Words of Power: A Trick of the Mind

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

A Trick of the Mind

Portrait of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Random Event Generator. Meditation Room.
San Francisco Lodge, Theosophical Society. January 2015.

It would be easier to say something like "there is a great power within you." But the truth of human incarnation would be more accurately described by saying that the story-you-tell-yourself-about-who-and-what-you-are actually exists within the power that would typically be described as existing within the "you" that is nothing more than that story-you-tell-yourself. Comprende?

It is a trick of the mind to imagine that the great power is “within you” rather than the other way around. It is a trick of the mind, and a pitfall of language. In the mirror of consciousness, we see a one-dimensional image of our multidimensional selves, and we identify with that reflection on the flat surface of the mind mirror. A simple shift in perspective reveals the nature of our lives in this universe to be quite different than what we have been led to believe by our runaway stories.

Of course, more than this simple shift itself is required; you must be fiercely dedicated to returning to it over and over again, until that new perspective becomes your default mode. You are power. You are truth. You are pure dynamism. Furthermore, this power, truth and pure dynamism that you really are can never be added to, nor diminished in any way.

It is utterly inextinguishable. It is non-augmentable.

It is the reality of all you have ever truly been or will be; it was your face before you were born. Do not cheat yourself a moment longer, with this next breath, SHIFT. In the space between this thought and the next, SHIFT. Follow your laughter to its edge, follow your song to its edge, what awaits you there, patiently, silently abiding? It is the unnameable truth of what you are.

Do not cheat yourself a moment longer. Return to this truth again and again, until the power of it consumes you. Of course, it will only seem to consume you, in reality, it is who and what you are now and always have been. Yes.

-- Richard Power, Author, Speaker, Yoga Teacher (RYT500)

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About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.