Power itself is difficult to define because it offers nothing. This offering is totally empty and hollow like a plantain tree. It gives no support except the illusion of support. Yet, almost all beings desire power.
They put their manipulative intellect to the task of achieving power while the thirst for it never ends. A source of strength and fulfillment is not found within power itself, that is, within its own world. Still, it must have dominion over others.
Enters a kind of black magic. One lives in houses of power, drives cars of power, and dresses in the fashions of power. Those who flock around people of power are awestruck by their power who do the bidding of the powerful. It seems true to say that power always desires more power. There's no end to power's craving for more power.
Humans cannot see the illusory world in which they are immersed where nothing is real. Yet strangely, this is where they begin their search for enlightenment, within the illusion itself, as if enlightenment confers infinite power. If anything enlightenment is about being free from the need for power. Men of power and those who have gone beyond the need for power are truly a sight to behold.
Such beings remind me somewhat of Star Trek's "Q" entities who all belong to the "Q Continuum" which is an ultramundane world. We see the Q entity in the Bodhisattva:
"How is it that a Bodhisattva acts perversely and lewdly? In that he elicits thoughts about perversity of the sensual desire of sentient beings" (Mahāyānasaṃgraha, Taishō no. 1593).
very powerful, thank you :)
Posted by: trekai | December 03, 2022 at 09:37 PM