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Embracing Imperfection with Mindfulness Insight Meditation
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Passage by Sharon Salzberg from Finding Your Way: Meditations, Thoughts, and Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life : • Perfectionism • For me, I see a cherry pie hot from the oven as an image of perfection. The shape is perfectly round with the artful lattice crust. There is a perfect moment to eat it, when it is warm enough to melt the ice cream but not so cool that the cherries are less fragrant. Yet you are marring that perfection when you cut into the pie, even if you cut a perfectly proportioned slice. At every moment we interact, the sense of “perfection” is changing. A multitude of perfects arrives moment by moment and transitions from perfect to imperfect whether or not we’re observing them. To deny the truth of change, to hold on to the “perfect,” is delusion, or perfectionism. • Similarly, there is perfect love and there is perfectionism, which is a barrier to love. • Perfectionism is a brittle state focused on achieving and maintaining unwavering external standards. This is a life that is always under threat and focused on avoiding failure. When we’re consumed by perfectionism, we have a negative orientation; and love for the self cannot be a refuge, because love has become too conditional, too much based on measuring performance. The illusion that supports perfectionism is the notion that, with superior self-control, we can sustain a perfect life. But one lapse and we’re not perfect anymore, and our sense of ourselves plummets, taking love with it. • Real love is not about distinct objects presenting their perfections to each other. There is perfection in the connection to our shared vulnerability, not in a perfect life that guards against having any vulnerabilities at all. Through lovingkindness, compassion, and forgiveness, we can learn to accept and love our flawed and imperfect selves. • Of course, we are not perfect, but we are enough and we are complete in this moment just as we are. • --- • 🧘🏻♂️Free Discovery Chat for Mindfulness or Spiritual Coaching, Meditation Instruction, or Sound Healing - https://debphelps.com/private-session... • 🙏🏻Live Classes, Full Meditation Library Articles - https://peacefulwellness.studio • 🤲🏻 Peaceful Journey to Wellness Facebook Group - / peacefulwellnesssangha • 🧘🏻♂️Meditation Teacher Training - https://peacefulwellness.institute • Deb Phelps - https://debphelps.com • Facebook - / peacefulwellnesswithdeb • Instagram - / peacefulwellnesswithdeb • 06/07/24
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