The Secret of Appearance

A person's voice can reveal their character, temperament, and disposition—their cultivation, and whether their mind is simple and sincere or hypocritical and cunning, whether it is bright or dark. A person's facial features and appearance can also reflect their cultivation, character, temperament, disposition, learning, demeanor, and so on. Even the bones, jaw, muscles, physique, skin, and so forth can all reveal a person's character, temperament, and disposition—whether they are diligent or lazy, whether they are rigorous and serious or lax, slack, and careless, whether they are sunny or gloomy, and so on.

Everyone should truly take responsibility for their own appearance, for it is all cultivated by oneself through life after life. When one's appearance is unsatisfactory, one should not blame one's parents or Heaven, but should reproach oneself. If one was arrogant in a past life, one will be short in this life. If a person's muscles are so slack, that person is likely lax, lazy, and careless in thought—the type who just muddles through. A person whose body is crooked and askew often has a mind that is not upright either. An upright person has an upright mind and an upright body, with well-proportioned features, firm and tight skin, and a serious countenance. Even their gaze is upright—they do not glance sideways—and their mind is bright and open. From a person's physiognomy, one can also discern which realm they came from in a past life; the younger they are, the more accurately this can be seen. As for which realm they will be reborn into in the future, the older they get, the more accurately it can be seen.