Beauty, there is nothing wrong with beauty in itself and we strive to be beautiful as meditators, as human beings, we are striving to become a beautiful human being. Yet ironically what I call a beautiful human being is not what many other people on the planet call a beautiful being. You know we threaten people, all of my relatives don't really like the fact that I am a nice, kind human being, because they are not, and when they see somebody like me, they actually become afraid. Spiritual people are the minority on the planet, trying to be beautiful in that way is the minority. Trying to be beautiful with the hair, with the face, with clothes, with the car, with anything like that, that's the normal beauty, but we go beyond that, we are going towards something more beautiful. So when you think of beauty, yes, most people like to have something beautiful. Can we go above these ideals, can we go to something more important?
For normal human beauty, a lot of it depends on how the body is put together, whether some parts of the body are pushed out this way or in that way, whether some parts of the body have hair or don't have hair, the shape of the nose, the shape of the ears, the eyes, the color, that's what defines human beauty, right, in general terms.
We are going to be different, we are going to look at beauty from the inside. Is that beautiful or not? Imagine having dinner with a super beautiful woman or a super handsome man, it might be lovely to have them across the table, right? And then, let's imagine they become really rude, really obnoxious, really disgusting. Do you want to look at them? Are you ashamed to be sitting at the same table with this beautiful person on the outside but ugly on the inside? It's like you don't want to be there.
Now, we're having dinner again, with somebody who is considered ugly, they don't even comb their hair, they have pimples everywhere, etc. They are considered ugly, but they are so nice and kind, and they are so interesting, they have such nice speech and they talk about things we are interested in, they are a lovely person. They say "Thank you", "I'm sorry" and "Please". Are they more beautiful than the other gorgeous, handsome person? Yeah. So when think of beauty, let's go to inner beauty, something higher and deeper.