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study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』47

「絲ノ道 法ノ道」

        柳宗悦『心偈』

 

The road of  yarn    the road of teachings.

 

We saw a beautiful weaving.

plain weave and twill weave is anything is OK.

Striped clothes and cross striped clothes are either will do.

Where are the beauty of them coming from?

 

There are taste of material, profits of color tone and various factor.

What will be bringing the beauty of them?

The rule the warp and weft cross is entrusted the way of weaving.

We are blocking from selfishness of men in here.

Whatever you do, if you break the law, weaving is disordered.

Though man weave a cloth, it is only within the law.

Then the way of yarn is the way of the law.

The weaving received the law honestly, it is guaranteed the beauty. 

Mercy of salvation by faith is enormous.

It is really nice that weaving is connected deeply with the world of salvation.

Protection of the law is gracious.