Power Needs Meditation

Meditation directs power

Any kind of power is bound to become destructive if there is no
 meditation involved in it. Lord Acton's famous statement is basically true, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, 
because power means energy. What is one going to do with energy if one 
has not the understanding to use it rightly, if one has not the 
perspective to see clearly where to go, what to do, what not to do?
 Then power gives a certain intoxication.

The unconscious person
 becomes even more unconscious, the mad person becomes even more mad. 
Latest researchers into psychiatry have come to a very significant 
conclusion: that many people who are insane are really insane because 
they have so much power that it is beyond their control. They cannot 
cope with it. Basically they are not bad people, not evil, but their
 power is like a sword, a naked sword in the hands of a child. What is the child going to do with a sword? Either he will harm somebody or he
 will harm himself; hence power either becomes murderous or it becomes suicidal.

These are the only two possibilities without meditation. But
 once meditation becomes the foundation, then power is creative, then
 it brings great poetry and great music and great dance in your life.
 And not only in just your life; it starts overflowing you, it starts 
reaching others.

Osho, excerpts from The Old Pond - Plop!

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Osho book recommendations on meditation

Pharmacy For the Soul: A Comprehensive Collection of Meditations, Relaxation and Awareness Exercises, and Other Practices for Physical and Emotional Well-Being

From Medication to Meditation

Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Osho, Insights for a New Way of Living)

Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself (Osho, Insights for a New Way of Living.)

The Everyday Meditator: A Practical Guide

Meditations on Zen by Osho (Osho Meditations)

Buddha Discovery Deck: 53 Sutras and Meditation Cards to Create a Silent Space Within

Meditations on Yoga by Osho (Osho Meditations)

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Here an Osho quote on power and meditation. Power needs meditation because power means energy. People fall unconscious with lots of energy, they are not used to handle it. Thus it moves in unconscious ways like domination, politics, greed, exploitation, corruption. Meditation teaches to cope with energy. Then power becomes a creative force.