Perfection/Boredom
We often live boring lives in our futile attempt to achieve perfection. It happens on many levels at all ages. Matters zilch to cultures, religions, nations... it's ubiquitous and a necessary mechanism to living. Not only do we bore ourselves but we bore each other in our boredom. Not that boredom should be a permanent state... it is not. But in our quest for this ideal of perfection we grow bored with the same path, same pursuit, same hope of achievement and yet we go on and on, passing this ideal onto our progeny in hope they will achieve perfection.We are programmed people each with our own capability and with our capabilities lies the methodology to achieve our level of the illusive perfection: the act or process of perfecting.
We have collectively achieved various levels of perfection, so many I will not bore you with lists, but look at mankind's many inventions throughout our history and you may agree. Although achievements such as flight and communications as examples have indeed been perfect stepping stones to continue evolving, it was boredom with the status quo that further 'perfected' that which had been perfected. 'Old Bore' made us move onwards. Our choice was to repeat ourselves endlessly with the same invention or use that invention to move beyond that same place. Moving on is what we do. We have little choice when boredom moves in, using up our happiness, our comfort, stealing our contentedness, bore boring us close to a death-like grip. We move on.
There are those individuals that persist, time having little bearing, with the ideal of a certain perfection waiting to be had out of whatever it is those few persist in defining. But boredom will set in. It is inevitable. It is what gives us impetus to move, to change, to further our search for the "Grail of Perfection." We inherently want perfection, need some type of perfection to put our mind at ease, if only momentarily. But even that moment of perfection that we know is attainable is what drives us to achieve, to create, to adjust, tinker with. It's what has driven us since we began thinking - putting mind into gear and exploring, creating, seeking perfection on all and every level of our being.
Perfection and boredom exist hand-in-hand, yin and yang. Each are not living alone within a vacuum but feed off each other in a balance. But mind negates this balance and swears allegiance to but one side, placing the other side into the shadows... a darkness that staves off happiness. But it is not the side which is dark, but our lack of light that perceives a dark side. When boredom enters our perception of perfection darkens and vice versa - whenever the possibility of perfection enters boredom darkens. Our perfectly boring mind boring perfection until we yet again persist in achieving an ideal of perfect perfection.
The perfection in knowing ultimately requires no mind
where perfection is witnessed and not judged,
where perfection never began and never ends,
Now is perfection
without the perception
* * *
where perfection is witnessed and not judged,
where perfection never began and never ends,
Now is perfection
without the perception
* * *
Cecil
26 March 2006
Bonnet and Basket of Apples Bench Sculpture
(Photo: Cecil in Asheville, NC, March '06)
(Photo: Cecil in Asheville, NC, March '06)
