How to become perfect for profit & pleasure

 

 

 

Introduction

 

The New Oxford Dictionary naively mis-defines ‘perfect’ as: ‘having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.’ Discrete analysis reveals that the NOD does not actually define the word ‘perfect’ but describes vaguely some selected after-effects of the achievement of perfection. The word ‘perfect’ is derived from Latin perfectus, ‘completed’, from the verb perficere, from per- ‘through completely’ + ficere ‘do’. A function (i.e. any 1 of n) is perfect when done, completed, ended. Before a function is done it is still un-done, hence not done, consequently, imperfect. Once a process (for instance a life) is done/ended it’s no longer a (living) process but a dead (i.e. lifeless, deathless) fact. Therefore, the term ‘perfect’, meaning ‘done,’ actually means: (interaction, hence action) dead.

 

 

Steps

 

·         Become acutely aware of being in the middle of a process, i.e. of not yet being done, hence complete, whole, therefore perfect.

·         Decide (i.e. by imagining or inventing) a suitable ending to your process.

·         Decide a strategy by means of which process completion might be achieved, e.g. Return to GO, Advance to Stop or Crash (i.e. sudden death). 

·         Activate your strategy and apply it relentlessly and fearlessly until the end (i.e. as fact) you have decided upon is achieved.

·         Profit and/or enjoy the achievement of the ending of the (imperfect) process, hence the moment of perfection.

·         Realise that ending as such, therefore perfection as such, is merely virtual ending, hence virtual perfection.

·         (Optional) Make your virtual ending/perfection an actual reality, hence really perfect, by colliding it on-end with any 1 of n virtual states of perfection.

·         Profit and/or enjoy the awesome after-affects of the perfect reality created by the on-end collision of the two virtual states of perfection.

 

 

Tips

 

·         Proceed discretely

·         Proceed naturally, i.e. use your natural rather than cultural abilities.

·         Check out St Augustine’s definition of Original Imperfection, i.e. sin. He got the idea of Original Sin right, but for the wrong reason.

·         Occam realised that shorter is more perfect than longer. Use Occam’s razor to shave your guru to a point. Then observe (or experience), laterally.

 

 

Warnings

 

·         Don’t confuse the notion (and/or experience) of ‘perfect’ with the after-affects of becoming perfect (i.e. as notion or experience), such as realness/truth, freedom, joy and so on.

·         Abstract perfection ideals, i.e. universal or cultic ‘bests’ to be achieved, emerged both in ancient India and Greece. The notion of an unsurpassed, permanent ‘best’ or ‘good’ somewhere out there or in there was eliminated by Einstein’s relativism on the one hand and Planck’s quantum absolutism on the other.

·         If your guru/teacher/ruler talks of perfection, i.e. of an unsurpassable ‘best’ state of perfection to be achieved, he is conning you. All states save the bit are imperfect.

 

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