ONE WAY IN WHICH THE EAST AND THE WEST DO NOT SEEM TO AGREE

if the dominion isn't ours we feel diminished ... when recognition of true domain should fulfill us ... if we're the top the conversation is all downhill ... it is lonely at the top ... much better to be learning and nothing better than wisdom and no better wisdom than wisdom from on high ... by which we mean higher than we are ... or perhaps you know someone who believes that some day in some form he will be on high where high is the highest ... personally I don't understand such a position ... nor how any creature can pretend to hold it ... now in theory or any time later in practice ... it makes no sense ... no ordinary sense for sure ... in any of the ways we use dominion or subordination ... but I will admit to having read of one use of these words in admittedly an extraordinary sense ... in which subordination leads to equality ... even equality with the highest ... I do not say this sense is unique or even unusual in the east where yoga brahmin and atman seem to work it through ... but in the west I think it is unique ... was it not one creature they say leads the way