Who Really Enjoys Beauty and What’s the Difference From Pleasure?

"What is the difference between beauty and pleasure, and who is the one who enjoys or delights in beauty? Rupert says: ‘The experience of beauty is the collapse of the subject-object relationship. Beauty is what consciousness tastes like to itself. It’s not an experience that a finite mind or a separate self has, although it may be precipitated by a perception that takes place in subject-object relationships . . . Some perceptions have this power in them to collapse the subject-object relationship and then reality in that timeless moment shines as it is . . . Pleasure is an experience that a finite mind has, the experience of a sensation . . . When you experience pleasure, the seeking activity of the mind comes briefly to an end, and in that ending of the seeking activity of the mind, the mind briefly collapses . . . In that extinction of the mind, your true nature of joy shines.’"

From event 14 May, 2025 Webinar – Wednesday, 14 May

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