Will – The ceaseless drive to become more than one is. The drive to expand oneself through further experience, achievement and knowledge.
Power – The experience of will-fulfilment. The feeling that one has managed to take over a desired experience, achievement and knowledge.
Will precedes suffering – The principle that human suffering follows from frustration of the will. All negative emotions result from the frustration of one’s wish to expand and grow in power.
Primordial wish – One’s secret and mostly repressed yearning to control the world in order to attain fulfilment of all of one’s wills.
The true self – The hidden self that lies behind our cultural mask and only wants to follow the will without shame or contradiction.
The false self – The social self that wears a self-image of a good and almost will-free person. Naturally, the great oppressor of the true self.
Primal narrative – The story we weave since childhood about the basic struggle between our true self and society. The most basic feeling we have about our position in the world of power struggles.
Replacement – The act of silent and embarrassing withdrawal from a field we failed to master, followed by the shift to another field which we more conveniently master.
Compensation – A sense of false inner power which we give to ourselves, whenever we fail to fulfil our will. Replacing a sense of failure with some empowering thought or emotion.
Revenge – Our attempt to correct our feeling of failure and weakness by getting even with those who weakened us (or with others who remind us of them).
Concealment – Our social pretense that we are good (almost will-free) and powerful (not really wounded by our experiences of weakening). The mask which covers up the deeper truth of our wills and their frustrations.
The true subconscious – The repressed world of our socially forbidden wills that is the real source of our emotions and actions.
The false subconscious – The story we weave about our source of agony and frustration. The story about ourselves as victims rather than ambitious beings.
Diversion – The manipulation we make to shift attention from our will-driven motivations to our story as helpless victims.
Trauma – The shock of powerlessness; experiences in which our will is almost completely crushed by others’ momentary stronger wills.
Burst of aggression – Moments in life in which we fail to conceal our true self and primordial wish and do anything we can to achieve will-fulfilment. In such moments we are blind to the will-fulfilment of others.
True inner power – A state in which we are connected to a sense of self-expansion which does not depend on life’s empowerments and weakenings.
The eternal seesaw – The consistent experience of ups and downs in life that makes us feel sometimes winners and sometimes losers.
Replacement wills – The alternative wills we prepare in case our original will would be rejected by life and society.
Volitional replacement – Choosing out of total freedom to let go of some of one’s powers, because through inner development one has outgrown them.
Life’s contract – An unwritten agreement we “sign” when we are born that we are willing to participate in the struggle of wills and the experience of weakness involved.
Inner competition – The transformation of the competitive spirit – comparing ourselves with others – into the effort to constantly transcend our own level of development. Overcoming ourselves instead of fighting others.
Compromise – The mature recognition that life is not meant to fully fulfil our own ambition but is actually a meeting place between different wills.
The expanded presence meditation – A meditation that focuses on the expansion of our sense of presence. Its purpose is to replace the power struggle with the world with an evergrowing sense of true inner power.