Cringeing at posts made in the past

Am I the only one who feels like an idiot looking back at some of my posts made many years ago in this forum or do you also at times feel the same ?

I made my first post in July 2005 and have been lurking around
here for the last 3 years with 300 posts to my name which
is nothing short of a testimony to my ignorence.

Maybe all this is a part of growing up... painful but necassary.

What an idiot I was !

 

It's a great thing that you can admit you have been wrong in the past.

Many people simply have too much ego to do anything like that.
But of course, if we cling to past errors, it just prevents us from moving on.

This whole thing of people being afraid of their own ignorance is a big block to any kind of progress.

For my part, I've been travelling something of a circuitious route over the last few years - no doubt I've been wrong about many things, and I expect that in the future, I will see where at present I'm not seeing things clearly.

Certainly there are many things I've said and done previously which I wouldn't do now.

But it's all part of a process. The main thing is to keep one's aspiration alive.

Sometimes, we have to live out stuff we later regret because that's how we learn.

Your attitude is far better then that of many of the young people on here who assume that at age 20 they are 'enlightened' (whatever that means!).

 

I can identify with that feeling half a hippie. I usually end up editing my posts again and again until I usually decide not to post anything. When I analyse what I truely know it's not much if anything. And yes I also feel an idiot when I re-read what I've posted in the past.

 

Thats ok, you *were* an idiot, and I still am the idiot :lol:

We can keep each other company

 

I'll also keep you both company

 

A good traveler will have plenty of foot blisters.



x

 

Its called growing up. Let it go.

 

thanks guys for all the messages...

I only hope two years from now I don't end up saying the same thing again about my current posts...

 

Life is just a series of impersonal events that are effects of past events and causes of future ones. However our minds personalize them, make them our own. The mind is itself constantly changing, so you probably will think differently about your life two years later.

 

There's no finality where the spiritual path is concerned. No point at which one can say to oneself 'ah, at last I've made it'.

The being of God is infinite and eternal - so there is no end to realization. No matter how exalted or wonderful our present experience, we can be sure that what will come in the future will be even greater.

The ego doesn't like to admit it has been wrong - and that is nothing but a barrier to further progress. Age has little to do with this general rule. Before God we are all like little children, even the highest.
We have to avoid fixity in our views and mental constructions so that we can be open to what is higher than mind. If the mind is full of it's own opinions etc, what space is there for something higher to come in?
Far better to admit that we know very little, and ask the Divine to fill us with true knowledge.

Half a Hippie - you shouldn't worry about what others may think. Perhaps by seeing how your views have changed, others might be inspired to look more deeply at their own mistakes, and how they cling to them simply in order to save face.

 

hmmm.... maybe we need to pass through all that is no true.... before we come to the truth..

 

I don't think each one has to pass through all that is untrue - it seems to be a matter of individual karma. I suppose we each have predispositions in certain directions - what might delude one person for many years and be a real obstacle might never be given a second thought by someone else.

Personally I think that once a person turns towards the spiritual they are on the path which leads beyond falsehood and ignorance. But it's a journey of many stages.

 

haha...

yah i too have posted at the height of my spiritual conversion and posted major detials of these events... i feel pretty crazy reading over some of it