When someone said that covers made of thin silk are inconvenient because they quickly deteriorate, Tonga remarked in response:
— Thin silk becomes especially attractive after its edges fray, and a scroll decorated with mother-of-pearl becomes especially attractive when the shells fall off.
Since then I began to consider him a man of very refined taste.
In response to the words that it is unpleasant to look at a multi-volume work if it is not collected in identical bindings, Koyu-Sozu said:
- The desire to always put things together is an activity of the ignorant. It's much better if they are separate.
This idea seems great to me. In general, no matter what, putting parts together into a single whole is not good. It’s interesting when something unfinished is left just like that - it gives the feeling that life is flowing long and calmly.
One person once said:
“Even during the construction of the imperial palace, one place was deliberately left unfinished. There are also many missing chapters and sections in the internal and external writings written by the ancient sages.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru