Dominant Relationships

I still can’t get over the fact this was written by one man. One man who had apparently a life-time worth of thoughts and deep feelings all jumbled up in his over-indulged mind.

I’m really surprised with the things this man came up with. Not only does he word them in a way that flows with an envying grace, but the things he says also make sense.

“Knowing others is wisdom
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force.
Mastering the self needs strength.”

When you think about it, this actually makes a lot of sense.

When you can interpret other people’s motives, understand them and come to comprehend what they’re feeling, or who they are as a person, you are intuitive. You need wisdom, insight and perception to truly penetrate another persons shield.

Knowing yourself is more like uncovering a treasure that you already have the key to. I mean, it is you. But you also need to have the illumination to clarify where exactly the key is used, to find the true hidden treasure. You need to know how to look, and how to express yourself to the point where you know it’s you.

As it comes to mastering others, it really is based on having an advantage over someone in a base of control. When you thing of mastering someone, you think of being dominant in comparison to that other person and having power over that person and what they do, all revolving around you. No one wants to be mastered, I think. At least not willingly. And if you are going to be rejected when taking a slight chance at the dominating act, you’ll have to use force.

Now we go on to ourselves. How can you master one’s self? Master as in ‘master’ the concept, understand? Or master as in concluding a dominant and submissive relationship in which you have total control? Either way, it’s yourself. If it’s the latter, basically all it takes is strength, but not in the lifting-weights kind, more as in inner strength. Think of it as will power. Our minds tend to wander and encourage certain acts, when we know they might not be the right decisions or even a viable option. If you have enough strength to keep yourself from desires, to understand yourself, and control your emotions as well as desires, you’re set.