Self improvement vs true ARRIVAL

The societal man, the conditioned man, which is every man suffers intensely from self improvement problem.

Why is this so?

Because “better” and “improvement” is not a place. When you leave your home do you ever say “I am going to the better.”

Self improvement is a very limited pursuit.

Do you improve at tying your shoes? Do you get better at drinking water? Do you improve at shaving your beard? Do you get better at going to the grocery store?

Why not? You don’t care about improvement about daily things but you invest in betterment and improvement when it comes to wealth, peace, skill and life?

What are you doing?

Well if a man comes and tells me that “What are you talking about? Learning a skill, and human relationships are not drinking water and tying your shoes.”

And my answer will be “Okay.” For I cannot say anything to a man who is so convinced that they are not the same thing.

Well, of course they are not the same thing but they are things that you cannot so unseriously rely upon improvement and betterment.

Yes, they have much more artistic significance but they can be mastered forever just like you can master tying your shoes forever.

For when you were a child you weren’t dreaming about being “better”. You did not have daydreams about wearing a t-shirt called “improvement”.

But somewhere along the way, when you get into the adult zone you have been conditioned and brainwashed by the culture to replace your “there” with “better”.

That is why “better” is all you will ever get. “There” will be reserved for those who are pursuing “there”(which is no one..)

So should you not get better? It is not about getting better. It is about getting “there”. Of course you will get “better” along the way. But you will not care about it. After you have arrived at your destination you might say “I guess I got better”. That is because your entire focus on your destination, not in the journey.

This is another societal lie that brainwashes and conditions people. “It is all about the journey. It is not about the destination.” Please, get serious or shut up. Don’t waste time spreading your spirituality like a virus. Get dead serious. You cannot rely upon improvement if you want to get somewhere. So either give up or get serious. Or at least be honest with your self. You can say “Man, I have been seeking betterment and improvement for years and I have gotten no where. That means I have been unserious about getting there. That is interesting.” That is the beginning of self honesty and that exist no where in society. That is the beginning of the seriousness that is required to get somewhere.

All things are available to the serious man. Not by improvement. But by undersanting what works and what not works.

Greatness comes from uncomprimising desire to UNDERSTAND not from maniacal compulsion to DO.

This understanding requires a sincere and serious heart. That has an undeniable longing to arrive at somewhere in this life before he dies.

Thank you