I asked you once—I think I did; I usually ask this question at some point. If you had access to infinite power, resources, opportunities, capabilities, people—you know, and you can do anything you want—what would you do?
Some people don't know the answer, but it's because they don't dare to admit the answer. Others jump to say, "I want to buy ice cream, I want to buy a jet, I want to retire," and so on.
But this question, I think, can take one very deep into the core of the problem of life. It touches the twist of life at the root of it, which is the nature of desire and greed. In times like that, I meet it directly. I don't need to read about it in a book or imagine it.
When you get access to power, you are totally distorted. The last thing you can trust is yourself at that point. All the thoughts about how to benefit from something, how to accumulate anything—even accumulating good actions so that in your next life you can be rewarded—whatever it is, anything of that sort is twisted. It is corrupted.
So, if you get to the bottom of it and say, "If I'm given infinite power, all I want to do is to let go of that," you start to see clearly. And I say "start" because it's not enough to just, you know, abort command. It needs to be a dissolving of yourself.
Think about that, and ask yourself—but truly, not as a sophisticated game. If you find out tomorrow morning that you actually inherited trillions of dollars, and your reputation is so clear that you can reach out to anyone on the globe and get an immediate response and immediate cooperation, and nothing is kept hidden from you—you have the capacity to see through anything—then what would you do?
Think about it.
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