PurpleTree

Mono no aware

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3. Mono no aware

“The bittersweetness of a brief and grading moment of transcendent beauty.”

While not a word, this phrase is meant to talk about a heightened appreciation of the beauty in things and evokes a gentle sadness when it goes away, especially since nothing lasts forever."

https://www.ef.com/wwen/blog/language/14-more-japanese-words-with-no-english-translations/

 

Anybody else feeling this? The beauty of whatever (nature, memories, moments etc.) is immense. But in a way it is sad because it can’t be held or kept or even be known, it’s fleeting and ungraspable. It’s probably the separate self that wants to hold on to these "things"

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Yes, dreaming a very cool lucid dream where you are in a vortex in the sky inside a airplane, swirling like crazy and you fall from the plane to the infinite void, and sudenlly you awake and was nothing but a dream and you though you was finally death. But was a fleeting moment 

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