What's your biggest flaw?

[LastThursday]

Never mind about @Leo Gura. What are your personal biggest flaws, especially when it comes to using the forum?

Here's some of mine:

• I don't post enough questions.
• I don't always bother to read all responses in a thread.
• I get irritated when someone misunderstands or twists what I'm trying to say.
• The non-duality this and that are the same, and everything is relative non-answers drive me insane. 
• I use too much flowery language.

I'm sure I have more of them.

Edited January 30, 2021 by LastThursday

[Megan Alecia]

My main worry is that I'm young and think I may be stupider than I thought/think. I also think a lot about the quality of my journals, if they're actually good or I'm just having pipe dreams about them. Lol

[Vibroverse]

Doubting the greatness of my desires. 

[Gesundheit]

What is a flaw?

[Blackbeat]

Flaws? hmm..... I'm new  but that's not a valid flaw, gonna go with... no flaws, ye

[LastThursday]

@Megan Alecia it's normal to doubt ourselves and abilities, it's a flaw a lot of us have. But at least honesty and authenticity are not flaws.

[Preety_India]

 

Here's some of mine:

 

• I'm all over the place in a post. 
• I don't always bother to read all responses in a thread.
• I get irritated when someone misunderstands or twists what I'm trying to say. (same as you. I get irritated even more at having to defend what I said especially when the other person is intentionally trying to misunderstand me or take it out of context, only to insinuate and blame or empty criticism. 
• I don't appreciate the non duality aspect and spiritual bypassing type of answers that creates more questions than answers and are never clear cut. 
• I am Incapable of flowery language which makes me look stern and direct. In real life I'm soft.
• I don't have much tact during a response which ends up backfiring. 
• I get impulsive and think less before I type and then realize I jumped the gun and or could have worded the same thing differently to make it appear more flowery or tactful or less astonishing.. 

 

[EternalDream]

• Sometimes I give up reading long texts when reading In English (not my mother tongue) gets too demanding, leads especially to not always bothering to read all responses in a thread.
• I put too much value on answers/threads from people I do know/too little value on answers/threads from people I don't know
• My English is rather simple and unpretentious

[Adamq8]

In my case i feel that my flaws include:

• I am sensitive to materialistic scientist and nihilistic paradigms, which is only a ego thing from my part, reality is totally relative and their paradigms is true for them.

• doubting insights and realization's afterwards and trying to deny some of them. 

• feeling detached sometimes from life and people.

• smoking to much weed sometimes and being lazy 

[Thought Art]

my devilry and stupidity 

being raised by addicts and idiots 

Not knowing how to love or trust

burning too many bridges

not seeing my blessings 

impatience

prejudice

etc etc etc

Edited January 30, 2021 by Thought Art

[LastThursday]

25 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

I get impulsive

Man, I've worked against impulsiveness my whole life - and it's got me in trouble many times. Definitely up there for me.

[fridjonk]

53 minutes ago, LastThursday said:

• I don't post enough questions.

The flaw is not contemplating enough questions. It's actually a flaw to post questions to gain a conceptual answer rather than sitting with the question to gain a direct realization. Sometimes it's better not to know so you can figure it out yourself. 

[Michal__]

1 hour ago, LastThursday said:

 

• I get irritated when someone misunderstands or twists what I'm trying to say.

Not a flaw lol

[blackchair]

Being lazy i think...i'll get more throught the day....

[LastThursday]

5 minutes ago, Michal__ said:

1 hour ago, LastThursday said:

 

• I get irritated when someone misunderstands or twists what I'm trying to say.

Not a flaw lol

I think it comes from my belief that the onus is on the person doing the explaining to make themselves understood, not the other way around. But I try and keep in mind that it's easy to be misunderstood, especially in writing. Still drives me nuts though - that's the flaw.

Edited January 30, 2021 by LastThursday

[LastThursday]

11 minutes ago, fridjonk said:

The flaw is not contemplating enough questions. It's actually a flaw to post questions to gain a conceptual answer rather than sitting with the question to gain a direct realization. Sometimes it's better not to know so you can figure it out yourself. 

You are 100% right. Although, if I'm going to use the forum at all, then the forum beast needs feeding. If I'm only doing half a job (by only posting comments), then what am I really doing on the forum? Dunno, feels like it's a flaw, but maybe not?

[blackchair]

everything i touch i destroy....

[LastThursday]

2 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotARobot said:

I keep wondering just how much goes over my head.

No matter how fast you drive, someone will always be able to drive faster. You can only know what you know I guess. I'd say I don't understand about 50% of what's said or being pointed to: I'm just not there yet or been bothered to do the practices.

[fridjonk]

4 minutes ago, LastThursday said:

if I'm going to use the forum at all, then the forum beast needs feeding. If I'm only doing half a job (by only posting comments), then what am I really doing on the forum? Dunno, feels like it's a flaw, but maybe not?

hehe, you raise a good question. This forum is just a gigantic distraction from real work, as most things are, yet it can guide people in the right direction. It's a fine line to walk to use all this info as help and not as distraction, or pretending to be doing the work. 

But I wouldn't advise sacrificing real spiritual work just to keep the forum active.  

[Megan Alecia]

@fridjonk Don't you know that the man of action precedes the man of thought?