Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Uncertainties.

When I see my recommendations on YouTube I’m both interested and a little disturbed to realise how many self-styled gurus there are in the world, all sitting smug and secure on their soap boxes, all claiming to have the answers, all pontificating from positions of certainty.

Am I being unduly negative and cynical in taking the view that there are no certainties, there are only perceptions? We come into this world and walk a road replete with experiences, some of which are pleasurable, some of which are painful, and some of which are merely of passing interest. We have the choice to make of them what we will according to our natures. And at the end we die, from which position we might move on to something else or we might not. Nobody really knows.

And then I read the responses and am both interested and a little disturbed to realise how many dependent people there are in the world, all prepared to consign their personal perceptions to the self-righteous rhetoric of self-styled gurus.

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