Perfection
“It’s not in the accumulation of wonderful capacities, but the stripping away”
I love it when dharma teacher Rob Burbea uses words like perfection in a soulful way. This is so different from perfectionism with its self-criticising and striving to be good enough. It’s more about embodying perfection in a fulfilling way. It is given and not needing to be achieved. It’s embedded into the way of looking and experiencing, and so it enriches and beautifies our inner world.
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Some snippets from Rob’s talk Perfection and Christ’s Blessing:
Sometimes we have a very different sense of perfection, our perfection, the perfection of being, the perfection that runs through being, existence.
There’s some kind of beauty of God’s grace that has nothing to do with ‘perfection’ in the way that we usually understand it or think of it, becoming perfect.
It’s not in the accumulation of wonderful capacities, but the stripping away — the loss, the dukkha, the misery, incapacity.
The soul senses something. Something opens. We glimpse something. We taste something. The heart knows something. The heart and the soul know something. We see it. We feel it.
