The Way of Beauty

Five Meditations for Spiritual Transformation

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Health & Well Being, Self Help, Meditations, New Age, Personal Transformation
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Author: François Cheng ISBN: 9781594776557
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company Publication: June 25, 2009
Imprint: Inner Traditions Language: English
Author: François Cheng
ISBN: 9781594776557
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication: June 25, 2009
Imprint: Inner Traditions
Language: English

Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred

• Looks at how beauty has the power to elevate and counterbalance the negative side of the reality facing us

• Presents the role of beauty in transforming individuals and transforming the world from a Taoist perspective

In a time of mindless violence and widespread ecological and natural catastrophes, François Cheng asks if talking about beauty may not seem incongruous even scandalous. Yet this is actually the most appropriate time to revisit a subject that was a philosophical mainstay for millennia. The power of beauty to elevate and transcend counterbalances the negative side of the reality facing us. As John Keats noted in “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” beauty is inseparable from truth:

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

The ultimate human reality pivots on these two extremes of the living universe--beauty and evil.

Cheng begins his teachings with the intrinsic sense of beauty revealed by the landscape, symbolized by the staggeringly beautiful Lu Mountain of his native province in China. His five meditations carry the reader from the understanding of beauty being in the mind of the beholder to its intimate relationship with the sacred, both from a Western and Taoist perspective. He shows that the most telling indication of the importance of beauty in human life and for individual spiritual realization can be grasped by simply imagining a world without it.

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Five meditations on the role of beauty in human life and its direct connection with the sacred

• Looks at how beauty has the power to elevate and counterbalance the negative side of the reality facing us

• Presents the role of beauty in transforming individuals and transforming the world from a Taoist perspective

In a time of mindless violence and widespread ecological and natural catastrophes, François Cheng asks if talking about beauty may not seem incongruous even scandalous. Yet this is actually the most appropriate time to revisit a subject that was a philosophical mainstay for millennia. The power of beauty to elevate and transcend counterbalances the negative side of the reality facing us. As John Keats noted in “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” beauty is inseparable from truth:

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

The ultimate human reality pivots on these two extremes of the living universe--beauty and evil.

Cheng begins his teachings with the intrinsic sense of beauty revealed by the landscape, symbolized by the staggeringly beautiful Lu Mountain of his native province in China. His five meditations carry the reader from the understanding of beauty being in the mind of the beholder to its intimate relationship with the sacred, both from a Western and Taoist perspective. He shows that the most telling indication of the importance of beauty in human life and for individual spiritual realization can be grasped by simply imagining a world without it.

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