There are, indeed, many problems in the world.

The saying that “the world is perfect as it is” is often misinterpreted to mean that all of this is perfection, cannot be improved and all problems are necessary problems. This is not true.

It is true that most problems of the egoic state aren’t real problems, they are perceptional problems. When all perceptional problems are overcome and ego is dissolved, the perfection of the world is realized.

But our society creates real problems out of thin air due to egoic madness. Poverty, violence, environmental issues are all real problems which we cannot address mostly due to the fact that most people are completely caught up in perceptional problems, which seemingly appear much more important to us all. To deny that is to not see things clearly.

However, from the perspective of the enlightened person, his surrender to the world is absolute and his acceptance of the world as it is, also. Because there will never be, strictly speaking, another one. So one accepts the world with all its imperfections, as well as people, with all their confusion, to the extent that neither the world’s problems nor people’s confusion cannot be a source of bother no longer. The imperfection becomes perfection.

It does not mean that the situation cannot be improved, or that there’s no point in doing so. After all, even though the freedom of enlightenment is absolute, many people teach - exactly to help others and, in some way, to improve the world. Many people try to improve the world in other ways. Many don’t. Neither is preferable, all is allowed in enlightenment. But it does mean that whether it is improved or not, the happiness of an enlightened one does not budge. He is forever at peace with it all.