Imagine that you have received ownership of a garden, and you have came to see it.

It looks horrible in all possible ways. Disarray and garbage everywhere. It couldn't serve its purpose well in its present state.

Now, is there something wrong with the garden?

Not at all; there are no ghosts, aliens or supernatural forces; the garden have came to that state according to its causes and conditions.

But it might need some work if it should feed people.

When we mature in Dharma practice, we stop worriying about things being wrong, because we see that they happen in accordance with causes and conditions.

We just work with those causes and conditions, arranging them in more efficient manner.

Imagine that you have received ownership of a garden, and you have came to see it.

It looks horrible in all possible ways. Disarray and garbage everywhere. It couldn't serve its purpose well in its present state.

Now, is there something wrong with the garden?

Not at all; there are no ghosts, aliens or supernatural forces; the garden have came to that state according to its causes and conditions.

But it might need some work if it should feed people.

When we mature in Dharma practice, we stop worriying about things being wrong, because we see that they happen in accordance with causes and conditions.

We just work with those causes and conditions, arranging them in more efficient manner.

PS (Edit 28.10.2020:)

In other words, Dharma is not for making us into something else.

Practice is not for doing anything with ourselves.

Doing something with ourselves is the position of manipulations based on the image of self. As long as we keep it, there is no actual wholeness or freedom.