You Are Perfect And You Need A Little Bit Of Improvement

“Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.” ― Shunryu Suzuki. You are made in God's image, but you aren't a perfect copy. We all just need to improve a bit. Go for it!

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Transcript

Hello everyone!

I hope that you're doing amazing wherever you are.

My name is Boomshakha and I welcome you to my channel.

As always I'm so grateful that you're listening,

Subscribing and commenting.

I really appreciate the support.

I wanted to share with you my thoughts on a quote that I read recently.

I'm going to put the actual quote down in the description but I'm going to paraphrase the quote as I see it.

It's by Shinryu Suzuki.

I'm saying that wrong but I'm sorry but that's how I pronounced it.

And the quote says something like,

We're all perfect but we all need a little bit of improvement.

If you want to look at it in terms of religion,

We're all the children of God or the children of the essence that produced us,

The divine creator.

So we're all perfect of course but also we could all use a little bit of improvement.

I just love how he says that.

It made me so happy to hear that because it's how I look at the world and how I look at myself as well.

How I look at everyone around me and I'm always trying to,

As much as possible,

Tell myself,

Everyone's doing the best they can,

Everyone's doing the best they can,

Especially when someone's irking me or annoying me and they're doing something.

I'm like,

Oh my goodness,

I'm getting angry and then I always try to remind myself in my head,

Okay,

All right,

Boom,

They're just doing the best they can with their circumstances,

With their knowledge,

With their level of growth.

So,

You know,

Give them a little bit,

Cut them a little bit of slack.

I always try to tell myself that.

Now,

I'm not really good at it obviously every single time but I'm really trying to get into that mindset,

Into that mode of thinking.

But I also really like the idea that we are all already perfect.

We are all already divine creatures.

We're all already made in the image of God.

If you want to look at how Christianity says that or the Bible says that story.

And so we're all made in the image of God who is perfect.

And so by logical assumption,

We're also perfect.

But also we are imperfect because we're,

You know,

We're like a photocopy of the photocopy of the photocopy.

And the photocopy is like the original obviously but not perfectly like the original.

And so we're sitting there thinking,

Okay,

You know,

I'm in the image of God,

I'm perfect.

But also,

Yeah,

You know what,

I am also,

You know,

Made in the image of God.

So I am a photocopy.

And so I have a few things that I do definitely want to need or need to work on.

And so I'm working on it.

Right.

That's what I feel like is life all about.

Right.

There's many definitions of what life is all about.

You know,

Life is like a dance or life is like a battlefield or life is like an opera or,

You know,

Whatever you want to call it.

But I always think of life as a self-improvement game.

I always think of it as a self-improvement game.

That's like,

That's how I always look at whenever I'm kind of walking through the world,

I'm like,

Oh,

I'm in a game and I'm improving myself,

You know.

And obviously the improvement happens because I look at myself yesterday and I see how I was and I try to improve by 0.

0000001% today.

And so yesterday I looked at myself and I'm like,

Yeah,

Obviously I was very imperfect yesterday or as imperfect as I am.

And then if I could just improve a little bit,

Just tiny little smidgen little teensy little bit today.

Perfect.

That's exactly how I want to do it.

Yeah.

And so that's what we kind of look at when we look,

When I,

Not me,

But when I look at the world,

I always look at it.

OK,

Everyone is at a certain level and through life,

Through spiritual lessons,

Through lessons in general,

Through encounters,

Through family,

Through relationships,

Whatever your kind of whatever your game has included in it,

Your video game,

Whatever it has,

It's kind of trying to get you to improve a little bit.

A little step by little step,

Like one little bit at a time.

You kind of improving yourself.

And so basically it's like a game of you versus you,

Me versus me.

I look at myself yesterday and I try to improve myself a little bit today.

So I if I'm able to do it,

Yay,

I win.

If I don't do it,

Well,

Let's try again tomorrow.

And so you keep on doing this until,

You know,

One day that you're gone and then you kind of go up there wherever it is and you're like,

Well,

Did you improve yourself?

Yes,

I did.

OK,

Good.

You won the game.

And I think that that's really I really like looking at the world like that and my life like that,

Because it not only makes the bar much lower,

Because all you have to do is keep on improving.

And that's all that's all life is all about.

But also it makes it much more exciting,

At least for me,

Who I am a self-improvement junkie,

As you might have noticed.

I'm always looking at what can I improve this that and so for me as a self-improvement junkie,

It's like,

Yay,

Awesome.

This is a self-improvement game.

I can keep on improving myself little by little.

Maybe some days it works.

Maybe some days it doesn't.

But as long as I'm trying,

As long as I'm trying,

As long as I'm trying,

It's OK.

As long as you're trying,

It's OK.

As long as you keep on trying to improve yourself,

To get better each day.

It's OK.

Some days it might work.

Some days it might not.

Some days it might be terrible.

Some days you might actually even take a few steps back and you're like,

Whoa,

OK,

That was not good.

But that's OK because you're perfect already because you're made in the image of God.

But you just need a little bit of improvement.

And so let's just keep on working out that improvement.

