If what you say is true, then the entire self-help industry is a falsehood. A: There is no self to be improved. But you are welcome to carry on believing that there is. Q: I’d like to understand this. If I have anxieties, sorrows, disappointments, anger, and so forth . . . Can I not try to lessen these things? A: Where there is a fertile field, weeds will grow. One may choose to pull out the weeds if he so wishes. But he will be doing so for all his life. For each time he removes one, another will sprout in its place.
