Perfect Just as You Are: Buddhist Practices on the Four Limitless Ones--Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy,and EquanimitySpiritual practice, Pema Chdrn teaches, has nothing to do with self improvement, since, as the courses title claims, youre already perfect right now. The limitless qualities of loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are your deep down, ultimate reality, and those are qualities that cant be improved upon. If youre not feeling particularly kind, compassionate, joyful, or equanimous at the moment, take heart: the Four Limitless Ones are there