In Japan

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making 
tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply 
examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform 
martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to
 express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through 
this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. 
But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they 
discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to 
life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of 
the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status 
of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the 
Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have 
approached the universal through the particular. 

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