Progress implies time, does it not? I am this today, and I shall be something better tomorrow. That is, in self-improvement or self-denial or self-abnegation, there is progression, the gradualism of moving towards a better life, which means superficially adjusting to our environment, conforming to an improved pattern, being conditioned in a nobler way, and so on. We see that process taking place all the time. You may have wondered whether progress brings about a fundamental revolution. To me, the important thing is not progress but revolution. Please donāt be horrified by the word ārevolutionā, as most people in a progressive society are, but it seems to me that unless we understand the extraordinary necessity of bringing about not just a social amelioration but a radical change in our outlook, mere progress is progress in sorrow; it may effect the pacification or the calming of sorrow, but not the cessation of sorrow, which is always latent. After all, progress in the sense of getting better over a period of time is really the process of the self, the āmeā, the ego.
From What Are You Doing With Your Life?
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