The Importance Of Work On Work Is Selfless

work is work that is selfless, not driven by desire for a reward. It is rewarding in and of itself. If we forgive or do “good works” and are thinking “this will be good for my karmic debt,” we are doing nothing to reduce our debt. The gift, the forgiveness must be “pure,” free from such desires for the karmic debt to be reduced. We have no direct choice where and under what circumstances we are reborn, but we may influence our rebirth indirectly by reducing our karmic debt and this can be done by engaging in “pure work.” This is not just a simple matter of “doing good.” It involves entering into a certain state of mind, a subtle frame of mind where one is “doing good,” without any desire for a reward. The desire for paradise will subvert paradise.
We will often see “wrong work” in an overly obsessive focus on textual studies for often these texts are examined and followed to the letter with the hope and desire that they will lead to paradise. This is often done in place of the person making their own quest. In fact the person who decides to make their own quest is

It is an individualized approach, not a “one-size-fits-all” garment. The consequence of this is that we end up with the individual seeking a personal relationship with God. As this occurs we may find that person has realizations like the following: “We are in God—there is nothing outside of God, therefore we are all in God.” Such pronouncements can lay the individual open to all sorts of risks. Mental health workers might prescribe an anti-psychotic medicine. “True believers,” followers of the texts might accuse this person of blasphemy since it, to them, appears obvious that they either think they are God or they have an inappropriately and delusionally close relationship to God, a relationship that is only accorded to the select few, those in the know, the elite, the