We can cultivate our virtues and improve our wisdom by keeping our
surroundings clean and beautiful. We can educate our children by guiding them to keep the environment clean and neat.
BEAUTY AND CLEANLINESS
We often believe that the most important beauty of an individual is their inner virtue, not appearance.
So, we allow ourselves to pay no attention to the appearance, and need not to be clean and neat.
This wrong view is because we do not know that true beauty covers all aspects.
Inside or out, small or large, they are all indicative of something that was written by the rules of the universe.
Those who have morals are those with wisdom. Those who can recognize right and wrong in very subtle and abstract things must be wise.
The wiser a person is, the more virtuous they are, and vice versa.
For example, a person who is highly educated but treasonable does not have enough wisdom to know that they are wrong.
With virtue and wisdom, one will deny two things, ugly and dirty.
Regardless of any reasons, anyone who has wisdom and morality does not accept the quality of being dirty and ugly.
It is easy to understand why filthiness is not desirable. Filthiness damages the quality of human life and should be avoided. Similarly, ugliness ruins the human soul and should also be shunned.
If we notice, a child whose ugly childhood contents him will grow up to have a disrupted soul. The exceptions are those who do not accept the badness of their childhood, which encourages them to emerge from that mediocrity as they grow up.
The beauty of the scenery in the house, the beauty of the surrounding countryside, the beauty of the streets, the beauty of the mountains and rivers of the country, etc. are all educating our souls unconsciously. It is apparent that people who live in a clean and neat country tend to be more civilized.
Parents must create a beautiful and clean environment, from their houses to the neighborhood, so that their children's souls can be educated gradually. Do not let ugly homes and neighborhoods ruin your children's souls. If we see a child rebel against their parents aggressively, that child is likely to be brought up in an ugly environment, hence their soul is also damaged.
Wisdom helps us create beauty, and virtue helps us create simplicity. Being beautiful while simple, that is the true beauty. When we see a masterpiece that is beautiful yet too intricate, we can understand that the author is very intelligent, yet not adequately moral. In contrast, an artwork that lacks details to the point that it is sketchy proves that the author is very tender but not adequately wise. Being beautiful yet simple is the truth.
That is about visual beauty. There are also the beauty of sounds, the beauty of scents, the beauty of philosophies, the beauty of martial arts, the beauty of nature. They are all worth appreciation. Only those who have wisdom and virtue know how to feel and enjoy such beauties. Similarly, only very wise and virtuous people can create such beauties for life.
We can cultivate our virtues and improve our wisdom by keeping our surroundings clean and beautiful. We can educate our children by guiding them to keep the environment clean and neat.
Written by:
Janna
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