I was watching the TV news a few days ago and I saw an attractive young woman reading the news and I thought “her hair is not perfect whereas anyones' baldness is”.
I didn't know why I thought this – it seemed unfair. So I thought about it some more and I think this is why:
the presence of hair is a manifestation of hair, of some “thing” and all things are imperfect because we tend to compare them to a “perfect” model of them in our minds [even if we don't have a clear idea of what that model is like]. The perfection of some thing in manifestation is an impossible thing to achieve.
On the other hand baldness is not a manifestation of some “thing” at all. In fact, it is just the opposite – it is the non-manifestation of some “thing”, namely hair. Now, perfect non-manifestation is possible.
For example, in the room where I am typing this there is an “imperfect” TV – it could always be better in some way – smaller or bigger or brighter etc-- imperfect manifestation. In the same room there is the perfect non-manifestation of an elephant. It is so perfectly not here – it couldn't be more “not here” -- perfect non-manifestation.
So along these lines I make the statement that a haired head is always imperfect [in it's hairiness] whereas a bald head is perfection indeed [in it's baldness].
Anyone else have thoughts along these lines? Am I wrong?
