“That ‘disappointment’ is a problem of humanity, not just in the west,” says Sunim, speaking to me from New York, where he has come to meet his spiritual teacher. His celebrity status can turn a stroll into a round of selfie requests We didn’t nail that “dream job” or, if we did, it hasn’t delivered what we dreamed it would. The book examines the many ways expectations fall short. The central message in Love for Imperfect Things is the importance of loving and accepting our imperfect selves, our imperfect world – and imperfect cake – the way a mother loves her child, no matter what. Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”) gives insight and advice we might know already, but still fail to heed. His writing is gentle and meandering, and often so simple as to seem quite obvious.
Sunim offers bite-size Buddhism – mindfulness for the modern age – mainly through short anecdotes or sparse, haiku-like verse. Translated into 30 languages, it sold in the millions.
With over 1m followers on Twitter and Facebook, his first book was a quiet call for calm in our insanely busy world. He has the kind of celebrity status that can turn a short stroll through his native Seoul, South Korea, into an embarrassing round of selfie requests.
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