Written by Mathew Naismith
This is an interesting conversation that has gone off on a slightly
different tangent, it started off with the question, “Are You Standing In Your
Authentic Power and Grace?’, and is at present on the topic of power. My stand is that power is about control when in
spirituality we should be releasing control not gaining thus lessening the
effects of chaos upon us which is brought about through a continues action reaction
process. The opposite stand is that feeling
and being powerful in oneself is good and positive.
Sunil’s Reply
I believe 'power' is
all about soul-strength-its a vitality of the soul -our inner strength.
G'day sunil
Feeling powerful is in
reaction to when we are not feeling powerful, it's an action reaction, cause
and effect, push and pull effect, if we were always powerful, we wouldn't know
if we were powerful or not without a difference telling us that we are
powerful. This means we always need
something less powerful to make us feel powerful which brings in judgment to
what is or isn't less or more powerful.
This is actually
saying, when we are feeling power and control over what we are interacting
with, we are not truly powerful at this point, it's only because of our
continuous reactions to other things around us that make us feel powerful when
actually were obviously not. If one needs to react to actions to actually be
powerful, it's obviously were not powerful at all, yes it feels that way only
because of the influences of the ego.
A continuous action
reaction only causes chaos and gives a feeling of being powerful because we
feel we have more control. Power is all about control, to me a true
spiritualist would not be controlling in any sense. You could say when a spiritualist
focuses, that is them trying to take control when in fact they are trying to
release control not become more controlling or even powerful.
A lot of people in my
mind make this mistake when they are trying to focus while meditating, praying,
chanting or whatever, they think they are trying to become more controlling not
less. When we focus in any spiritual practice, it should always be about
releasing control not gaining it. Gaining control and power is all about the
ego, we don’t want power and control over the ego, we want to release the ego
of it’s controlling effects, that is all. In other words stop or ease the
action reaction within our lives and in turn releasing the effects of chaos
upon us individually and collectively.
GramaKeshava Reply
Thank you very much Mr
Mathew Naismith !
I agree War Lords use
" Power " to acquire ,require , usurp , devoid of any concerns of
their action ! Their intention is not sober, but gobbler ! In spiriritual
philosophy , POWER is considered , as endowed by God, just to help all needy !
Here this Power works as a postman to deliver the money orders, parcels etc
intended to the addresee , The Power , though has the desire to to
misappropriate , dares not do it for fear, whereas War Lords do not have any
such qualms, like wild hungry beasts let loose in the crowded market ! Can we
condone it as it is the power; just we cannot help !
Thank you for raising
new arena for discussion !
G'day GramaKeshava
An interesting way in
putting it, I love your collation here.
Do we condone all
sense of power because power in certain circumstances can produce a destructive
mentality thus creating even more chaos?
We certainly can’t just say power is just negative or positive, this is
why I try to avoid such words however at times that can’t be avoided when
appropriate to the meaning of a discussion like this one.
Is feeling powerful
authentic to actually being powerful within oneself? I don’t think so, if I was truly powerful I
wouldn’t need anything less powerful to compare myself with to feel powerful, I
would just be powerful within myself however, I wouldn’t know of myself being
this powerful because I am no longer needing to compare and judged what is or
isn’t more or less powerful to feel powerful in the first place.
I don’t look at
anything being any less important or worthy than anything else therefore how
would I feel powerful in the first place. To me when the ego is controlling,
this has no less value or importance than if I was totally and wholly spiritual
within my whole being, to do this I would have to be in judgment thus of the
controlling ego .
Are humans more
powerful than an ant? It is obvious we are within our physical stature alone so
we have judged we have more value, this in my mind gives us a false impression
we are more powerful than an ant, this is all about human mentality not
spiritual mentality. Spiritual mentality to me is about one having no less
value than another no matter what it is. Yes it’s very hard to think this way
because we are conditioned to only perceive through human mentalities not
spiritual mentalities. We are obviously
more powerful than an ant because we have humanly judged so, now use a
spiritual mentality, we will find this isn’t the case at all, we truly have no
more value than an ant.
The word power to me
just doesn’t belong in spirituality but that’s just my opinion.
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