BEAUTY WAS – IS – AND AWAYS WILL BE!
BEAUTY WAS – IS – AND AWAYS WILL BE!
Dear Friends
Beauty is a particular perception and appreciation that is very much ‘in the eye of the beholder’. In seeing, knowing and experiencing things as beautiful, it creates a certain joy and delight that brightens the mind and lightens the heart. The more our mind is free from fear and frustration, anxiety and anger, delusion and dullness; the more we see and know the beauty of things, as things and in things. Our Meditation is a very direct way to enable this possibility.
Please enjoy my poetry about ‘Beauty’.
John B.
BEAUTY WAS – IS – AND ALWAYS WILL BE!
Beauty was a calm and moonless night;
A billion stars above blazing bright.
Beauty was the sun at dawn;
Shinning on a glowing baby, just now born.
Beauty was a great green tree;
A refuge for wild birds, flying free.
Beauty was a Winters Rain;
Bringing Natures plants back to life again.
Beauty was a Rainbow’s coloured light;
Natures perennial gift for all to see and sight.
Beauty was the sun’s warmth on a Winters Day;
Warming our bodies, wishing it always to be this way.
Beauty was a small bird’s evening song;
Such delights of Nature cannot be wrong!
Beauty was the laughter of a little girl or boy;
Such innocent play brings such joy.
Beauty was to experience Life, elemental and raw;
Being Mindfully Present to every sense door.
Beauty was the Ocean, River and Mountain view;
Appearing always different and always new.
Beauty was a piece of Paradise lost, then found;
A Peace in a Rainforest Paradise, so profound.
Beauty was the Mind Receptive and Knowing;
All experience, just-here, just-now, just-flowing.
Beauty was music mindfully well heard;
Orchestral Classical, simply preferred.
Beauty was a fragrant red or white wine;
Shared with good company, the splendour of the vine.
Beauty was two lovers sweet and ripe;
Waiting for the secret privacy of the night.
Beauty was loving friends that care;
With wise counsel and helping hands to share.
Beauty was the well woven words of a verse;
Lifting the despair of depressions curse.
Beauty was time and talk deeply shared;
No moment wasted; no hour spared.
Beauty was a day’s work well done;
With the comfort of home, now just come.
Beauty was the lessons of life well learned;
Understanding the mind, the self through wisdom well earned.
Beauty was Patience, Kindness and Care;
Noble Qualities to have and to share.
Beauty was the bloom of youth, that was and went;
If only more mindfully used and wisely spent.
Beauty was the Buddha’s touch to ground;
Asking Mother Nature to witness his Full, Final Freedom found.
Beauty was the Buddha who sat in silent stare;
Having penetrated and seen the Truths of the Universe and laid them bare.
Beauty was Wisdom’s Great Sage;
Sharing timeless Truth Teachings across the age.
Beauty is the Meditation Mind, Calm and Clear;
Transcending Clinging, Conflict, Confusion and Fear.
Beauty was the worth of Wisdom’s Light;
Helping us find our way in times of the Dark Night.
Beauty was reflecting on our Life’s Learnings to teach;
Helping other through their stress and suffering to breech.
Beauty was finding the Last-Resting-Place, our Real-Home;
No more wandering, no more where to roam.
Beauty was the perception that Mental Clarity and Mind Peace brings;
Seeing and appreciating the beauty in and of all things.
Beauty was and Beauty is; and Beauty will always be;
When with a Calm-Mind and Caring-Heart; Real-Life we Know and See.
