Friday, December 23, 2011
A beautiful heart

On a speech, one of the audiences asked me “Mister Lin, I found out that your audience are good looking disregarding of their gender. I wished to ask, is it that most your readers are good looking people? Or is it that those who’ve read your books would become good looking?”
His question was a twist from the speech that day, everyone burst into laughter of course.

Then I replied “You think that they look great, just because you have a beautiful heart. To me, you’re fascinating!”

While I was on my way home after the speech, I came to a garden which appeared extraordinarily charming under the moonlight. The trees and flowers were asleep, and the pone was so calm. I could even smell a scent from the flower! That’s it, the world has always been beautiful. Some people knew it all along, because they’ve got a beautiful heart.

It’s quite saddening that most of us would only appreciate the beauty in flowers, moon, or the stars. But no one would learn to see the beauty that’s been hiding in the street, in a restaurant, or even exploring other beautiful hearts.

My writings aren’t just to inform the people about the beauty of the world, but to awaken all the beautiful hearts that were fast asleep.

Adapted from Lin QingXuan’s article series



Postscript:

Everyone would have their own judgment and perception for beauty. But when we learn to see things in a different angle, it’s not surprising that we might find its beautiful side. Most of us are often focusing too much on the appearance, thinking that ‘beauty’ is something to be judged on the outside.

How many of us would stop for a while and look at the blue sky? We often relate the word ‘flower’ with ‘beauty’, but how often do we actually look at the flowersby the road?

The perception of beauty lies beneath the way we see things with our hearts. If there’s a day that the sky would be covered in dark clouds, I bet everyone would have longed for the white clouds to return. But when they were here, we’ve never spare time to appreciate them.

People nowadays often chase after the ‘beauty’ in almost everything. However, most of us have lost the heart to ‘discover beauty’. Perhaps most of this situation happens when we admire what people have that we don’t. We might be different from other people, but never forget that there must be some good values in us.

In Ikeda Sensei’s ‘A Dialogue with Nature’ exhibition, I remember there’s an artwork named ‘A Red spot within the White’. It pictures a single red flower being surrounded by tonnes of white flowers. Ikeda Sensei discovered them beside a gully. Most of the people were astonished as they learn about the background of the flowers. We might have passed by flowers like those without even knowing it. But Ikeda Sensei’s discovered small details as such.

Everything has its beauty, including us. When our children first learned to judge on beauty, there might be a little attitude for comparison. Hence, we must inform them that everyone has their own beautiful side. But first, we mist discover our children’s beauty. This way, we could help them to face themselves with confidence and not to compare everything they see.

Ikeda Sensei once said “Cherry has its distinctive charm, and lily has its unique beauty. If we lost confidence and gave in to unnecessary worries, we could have torn down the beauty in us.” Sensei could always see the good side of everyone. He’d never judge people on the bad side. Everyone’s different, so we must never lose our confidence. Confidence emerges as we learn to defeat our low self-esteem.

After all, if there isn’t ugliness, how could we discover and identify beauty? Everything has its good and bad value. Let worked harder to discover the beautiful sides of everything around us!


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