I often use Nothing is perfect as a meditation concept. It offers at least five distinct aspects for mind-demuddling contemplation:
- 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.
- 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.
- Only a state of nothingness can be perfect, because it includes no thing, things all being imperfect. Perfection is nothing.
- In that regard, to what degree can the state of nothingness be appreciated by me, as I am necessarily something?
- 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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