Beauty and Being in the Moment

[Michael Chui]

Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre

Yes, as strong a connection as there is between dimples and beauty

No, you showed that when green is present, then there is nausea, and inversely, that when green is not present then nausea is not present. That's a connection. Also called a correlation. And, since in your hypothetical scenario, there were only negligible external factors, the correlation was a causation.

Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre

I thought your opinion was that beauty just is, that it exists separate from the observer.

*muses* I won't say that it isn't, because I happen to like the idea of absolute beauty...

Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre

Maybe we can't define beauty itself, but perhaps one could define what one considers beautiful.

Just so. It's a matter of personal taste, undefinable. If beauty itself is different to individual people, then it is no different from taste. Some people like fat women, other people like skinny women. You cannot define women according to this.

If there is a pseudo-algorithmic way of taking any given person and defining what is beautiful to that person, then beauty can be abstracted from those individuals into a concept unto itself.

Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre

In the case of another person, perhaps. But we mix it up with objects, music, scenery. I rarely say that I love snow capped mountains. But I guess it's true.

Now you understand Assertion 1.

[Tempest]

Originally Posted by Takuin Minamoto

#1. What does it mean to be in the moment?

Being in the moment is when I am concentrating only on what I am doing now, and not thinking about the past or planning the future. My best times for this is when I am scrubbing that stubborn stain out of the carpet, chipping the chili that is stuck at the bottom of the pot after four days, or when I am trying to get a stubborn bit of gunk off my car. Fully concentrated on that task and that task alone, letting nothing interfere.

Originally Posted by Takuin Minamoto

#2. What is beauty to you?

Life and everything in it. The street is am amazing piece of work, it makes it easier to drive and goes everywhere. The cloudy and rainy days, the kids begging their mother for a treat, the trash truck, to me its all "beauty."

[AdamUK]

hi , nice blog Takuin Minamoto

#1. What does it mean to be in the moment?

I realized the other day.. being in the moment happens when i stop trying to be. If i concentrate on the moment or my breathing or any other practice to be in the moment, its like im chasing it. I don't need to do anything to be in the moment. Doing was taking the joy away.

#2. What is beauty to you?

I don't know maybe i don't see beauty enough, oh my wife of course! hehe.

[Groundless]

Did we? I thought your opinion was that beauty just is, that it exists separate from the observer. I must have got lost along the way somewhere.

Everything is exactly as it is meant to be. Everything is perfect. Everything is.

Who is really observing beauty?

Maybe we can't define beauty itself, but perhaps one could define what one considers beautiful.

So we have opinions on what is beautiful.