Vance Dubberly

Autonomic Response to Ekhart Tolie

I am as disturbed by teachers who wish me to believe that the natural state of a human consciousness is loving, blissful, and compassionate as I am by those who would teach us that man is tainted by impurity, selfishness, and original sin.

It seems to me that both teachers wish to instill a false image of “true being” in their students so that when the student in one case feels pain he need return to the teacher for instruction and in the other case that when he feels joy he is stricken by the need to repent.

It is if often the the brash under-informed egoism of youth that grows into the future. The job of the old is not to pear the tree but to provide adequate soil, such that when that future bears fruit it is not withered and bitter, or worse yet, poisoned.

The universe is composed of laws which is to say  nature functions in patterns and not to say that some old man self important deity laid down  a bunch of edicts.

Those who study the laws grow wise.

Those who exploit the laws grow rich.

Those who obey the laws grow rigid.

Those who play with the laws grow happy.

Those who ignore the laws grow weary.