Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.What we see depends on how we see. If we see the world with narrow eyes, the world looks narrow to us. If we see the world with hard eyes, the world looks hard. And if we gaze the world with soft,open and receptive eyes,we can take in the greatness, vastness and the glory and grace of great things.
The Navajo people see the world through the lens of hozho: all the goodness to be found through harmony, balance, beauty and fluidty. They pray: In beauty I walk,with beauty before, behind, above and around me.It has beauty again, and again and again.Looking for beauty and goodness is a contemplative practice. My father taught me this ancient Vedic pryaer: O God! may we hear auspicious words with the ears. May we see auspicious things with the ears.May we enjoy life that is beneficial and auspicious.
Sadly our awareness has been constricted and that makes our life constricted.We need to expand our awreness to hear the songs of birds, the light of the sun and the moon and stars, the touch of wind, the smile of children and wonder of nature. We can make this earth sacred, the kingdom of heaven.
This is what I have learnt from the elderly persons and from my traditions and this has become my everyday sacred practice.
May we relate to natural and human world with soft and loving eyes and make it sacred!
Namaste.
Jagdis P Dave
On Aug 10, 2018 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.What we see depends on how we see. If we see the world with narrow eyes, the world looks narrow to us. If we see the world with hard eyes, the world looks hard. And if we gaze the world with soft,open and receptive eyes,we can take in the greatness, vastness and the glory and grace of great things.
The Navajo people see the world through the lens of hozho: all the goodness to be found through harmony, balance, beauty and fluidty. They pray: In beauty I walk,with beauty before, behind, above and around me.It has beauty again, and again and again.Looking for beauty and goodness is a contemplative practice. My father taught me this ancient Vedic pryaer: O God! may we hear auspicious words with the ears. May we see auspicious things with the ears.May we enjoy life that is beneficial and auspicious.
Sadly our awareness has been constricted and that makes our life constricted.We need to expand our awreness to hear the songs of birds, the light of the sun and the moon and stars, the touch of wind, the smile of children and wonder of nature. We can make this earth sacred, the kingdom of heaven.
This is what I have learnt from the elderly persons and from my traditions and this has become my everyday sacred practice.
May we relate to natural and human world with soft and loving eyes and make it sacred!
Namaste.
Jagdis P Dave