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Mushin Kintsugi: Abbiocco (Italian)

The document defines and provides the origins and meanings of several terms: Mushin refers to a state of no-mindness and openness in Japanese Zen; Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver and means embracing flaws; Nullius In Verba comes from Latin and means questioning authority rather than accepting something based on someone's status; and Abbiocco is an Italian noun referring to the sleepy feeling after a large meal.

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Mushin Kintsugi: Abbiocco (Italian)

The document defines and provides the origins and meanings of several terms: Mushin refers to a state of no-mindness and openness in Japanese Zen; Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver and means embracing flaws; Nullius In Verba comes from Latin and means questioning authority rather than accepting something based on someone's status; and Abbiocco is an Italian noun referring to the sleepy feeling after a large meal.

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Mushin

Japanese
Definition:  A Zen expression meaning the mind without mind, and is also referred to as the state of “no-
mindness”. That is, a mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything.

Kintsugi
Japanese
Definition:  The Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold,
silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.  As a philosophy, it means embracing the
flawed or imperfect.

Nullius In Verba
Latin
Definition:  Latin for “on the word of no one” or “Take nobody’s word for it”.  To question authority.  Find
out what is empirically true, not on the bias of authority.

Abbiocco (Italian)
Noun: that sleepy feeling you get after a big meal
Everyone has succumbed to drowsiness after a meal at one time or another, but only the
Italians have enshrined the phenomenon in a single word. When you wish you could take a nap after
lunch, you’re “having the abbiocco” (avere l’abbiocco).

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