Thoughts about "Power" - What we think it is, and the illusion behind.

Thoughts about "Power" - What we think it is, and the illusion behind.

In our time, if one mentions people with "power" we think of big company bosses, head of states, millionaires and billionaires. With "power" we associate a lot of money and that we can do with the other fellow man what we want to do. With "power" we associate the kings of the old like Alexander, the Pharaos and others. With "power" also we associate security, a big house and servants, and pleasures of all sort. So to say we associate wealth and safety to the word "power". We think that merely this "power" will protect us from everything we do and don't do, that it relieves us from our actions and our responsibilities, that it exempts us from the creational law of cause and effect. You can see that materialism is linked very closely to this "Power". Like it is however with everything material, it will vanish with time, because it is like that. Creation creates the new out of the old in an endless and always repeating spirale. If you think of this you will already get a first glimpse of what the "power" as we understand it, is worth and is in reality - correct, an illusion. Also out of this illusion people developed a need for having this "power" and to stand above other fellow humans, to feel protected, safe and of course to have wealth and savour all kinds of material pleasures.

However, never this "power" protected people from their own discontent, disharmony and restlessness. It never made a familly run better than an other one and it never provided real friends. It is rather the contrary, people are fighting for money in the own famillies and the so called "friends" stay only with you as long as you are profitable to them. "Power" always asks for more "Power" because around oneself, there are always other so called "powerful" people, and so one has to become more "powerful" to satisfy the criterias already mentionned above. "Power" asks for more "power" without end, it is like a mind of state of a drugged person, which inhibates onesefl to create real peace and harmony inside oneself.

To describe what real power is in my opinion i will tell you a metaphor: In the house of an old samurai there suddenly appeared a big, strong and tenacious rat (big like a small dog). He couldn't chase the rat so he decided to ask the cats from the neighborhood to kill the rat. First there was a fast, intelligent black cat who tried to get rid of the rat. Unfortenately the rat was stronger and chased the cat. Second there came a huge tiger cat with huge muscles and big teeth, but also with a certain intelligence. Unfortunately again the rat was stronger and chased the cat. So the samurai had to think of another cat. Therefore he asked a "Manekineko", a "Beckoning cat" to help him. The cat looked simple, a little fat and not fast at all. It presented herself to the rat and introduced herself in a relax manner. The rat astonished of this non aggressive attitude, led down it's defence posture. The "Beckonning cat" could then win over the rat whithout problem. In the same evening all the other cat's asked him: "How did you do that?" - The Manekineko answered: "Techniques are useless. If you act in a naturel, detached way, you will have no ennemies in this world. But don't overestimate me, before there was a cat in my neighborhood, which i could not even be able to hold a candle to."

From this it should be clear that "real power" is a state of mind. Real power is also described in the Text from Mariann Uehlinger "I always remain relaxed" and in the "Goblet of Truth" from <Billy> Eduard Albert Meier (BEAM). Real power means being without fear, to be in harmony with oneself and the environment. It means respect, reverence for the fellow man and love. Here is the point of divergence: We have to let loose from the "power" like we understand it to gain "real power".

Salome

1.08.2009 Weis Nicolas