Buddhist criticism of beauty

[Merkabah]

@Leo Gura Just curious...has Rick Archer ever reached out for a possible interview on the BATGAP? The format seems like a fit for the type of teaching you are offering....

Edited August 28, 2020 by Merkabah

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, Merkabah said:

@Leo Gura Just curious...has Rick Archer ever reached out for a possible interview on the BATGAP? The format seems like a fit for the type of teaching you are offering....

Not that I know of, but I'm bad about checking my emails.

[Johnny5]

I think it's possible for people to suggest Leo as a guest via the website. Assuming Leo would want to. Frankly I'm not sure it's entirely compatible audience, but hey why not.

[How to be wise]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Not that I know of, but I'm bad about checking my emails.

Have you tried searching for batgap or rick archer in your mailbox.

[purerogue]

It is, or it isn't, there are many reasons why you might view something as beautiful, but the key here is that it is beautiful for you because of thous reasons. 

Edited August 29, 2020 by purerogue

[Member]

18 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

In this way the ego is never technically wrong. It's just highly partial and missing a lot of stuff.

If you examine a piece of art, you don't love the partial but the details that make up the whole. Absolute = relative. Wrong is the perception that you love only the woman in the painting, when in fact you love all the colors on the God's canvas.

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by Member

[Merkabah]

@How to be wise That's not what he really meant......

[Artsu]

On 28/08/2020 at 11:45 AM, Angelo D said:

So maybe it is that there is an intrinsic beauty in all things, but to say that one thing is more beautiful than another is something like a judgment and therefor false. 

So a pretty woman is not more beautiful, in truth, than a paperclip. 

Tell me if I understand.

Do you want to know if that's what Buddhists believe, or if it's true? Because it's not true.

Beauty is a quality of perception, the subject perceiving qualities in the object.

Perhaps the point is that appearances can be deceptive and you have to go deeper, realer, truer.