My back pages

I was so much older then I am younger than that now - Bob Dylan

Is this merely Dylan being cryptic or is there a message in the song My Back Pages for us all?

Older then, for me, refers to a false belief that I really knew good from bad, right from wrong with certainty. Younger now, refers to the fact as I age I am more open to other views and the fact there are many differing opinions of right and wrong, simply based on my point of view.

Fundamentally, we only know what we know. We don't know what we don't. Therefore, in the parlance of by Buddhist friends, we should try to adopt a "not knowing" view of the world. To listen and experience completely with all our presence and attention, we must disregard all we know in order to be open to enlightment. So it is not what you know that influences your view, it is what you are capable of "not knowing".