Zen beauty and truth
In Osho On Zen (by Osho), he makes the point that “Zen is very, very concerned with beauty–less concerned with truth, more concerned with beauty.”
The question becomes: what advantage does beauty have over truth in evoking enlightenment? On one level, many forms of beauty are more impermanent than many forms of truth, therefore beauty better represents what from a Zen perspective is more true about the essence of reality — that life is change. Or as Carl Jung put it: that which changes is true.
