22 Nov 2007
One can read this two ways. To accept is a start, this is good, but this is not the end. We are not perfect, to accept this is fine, because we should not hide or deny, but this only will not make us perfect.
Because many also say "i have shorcomings, but this is OK, it is the way it should be" so they will get stuck in the beginning itself. Many say "no one is perfect, no one can become perfect, it is not possible." But we have to make impossible possible. Of course we'll find that there is a perfect me in me, but we have to get rid of the rest.
It is fine to think i was perfect, i will be, because it is hard to deceive ourselves we are now. If we deceive us like this we will collapse each time we see we are not. We can, of course, collapse but we can get up again, we'll say, OK i was not and continue. If we decide definitely that I am perfect now then a single occurrence will prove this lie all at once and we are left with nothing, no hope, we just believed in a fiction. The rest who knows whether i was not once in the past or i will not become. It cannot be proved. It can be true as well.
It feels like this that it has to be true that once i, the world was perfect, because why do we dislike mistakes, for example at the market why does one complains if he gets rotten fruits. Why does he think he should have all fine ones. Why do we feel uncomfortable when we are sick etc. We have the craving, the taste ... means we know from experience.