Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Nothing is perfect

I often use Nothing is perfect as a meditation concept. It offers at least five distinct aspects for mind-demuddling contemplation:

  1. As a hallmark of everything that exists, imperfection means not only deficits of form or function, but also variability and finitude, the latter attribute encompassing death. As a result of that nature, imperfection in our experiences and in our existence is inevitable and should therefore be expected and accepted without rancor.
  2. In light of the above, imperfection is an inbuilt and necessary quality of everything existent and is therefore to be appreciated in and of itself.
  3. Only a state of nothingness can be perfect, because it includes no thing, things all being imperfect. Perfection is nothing.
  4. In that regard, to what degree can the state of nothingness be appreciated by me, as I am necessarily something?
  5. Can nothing, which has no features, have an attribute, perfect?

And yes, it is possible that Zen concepts may have influenced my predilection. Go figure.

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