We all have our own perception of beauty. Describe to me what you feel it is. Where have you seen it?
2007-07-01 17:42:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is what I think: Beauty is the sense we get when things achieve their potential, when they show what they truly are capable of becoming.
Like a sunset: it is the sky showing every possible hue it contains. Or a flower: it is a plant showing all the grace it has stored up inside.
That's what I think beauty is: the outward manifestation of inner truth and potential. It is when we realize that things are as they ought to be.
Peace to you.
2007-07-01 19:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by dreamed1 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have an intuitive insight which prompted my response. Seeking answers to the true nature of experience within the perceptions of others for comparison is wise and shows a marked curiosity and an interestingly different perspective.
As a Buddhist, I find beauty in all experiences. The experience of such does not demand an explanation or a meaning as the experience itself is a just a moment of recogntion and acknowledgement within a series of such moments called Life.
Each person's consciousness will condition these experiences differently as each consciousness contains different measures of these preconceived conditions. There are many similarities as well.
The experience itself then becomes a vignette, a small moment of time wherein we recognise something and make judgement.
I approach these moments however without judgement, perceiving without judgement allowing for a full expression of the moment's intrinsic nature, impermanent. Being beautiful or ugly only a momentary perception, the recognition of the perception's momentary nature an indication of the momentary nature of the very experience itself.
Beauty has no intrinsic meaning, it is either beautiful, ugly or neither beautiful nor ugly. Judgement at all being therefore meaningless.
There is feeling ascociated with these experiences. A beautiful experience carries beautiful feelings, an ugly experience carries with it ugly feelings and the same for neither ugly nor beautiful experiences carrying with them neither ugly nor beautiful feelings. Noting these feelings ascociated with the experience without judgement allows us to perceive the intrinsic truth of the very experience we are experiencing. The truth revealed...? That the experience of it whether beautiful, ugly or neither beautiful nor ugly is firstly what we see is an impermanent experience, it is also how we should perceive it, and finally that the experience itself has no intrinsic value which requires judgement.
Our perceptions then being able to perceive it the way we see it, allows us to benefit from the experience, whether it be a useful or beneficial experience or whether it is a dangerous and unwise one.
A Buddhist perspective on beauty....
2007-07-02 05:30:09 · answer #2 · answered by Gaz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like this question, but I don't know if I can capture it in words. Beauty could be a woman, a sunset, or a song. It might be a kind deed or an act of mercy. 'That's beautiful!' This could apply to many things, seen and unseen. One thing's for sure. It always moves me. That's one of the ways I recognize it. Many times I see it in the larger patterns and rhythms, and the hidden processes of life. This is when I understand the old cliche 'that's the beauty of it all'.
2007-07-02 01:08:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Beauty to me is waking up every morning with use of all my senses so that I may enjoy and worship all the beauty that I see in God's creations. To see a sunrise, or even to smell an oncoming rain shower does wonders to my soul; or to hear the sounds of a distant train amongst the silence of a calm and still evening; and to reach over to hold my lover in her arms, to touch her and to tell her over and over how much I love her. To experience all of these sensations emcompasses the definition of beauty, in a time and place that is inconsequential.
2007-07-02 03:25:25 · answer #4 · answered by gone 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most beautiful thing that I have seen recently was an enormous full rainbow on the Island of Kauai.
God is good to us.
Also brilliantly colored fish, giant sea turtles and flowers that were so gorgeous and fragrant. I was in awe of His wonderful creation.
2007-07-02 01:15:03 · answer #5 · answered by redeemed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beauty is a simple definition for me, as I believe that it lies within the soul of a person, and shines outwardly. It is something that can be seen as well as felt. This is true beauty to me, and this never ages. It only becomes a stronger beauty as time progresses.
I feel beauty and see beauty in Creator.
I feel beauty within you and I see it in you.
I feel beauty and saw beauty in my son, Koury.
I see it in my fiancee, whom I love.
I see it in the elderly couples who are still in love, when they smile at oneanother and you still see their youth.
Blessings and love,
Sassy
2007-07-02 03:10:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Beauty" is a pleasant feeling and pulsating sensation, it vibrates your senses for an emotional out burst and you feel your pulse in your temples, you feel sensation through out your body, you can hear your heart beat and beat faster, your skin tightens around your neck, you feel wet and your lips light-up, your fingers unknowingly moving in appreciation, your eyes catching every tiny impulse and you try and retry to focus but that beauty seems to be going out of focus, you store every glimpse in your mind and feel like seeing it for eternity, you feel intoxicated , every breath becoming heavier and warmer and slower but you feel cool inside, and with every breath you just get more and more of the pleasant sensation.
About your second part as to where I have seen "beauty". Yes I saw in university canteen on 8th Jun 1973 at about 5.30 in the evening before going for my evening class. I spent so much time that evening , coffee after coffee that I missed class but there after she never allowed me to mess around even on 8th Jun 2007.
2007-07-02 10:35:36 · answer #7 · answered by SATISH KUMAR N 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nature
Babies
Laughter
Sorrow
Innocence
These are beauty to me
2007-07-03 00:31:57 · answer #8 · answered by The More I learn The More I'm Uneducated 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A beautiful soul is Love, Flowers ,trees, river etc.. I see them with love in my eyes.
2007-07-02 00:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by Vannili 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Satyam Shivam Sundram..... the Truth is Shiva (pure consciousness)... and beautiful
2007-07-02 03:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by ۞Aum۞ 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