I would frame this “to attain Buddhahood you must on some level renounce the quest for Buddhahood.
Or, as Lao Tzu put it: renounce sainthood.
Put yet another way, obsession with small imperfections is more likely to lead people away from Spirit and Love than towards them.
I have on my shelf a set of books from Longchenpa, a Buddhist saint, and it is filled with all the reasons people go to hell, and how long, and what their hell is. From this perspective, I would submit that Lingchrnpas imperfection consisted precisely in his obsession with perfection.
Anyone who is afraid and nervous and chronically angry with themselves reduces their spirit in this way. They become less.
Now, maybe the universe works precisely the way Ali gchenpa said it does, but I don’t think so. In any event, I think I become a lesser human being when obsessed with do’s and donts. Life is less fun. I am less fun.
This is not to say that fun is the purpose of life, but I think all of us feel more, and feel more deeply, when our skin is not crawling with self loathing and self rejection, which must attend the lives even of those who are outwardly blameless but still possessed by “wicked” thoughts.
Let go, and let go of letting go. Let the river flow.
And if you go around mirrors feed the good. Do t worry as much about starving the bad.