Sunday, July 08, 2012

Beauty is not in 'you', 'i,'yours' or 'mine'..it is everywhere


The world is constantly changing. The only constant is change. Change is the nature of nature itself. We view the world through our perceptions. Each perception is like a photograph or a snapshot. It gives us a particular view at a particular time, from a particular position. Can we hold on to a moment? It is gone before we know it. Dynamic and flowing is beautiful. Static is dull. Static is stagnant. We try to create a static image of beauty, so that we can hold on to it. We can only hold on to an object of beauty, but can we hold on to beauty itself? Is a photograph beautiful? Is a work of art beautiful? Is a sculpture beautiful? Is a literary work beautiful? Is this blog that is writing itself beautiful? As long as the blog is being written, it is beautiful. The moment we click on 'Publish' and post, it is no longer beautiful. Why? Because beauty is in us....not in objects...not even in our own creations. They say..beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you want to be in touch with beauty, not just in objects, but in nature, in reality, override the outer eye with the inner eye. The outer eye and the mind that processes images from it creates an illusion of beauty by freezing it into a 'view.' It creates an imaginary distance and separation between the viewer and that which is viewed. We you truly see, everything is beautiful. The outer and inner lose their separation. All beauty becomes one...and it cannot be captured...just like this blog...which is mine as i am writing it, but when it is viewed by others, it becomes theirs. It is ours. There is no 'you' and there is no 'i.'

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