Everything Is Perfect

Category Enlightenment

Carpet of Clovers by Floris van Breugel

Everything is perfect. And I mean everything everything everything.

Imagine you’re sitting in a room talking to people. The person you’re sitting next to is the exact person you need to be sitting next to, and the same is true for them. Every word that is uttered. Every thought that is thought. Every atom in every place. Every molecule of air in every moment is exactly where it should be.

There is nothing out of place. There are no mistakes. There is nothing wrong with anything at all.

It’s amazing the degree to which this perfection exists. It’s not just the big events or little moments that are perfect, but I mean EVERY POSSIBLE THING you can think of!

This isn’t something I can prove and I have no idea how I know. I just know it without having to figure it out. I know this from a source that is deeper than the breathing of my lungs and closer than the beating of my own heart.

This knowingness of perfection lies beyond form, yet permeates it all, as it.

I am only here to share the good news and to celebrate the perfection as it is.

I can’t convince you of it, nor can I give you it. How could I when it’s already here and you are it? I can only invite you to come join me and look within to find what lies beneath thought and is everpresent.

lol, this is so funny. Nothing in the mind is really believed in anymore. Why bother? If everything is already perfect, what is left to fix? How can anything be improved? It’s like the mind’s job to protect is obsolete! What is there to fear?

If everything is God and everything is you, what on earth is there to fear? What in any universe is there to fear? There is only the perfection of God/You. That’s it! In the “unknown,” you’ll find nothing else!

What a beautiful and absurd joke this perfection is.

What people call imperfection, well, that only exists in thought. People may see themselves as imperfect, but that is only the case because thoughts say that and those thoughts are believed in.

This is wild. The mind is starting to grow quiet. What’s left isn’t being believed in anyways. It’s like peeling off soggy wet clothes after running through the forest. Thoughts are just falling off me.

I melllttiiinnnggg!

If you are the BIGGEST treasure imaginable, then needing anything from the world, it’s just a silly thought. It’s like realizing you are an infinite dollar bill and then wondering what you need the change in your pocket for any longer.

Let that heavy change go for it’s something to be appreciated and enjoyed, but not anything you need acquire or carry around any longer. Everything you need is already available for you are what you need and you can never be lost.

Oh boy, what a joy!

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17 Responses to “Everything Is Perfect”

buddhaofhollywood said:

Hi there!
I was browsing the blogosphere looking for people with similar interests that want to be friends – in a blogging kind of way, so I stopped to say hi!
Wishing you happy bloging and the best in your life.
BoH

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Ariel Bravy Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Hi there!

You know what? I’ve always liked the method of making friends that we used when we were 6.

You want to be friends? Okay!
buddhaofhollywood said:

Do you know how much time and how many days of butt numbing meditation took me to go back to feel and be 6 again?
And I’m still working on it.
Lucky for me I have a 5 years old that is training me
I love listening to people’s stories of their enlightenment journey – like yours.
Thank you for being my friend or at least for giving me this chance.
“The best way to have a friend is to be one”
Be Loved!

PS: According with your blog’s color scheme you are a very passionate man!

buddhaofhollywoods last blog post..Living in a material world – Part II
Ariel Bravy said:

Whoa, this is so freaky. I just went to go brush and floss my teeth and when I looked in the mirror, I had no idea what I was looking at. There’s this… err, thing? You could “call” it eyes and a face, the face I’ve been looking at for years, whatever years are. But it has nothing to do with me at all. It’s senseless, just colors and shapes and movement. It has no more substance than that. No meaning. No real form.

There’s no difficulty in performing any actions, but there’s no one performing them, and not really any thing there to be performed on…
Marko said:

We are perfectly imperfect.
Yashua said:

Thanks for a beautiful reminder that everything is perfect. It feels so comforting and inspiring. There is no fear, only love

I like how Marko put it, “We are perfectly imperfect”
Scott said:

As soul, we are perfect sparks of energy. Put all the perfect sparks together…I think that’s what God is.

It’s when we enter these lower worlds and put on the various bodies (physical, emotional, etc) that our imperfections start. But I agree, even those are perfectly imperfect…divinely designed to help us come into a deeper understanding of our own….perfection.
Ariel Bravy said:

“Perfectly imperfect” depends on how we’re defining perfect.

I don’t see imperfection. At all. It’s like calling a low note imperfect compared to a high note. No. Every note is a part of All That Is. It’s a valuable and integral part of the symphony.

Now, in the conventional sense we can say that there are problems and imperfections, BUT, they only exist when you judge them as such. Judge not and you’ll find there ARE no imperfections. Let go of defining things as imperfect (because they never were in the first place), and you will no longer experience imperfection.

In my reality, there is no imperfection. Not even world hunger, child abuse, rape, terrorism, or even some of the less extreme and more everyday examples like us getting angry, being in debt, or having insecurities. Those too are perfect. Perhaps not as pleasurable as other options, but everything that happens is exactly what needs to happen in that moment.
Marko said:

Ariel, Can perfection exist without imperfection?

If all is perfect, it is not really perfect at all, because there is no context by which to compare what perfection really is. Therefore, it would not exist. Perfection can only exist within imperfection as its contextual contrasting counterpoint.

Embracing being perfectly imperfect is what the human condition allows us to experience.

Perfection is not even necessary. If we have peace and harmony within and without that is experiencing perfection within imperfection.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
February 7th, 2009 at 3:27 am
You’re definitely right that in a sense, we need to experience the contrast of imperfection until it falls away and we realize it wasn’t actually there in the first place.

