Just getting up in the morning and having a shower is a desire to do so. Even just reading what is written here requires a desire to do so. The more life force we have, the more powerful and beautiful our desires become. People who suffer from extra depression and cannot get out of bed are the perfect RHP pupil without even knowing it. For they have removed desire from their lives and are waiting to die. These circumstances are to be expected in the current time that humanity is caught in.
Emotion and thought or the logical and emotional aspects of our being need to be unified together for our success. They are two major aspects of the element of desire. A person who wants to stop a lifestyle habit that is not the best for them but always fails to do so because the logical mind knows what it wants but the emotional mind still wants to maintain the status quo of the current way. The answer is the understanding for the reason of change and feeling to change must become one.
For this a person may cognitively channel their emotional energy into this goal. We do this every time we program a command or affirmation with magic. But people can forget to do this for the more mundane aspects of life.
If a person is trying to change something in their life and the drive not to challenge pulls them, becoming aware of what is happening, then re-channeling emotional power back into the desire for change with affirmation, but the affirmation must have the emotional power behind it. Don't just say it, but feel it. This unites the logical and emotional parts of the mind and the desire element is working properly and is no longer divided.
The interesting but obvious thing that the RHP people miss when they want to remove all desire for their existence is the desire to remove. Desire is still desire.
Desire is our will to life. The problem comes when the two major aspects of desire, cognitive and emotional are not in harmony for our greater transformation to higher levels of positive Being.
With ego, this term has been maligned out of ignorance and malicious intent. The removal of Ego is a big theme of the new age types in the West. They have carried this concept from the East, without understanding the cultural difference of the meaning of this term. There are words in Sanskrit which have no English translation. Ego in the original Eastern term was simply that which kept a person from advancing spiritually towards becoming a Siddha.
In the Western world, Ego is a term for your overall Psyche or the sum of your parts. If you remove your ego, you have wiped your personality clean. People who have accomplished this in the world are found in labotomy clinics drooling on themselves while being vacant. RHP dummies who seem to have a special penchant for lacking critical thinking forget that there is a different and special personality. It is a way of life. Of course Ego gets in the way of absolute control over mass groups of people. If a person has ever watched Sci-Fi and has seen the Borg, that is a group of people free from all Ego and living as one. And the goal of the RHP doctrine is total slavery and lack of any diversity. Because diversity is difference, it becomes harder to control. And the harder things are to control, the more power is lost over it.
This goes back to desire. Ego and desire are different aspects of each other. We are taught that our desires are selfish in the sense that they are wrong. People that believe them to be wrong are still fighting that shame on a stick for room up on that stick for themselves. The root of selfish is self. So be yourselves without letting others abuse you with false and perverse guilt trips.
Ironically the type of profane egoism the RHP claims all ego is, is the exact egoism they are built upon. Base, hypocritical, back patting, doing other things not because they need to be done, but because they can play the saint and flatter themselves. A lifelong loser with feelings of inferiority can become a christian and presto, now they are special and superior and engage in this by looking down on unbelievers and even believers. Watch christians for a while and you will see them try and humble out each other. They need the christ lie in order to be able to look down their noses at others. They need people to need them so they can feel puffed up about themselves. In psychology this is understood to be an identified form of neurotic behaviour. As is known with the RHP, they project what they really feel onto others.
The root of all equality is resentment. If we're all equal, nobody can be better than me and threaten my insecurity. It is the band-aid ideology for people with large feelings of inferiority. Hey it's easier than self improvement after all.
All nature is hierarchy or aristocratic in design.
In this society a powerful Ego is needed to repel the constant attempts of the crowd to pull you down to puff them up. They want you to take up their damning yoke so they can feel equal and not threatened by difference. The power to be yourself and not care what the Jones' think is part of a strong Ego. Ego is that part of you that allows you to be you and thus enjoy your life to the fullest, where the average person lives in constant fear of being themselves because others might disagree. They're pathetic creatures who live in fear and self-doubt. No wonder a strong Ego makes them uneasy. It makes them feel bad about themselves. That's their problem. Don't let them make it yours.
What is the will to power? But you desire. Desire itself is a major essence to being alive. People tend to think and feel that desire as a thing that is not good for them, but they want it anyway. And they tend to think that the Will to Power is some sort of uber-macho thing like you would see on the WWE. But understanding life is action, and behind every action, there is a desire to act.