Why Do You Need To Be Perfect/Complete?

[gettoefl]

15 hours ago, Moksha said:

Perfection isn't what people think it is. It's about alignment, or getting out of your own way. The more conditions you place on existence, the less perfect life will be. Live unconditionally, in the flow state, and the absolute will experience its creation perfectly through you.

daniel brown would echo your words:

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=98A39B85ADEEDA1C!4108&ithint=file%2cdocx&authkey=!ALpq-rOsSXG_m0M

 

[Moksha]

11 hours ago, SOUL said:

if I were to amend one aspect of this it would be that the conditions one places on existence the less perfect life that is it perceived as.  The perfection of life doesn't change because of the conditions one would place on it but the perception of life will appear less than perfect to those who use a conditional filter to view it.

In life, perception is reality. The more blinded the absolute is by its attachments, the less perfect its experience will be. Misidentification is suffering. Lucidity is freedom. When the absolute clears the portal of a particular perspective, and flows unconditionally through it, the experience of the cosmos becomes sublime. There are still apparent highs and lows in life, but the absolute no longer loses itself within them, and brings its light into every situation it encounters.

@Ayham Whenever you feel inadequate and condemn yourself as terrible, take a step back and ask who is passing this judgment. Is it the absolute, which is your essence, or is it the conditioned personality of the mind?

@gettoefl Thank you for sharing. Although I had to look up "pith instructions" , I resonate with Dan Brown's realizations.

Another analogy for enlightenment is launching a rocket into orbit. At first, gravity tries to prevent you from leaving the planet, and the pressure only increases until you pass the critical threshold. Most rockets fail their first few launches. The resistance is too strong, or the rocket lacks the structural integrity to survive the ascent.

A successful launch requires a rocket with the single-pointed sincerity to remain intact, and sufficient fuel (suffering) to overcome the enormous gravity of the conditioned mind. To accelerate the ascent, the rocket releases most of its mass, and propels the tiny capsule higher into space. Once the threshold has been passed, gravity begins to release its hold, and the capsule merges with the deep of the absolute.

The planet isn't abandoned, otherwise the capsule wouldn't survive. A tenuous orbit is necessary to remain within the cosmos, but the capsule is only loosely bound by the planet, and it is relatively free to fly through outer space.

[Ayham]

@Moksha thank you for the advice 

[Schizophonia]

You can wonder all you want, the reality is that it's just the fear of being seen as mediocre by the people you like or want them to like you, especially women. 

Note that you want women in part to satisfy the looks of others etc in a potentially infinite loop to feed you energy.
lol

[CARDOZZO]

@Schizophonia

It's like: you have to be ABC (Ideal) to have XYZ , if you don't reach it, you're a failure. 

I'm making progress... uncovering the shadow! 

[SOUL]

4 hours ago, Moksha said:

In life, perception is reality.

In life one can perceive a bus racing towards them while standing in its path as harmless but the bus doesn't change its harmfulness because of one's perception of it.

[Moksha]

3 minutes ago, SOUL said:

In life one can perceive a bus racing towards them while standing in its path as harmless but the bus doesn't change its harmfulness because of one's perception of it.

A guru still steps out of the way to avoid the bus. If he doesn't, his perspective ends. It's precisely the transience of perspective that makes it precious, and worth preserving.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it isn't worth experiencing, especially lucidly, free from the clutter of conditioning.

[SOUL]

Just now, Moksha said:

A guru still steps out of the way to avoid the bus. If he doesn't, his perspective ends. It's precisely the transience of perspective that makes it precious, and worth preserving.

Just because it's a dream doesn't mean it isn't worth experiencing, especially lucidly, free from the clutter of conditioning.

Perception isn't reality, it's how we perceive life and the conditions we place on it will alter our view of it but there is a genuine reality that our perception of it doesn't change what it actually is. This very real distinction gets blurred by the mystical notions of 'we create our reality' that is fostered in the solipsistic belief.

Things like 'perfection' and 'good/evil' to a degree are subjective perspectives that are more flexible in experience of life within our perception but the moon doesn't disappear just because we aren't looking at it. 'Ye are gods but will die like mortal men'.

[Razard86]

The Only One Who Decides Who/What is Perfect is You. Take Back Your Authority and Declare and Accept That You Are Pure Perfection With Distorted Glasses That Hide Your Ability to Perceive/Experience Your Perfection. 

Seek to clear the distorted lens (egoic beliefs/social conditioning) and drop it completely so the perfection that you are is laid bare and naked. 

[Moksha]

52 minutes ago, SOUL said:

Perception isn't reality, it's how we perceive life and the conditions we place on it will alter our view of it but there is a genuine reality that our perception of it doesn't change what it actually is. This very real distinction gets blurred by the mystical notions of 'we create our reality' that is fostered in the solipsistic belief.

When I say that perception is reality, I'm referring to the relative. The quality of your experience in the cosmos depends on the clarity of your perspective.

Absolute reality is changeless, timeless, and limitless. The perceiver and the perceived continuously arise and dissolve within the dualistic, transient dream of the absolute. Ask who is observing the rising and setting of the moon, and realize that neither the observer nor the moon is absolutely real. You are the essential awareness that is within and beyond the appearance of both the observer and the moon.

[SOUL]

3 hours ago, Moksha said:

When I say that perception is reality, I'm referring to the relative. The quality of your experience in the cosmos depends on the clarity of your perspective.

Absolute reality is changeless, timeless, and limitless. The perceiver and the perceived continuously arise and dissolve within the dualistic, transient dream of the absolute. Ask who is observing the rising and setting of the moon, and realize that neither the observer nor the moon is absolutely real. You are the essential awareness that is within and beyond the appearance of both the observer and the moon.

You can go deeper and deeper into the mystical rhetoric all you like but the reality is the sun and moon don't require your attention to rise and set. Both will do so no matter what or how you perceive them. Reality doesn't change according to your perception of it yet our perception of it changes with the conditions we view it through.

[Moksha]

21 minutes ago, SOUL said:

You can go deeper and deeper into the mystical rhetoric all you like but the reality is the sun and moon don't require your attention to rise and set. Both will do so no matter what or how you perceive them. Reality doesn't change according to your perception of it yet our perception of it changes with the conditions we view it through.

It seems like mystical rhetoric until reality is directly realized. The you that perceives the sun and moon is no more absolutely real than the forms of the sun and moon are.

[SOUL]

6 minutes ago, Moksha said:

It seems like mystical rhetoric until reality is directly realized. The you that perceives the sun and moon is no more absolutely real than the forms of the sun and moon are.

Your direct realization can not change one iota about the sun and moon, just change your perception of them. We can believe the sun and the moon are no more real than the one who perceives them but the sun will burn us nonetheless and the moon winks from the sky at the hubris.