Pearls of Wisdom Art
Uplifts Our Spirits
When you see something beautiful, a flower, painting,
photo or hear some lovely music or poetic verses, don’t you feel better?
Don’t you feel more relaxed and loving? Yes, so at that moment,
your heart feels open, your spirit expands, and you love the surrounding,
you love the people near you. And the relationship between you and
others suddenly has more meaning and deepens, and your thinking is
more positive. That’s how art uplifts our spirit. And if our
spirit uplifts, then the world is uplifted.
Poetry appeals to the heart, also to the intellect, also
to the emotion of human. Therefore, many of the Masters in the old
time, they favored poetry as a teaching. Rumi used a lot of
poetry to send it to his disciples. Or maybe that is also the mode,
mode of that time, the fashion. All the Masters write poetry. Or maybe
also, many of the Masters, they are very artistic themselves. Or maybe
after they get enlightened, all their dormant talents sprung up to
life, and they know how to write poetry, they paint pictures, dance
and sing and all kinds. So this is one of the talents that has been
awakened in some Masters, after they get high enlightenment. And it’s easy
to remember, easier to remember a poem than a whole big lecture. So
poetry is a very good instrument to teach people, and make them remember
very well.
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