I’d like to invite us to imagine. What if we were to view everything as neither right nor wrong but perfect? I invite you to really give that thought a chance to filter through your mind and heart. Would you find the world an easier place to live in? Would you feel more empowered? Would you feel more at peace with the world and all the people and situations in it?

I know that when I truly give this perspective a chance, I feel a great lifting of burdens, emotionally, mentally and even physically. I experience a great sense of peace and a quiet joy arises within me, a sense of equilibrium, or as they say in Buddhism, equanimity. I am effectively released from all the quarrels and misgivings I have held towards various people and events.

I consider this view a valid one because I am acutely aware, and increasingly so, that my view of the world, is from but one vantage point in a field of infinite vantage points. Thus, I can only see one tiny, pinhole view of events. It is a very limited view indeed. If I should allow this view to represent the total view possible, it would be a misrepresentation at best and a grand illusion at worst.

Some people consider this view a ‘cop-out’. “How can you ignore the reality of war, of poverty, of abuse etc?” they rage. Is all of that ‘perfect’?

When these sentiments are expressed, what we fail to realize is that we are merely substituting the word or idea of ‘right’ with the word ‘perfect’. That is not my purpose.

My purpose for using the word ‘perfect’ is not as a euphemism, a politically correct way of saying ‘right’, and by implication, still engaging in the duality of right and wrong. No, my purpose is a much grander one! It is one that I hope encourages us to accept the reality of the world – war happens, poverty happens, abuse happens. That is a reality. That reality is no more and no less. In that sense it is perfect.

What is more, that reality expresses a plethora of ideas, beliefs, interests, values, all of which arise from individual minds and hearts and not some phantom, indefinable ‘they’ or ‘us’. Are we prepared to examine our own minds and hearts to search for the basis, the beliefs, that underlie our personal views about this reality?

The Buddha made this profound observation:

With your thoughts, you create the world.

Ultimately, wars, poverty, abuse etc exist as a result of our thoughts, individual and collective. How we think of things creates them. So we have this rather intractable situation: We see war and we create it or create more of it. By quarreling with it, by fighting it, by condemning it, we create more of it because ‘war’ is building in our minds and hearts as a result of our thoughts!

On the other hand, by accepting the perfection of all things, that they are just so, we remain in peace. We maintain equanimity. This is a far better state from which to engage with the world, or should I say, this is a far better state with which to create the world!

Seeing the perfection of all things does not at all mean being indifferent or giving up. To begin with, there is nothing to ‘give up’ other than our internal wars! And rather than indifference, we now have a state of equanimity, of peace and quiet joy in which we can make clear, loving and creative choices. We can make the decision to act and speak and write lovingly and peacefully so that those whom we interact with experience only our peace and love. Such an experience has a flow-on, far-reaching effect (as does every experience). The person who experiences true peace and love and who maintains an inner state of the same can only radiate the same.

You are not going to get much good out of smacking a child or criticizing it. You only add to its internal unrest and ill-feeling. If we regard something as undesirable or unhelpful, than we can, from a place of peace and love, intend something else. This intention draws creative energy to it, energy which ultimately manifests as physical, material reality.

You really do not have to fight with or against anything in order to create something better or more desirable or more useful. But you do have to envision something better, intend it and allow its creative manifestation. Everything, without exception, no matter how abominable it may appear to the conditioned mind, is perfect in its presence, time and order. In the all-seeing mind, all is perfect.

Once again, I invite us to remember the words of Buckminster Fuller:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Love Always, Lucy
How shall I serve you, my Love?

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