Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Most beautiful girl in world is Black


Symmetry, lips, eyes, supreme complexion...
At just three years old, she was called “the most beautiful girl in the world.” Here’s what she looks like now at 17.

 At just 10-years-old, she was given the title “the most beautiful girl in the world.” Many years later, many believe that description still fits her.
 
While many young girls dream of entering beauty competitions and taking home crowns, she gained worldwide attention without competing in any beauty pageants.

BGT star Alesha D pays tribute to EV in live TV rap

"Black is Beautiful" (album)
Her captivating look drew modeling agencies to her from an early age. With piercing blue eyes, long hair, a confident gaze, and full lips, she was labeled “the most beautiful girl in the world” before she even turned 10.

In 2010, she appeared in a controversial spread for Vogue that sparked debate about makeup use and the early sexualization of young girls.

It's all about their beauty and our money, right?
She also appeared on the covers of Teen Vogue and Jalouse [which emphasized her math skills, test scores, nerdy habits, and thoughtful opinions on contemporary societal issues...uh, no, they just cared about her looks, too].
What is the cause of physical beauty?
Is British Black beauty Alesha Dixon the most beautiful? Here she is at Eurovision 2023
  
Question: Russell J. Taeza
Dear Venerables: 🙏 (*anjali mudra*). Thank you in advance 😍 for your time and guidance. 😇 In the sutras (Pali canon discourses), it is said that karma (our store of deeds) affects how we are reborn, that is to say, beautiful/ugly, wise/dull, wealthy/poor.

I have developed confidence in the Buddha’s Teaching from my own personal observations. Now, as far as my practice has taken me, from the observation of my own mind/heart, I’ve seen how this could be: EMOTIONS affect my physical appearance, particularly my facial features.

Bright feelings brighten the complexion.
I’ve observed just how the heart/mind feels when it is feeding on joy (piti) derived from kindness, compassion, and generosity. That to me is what the Buddha meant by wealth and beauty: The mind being bright, our next rebirth, our new physical form and character will tend to be pleasing.

Emotions project outward through our facial, speech, and bodily expressions so that everyone experiences them.

The real danger I find is the mind getting overcome by negative emotions. Negative emotions can become deeply ingrained when one hasn’t developed enough mindful awareness of them.

Don't tell me to "smile," Russell!!!
For example, I have a friend whose life outlook isn’t that great; negativity is so ingrained in her mind that she doesn’t notice it at all anymore. I’ve tried my best to uplift her world view but with no luck at all.

Now to me, this is what the Buddha meant by ugliness and being poor, the mind clouded, on the next birth, the new physical form and characteristics tends to be just mediocre and at worst unpleasant (not pleasing).

Don't tell me what to do, Russell. Do you, Boo.
Would it be right view, right understanding, to say that the mind, with its accumulated characteristics from previous deeds (karma), is the forming and conditioning force behind the physical body at rebirth?

This brings to memory a sutra in which the Buddha refers to the physical body as past karma. Have I approached this teaching and contemplated it correctly?

With gratitude (katanyu) 🙏, Russell
 
REPLY by Ajahn Brahmali, Feb. 26, 2015
Ajahn Brahmali | BSWA
Dear Russell: That’s an interesting point you are making, and there may well be much truth to it. Our mind is certainly powerful, and its influence is enormous. However, I think there is a tendency for people to think of the results of karma [vipaka, phala, karmic results and fruits] too much in physical terms, such as one’s physical appearance or one’s wealth.

But the really important issue is one’s mental life, and it is this that karma is really all about. We do good things and we feel good. The result is a rebirth where we feel good. Part of this can be physical factors, since there is obviously some degree of happiness to be derived from good material circumstances.

But we all know of cases of people who are wealthy have miserable lives, including depression and all sorts of personal problems. If we are truly depressed, how much use is our wealth to us? With metta. Source

Friday, July 12, 2024

Is Golden Ratio real? What does it mean?


