what you cannot fight!

This reminds me of all this "New Age" books with titles like:

"Much happier with Aids - 12 new techniques to ignore death!"

or

"Lost your eye-sight? See the world in a new light!"

I get back to my intro and repeat what somebody posted before me (leave alone he ignores his own statement):

"I find it is challenging for Westerners to interpret Eastern concepts."