Interesting question: What empowers empowerment?
It’s a question that popped into my mind when pondering the creation of a new website.
First, I’d like to suggest that unless someone is of that power they can never truly, really empower another. File this thought on the same thought-shelf as “Those who know don’t speak. Those who speak don’t know“.
Second, I’d like to suggest that there are people who can “exude” that they are “of that power” but, in reality, what they aren’t possessed of the giftof being empowering. Instead they are possessed of the willingness and ability to sell to the unenlightened. What is sold? You know: hope, fear, etc. (It’s a long list.)
Note that I said “unenlightened” and not gullible, naive, ignorant, stupid, morons, etc.
Third, I’d like to suggest that one of the resident truths of empowerment is that IF any empowering is experienced its source is internal – and solely ascribable – “to the empowered”. Any other source – particularly an external “thanks, you did it for/to me” source – is actually antithetical to the resident truths of empowerment. Anything external is a prop: somethat that, once withdrawn, tends to lead to collapse.
Which brings me to recalling the following admonition:
A saying which, I say, isn’t meant to be taken literally: “You . . on the road” ~ You in the couse of your life’s journey/path to enlightenment or endarkenment. “Meet the Buddha” ~ You, seized by an idea or belief or “knowing” or “some having the answer”. “Kill him” ~ detach, release its hold , “untruth” it – just observe and observe and observe.
I haven’t written this to “be an answer”, just a matter of self-reflection – a process from which our truths for ourselves may arise.
Do you accept ownership, cause and responsibility for your own empowerment?
If “the props” are withdrawn what happens?
If, in the course of your lifetime, you genuinely experienced a shift in the quality of your life that in your mind you associate with an individual human being, was the encounter one imbued with true humility? Respect and belief in you “by the other” versus “the taking/seeking of credit”?
Food for thought
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