Power and the will to Dominate

One seeks power as a means to dominate and sublimate. But what is power actually? Is not power the outcome of the will to overcome feelings of insecurity and fear. To have control over circumstance. Power implies the will to overcome, to conquer. But whatever is conquered, must be conquered again and again. One seeks power through the accumulation of knowledge, through position, money, and influence. One is in fear. Fear that permeates the mind and is the very essence of conditioned thought. One is looking to protect and insulate the self. The seeking of power is the acknowledgement of weakness and the progenitor of fear.

Power is translated into possession. To accumulate the psychological as well as the material.
Possession is the image of power, the psychological and physical result of fear. Fear that is the root cause of escape from the reality of death, of non-being. To accumulate is to give substance to the image and illusion of self. One lives in a self created reality of possession which is one's isolation. Isolation that is the divisiveness of the self absorbed. The outcome of this division is violence. More so psychological violence to those who one perceives as inferior. One must observe in the moment how one inflicts violence on others, through word or action. It is the reality of who and what one actually is. Whether one is a Priest, Politician, or Businessman, one inflicts pain and suffering on others which is the result of one's power and influence.

When one is free of the image of self, then there is the possibility of virtue. One may cease the activity of using others to further one's position. One has been deluded into thinking that one may helping in the higher sense, but is still the self which is seeking acknowledgement and praise for piety. One can live the life of an acetic, in the outwardly most simplest manner and still be deluded. One's asceticism 'is' one's power and influence. It is one's psychological possession. One must go beyond the self and live in awareness of the movement of thought and its activity of seeking. One must have the realization that self, one's separated individuality is the source of all conflict, fear, and violence. To be totally aware is to be totally free. Within that freedom is the truth of the moment and the reality of love.

The realization of the unconditioned, therein realize peace and love.