What else is there to think about? Money is power. Everybody else is thinking of money, so don’t be worried. Even those who are thinking of the other world are also thinking of money. Money represents power; with money, you can purchase power.
Your saints are also thinking of money — they call it virtue. By virtue, you can purchase a better house in heaven and a better car. A few people are not greedy; they only think about money. A few people are greedier, they think of the other world.
The whole world is thinking in terms of money. Those who think in terms of power politics are thinking in terms of money because money is nothing but money is nothing but a symbol of power. That’s why you can go on accumulating more and more money, but the desire to have still never leaves you — because the thirst for power is unlimited, it knows no end.
People are thirsty for power because deep down they are empty. Somehow, they want to stuff that emptiness with something — it may be money, power, prestige, respectability, character, or virtue. Anything will do; they want to stuff their inner emptiness.
There are only two types of people: their inner emptiness, and those rare precious beings who try to see the inner emptiness. Those who try to stuff it remain empty and frustrated. They go on collecting garbage; their whole life is futile. Only the other kind, very precious people who try to look into inner emptiness without any desire to stuff it, become meditators.
Meditation is looking into your emptiness, welcoming it, enjoying it, being one with it, with no desire to fill it — there is no need because it is already full. It looks empty because you don’t have the right way of seeing it. If you put your mind aside and look into your emptiness, it has tremendous beauty, it is divine, and it is overflowing with joy. Nothing else is needed.
Only then a person stop thinking about money, stop thinking about power, stop thinking about paradise — because he is already in paradise, because he is already rich, because he is already power.
Live the moment, drop the future, and money will lose its glamour.
Live the moment with such totality and abandon, as if there is no other moment to come to you again as if this is the last moment. Then all desire for money and power simply leaves you. If suddenly you come to know that today you are going to die, what will happen? Will you still be interested in money? Suddenly all desire for money will leave you.
I will not tell you to renounce money. That has been told you to over the ages; it has not changed you. I am going to tell you something else; celebrate life and your obsession with money disappears automatically. And when it goes on its own accord, it leaves no scratches, it leaves no wounds behind, it leaves no trace behind.
