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= How Does One Cultivate a True Aesthetic Sense? =

<div style="color:#000000;">The cultivation of a true aesthetic sense begins with a cultivation of our senses of perception. At first, the intention is to encourage recognition of what is beautiful - for when we are able to perceive and receive the "beautiful", we aspire for beauty. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">However, the recognition of what is beautiful brings with it a sense of discernment of what is not beautiful or not in harmony with this aspiration. It is then that we enter the rational stage and begin to question why something is beautiful while something else is not. This is a stage characterised by polarity - for shadows can only be cast where there is light. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">The suprarational stage of aesthesis - where one can begin to see universal beauty without reasoning and polarising - calls for a new understanding of perfection, a purification of the self, a strong will and a sense of detachment. Below, light has been shed on each of these aspects.</div>

<div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Perfection: '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We think of perfection as something that must be acquired, a state of goodness, absent of all things bad and ugly. This is a very divisive understanding of the word. Perfection is a state of wholeness; it is the absence of nothing. However, this is not to say that we must accept and enjoy ugliness. When the being is harmonised around the soul center, perfection becomes a natural harmonious outflow. This is where purification comes in.</span></div>