I will not value what is valueless.
Today we list the real criteria by which to test all things you think you want. The laws that govern choice you cannot make, no more than you can make alternatives from which to choose.
We have stressed there are only two, however many there appear to be. It would be most ungenerous to you to let alternatives be limitless, and thus delay your final choice until you had considered all of them in time; and not been brought so clearly to the place where there is only one choice to be made.
1st, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you choose is valueless. Time can never take away a value that is real. 2nd, if you choose to take a thing away from someone else, you will have nothing. When you have denied their right to everything, you have denied your own. 3rd, why is the choice you made of value to you? What purpose does it serve? Here it is the easiest to be deceived. For what the ego wants it fails to recognize. The ego’s goals are obvious to anyone who cares to look for them. Here deception is doubled, for the one who is deceived will not perceive that he has merely failed to gain; he will believe he has served the ego’s hidden goals. According to the dictates of this deluded guide, he who saves the ego’s goals and serves them as his own, makes no mistakes (only sins).
The criterion for choice that is hardest to believe because it is overlaid with many levels of obscurity is: if you feel any guilt about your choice, you have allowed the ego’s goals to come between the real alternatives. And so you do not realize there are only two, and the alternative you think you chose seems fearful and too dangerous to be the nothingness it actually is.
All things are valuable or valueless. Choosing is easy just because of this. Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke that hides the fact that no decision can be difficult.
Heaven is reached with empty hands [not grasping the meaningless or temporary] and open minds [not having decided they already know] which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. With self deception laid aside, we will practice with honest willingness to value only the truly valuable and the real.
I will not value what is valueless, and what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.
Wait in silence to receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven that swings open as he comes.
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