  • Maybe "beauty" is symmetry
    spiral patterns in sunflowers, pinecones, and seashells
  • growth patterns of certain plants, like the arrangement of leaves around a stem
  • proportions of limbs, fingers, and facial features in the human body (such as idealized depictions of the Future Buddha known as the "Friend" Maitreya (shown at right).
But what is it?
In mathematics, two quantities are in the "golden ratio" if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities 𝑎 and 𝑏 with 𝑎 > 𝑏 > 0, 𝑎 is in a golden ratio to 𝑏 if



𝑎 + 𝑏/𝑎 = 𝑎/𝑏 = 𝜑, where the Greek letter phi (𝜑 or 𝜙) denotes the golden ratio [Note a]. The constant 𝜑 satisfies the quadratic equation 𝜑 2 = 𝜑 + 1 and is an irrational number with a value of [1]
1.618033988749.... Golden ratio

Huh, Eggheads? WTH is this gobbledygook supposed to mean? Can it be restated for the innumerate and artists with good taste? Let's see. What makes flowers and the nautilus shell so pretty?

Pretty shells and petals
What is prettier than a pattern?
The chambered nautilus (pictured above) builds roomier chambers in a spiral pattern based on the Golden Ratio.

Other examples include flower petals, seed heads, pinecones, shells, spiral galaxies, hurricanes, and DNA molecules. Learn more:
  1. Unraveling the Enigma of the Golden Ratio in Nature… (abakus-center.com)
  2. Nature's Golden Ratio | Geophysic… (gi.alaska.edu).
  3. The Golden Ratio in Nature – Overview (quantumgravityresearch.org)

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Beauty without surgery: Mew Method

What I've Learned, 2/6/19; Amber Larson, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Attractive face or not? It depends on TONGUE posture
(What I've Learned) One thing missing from any discussion of beauty is the health impact of good oral posture.

I used to be so beautiful
Considering that it is at the back of the face, having a receded chin or maxilla could hinder the airway, with big implications for sleep apnea.

Clarification on the title: Of course, no one means to suggest that attractiveness depends only on tongue posture. Nutrition in utero (during the mother's pregnancy), postpartum nutrition, and health through the formative years surely play very big roles in how the face develops.

In fact, Weston Price's book 
I'm hot. There's nothing wrong with my face.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
 suggests that fat soluble vitamins are very important for fertility and the proper development of the young; grains and sugar ("modern foods") are very detrimental to their development, particularly their oral health.

Oral posture is simply another piece of the puzzle.

SUTURE FUSION: The phrases "These sutures are not completely fused together" and "Sutures are not completely closed" would have been better. It is understood that after birth, the sutures of the skull "fuse" together by age 2 or so. One study found that complete closure of certain sutures does not occur until as late as 70-years-old. Another found that “The human frontozygomatic suture undergoes synostosis during the eighth decade of life but does not completely fuse by the age of 95 years" based on 61 human cadavers aged 20 to 95.


This topic with a focus on facial development's affect on respiration and sleep apnea is discussed in Dr. Felix Liao's Six Foot Tiger, Three Foot Cage.

Another great book not mentioned in the video is Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic.

PDF of the transcript with links to sources: patreon.com/posts/24534404
Skull anatomy images provided by Kenhub. To learn more about the anatomy of the human body, check out their awesome learning materials: bit.ly/2Rz3SZl.

How to Mew: instructions

If interested in this topic and how to properly "mew" (practice good oral posture and other habits that encourage good facial development), check out the Orthotropics channel: bit.ly/2DciWp0.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Science: Who is the most beautiful? (sutra)

Emily Hodgkin (Mail Online, July 14, 2016); Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Android, Android in my hand, who is fairest in all the land? (stylecaster.com)
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The symmetry of Amber Heard
Amber Heard [until recently Johnny Depp's wife] has the most beautiful face in the world, according to science -- followed by Kim Kardashian [who has perfect brows] and Kate Moss (who has a perfect forehead).
  • Johnny Depp's estranged [and possibly beaten] wife has the most beautiful face in the world.
  • Kim Kardashian came second according to scientific face mapping.
  • Kate Moss was third and had the perfect forehead.
  • Ancient Greeks claimed there was a "Golden Ratio" [Fibonacci series as the proportions for the most pleasing symmetry] for physical perfection.
Johnny Depp's estranged wife is the most beautiful woman in the world, according to facial mapping.

The Buddha's beauty
Amber Heard's face was found to be 91.85 per cent accurate to the Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi -- which for thousands of years was thought to hold the secret formula of perfection.

