Nad A.:
Can you post one thing that is perfect about your desk or cubicle? I don't know what kind of perfection you're talking about. I don't think the perfection being described is something specific to individual objects. There is nothing necessarily perfect about the desk... As far as I know and have experienced, the perfection is the total absence of affective imperfection/impurities ('me', feelings) being pasted onto the desk (and the rest of the universe). There's no way to run through different objects without giving the exact same answer for each object.
saying that no specific object is perfect - that no particular quality of any object is perfect - is the same as saying nothing is perfect. yet, in actuality, everything is perfect.. meaning every quality of every object is perfect. hence all objects being "extraordinarily ordinary", being right where they should be, no need to do or change anything.
i've been staring at a plastic cup w/ some green veggie juice in it, today. normally quite unremarkable. yet when i gaze at it.. the light is reflecting off of the top. the top is coated with flecks of green here and there. touching it, it has a really smooth feel to it. the juice inside isn't fully homogeneous so it's all swirling about in there. if i shake the cup the liquid moves around in a fun to watch way - how the juice rolls off the side of the plastic cup. i'm not in a PCE but enjoying the cup in that way really causes the cup and everything around it to stand out in a very enjoyable way.
how could i give that answer if i were talking about a desk or a landscape or a person? or looking at the text on this screen? it's all different and unique, yet perfect indeed. saying each object will give the same answer is a lack of naivete - will it, really? have you looked at each object?
a quote
from tarin on getting more and more glimpses of perfection:
tarin:
...what i recommend is to, in no uncertain terms, enjoy this moment of being alive (which is markedly different from, and superior to, merely 'deciding to be fine' with it). such enjoyment will, over time, occasionally reveal the traits of perfection, similar to how if one gazes at a pond, one will occasionally see sparkles of light reflecting off of fish which have come to the surface at the right spots. someone who catches enough of these sparkles will get an idea of what i mean by the traits of perfection soon or later (and will be having a great time meanwhile).. and someone with a zest for enjoying themselves (who has an enthusiasm for gusto) will catch enough of these sparkles sooner rather than later. (there, could i really drop any more hints than i just have?)