05-04-2010, 12:00 AM
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Posted this somewhere else, yet seemed appropriate here:
What I refer to as "power" is simply my attentive capacity, or my ability to be in awareness of our world of experience at any one moment. The more all-encompassing my awareness, the more it can include in terms of the world of experience, the more power. Attention - power: same thing.
Power is very important. All tools that aid in accessing awake mind are energized through power, or attention. Power is not a "thing" or an energy even. It is simply our ability to be in awareness at any time.
To say "personal power" implies that there may be something like a "person" who can have some "power." But there is no such thing, as such. There is awareness, and there is the power implicit in that awareness, but there is no single entity (such as an "I") that wields that power.
FWIW...
SHM
Posted this somewhere else, yet seemed appropriate here:
What I refer to as "power" is simply my attentive capacity, or my ability to be in awareness of our world of experience at any one moment. The more all-encompassing my awareness, the more it can include in terms of the world of experience, the more power. Attention - power: same thing.
Power is very important. All tools that aid in accessing awake mind are energized through power, or attention. Power is not a "thing" or an energy even. It is simply our ability to be in awareness at any time.
To say "personal power" implies that there may be something like a "person" who can have some "power." But there is no such thing, as such. There is awareness, and there is the power implicit in that awareness, but there is no single entity (such as an "I") that wields that power.
FWIW...
SHM