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Boketto

The art of gazing

By Andō

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” —Lin Yutang

There’s a Japanese practice of gazing, called boketto.

Boketto is a Japanese word for the act of gazing vacantly into the distance, without thinking.

There is no equivalent word for it in the English langu…

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