LIVE EACH MOMENT IN PERFECTION

  Years ago, when I was living in Hong Kong, a phrase came to me:

“Live each moment in perfection, and every other moment will follow in succession.”

What I meant wasn’t perfection in the rigid, performance-based, Western sense.
It wasn’t control. It wasn’t morality.

It was alignment—a state of being so presentthat everything flows from it naturally.
Effortlessly. Like nature.

Perfection as Harmony, Not Judgment

This kind of perfection is not about "getting it right."
It’s about tuning to a frequency—the way an instrument is tuned before a concert.

In Western thinking, we often see life as a weighing scale: right vs. wrong, sin vs. virtue.
This dualism, influenced by Greek logic and early Christian frameworks, encourages the mind to judge, compare, and categorize.

But in Eastern systems—like Taoism, Vedanta, and Zen—the emphasis is not on morality but on flow.

On resonance.

On alignment with the Tao, with the Self, with the now.

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Nature Teaches Us the Law of Alignment

Think of the sea foaming gently at the edge of the sand.

In that one stretch of water, a million micro-movements are occurring:

– Chemistry
– Physics
– Gravity
– Vibration
– Erosion
– Rebirth

It’s chaos. And it’s harmony.

Not because it’s organized or efficient—but because it is in relationship with everything around it.

This is how nature functions.
And this is how we were meant to live.

Even when a forest burns, there is perfection in that cycle.
Even when something crumbles, it transforms:
– Ash becomes soil
– Coal becomes crystal
– Death becomes root

There is no “good” or “bad” here.
Only phases of transformation and coherence.

Coherence vs. Discord: Trauma as Disconnection

When we are aligned—within our bodies, our breath, our surroundings, and our soul’s rhythm—we flow like nature. Every moment leads to the next, the way one brushstroke leads another in marble art, or one musical note naturally follows another in a scale.

There’s a term in systems theory and physics for this:

Coherence.

“A coherent system is one in which each part is dynamically aligned with the whole.”
— Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life

By contrast, trauma—true trauma—is a rupture in coherence.
It is not only what happens to us, but what happens in us as a result.

“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.”
— Gabor Maté

When something violates the natural flow of life—violence, abandonment, betrayal, systemic oppression—we disconnect.

We disconnect from safety, from rhythm, from our breath, from our voice, from the Self.

This is not sin.
This is dis-alignment.

The Shift from Sin to Resonance

In ancient Christian tradition, sin was often described as “missing the mark” (hamartia in Greek).
But over time, the West layered guilt, shame, and eternal judgment over it.

In mystical Christianity, Kabbalah, Buddhism, and Hinduism, however, we return to the core idea:

We fall out of harmony, and the task is not punishment—it is return.

Return to source.
Return to coherence.
Return to the sacred root of being.

This is the journey of living the soul led life—of present awareness, attunement, and the quiet mastery of returning again and again.

Presence as the Master Frequency

Even emotions like anger or grief belong—when they are aligned, when they are met with presence.

Even the lion chasing the gazelle is not “wrong.”
It is life responding to life in tune with nature’s flow.

Presence does not mean peace.

Presence means truth.

“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”
— Eckhart Tolle

You can be in grief and still be aligned.
You can be in conflict and still be coherent.

What disrupts us is not emotion—it is resistance to emotion.
It is disconnection from the present.

The Samurai & the Weapon of Detachment

The Samurai masters, too, knew this.
Their philosophy centered on training the mind and body to live in death—that is, with no clinging, no fear, no hesitation.

To be fully alive in each moment, unattached to the next.

This is what the Bhagavad Gita calls the weapon of detachment:

“You have the right to your action, but not to the fruits of your action. Act without attachment.”
— Gita 2:47

It is this quality that made Miyamoto Musashi, the undefeated swordsman, so lethal—not rage, not force, but his clarity.

He trained himself to be hyper-focused on the tip of the blade, while also maintaining peripheral awareness of the entire field.

He lived inside each moment in its perfection—attuned, present, prepared.
This is Zanshin.

Harmony Is Always Available

So let go of control.

Stop gripping life so tightly.

Let your moments swirl and rise like pigments in water—guided not by force, but by presence.

When you live each moment in alignment—whether in motion or stillness, grief or joy—
 

the next will follow in succession.

The ripple begins within.

And the wave, the sea, the dance of your life, will flow in tune with the cosmos.