Beauty
I am a junky for beauty. I can't get enough. Whenever I confront beauty I am awed... riveted by its presence. Beauty comes in so many forms that it is difficult for any observer to miss. Beauty may excite our sense of seeing, our sense of smell, of touch... our sense of hearing and even taste. We may never know until bip!, one of our senses or more is activated and off we go..! The beauty of a woman certainly is a powerful intoxicant. Science has done exhaustive studies on what beauty in an individual is. Through this research they have found that there are similarities all across the globe as to what man is attracted to in a woman - the hourglass figure, a little fat in the ass and breast areas. These are universal attractants for the male. These traits are natures way of subconsciously telling the male that this body-type is capable of carrying a child, able to provide it nourishment, to have the strength to have a healthy birth.
The male species is seen by the female, at least subconsciously, as beautiful when they carry themselves confidently. Their body-types also need to be healthy and clear-eyed. The male's ability to bring nourishment and shelter to the mother and child is very important for good reason.
The one common ground between the male and female, as far as what is beauty, is a symmetry within their facial features. This is the most important attractant to both of the species - the symmetry of the face : a balance between the right side and the left side of the face. When we see someone with this symmetry, we are attracted. Far few of us have this complete balance of face.
Our genes respond to instinct, even if we (our egos) resist...we are attracted. For the positive among us, we enjoy seeing this beauty...riding its waves, feeling the experience of the energy.
For others the refusal of beauty is the fear of beauty's acceptance. It may instill a fear of rejection, so one rejects before s/he gets rejected. For another, the acceptance of beauty may signify an emasculation of the male.
We are such insecure animals when confronted by true beauty. Even the beauty of any art, or Nature, even ideas, philosophies, etc.. So many of us choose to ignore beauty, and in some cases, try to deny it by covering it up, locking it away, ignoring its existence...it becomes like an enemy to the beholder.
Witness the Taliban and what they did to beauty, from insisting on the fully veiled women, to blowing up the Buddha statue....even bombing the Twin Towers - surely a structure of enormous simple beauty.
On one hand we humans are attracted by beauty of symmetry of our own kind while on the other hand Nature is very asymmetrical, and yet we are not ignorant of its beauty - beauty of such power that it inspires artists to create masterpieces of paintings, music, dance or poetry. But while nature is asymmetrical in appearance - the symmetry lies in its movement, its cycles : earth spinning around our sun in 365 days, the seasons arriving with either the vernal or autumnal equinox and the summer and winter solstice, the phases of the moon, the leaves dropping in the fall and reappearing in the spring... Nature's symmetry.
We are not only attracted to symmetry, but our lives need it to grow and evolve fully. Denial is the path of ignorance. The stupid person will never attain their oneness with existence until they, too, surrender to beauty - the 'wholiness' of life given for only one reason - to absorb its gift of divinity submersing ourselves into the bliss of a fully realized Love of Being.
One cannot own beauty but we can accept its message ; there is enough to sustain us thru our journey upon this world, for it is within beauty that existence flourishes. The full acceptance of the beauty that surrounds us, making us a little more beautiful in return.
Cecil
09 December 2007
