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What he will not say, since he assumes a Westerner cannot comprehend it, is that through these seeming physical privations he finds shelter for the inner man.
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Perhaps most important of all, we in the West are finally taking to heart what the Japanese Zen monks knew in medieval times: that domestic architecture and interiors can and should fulfill a requirement in our lives that is ordinarily served by art.

-- especially that part about rooms not being human without human presence and rooms being human only with a human inside it

suggested reading - Zen culture by Thomas Hoover

essays in idleness , kenko