Is the lust for power rooted in weakness or strength?

Question

Is the lust for power rooted in weakness or strength?

Answer 1

weakness  

Answer 2

This is a powerful question because it involves some inner reflection about ourselves.  Any lust for power, money, control, etc has to do with our ego.  So it is neither a weakness or strength, because our ego ALWAYS wants for itself.

The ego is what controls us always.  In other words whenever we do anything in this world it is always for ourselves.  Even if we think we are doing something for someone else it really is still for ourselves.  Just think about it for a moment.

So the lust for anything is rooted in our ego--the bigger the ego the more we feel like we have more control.  The more control we feel the more powerful we feel.  

In reality though we have no control or power over anything.  We feel and act according to our nature and react to the conditions around us.  Mankind has created rules that go against our nature and that is why we feel this imbalance all around us.  This is why we are always running around trying to make things "ok".  We need to feel balanced, nurtured and our situations as peaceful.

How can we get back to how nature meant for us to live?  How can we achieve this peace?  How can we learn to use our ego correctly?  I found my answer in the following videos.  I hope you will watch them and receive the information you may need.

  

Answer 3

Weakness and ignorance of the real laws of the universe

Answer 4

in weakness  afraid  insecure

Answer 5

Neither. Unless the lust is used in an evil way.

Lust is part of our human make up. the need for intimacy and the relief of inner tension.

Lust just is.  

Answer 6

The weak tend to wish for more power. No one wants to feel weak or inferior to any other person. Those with strength are able to overcome the lust for power. They don't feel like they need the power. They don't feel unbearably inferior because there are the weak to be superior to. And even when the weak gain the power they yearn for, they are still weak because they could not overcome that lust as those with strength could.

You do, of course, understand, yes?

Say, a poverty-stricken man, for example. He wants money. He wishes for it because he feels he needs so much to get by. He feels like those with more money are better therefore he is weak in the financial sense. He doesn't want to try to manage the money he has. He only wants more.

Now, a man with a decent amount of money will manage it. He doesn't feel so weak and insecure financially. He doesn't form that lust for money because he isn't so low on the chain and he knows that he can survive on what he has.

Weakness is what causes any form of greed whether it be for power, money, or food.

Answer 7

it rooted within your not really healthy interests. The weakness and strength is the same thing called power, or energy if you will.

Answer 8

It's in the elusive nature of Homo-Sapience.

Power creates truth and culture - our lives.

Answer 9

weakness and greed;

The causes of rivalries, conflicts, quarrels and wars. These, resulted from three kinds of motives:

Selfish desire for pleasure and acquisition,  Egotistical lust for power and dominance, clinging to opinions, faiths and ideologies.

In my view, consumerism and capitalism can be explained as the most important modern form of greed. With them, our values are geared towards satisfying the gaps in our life by ever-increasing consumption and accumulation. By failing to understand the magic of advertising we are at its mercy. This inevitably leads to conflicts of interests, and more importantly exploitations are justified by the concept of the “invisible hand. ”

Militarism embodies hatred as its core basis. The lust for power, which leads to widespread human rights abuses, is a prime example of how hatred can manipulate individual minds and lure them to install unjust social structures in order to uphold their power.

Answer 10

I think that the answer is both. It takes a certain strength to have that "will to power", however, it takes a particular weakness to start to covet that desire and turn it into an object of idolatry. Most historical cases typically involve an individual who has some form of mass appeal (strength) and an insecurity or neurosis (weakness) that causes them to misuse it.

Answer 11

If you are hungry and you resist eating is that weakness or strength?

If you are hungry and you eat is that weakness or strength?

I don't know whether it is always a weakness to indulge one's desires. And is something a weakness if you have a poor motive and strength if you have a better motive?

I guess I am saying my concept of strength is endurance not rightness.

Answer 12

I think weakness, greed, and selfishness, that seems like the perfect anode for a big enough power trip. Maybe craving some attention, this question makes me think of Hitler a lot, yes of course he was a hated like crazy but they guy sure as h**l wasn't stupid, he did pretty well for himself for the time being. He was pretty persuasive too which can work to your advantage in any situation. But I'm sure it could work against you too.

Answer 13

one does not lust for that which they already have.

it must be weakness.