The Way of Beauty: Five Meditations for Spiritual Transformation by François Cheng

The Way of Beauty: Five Meditations for Spiritual Transformation asks what beauty can mean in a world marked by violence and suffering. François Cheng begins with his response to the mountain landscape of his native China and develops five connected philosophical reflections.

The essays consider perception, truth and the relationship between beauty and the sacred through Western and Taoist perspectives. “Meditations” here means sustained reflections, not a timed sitting course or an art-instruction workbook. The current listing image is a generic image-not-available placeholder rather than the book’s cover.