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Beauty and Eternal Youth

by Chao-Hsiu Chen

The West is preoccupied with looking younger; signs of aging are reminders of death. In Asia, however, age brings greater beauty and wisdom; it is what we all look forward to.

However, if you still want to fight the aging process, you can look younger by following the fifty points outlined below.

1. Never stop learning.

2. Always stand on your own two feet.

3. Keep your distance from doubts.

4. Know that you are not the only one with desires.

5. Learn to understand others.

6. Follow your heart.

7. Strive to understand yourself.

8. Strive to understand humankind.

9. Practice being alone among people.

10. Practice being together with people.

11. Don't expect anything.

12. Don't be too happy about something.

13. Don't get too upset about something.

14. Trust your strength.

15. Never lose your capacity to be amazed.

16. Let patience be your steady companion.

17. Laud your critics.

18. Examine your outer appearance in the mirror -- and your internal appearance by the responses of others.

19. Treat everything in life equally.

20. Help anyone anywhere.

21. Don't search for profit.

22. Be careful with your words.

23. Control your thoughts.

24. Be happy when somebody else is happy.

25. Be empathetic.

26. Don't be arrogant.

27. Broaden your time horizons.

28. Take care of those who are sad.

29. Stick first to love, then to people, then to the law.

30. Practice forgiving.

31. Don't compliment falsely.

32. Eliminate fear.

33. Live what you know.

34. Be aware of your responsibility.

35. Consider your accomplishments natural.

36. Fear your ability more than dangers.

37. See like the blind, hear like the deaf.

38. Don't consider success a steady companion.

39. Walk softly.

40. Enjoy work.

41. Be a helper to justice.

42. Learn to serve.

43. Consider the invisible visible.

44. Be good.

45. Be courageous.

46. Be respectful.

47. Be faithful.

48. Search for wisdom.

49. Unite beauty and attraction.

50. Don't be fooled by beauty.

"The noble promotes beauty in humans."
-- Confucius --

Beauty Feng Shui
by Chao-Hsiu Chen (English Translation).

Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Destiny Books, a division of Inner Traditions International. ©2000. www.innertraditions.com

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About the Author

Chao-Hsiu Chen was raised in Taiwan and has studied Buddhist and Taoist teachings as well as yoga. She is also the author of Body Feng Shui. She currently lives in Rome and Munich where she is a composer, writer, and feng shui consultant.

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