Values
Commentary
The highest value is like water.
Water shapes the world. Water is essential to Life.
In its inherent fluidity, water does not contend.
Conceptualization is essential to living.
Conceptualization shapes perspective.
A value is an appreciated conceptualization.
Concepts worthy of esteem are like water. They do not contend. They fluidly fit the situation to bring insight.
Concepts are most valuable when they coalesce into a philosophy. Like water in the physical world, concepts shape the inner world.
The following passages are values attained with strength.
The value in awareness is richness.
Like water, purity of awareness affords an accurate view of what is going on. Polluted by nattermind, awareness is foggy and myopic in iğnorance. Awareness blossoms in the mental transformation of enlightenment. To achieve rich awareness, nattermind must be vanquished.
The value in a mind is clarity.
Confusion is common in iğnorance. Indulging nattermind grows the weeds of mental illness, crowding out the yield of lucidity.
Mental clarity is achieved by discarding thought and belief, and refusing thrills, including the psychological charge that occurs in indulging negative emotion.
The value in action is beneficence.
Goodness often generates positive feedback in ways that cannot be anticipated. To effortlessly achieve beneficence, one must be imbued with bliss. This happens naturally upon ascending to higher awareness.
The value in relations is benevolence.
Benevolence results from empathic mentalizing. To achieve benevolence, one must comprehend human nature and in doing so feel compassion for those who suffer in iğnorance. The perceptivity and bliss garnered via higher awareness facilitates benevolence.
The value in words is sincerity.
Communication offers the opportunity of social bonding. To achieve sincerity, one must be content, not wanting from others.
The value in effort is timeliness.
Efficient effort is most rewarding. To achieve timeliness, one must hold in mind both skill from the past and the goal of the future while dobe resides in now. Higher awareness improves focus.
The value in work is competence.
To achieve competence, one must know the ideal result. As such, imagination is essential to competence. Higher awareness affords clarity in distinguishing the essential from the inessential.
The value in management is expectation.
A team endeavor can only succeed if all members perform their role. Each member must know what is expected of them. A manager achieves expectation by knowing all roles and communicating them to each member so that the project completes as planned.
The value in leadership is order.
Leading others is like cooking a small fish. Too much stirring will make a delicate fish fall apart. Too little stirring will leave the cooking uneven. To achieve order, one must know the entire structure and dynamic.
The value in economy is economy.
This passage twines the value of doing in double meaning. An economy is a system of producing and distributing for survival of people in a society. Chronic waste is counterproductive and signals that an economy is not sustainable.
To achieve frugality (economy), an economic system must be regulated. Only by this could all in a society prosper and Nature be preserved.
Enlightened leadership and management are required for an economical economy. Such a political economy, obviously, is not the way of the Collective world.
The value in authority is empowerment.
Order is best obtained when society’s members see order as befitting their own interest. To rule by force leads to resentment, paving the road to revolution.
A prosperous society requires more than order.
Proper authority begins with apt leadership. Apt authority provides the means for society’s members to make the most of their lives. To enliven empowerment, authority must appreciate the many ways that enrich a society.
As with the economy, proper political authority has been a rarity in the world of the Collective. Discrimination on a tribal basis has long been the norm.
