chapter 33 - Perfection of existence

The incorrect thinking and egoistic belief of the impure thinking faculty, the greedy passionate selfish intention and desire of the selfish ego, and the faulty discrimination of the limited intellect generate all kinds of duality that give rise to the perception of happiness and suffering in the mind that deeply influences how we think and judge, how we perceive and understand the world, and how we act and react towards what we perceive, understand, judge, think and feel, which usually will lead to unnecessary disappointment, dissatisfaction, frustration, hurt, anger, hatred, sorrow, fear and worry.

However, the mind also has the ability of awareness, conscience, will power, positive thinking, compassion and wisdom, that give rise to the power to change and transcend this condition of imperfection in the mind.

We all are living in a conditioned and limited world of selfless impermanent names and forms, and having a conditioned and limited selfless impermanent physical body and thinking mind, but we don't have to be determined or affected by these imperfect impure conditions and limitations. And the so called imperfections (ceaseless and selfless impermanent changes) according to the human’s impure thinking mind under the function of the impure intellect and the selfish assertive ego under the influence of ignorance and egoism, are actually the perfection of existence.

The four seasons, the changes of tides, the day and the night, the cold and the heat, the state of sleeping and waking, birth (forming), changes (growth and decay) and death (decomposition), everything works so well together.

Imagine if the earth stopped spinning and only one side of the earth is getting all the sunlight and heat all the time and the other side is in darkness and coldness all the time. What a difficult situation it can be!

This vast universe must have a beginning of existence and of course it will come to destruction or ceased existence as well. This is a logical law of the nature.

Just take a deep look at all the lives, objects and things around us. They all are going through the same process of forming, sustaining, decaying and disintegration.

The earth is under going this same process as well. The only difference is the length of time to complete one cycle of becoming, sustaining, changing and disintegration.

Although the highest level of self-evolution is to achieve Samadhi, where there is no birth, no death, no beginning, no ending, just pure consciousness, pure bliss, and pure knowledge, and is free from worldly inevitable suffering that is also impermanent, but before that can happen, we still can free ourselves right now from feeling miserable or unhappy towards the perception of inevitable suffering deriving from the impermanent selfless existence of names and forms under going ceaseless and selfless births and deaths, which sprung from the mind, happens in the mind, and will dissolved in the mind.

Let us cherish all kinds of impermanent names and forms in the present moment, the power of nature, the existence of life under the limited conditional physical body, the perceptive cognitive thinking mind, and the function of the sense organs and the senses to be experiencing so many varieties of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations and imaginations/feelings/emotions as they are, without attachment, and be happy.

Hari Om Tat Sat.