In the absence of That Which Is Not, That Which Is is not.

Perfectly imperfect is a perfect way of looking at things from one perspective.

However, that assumption springs from the dualistic mind because, at least the way I understand the meaning of that phrase, it’s assuming that it is perfect to be imperfect. Is it also imperfect to be perfect? Not really. If the two were really the same thing, the statement would be valid in both directions.

A = B and B = A

ie. The One is the All and the All are the One.

In this case it’s only one way. ie. Being human implies being a mammal, but being a mammal doesn’t imply being human.

What seems to come up as the dualistic viewpoint dissolves is that perfection and imperfection are actually identical. Because there’s nothing wrong with the system and it’s functioning exactly the way it is designed, it is perfect. Even imperfection literally is perfection.

There is only the One. They may appear to be two different things, but they’re the exact same thing. There is no differentiation. A weed is just as beautiful as a rose.

Everything is All That Is, appearing as this or that. Seeing through the appearance of perfection or imperfection, you see God itself.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
February 7th, 2009 at 3:51 am
That sounded a little convoluted. Let’s try that again.

Perfectly imperfect. Sounds like it implies imperfection is the default, but the imperfection is perfect. You know, like we’re imperfect human beings, sinners.

Ultimately we’re divine beings expressing ourselves as humans. We are perfection, which can be labeled by the mind as imperfect.

There’s only Love, but you can create fear in the imagination. There is only perfection, but you can create imperfection in the imagination.

Everything that happens is exactly what needs to happen. That’s perfection.

Ideally we can drop all mental labels: perfect, imperfect, perfectly imperfect… and find what remains. Give that a name and it’s perfection.

Marko Reply:
February 7th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Perfection and Imperfection are one and the same and also opposites and not the same.

It could be called the apparent divine paradoxical dichotomy.

As I said in my previous post. “Perfection is not even necessary. If we have peace and harmony within and without that is experiencing perfection within [the supposed]imperfection.”

When you say “Ideally we can drop all mental labels: perfect, imperfect, perfectly imperfect… and find what remains. Give that a name and it’s perfection.” That name is in itself a label of sorts. No biggie though.

To me, the most important element is that if we are experiencing peace and harmony in our selves and also in the world at large it will seem like perfection because another name for perfection is harmony.

Ultimately I think when we say we desire perfection we are really saying we desire harmony.

Within that peace and harmony the lines of perfection and imperfection can blur much more, even within the context of being distinct and different from each other.

I’m not all that personally caught uP in the mind game of ego, duality etc.

However, It’s fun to poke around and play the intellectual spiritual game of constructing and deconstructing and clarifying and articulating spiritual ideas as crisp, clean and as clear as we can though.

As our evolution advances we articulate ourselves better as well, expanding and reinventing the art and science of language by extending their boundaries more just like our own spiritual expansion.

Ya know telepathy is cool and clean and pure, but I still love the human voice and singing we know, is an expression of beauty, perfection and many other descriptives.

One mans perfection is another mans imperfection and vice versa.

I also think our definition/perspective/attitude of perfection can change and grow as well.

In the end however, it’s our own Inner Peace and Harmony that will give the feeling and experience we seek in having perfection.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
February 7th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Cool discussion, Marko.

“When you say “Ideally we can drop all mental labels: perfect, imperfect, perfectly imperfect… and find what remains. Give that a name and it’s perfection.” That name is in itself a label of sorts. No biggie though.”

Of course. I’m glad you brought that up. The difference is one is a belief and another is a subjective translation of the direct experience of the Self. But of course they’re both labels in the end.

“To me, the most important element is that if we are experiencing peace and harmony in our selves and also in the world at large it will seem like perfection because another name for perfection is harmony.”

Wonderful! There’s so many aspects of what is that can be focused upon. Love, grace, perfection, harmony, peace, unity, acceptance, consciousness… they all go hand in hand.

“Perfection is not even necessary. If we have peace and harmony within and without that is experiencing perfection within [the supposed]imperfection.”

That’s a good point. People who “strive for perfection” are often trying to hit a mental ideal that can never be reached. Seeking peace and harmony first, essentially the end of suffering, is what the path of enlightenment is all about. Self-realization brings about the realization of perfection as a sort of bonus it seems.

Marko Reply:
February 7th, 2009 at 5:23 am
“Seeking peace and harmony first, essentially the end of suffering, is what the path of enlightenment is all about. Self-realization brings about the realization of perfection as a sort of bonus it seems.”

Great point! “perfection as a sort of bonus..”

Yes Ariel, cool discussion, but it’s sooo late at night or early morn, my eyes are as heavy as the national debt and need to rest uP to see if this all makes sense in the morning, which I believe it will.

But in any case, this is fun and enlightening at the same time and that’s a nice way to experience life.
Marko said:

Oh yea you said Ariel “Ultimately we’re divine beings expressing ourselves as humans. We are perfection, which can be labeled by the mind as imperfect.”

Nice. :-)
Ashen said:

I know some of you are going to insist that I’ve missed the point.
But perfection… from your heated apartment with a fridge full of food sounds great.

Is it perfect then, and all the relative atoms aligned when a child dies of starvation…

or is it just another ‘lol’ moment of the universe.

Ariel Bravy Reply:
March 11th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Ashen, check out this post: http://www.youaretrulyloved.co.....g-perfect/