If you experience things in the moment, without thinking in terms of the past and the future, just right here in the now, and see the isness of what is here, you will recognize the perfection we’re talking about. You won’t be looking at what is here through the filter of your ideas, which are the result of what you heard or saw in the past or what you think is going to happen in the future. Holy Perfection is the perfection of what is, and reality exists only now, only in this moment—without the concept of time, without your ideas about what’s going to happen tomorrow or what’s not going to happen tomorrow, without your ideas about what should or shouldn’t happen, without judgments of good and bad—just the experience of the isness of the now. If we see reality the way it is right now, we see that everything we perceive is coemergent with Being, everything is made up of Essence. Everything—your body, your mind, your feelings, your thoughts, physical objects—everything is made out of that complete pure beingness of presence. This is the experience of Holy Perfection. – Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas, ch. 14
To see reality from the perspective of Holy Perfection means to see that reality is just right as it is; it does not need changes or corrections. This is a very radical notion. If you really took it seriously, you would stop doing many of the things that you do. The moment you see that everything, at every moment, is perfect, you see that your effort to make things better is pointless. You see that what really needs to be done is to observe your mind, your consciousness, in order to see why it is obscured, why it does not see things clearly, and what is making your mirror so cloudy. – Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas, ch. 14
Holy Perfection reveals that the way things are, and the way they move, are perfect. Seeing the perfection of the way things are, is seeing the perfection of Holy Truth. Seeing the perfection of the way things move is seeing the perfection of Holy Will which, as we have seen, has to do with change and transformation. Holy Truth and Holy Will are relatively acceptable to people, but Holy Perfection is one of the Holy Ideas that many have difficulty with. If we really accept what Holy Perfection tells us about the objective state of things, we can’t complain about how anything is, or about anything that happens. – Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas, ch. 14
When you really experience the feeling of wrongness and recognize that it is based on the delusion that there is something wrong someplace, it becomes possible to see Holy Perfection. When reality is seen in its objectivity, there is not only the luminous sense of perfection and completeness, but there is also the cessation or lessening of the activity of mental checking and comparison and trying to change your state. You begin to leave yourself alone more, and at some point, you don’t even think about whether what you experience is good or bad. There is a sense of settledness, lightness, or softness. A sense of holding and trust manifests that things are right and will be right in an intrinsic way, that the universe is all right and functions in an intelligent way.
So perceiving Holy Perfection allows basic trust to arise. If everything is perfect, then we can trust it. We can trust its functioning and its changes because we realize in an intrinsic way that it is all right. Basic trust means trust about the fundamentals, about the intrinsic nature of things, about ultimate reality. – Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas, Ch. 14