Is knowledge is our power??

Knowledge on its own, is never power. The power is always in the ability of the person to use his knowledge powerfully. But it takes great love to do this in the right way to create the right type of person that is not influenced too much by his power or too much by his ego, and so that his love is overshadowed and lessened thereby.

So what is knowledge and what is power?

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. To attain true and enduring power, master yourself and so find enlightenment"

- Lao Tzu

To me wisdom is connecting knowledge with our own truths. I think what Lao Tzu means here in the above quote is to first remove your beliefs, illusions and ideas and ways of thinking or habits that colour real knowledge. And so when knowledge is coloured or distorted in this way it is hard for it to lead you to its wisdom that comes out of this marriage of truth and knowledge.

Wisdom is attained by adding your truths to real knowledge and not to false perceptions of knowledge. Wisdom is about applying truth to knowledge so as knowledge can then be applied in the best possible way. If the knowledge is distorted to be not truthful knowledge, because it is only hearsay knowledge based on beliefs and on illusionary habits of thinking that you have knowledge, when you actually don't, wisdom will never evaluate itself out from this type of knowledge in any real way.

Love then is wisdom that applies itself to distributing the love and knowledge with love to others and to yourself by allowing your truths to be displayed with love and so seem like a kinder wisdom to all than just knowledge and truth by itself. Real wisdom, higher wisdom always has love added to the equation as well so your truth, your knowledge, plus love mixing them together and combining them produce the higher wisdoms.

So what more can I say about knowledge bringing power?

Knowledge can bring a certain amount of power as when you have a knowledge of what to do you then don't waste the power searching and being tied up by allowing lack of knowledge to stop you. Lack of knowledge by itself will stop you from using any power that you have but knowledge of itself only ever can use the power you already have.

So how do you marry power, your power with you knowledge and where does your power come from anyway?

Power is certainly a misnomer as it is just an illusion for the use of energy usually in the form of force. But power is not force. Power is the force behind the energy that directs the energy but never forces the energy. It just, with knowledge knows where and how the energy is best used and utilised for maximum power output.

So where does a persons power come from? It comes from on the one hand, love and the other hand, the ego. One is negative and the other positive. So that all power coming only from the ego produces the dictator and despot. And all love and no ego usually produces a weak person who doesn't know how to apply his love powerfully. So along comes someone like Mahatma Ghandi who had great love for his people and a great ego for his own ability to win out over the British by his own force of silent power. Marry his inner love with his outer ego and you find the incredible silent power that he wielded.

But none of this compares with Jesus. He acted from complete love but with no ego. This was so because the ego is only needed when we have incomplete knowledge, and Jesus had complete knowledge and so he needed no ego and always put it behind him so to speak. He had complete power but never used it except with complete love.

So yes, complete knowledge with complete love brings complete power.

And any other combination usually produces an unbalanced mix of power or love through a lack of complete knowledge to use them.