How Women Can Be More Beautiful -- The Perfect Transformation of

Author: Liao Jinze
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Beautiful women are everywhere, because the maturity gained from cultivating oneself can easily make a woman appealing; but truly beautiful women are rare, because natural beauty is not that easy to come by. The ancients used the phrase "drowning fish and falling willows, closing flowers in shame" to describe a woman's beauty, indicating that true beauty is extremely rare—it is something that anyone who sees it would be stunned and call it heavenly. A woman's beauty is an external attraction. Her appearance, attire, speech, demeanor, temperament, education, knowledge, personality, and abilities—all these original qualities must be vivid to be brilliant. Otherwise, beauty is just superficial; it may attract people, but it may not move them. Some say: temperament is innate, beauty is natural—women's beauty is inherent, and cannot be achieved through inner and outer cultivation. I, however, disagree. A beautiful exterior can indeed boost one's confidence, give others a good impression, and win people's favor. But Buddhist teachings also emphasize: "As the mind goes, so does the face." This shows that consciously cultivating one's mindset over time can indeed change a person's appearance. Since beauty can be both encountered and pursued, beauty can certainly be meticulously shaped.