The Beauty Way
“In Beauty may I walk.
All day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
With dew about my feet may I walk.
With Beauty may I walk.
With Beauty before me, may I walk.
With Beauty behind me, may I walk.
With Beauty above me, may I walk.
With Beauty below me, may I walk.
With Beauty all around me, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of Beauty,
lively , may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of Beauty,
living again, may I walk.
It is finished in Beauty.
It is finished in Beauty.”
Ojibwe Prayer
Within the divine structure of ancient traditions we find that Beauty is holds a sacred place as a fundamental force of Nature. Beauty is the realization of the perfect and eternal patterns of Life.
Beauty is a pathway for self realization and the way in wish we can truly discover ourselves within the great geometry of Life. This Beauty Way is to be aware and attuned to the essence of Beauty, not to particular forms or superficial aesthetics. The Beauty Way cultivates the skillful means of awareness, intention, community, spiritual practice, and ceremony. These nourish and support us as we walk this path together.
Walking upon this path is the action of living harmoniously with all of Life as it is unfolding; to live in harmony with the Divine, with the natural world, with our own self, with our loved ones, and with our communities.
An awakened consciousness understands that beauty is an expression of that great law of harmony and equilibrium that gives order and rhythm to the universe. Beauty is a universal principle. To perceive the beautiful is to perceive a subtle truth. Beauty, therefore, is the direct expression of the spiritual evolution of consciousness.
It is important to note here that the Beauty of which it is spoken is an Archetypal force and not simply modern aesthetics. It is the union of duality within the form and its divine expression. When we speak of Beauty in this way we reclaim this profound way of seeing life and ourselves as well as begin to walk upon the heart felt path of Beauty. We speak of the beauty of a Daisy opening softly to welcome the sun each day and offer itself. The Daisy exudes a beauty founded upon it’s interconnectedness with all of life.
Only through the direct Heart perception can we truly receive the blessing of Beauty and become woven within it’s infinite Brilliance. It is the Heart which truly see’s Beauty as a spiritual universal law of entanglement. Our modern minds are trained to seek objectivity reducing our ability to enter states of Awe for all that is. To follow this path, we are asked to let go of concepts and immerse ourselves within the beauty of this life by attuning to its secret rhythms and deeper aspects of structure and poesis. Thus we allow ourselves to bathe in the waters of Life.
Beauty holds incredible power to change and bring life. We all have experienced moments of seeing Beauty in a flower finding ourselves moved into a state of complete Awe. This energy changes us from within rearranging our subtle bodies to match it’s poetry. In this way, emersing ourselves in Beauty becomes a spiritual practice of Love and dedication which shapes our subtle body into a refined jewel capable of hosting the pristine force of life such as the divine Values.
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Dressed by the garments of Beauty, we become more and more attuned to the finer aspects of creation and form an infinite loop of refinement and growth.
We at Rooted Waters hold Beauty as the foundation for all things. Beauty holds the power to heal, bring joy, change, soften and remembrance. Beauty is there, everywhere waiting for you to notice it. And if you do, place your soften gaze upon its sultry shapes Beauty blossoms into more and more Beauty. It is a crystalline spring of endless depth.
At Rooted Waters and within our Familly’s Clan, we call this
WAKYANII.