Can we transcend illusion and doubt in our own lives and proceed with certainty on the path of perfection?

Question

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Answer 1

We are all perfect!

Its others ideals of perfection that are not!

Answer 2

The Path of Perfection is our only goal.  Saint Catherine of Siena, in her "Dialogue" is told by Jesus, "Become another me."  It is that simple and it is totally complete in its simplicity.

Answer 3

We continue to do so with things like knowledge,and fundamental risks such as global warming.

And,incidently though importantly for philosophy everywhere,we must learn from our mistakes(and not-to-take-advantage from others too;except a critical one that is).



When the "positivist" educators tried to alter education during the last century(origin,europe)by trying to get rid of metaphysics from the long-list-of-knowledge which we know makes life interesting/purposeful- they didnt succeed;If they had,we would have had to "transcend (more)..illusion and doubt" within our own  and other educator's lives.

Answer 4

Speaking in "generalities" I'll say, "doubt" is evidence of an intelligent mind that SHOULD always question everything!

Faith in God can give us certainty that our spiritual lives can strive toward perfection.

Answer 5

No we cant. We can't just emerge above reason and ignore the technicalities of  so cALLED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-where everything has got to conform with certainty. This is looking at the practical, ephemeral, and worldly side of life.

In another view, we have to transcend illusion and doubt eradicated by faith in God ,to be able to proceed to path of perfection.

Answer 6

Even if it may be possible to liberate our mind and be sure of the path to perfection through meditation and similar powerful methods, I believe that our physical body presents insurmountable hurdles due to its limitations and boundaries and weaknesses and frailties. However, liberating the mind would ensure certainty of progress towards perfection and the soul would attain it completely no sooner it is freed from the physical body either through death or 'samadhi'   ('samadhi' is a Sanskrit word denoting voluntary withdrawal of the soul from the body without any act of suicide)

Answer 7

First we imagine we do not know what we really are,then imagine something to be ourself that we are not.

To experience ourselves we must withdraw our attention

from thought and the world and direct that attension selfwards.

This is possble only when we stop imagining and must

instead attend keenly to our self consciousness to become

perfect.

Answer 8

Perfection IS illusion.

Answer 9

No, but we could learn to doubt more wisely.

Answer 10

No we must accept doubt because illusion is always one possibility and that is why the path to perfection is a fallacy.

Answer 11

That implies that perfection is bounded and fixed in some way.  Rather, it seems preferable embrace uncertainty and explore possibilities, finding elements of an ever changing 'perfection' along the way.  As for transcending illusion, who is to say what is illusion when reality is a personal construct?

Answer 12

We transcend illusion and doubt thru accepting uncertainty, and realising we have always been on the path th 'perfection'.

Answer 13

You can strive for perfection, but miss out on the joys of making mistakes. In the end, we learn more from our mistakes, then anything else. As a child, touching a hot pan once ensures that you'll never do that again, same thing applies in work, love, life.

Answer 14

Certitude is the pathology of modernity.