Using the theory, computer mapping technology also found that Kim Kardashian had perfect eyebrows, Scarlett Johansson came out on top for her eyes, Rihanna's face shape was deemed the most beautiful, while Emily Ratajkowski's lips and Kate Moss's forehead were also praised. More 

WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CELEBRITY FACES
Rihanna, who is of mixed race from Barbados, was in Nice for "terror" attack (IH).
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Does science suffer from implicit bias?
  1. Amber Heard 91.85%
  2. Kim Kardashian 91.39%
  3. Kate Moss 91.06%
  4. Emily Ratajkowski 90.8%
  5. Kendall Jenner 90.18%
  6. Helen Mirren 89.93%
  7. Scarlett Johansson 89.82%
  8. Selena Gomez 89.57%
  9. Marilyn Monroe 89.41%
  10. Jennifer Lawrence 89.24
SUTRA: Giving and Gaining Beauty
Ven. Thanissaro (trans) Bhojana Sutta: "A Meal" (AN 5.37) edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Maitreya Future-Buddha statue outside Diskit Monastery, Himalayas (itisemriarticles)
 
"In giving a meal [dana, a generous act usually in support of a recluse's spiritual exertions as a sannyasin or Buddhist wandering ascetic or monastic], the donor gives five things to the recipient. What are those five?

"One gives life, beauty, happiness, strength, and quick-wittedness. Having given life, one gains a share of long life, either human or divine [when this karma bears fruit opportunistically].

"Having given beauty, one gains a share of beauty, either human or divine. Having given happiness, one gains a share of happiness, either human or divine. Having given strength, one has a share in strength, either human or divine. Having given quick-wittedness, one gains a share of quick-wittedness, either human or divine. In giving a meal, the donor gives these five things to the recipient."

The prudent person giving life, strength, beauty, quick-wittedness -- the wise person, a giver of happiness -- attains happiness. Having given life, strength, beauty, happiness, and quick-wittedness, one gains long life and status wherever one re-arises [is reborn].

      Saturday, March 28, 2009

      Sexy People Sound Better


      The Buddha was remarkably beautiful. His voice is similarly praised as mellifluous. His reputation spread far and wide. It proceeded him. Not only was his ethical conduct remarkable, people who merely saw him at a distance became interested in what he had to say. He was tall and unlike most Indian holy men.

      His own explanation of this (the 32 major and 80 minor physical marks of greatness) was karmic. Sutras explain how he came to have each feature, from his bright golden complexion to his blue eyes, from jet black curly hair to his sonorous voice. His voice in particular inspired confidence. It could be heard at a distance in a time when there were no microphones or PA systems.

      Greg Soltis (LiveScience.com)

      People with voices deemed sexy and attractive tend to have greater body symmetry upon close inspection, suggesting that what we hear in a person can greatly affect what we see in them.

      "The sound of a person's voice reveals a considerable amount of biological information," said Susan Hughes, an evolutionary psychologist from Albright College in Reading, Pa. "It can reflect the mate value of a person."

      Hughes, whose new study is detailed in the June 2008 edition of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, cautions that an attractive voice does not necessarily indicate that this person has an attractive face.

      A symmetric body is genetically sound, scientists say, and in evolutionary terms, in the wild, it can be an important factor when selecting a mate. But sometimes changes during prenatal development can slightly skew this balance. For instance, the length ratio between index and ring fingers, known as the digit ratio, is fixed by the first trimester, a time that corresponds with vocal cord and larynx development. If the hormone surge that affects vocal development also affects finger growth, there should be a connection between an individual's voice and digit ratio.

      Hughes could not demonstrate a connection between voice attractiveness and digit ratio in her previous work, possibly due to vocal changes that occur during puberty. So in the new study, about 100 individuals listened to previously recorded voices and independently rated them on nine traits important during mate selection: approachability, dominance, healthiness, honesty, intelligence, likelihood to get dates, maturity, sexiness, and warmth.

      Study participants generally agreed on what made a voice attractive. But when Hughes used a spectrogram to analyze these voice ratings according to different acoustic properties such as pitch, intensity, jitter and shimmer, she could not find a common feature that made these voices seem attractive.

      This indicates our perceptual system may be more advanced than expected.

      "We can agree on what's an attractive voice yet I can't capture it with a computer," Hughes told LiveScience.

      Investigating if a combination of these properties can define an attractive voice may shed light on a connection, she said.

      PHOTOS: Modern beauty in youth and reaching maturity (radio star Pat Morrison, KPCC); the Buddha photographed in Bodhgaya, India (Wisdom Quarterly).