Friday, 21 February 2025

Post No. 3,035 - A new (to me) word: Yutori

There are some wonderful words around that encapsulate more spiritual/more caring/more respectful/“better” ways of living. 

 

One is the Wiradjuri word Yindyamarra, of one of my birth father’s peoples, which I wrote about here, and also in a post about another one of those wonderful words - Ubuntu, from Ana'esia (Africa). 

The following is from that post: 

Yindyamarra is often reduced to “respect”, whereas it is more like the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism - see here, here, and here. 

Similarly Ubuntu is often simplified to “compassion”, but it encompasses a whole community-based way of thinking about wellness for all that the west has edged towards with things like universal health care, wellbeing  budgets, and consideration of UBI. 

(I also wrote about Yindyamarra here, and in this post, which also has the following links, which are well worth a look: here (ABC), here (TC), here (SBS), here (TG), here (TND), and here (ABC).) 

I also quite like the extension of Yindyamarra to Yindyamarra Winhanganya, which can be translated as “to live well in a world that is worth living well in”. 

That quite clearly and specifically extends the concept of “wellness” to include the environment. 

 

I also wish to acknowledge the Ngan’gikurunggurr  and  Ngen’giwumirri  word  Dadirri  from the Daly River region, which is often described as meaning “deep listening”, including listening within or inner listening, as well as deep listening to the land - see:   

 

And that brings me to the word which inspired this post: 

the Japanese word and concept   Yutori  

That came to me (from a friend) with the following definition/explanation: 

The conscious act of slowing down to allow us to savour the world around us. The refusal to rush. No talking. Just absorbing the world around us with no goal except to see. Spaciousness.

I can - and do - well appreciate that. 

For more on this, see: 

(Also quite interesting was   “Have you found your Ikigai?”   https://www.designingyourlife.coach/blog/2018/4/13/ikigai-raison-dtre-and-designing-your-life      )


Food for thought. 



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