I have been reflecting on the meditative aspect of ikebana already for a while. This article covers my discoveries. If you ask your friend Wikipedia “what is ikebana?” it will say that it is an art of arranging flowers. But then it will also tell you that it is a Kado – the way of … Continue reading Ikebana as meditation
In my search for the perfect Ikebana webpages I find a lot of definitions of Ikebana created by different people. Most of them start with "Ikebana is more than just an art of flower arranging..." So how do you define this "more"? Here are a couple of versions, my favorite ones so far: "More than … Continue reading I am still looking for a perfect definition…
By way of introduction let me share with you an essay I wrote to answer a question “What does Ikebana mean to you”? It was one of the assignments towards the end of the teachers’ training program at the Sogetsu school of Ikebana. Here is what I said: "For me Ikebana is first of all … Continue reading What Ikebana means to me