Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.
The abuse of power takes happiness away.
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.
If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn...if you live.
