What does it mean to live like a king?
You know what idiots think it means?
It means moving around in limousines,
Having everybody curtsy to them and salute them and all that sort of rubbish,
Have their names in their headlines.
They think that means having power over people.
They think that's what it means to live like a king.
They're not living like kings,
They're slaves.
They're terrified.
Look at their faces on television,
For heaven's sake,
Those kings and queens and presidents and the rest of them.
Look at them on television,
You'd recognize it at once.
He's scared.
You know why he's scared?
Because he wants power,
That's why.
He wants prestige,
He wants a reputation,
That's why.
I'll tell you what it means to live like a king.
To know no anxiety at all,
No inner conflict at all,
No tensions,
No pressures,
No upset,
No heartache.
So then what are you left with?
Happiness undiluted.
People sometimes say,
What do I do to be happy?
You don't do anything to be happy.
It shows how bad your theological education has been that you think you got to do something to be happy.
You don't have to do anything to be happy.
You can't acquire happiness.
You know why?
Because you have it.
Got it right now,
You got it.
But you're the whole time blocking it.
You're blocking it.
Stop blocking it,
You'll have it.
Conflicts,
Your anxieties,
Blocking it.
Tensions,
Pressures,
Emptiness,
Your loneliness,
Your despair,
Your depression,
Blocking it.
Your heartache,
You get rid of all of that,
What are you left with?
Sheer undiluted happiness,
That's what you have.
The Chinese put it beautifully.
When the eye is unobstructed,
They say,
The result is sight.
Don't do anything to get sight.
When the eye is unobstructed,
The result is sight.
When the ear is unobstructed,
The result is hearing.
When the mouth is unobstructed,
The result is taste.
When the mind is unobstructed,
The result is truth.
And when the heart is unobstructed,
The result is joy and love.
You've got it all,
But it's obstructed,
Drop it.
So second major step,
You don't want to get out of it.
You want comfort,
You want your little possessions,
You want the little things that society has taught you are essential for happiness,
Falsely,
You want that.
You don't want to get out of the mess.
Those are the things that are creating the mess.
Think of this,
Has it ever occurred to you that what you call your happiness is really your chain?
What do you call your happiness?
You're calling somebody your happiness?
You are my joy,
Your marriage,
Your business,
Your degree,
Whatever.
Where do you find your happiness?
In whom do you find your happiness?
Your prison.
Oh,
This is hard language and who can listen to these words?
It's simple,
New,
Unexpected,
Against almost everything you've been told till now,
But reflect on it with a kind of a fresh mind.
The way a goldsmith analyzes gold by cutting,
Scraping,
Rubbing,
Melting.
