Tag:  Beauty

• Isn't there some further step than just this observation that you talk about? August 14, 2009

  Questioner: All right. So one observes, one becomes very sensitive, very watchful, and then what? Is that all there is, just marvelling forever at perfectly commonplace things? I am sure that eve...

• Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. November 20, 2009

  Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion. There is a vast strength in being alone. It is the conditioned, programmed brain that ...

• When you lose your relationship with nature and the vast heavens, you lose your relationship with man. November 21, 2009

  The death of a tree is beautiful in its ending, unlike man's. A dead tree in the desert, stripped of its bark, polished by the sun and the wind, all its naked branches open to the heavens, is a won...

• Colour was god and death was beyond the gods. May 02, 2010

  The cold had been too severe, it had been below freezing; the hedge had been burned brown, the brown leaves had fallen off; the lawn was grey-brown, the colour of the earth; except for a few yellow...

• When desire and pleasure are not associated with love, then love is intense. September 27, 2010

  Say you are walking by yourself or with somebody and you have stopped talking. You are surrounded by nature and there is no dog barking, no noise of a car passing or even the flutter of a bird. Yo...

• It is only when you are pursuing pleasure, as you are, then everything goes wrong. September 30, 2010

  Can thought cultivate love, or can it cultivate pleasure? It can cultivate pleasure, but it cannot possibly under any circumstances cultivate love, any more than thought can cultivate humility. S...