'make up' is an act of love.

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Nisargadatta , " adithya_comming "

<adithya_comming wrote:

>

> Face lift, make up, dressing up nicely

> is an act to love and kindness. We try

> to present our most pleasing face to

> the world. This way, we act kindly,

> lovingly towards the world.

>

> Just like we serve food well arranged

> in clean plates, juice in a beautiful,

> symmetrical glass to our children; just

> like we speak in a pleasing, kind,

> loving voice to our kids; we present

> ourselves, our body, our face, our

> soul in the most pleasing, kind,

> beautiful way that we can. Beauty is a

> service to the world and serving

> beauty, elegance and symmetry is among

> the greatest service we can do.

>

>

>

> >>I am reading Kt's new book,

> A Thousand Names for Joy

> (which has opened me up incredibly) and am

> now on Chapter 15. In it she says,

> " When you have what you want-when

> you are what you want-there's no

> impulse to seek anything outside

> yourself. Seeking is the movement away

> from the awareness that your

> life is already complete, just as it

> is. "

>

> >>There's more, but that's the general

> idea. I feel a deep resonance with

> this... but also wondered what the

> motivation was for her getting a

> face lift.

>

> >>And yet, if Kt did NOT get a face

> lift to " feel better about herself, "

> then why? Is it equivalent to that

> which motivates us to do anything?

> Why is " face lift " different than say,

> making a sandwich? Is it just a

> judgment call to say that getting a

> face lift is somehow about

> insecurity or vanity?

>

>

> http://www.thework.com/athousandnamesforjoy/index.asp

>On one level she had no motivation--it just happened, like

everything else does. But if you come down from those lofty heights

and treat the question from a psychophysiological point of view--are

you following this?--she did it probably because she either wanted a

better boyfriend, or figured her husband would stay around longer if

she did. Anyway, the sex drive was probably implicated in a large

way.Serving juice to your kids in a beautiful symetrical glass is

one thing and a pretty small force could get you to do it. Surgery

is something else again and the big guns are needed to drive one to

it.