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picture20 Feb 2010 @ 23:27

BEAUTY

Lavender roses.
Incarnate fragrance,
Priestly hue of dawn,
Spirit unfolding.



Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. They are
fragile, ephemeral, uncompromising. No one can alter their nature. True,
you can easily destroy them, but you will not gain anything; you cannot
force them to submit to your will.

Flowers arouse in us an instinct to protect them, to appreciate
them, and to shelter them. This world is too ugly, too violent. There
should be something delicate to care about. To do so is to be lifted
above the brute and to go toward the refined. When we offer flowers on
our altar, we are offering a high gift. Money is too vulgar, food too
pedestrian. Only flowers are unsullied. By offering them, we offer
purity.

The tenderness of flowers arouses mercy, compassion, and
understanding. If that beauty is delicate, so much the better. Life
itself is fleeting. We should take the time to appreciate beauty in the
midst of temporality.


365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao


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25 Feb 2010 @ 11:27 by susannahbe : Thanks
Thanks again Frank for posting these. :-)

"Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile."

"We should take the time to appreciate beauty in the
midst of temporality."

Wonderful.  

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