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 > ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
