>>913
Because you can't.
>Now in this question, “Can I improve me?” there is the obvious difficulty that if I am in need of improvement, the person who is going to do the improving is the one who needs to be improved!
>There, immediately, we have a vicious circle.
>“Well I’d be better that way!”
>“Yeah, but WHY do you wanna be better?”
>You see, the reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t.
>Should I put it like that?
>We aren’t better because we want to be.
>Because the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
>Because all the do-gooders in the world, whether they’re doing good for others or doing it for themselves are troublemakers.
>On the basis of, “Kindly let me help you or you’ll drown,” said the monkey, putting the fish safely up a tree.
>See, because sometimes “doing good” to others and even doing good to oneself is amazingly destructive. Because it’s full of conceit:
>How do you know what’s good for other people?
>How do you know what’s good for you?
>If you say you wanna improve, then you ought to know what’s good for you. But obviously you don’t! Because if you did you would BE improved! So we don’t know.