The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.
The abuse of power takes happiness away.
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.
Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.
Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.
The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.
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