Seek Beauty
Avoid Suffering

Jayanthi evening | November 18, 2025

A continuation of the Appearance Day Celebration

“Seek beauty and avoid suffering”

The instructions of the guru are to be contemplated and remembered again and again, over and over, ten thousand times. They come in many forms but are always the same: the call to Remembrance, to surrender, to practice, or as Lee refers to it here as “seek beauty and avoid suffering.”

What is beauty? That every aspect of life is the face of the Beloved, the perfection of Just This, the recognition that “Father is doing all” as Yogi Ramsuratkumar stated. What is to be avoided? Unnecessary suffering – the swamp of mind’s belief in itself, in its thoughts and emotions, schemes and strategies.

Join us this celebration in cherishing the guru, the Divine as Beauty – in art, in music, in poetry, in food, in the intimacy of the sangha.