Wabi - poignant nuances of sparseness
Sabi - the patina of age, carries nuances of grace and loneliness
What wabi-sabi embraces:
Fukinsei - asymmetry, unevenness
Kanso - simplicity, sparseness meaning lack of clutter, decoration, any kind of encumbrance
Kako - astringency--this has something to do with wisdom, that is, the shedding of the irrelevant encumbrances of youth and keeping only what matters
Shizen - naturalness, which is the simplicity that comes from deep understanding
Yugen - spiritual depth - looking at things that are hard and difficult with wisdom
Daisozu - an untramelled mind with no devotion to any dogma ro idealogy, no habits or formulae holding one back---a total freedom of thinking
Sei-jaku - tranquility - before doing anything, calm and still the mind. Empty it completely. Then, and only then begin on the task you have to do.
There is no one way to work towards acquiring these beautifully releasing qualities and fixing them inside of us so that we become this...we each have to find our own unique, special way. What matters is that we live wabi-sabi...become wabi-sabi...