I just keep on working on that tiny little teensy little bit of improvement that you need to keep on going for.

Now,

This also makes it very grand for me because it means that I'm not competing with anyone else.

And the whole the whole idea from a very young age,

I absolutely hated,

Detested,

Despised the idea of competition.

I don't like competition.

I do not want to compete against anyone.

I do not want to compete against anyone.

I don't want to compete against anyone outside of myself.

It just it really is one of the most I just don't like it.

I'm not interested.

I'm not interested in that game that people play.

So that's why a lot of times when I'm in a board game and someone someone else wins,

I'm like,

Awesome,

Great.

You won.

Good.

I don't feel that urge to be like,

Oh,

My God,

I'm going to throw the board game over and oh,

My God,

I didn't win.

And how dare they win.

It's a game.

Someone wins,

Someone loses.

It doesn't really matter.

As long as you learn from the game and you improve yourself a bit or whatever your goal was,

It's fine.

Right.

And so the whole idea of competition in this idea of a self-improving game is completely negated.

It's moot.

It doesn't matter because you don't compete against anyone outside of yourself.

You're not competing with anyone outside of yourself.

You're competing with yourself,

With your older self,

With who you were yesterday.

Who were you yesterday?

And did you improve today?

Good.

Great.

Not.

OK.

Let's try again.

That's it.

And it kind of removes all of this drama and all of this stuff where we're kind of fighting against each other and backbiting and gossiping and putting each other down.

And this harmonious kind of behavior where you just think.

There's just no I really don't like it.

I don't like a whole capitalistic system.

I think I mean,

In general,

Human beings are based on the system of like,

Let's compete with each other.

Oh,

I'm better than her.

My hair is better than her.

OK,

Great.

Good.

I'm better than her then.

Oh,

My my my skin is not as good as her.

Oh my God,

I'm poor.

I'm not as good as her.

That sucks.

I hate her.

You know,

All of this thing about jealousy and putting people down and all the a lot of the reality TV shows are like that,

Too.

Like backbiting and gossiping and I hate you and you're and calling each other names and all this all about competition.

Let's see who can push everyone else down and come out on top.

And I really,

Really cannot stand those reality TV shows like The Big Brother or something.

I think that that's what it's called where,

You know,

You're like everyone kind of like hits on each other or like hits down,

Puts everyone down and then comes out on top.

And that's a person who wins.

Those kind of things.

Really,

They're like toxic,

Toxic material to me.

I can't even look at them as soon as I start seeing that kind of energy coming at me.

I'm like,

All right,

Calm down.

I am not competing with you.

I'm not competing with anyone.

I don't want to compete with anyone.

I just want to compete with myself.

And if I can just say I'm better than the person I was yesterday.

Awesome.

That's great.

Let me just keep on going.

And if I can say that I'm better than the person I was 10 years ago.

Perfect.

Great.

Awesome.

Keep on going.

You know,

And so I really I just wanted to kind of delineate this because this is a major part,

A major asset,

A major part of my philosophy,

The way I look at life.

And so a lot of people are like,

Oh,

You know,

You're an INFJ YouTuber,

But did you know those other INFJ YouTubers?

They have more subscribers than you and you should do this and that.

And I'm like,

All right,

Back off a second.

I'm not doing this because I'm competing with them.

Every one of us,

Every one of the YouTubers,

Every one of the INFJ YouTubers and everyone on this planet is doing their thing,

Their best thing that they can.

And we're providing and producing and we're contributing to the world in the best way we can.

And that's all.

Everyone has to compete.

Everyone has to participate,

Not compete.

Everyone has to participate and contribute,

Because if I was the only one,

Then it would be such a boring world.

Right.

There was only one of us or 10 of us or 15 of us.

And we were all the same.

How boring would that be?

Right.

So we need all these different diverse opinions and diverse YouTubers.

And maybe some of them are doing better than me.

Some of them are not.

It doesn't matter because who am I competing against?

Myself.

And just by doing these YouTube videos,

Considering that I was a socially awkward,

Completely silent,

Incapable of communicating my thoughts person in the past,

I've already won.

I've already won the game of self-improvement.

And so I'm already far ahead of the game.

So why would I need to compete with anyone else?

Why would I need to do that?

There's no need.

There is no need to compete with anyone else outside of you,

Because the only one truly that you're competing with,

Perhaps,

If that's the word you want to use,

Is with yourself.

It's a you against you game,

Not a you against them game,

Which is always a losing battle,

I find.

I just don't like those you against them game because it makes me feel terrible about myself.

It makes me feel terrible about the relationships I have.

And there's also a lot of hatred or jealousy or negative emotions associated with it,

Which I don't want in my life.

So I wanted to share this aspect of my philosophy and the way I look at the world,

Because maybe I thought you might find it interesting,

But also maybe you share it or maybe you don't share it.

Either way,

I thought I'd share it because it's fun.

And if you have questions about this,

Obviously let me know.

Comment below.

And if it's a very complex question,

I'll do a further video on it.

If not,

I'll answer it directly.

Again,

Thank you so much for watching and I shall see you in the next one.

Bye for now.

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