Buddhism is not saying that objects have no beauty whatsoever. They do have beauty. The craving mind, however, projects onto an object something that is beyond the relative level, which has nothing to do with that object. That mind is hallucinating, deluded and holding the wrong entity.
Lama Yeshe
from the book The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism: The Three Principal Aspects to the Path and Introduction to Tantra
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