Beauty in people unrelated to you is elating.
Beauty in peers is a torment.
And everybody you are connected with is a peer.
In saying connection and relation we, of course, mean mental.
What makes aesthetics so powerful? Why are we so taken a back by beauty?
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Sometimes Awakening is called Liberation. We think we are making progress in the process of freeing ourselves from bondage…but Awakening (i.e. Liberation) is realizing you were never in bondage in the first place. Upon Awakening, you clearly realize that all of that time you spent in the process of freeing yourself from bondage was the delusion of bondage itself.
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beauty a torment?
I didn't quite understand this: how can beauty be a torment?
peers
jealousy, competition, frustration, comparison...