Sayadaw U Zaw Tika - From Beauty to Truth

From beauty to truth

'Man is a creature that loves beauty.

The transition from human life to civilization began with the creation of beauty. Since the Stone Age, people have been creating beauty. Humans and beauty cannot be separated.

We make clothes beautiful. We make our homes beautiful. We decorate our furniture beautifully. We spend time making them beautiful. We spend a lot of money making them beautiful. We spend a lot of money making them beautiful. We make them as beautiful as we can.

I have never met a person who can live completely detached from beauty.

The monk, a human being in Luther, also loves beauty. He loves art, and while searching for beauty, he finds the Dhamma, and feels that it is the highest level of beauty.

The beauty of the mind is high. Truth is high and beautiful. The purer the mind, the easier it is to know the truth.

I am alive when I experience beauty.

Monk, I have been interested in literature, poetry, music, and art since I was about twelve years old. I am also interested in the beauty of nature, such as forests, mountains, and rivers. You can see this from the covers of Monk's books.

I have thought about beauty since I was a young monk. I still think about it now, but I still don't fully understand it.

What is Beauty? What is beauty?

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Beauty is an experience that can give your mind two feelings at once: joy and peace.

“If it burns your heart, if it makes you miserable, then it is not beauty. If you are miserable because of seeing something, then understand that what you are seeing is not beauty. .

Beauty is serene and exhilarating at the same time; it increases one's sense of being alive.

Beauty is peaceful. It makes you happy at the same time. It makes you happy. And it makes you feel more alive.

I feel more alive when I experience beauty. Especially when I experience the beauty of the Dhamma, I feel alive and full of energy.

Beauty gives us not only a feeling of wonder, it imparts to us at the same moment a timelessness, a repose- which is why we speak of beauty as eternal.

Beauty not only gives a sense of wonder. It also gives a sense of transcendence of time. It also gives rest to the mind. It also brings peace to the mind.

When you truly experience beauty, thoughts stop. That's why they say beauty transcends time.

When you know the truth, there is no thought. When you know the truth, there is no thinking about the past, the future, the present. Therefore, truth is something that transcends time.

Beauty is a mystery which enchants us.

Beauty is something that cannot be described in words - it has the power to move the mind.

Should we talk about beauty?

So beauty is very subtle. (Beauty) When I think about talking about beauty, I think about whether I should talk about it or not. Because people know monks as monks who practice meditation. They also see monks as monks who tell people to practice meditation. They don't know that monks are interested in art.

So when we talk about beauty, we might think, "Why is the monk who told us to meditate talking about beauty?" So I often think about not talking about this beauty anymore, not writing about it anymore. But as I get older, I feel more and more about beauty and its depth, so I often feel like talking about this beauty again.

There is a connection between beauty and meditation. When I experienced the nature and beauty of meditation, I realized, good person, that there is a connection between beauty and meditation. Meditation purifies the mind. It calms, it calms, it makes you happy. Everything that is good is beautiful. I want you to understand that.

Because of that kindness and encouragement, I try to talk about beauty, which is very difficult to talk about.

I want young people to understand.

Ethics follows beauty.

Morality comes after beauty. If you have a beautiful mind, you will have moral integrity.

So the monk was thinking, how can we talk about beauty in a way that connects it to meditation? He especially wants young people to understand.

Young people are more interested in beauty when they are younger. As they get older, they tend to become less interested in beauty.

The older the monk gets, the more interested he becomes in higher-level beauty.

Love and compassion are a kind of beauty.

Let me ask you a question. "How many people in this audience don't like beauty?"

"No, Lord." Is there anyone who hates beauty so much that they don't want to look at it? No. I myself am not a person who doesn't want to be beautiful. "No, Lord." No. Everyone who is mentally healthy values ​​beauty.

No one can do without beauty entirely.

It's completely consumed by beauty. No one can live there.

Some people with mental illness hate beauty. Especially if they are not beautiful themselves, they hate beautiful people. They hate it because of jealousy.

When it comes to monks, we don't use the word "beautiful." Monks are also beautiful, dignified, and graceful. When monks meet some monks, they are happy to see their faces. Their faces are calm and clear. Their disposition is gentle and firm. Their spirit is free. Their faces are filled with love and compassion. That is a very profound and beautiful quality.

If you see a calm and peaceful face, you will feel happy. If you see an honest and pure face, you will feel happy. It is beautiful because it can give happiness.

Being free is a kind of beauty.

When I was young, the monk didn't know much about religion. When I was young, I went to St. Patrick's School, a Christian missionary school. Just across the street from that school, there was a Mon monastery. The monastery's name was "Zwegala Monastery."

The old school is surrounded by large trees. There are big pine trees, big mango trees, big banyan trees, fig trees, coconut trees, baobab trees, banana trees, and all kinds of plants.

The big trees are very beautiful. Some of the big trees are older than the monk. Even though they are old, the monk respects the big trees in his heart. These big trees have been there since before I was born. The existence of these big trees is a kind of fulfillment for me. Without trees, my world would be incomplete. My world is incomplete.

I've heard that in some religions, people worship big trees with great respect. In my mind, as a monk, I feel a sense of respect when I see big trees that are much older than me. It's not worship. I just look at the big trees.

I feel happy. Sometimes I feel like the big trees are telling me something.

It's peaceful in that temple. It's quiet. The whole temple area is very clean. Every temple should be a place that gives peace of mind. So a holy place should be a place that is quiet. It should be a place that reflects tranquility.

The school environment should give the person who comes into the school a different feeling from the outside world. If there is no connection between the outside world and the school, there is no point in coming to the school. The outside world is complicated. The school is clear. The outside world is noisy.

The school is quiet. The outside world is not peaceful. The school is peaceful. The outside world is dominated by greed. The school is dominated by greed, contentment, love, and compassion.

One of the monks who lived at Zwegala Monastery was studying at St. Patrick's School, where the monk lived. His name was Maung Tin Shwe, and he was in the same class as the monk.

After school for a while in the afternoon, the monk would go over to the monastery and rest there, and sometimes eat there. After the monks gave him alms, he would eat there with the monk student Maung Tin Shwe. Sometimes he would study there. There were great monks in that monastery. About a hundred. The monks did math.

When I look at the monks at that school, I see that they are calm and peaceful. They are free. They are gentle, loving and compassionate.

The monk did not speak well with the monks. He did not speak well, so he did not go to the monks. After entering the school, he went to a place far away from the monks. But when the monks entered, they saw him, and when they saw him, they told the student, Maung Tin Shwe, “Feed the little Tin Shwe carefully.” So, “Pay attention to me. I saw him. I want him to eat well.” Their love

It's reflected in the way you speak and your actions. That's why there is such a thing as beautiful actions.

The calm, peaceful, and free-spirited look on their faces is something special. I feel beautiful, peaceful. I see the qualities of mind, the qualities of intelligence, that are contentment, peace, freedom, love, compassion, and gentleness, in the faces of these great monks. So, seeing the faces of great monks is a source of happiness. It is also a source of happiness. I feel beautiful because it is a source of happiness.