[MD] The Dynamics of Value

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

What is the reason, or purpose, for living a quality (spiritual) life?


Marsha
 
 



On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:28 AM, 118 wrote:

> This post is intended to explore the birth of Value, it's
> incarnations, and its death.
> 
> There appear to be two contrary positions as to its birth.  Either we
> are the source of value, or we are it's creation.  Both of these fit
> within a metaphysics of Quality, where Quality depicts the perspective
> of rhetoric.  That is, the song of existence.  A number of positions
> can be taken which logically extend the birth of value into different
> directions.  One of these could be the interplay of the subjective
> with the objective.  Value can be seen as either the body or the mind
> (to use an analogy).  It can be the material or the spiritual to use
> another analogy.  It is my present interpretation that Value is the
> source, not the result.  It creates from the very smallest to the very
> largest.  It is inherent in our sense of time.  As such, the value
> which we sense is part of a larger value impinged on us.  In this way,
> man is not the measurement of all things that man measures, but
> instead, man is a measurement.  He is a feature of value.  An analogy
> for this would be the waves of an ocean.  Each wave is not creating
> it's ascendence and descendence, but is a property of the ocean.
> 
> A question could be: Why do I call this Value?  This can be analogized
> using the symbol of the Tao, the Yin and Yang.  There is a constant
> interplay of better and worse, darker and brighter, fairer and uglier,
> pleasure and pain, which defines every moment of existence.  This
> cannot be a creation of man, because it exists without man.  For
> example, the notion of better or worse exists prior to man, and our
> incarnation interprets it in a human way.  Man does not have the power
> to make these things up, only reveal them in our own way.
> 
> In the same way that a prism can distinguish light into various colors
> (or frequencies), Value can be differentiated into various forms.
> Using the light analogy, the color red has longer and shorter
> wavelengths comprising it, which a the subtler grades of color.  It
> can be said that Value creates a pull, which would mean that it is
> directional.  While such directionality may seem in all directions,
> historically it is possible to note the sum total of that direction
> and map it.  Any such directionality would imply an outside source of
> such value rather that one created by the individual.  However, the
> inclusion of free will into the equation allows divergence within
> individuals in how that follow such value.
> 
> Specific values do die.  This would imply that the source of all
> values tends to oscillate.  Another wave analogy can describe such
> behavior, that is the rising and falling of value.  Some values which
> can represent spiritual dogma can arise like rogue waves, and last for
> thousands of years, only to disappear again.  This would imply that
> the directional attribute of Value is temporary and ever changing.  It
> could be considered cyclical like a sine wave.  If one is to be in
> harmony, one must read the waves and ride them.  This is also called
> becoming one with Tao.
> 
> Perhaps someone should write The Tao of Motorcycle Maintenance.  Oh,
> somebody already has.
> 
> Mark
> 



 
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