Values

 

I was reading an article which I myself had written on ‘Information Explosion’ and it felt lovely to recall the patterns of thoughts it conveyed. Sometimes, one requires a meaningful reminder about the values one keeps pursuing – probably writing can assist one in doing so. I think, we live on account of values. Values means ‘awareness’ of phenomena, our role in it and the intent to be initiated for action. It endorses the idea of connections and relative truth (as a subset of absolute reality) and the idea of change/ manifestation/phenomena.

The fundamental equation of values to idea diagram to activities is applicable everywhere. We can say that what we are (as constructs) is the making of this Force called mind and mind has its own character of feelings and intellect. Mind is a vibration that constitutes a momentum and it perceives and conceives things. It exists everywhere – from microcosmic to macrocosmic scales. It is created on account of the character of consciousness to keep manifesting/ vibrating/ oscillating from space to matter and reverse. Memory is another word for mind. Memory and change are related. What we say as this or that is a play of perception or the effect of perception – like a mirage in the desert. Of course, one can never know this unless, one is able to connect with consciousness, whose character is not contained in any manifestation. Manifestation is a projection/ transformation of consciousness in other form. In this manifestation, perception/ memory occurs, changes occur, interconnections are a given, and ‘I’ is constructed.

So all thoughts arise from consciousness and they keep changing, keep oscillating, keep affecting us. Again, the focus is on “seeds” of thoughts that germinate into a form of character/ actions/ products.

All above things means values. Nowadays, a word is taken in an offensive way – or in a way that seeks justification or evaluation. The more subtle variables are expressed and evaluated, the more justification and control may be demanded from the complexity that is realized.

I think that more minute time scale of events, means more variables in the situation, means more differentiation, more fragmentation, more aggression and more control. The process of philosophy is the REVERSE of analysis. Philosophy’s main pledge is to remove the experience of differentiation of forms and names and to realize the Oneness in the apparent variety in life forms. By remaining in differentiation, we condition all our thoughts to enhance the individual’s ‘survival’ an account of fear of being diminished eventually. We lay expectations, desires and react based on our conditions on situations.

However, if at all we connect with larger life forces, the conditions of expressions drop down and we start to ‘offer’ our actions freely without any return. This switch of mindset is important to happen. This is the only way, the world can heal itself. Injury is in differentiation and healing is in connecting with everything.

The above observation can also be applied to character of societies or communities across the globe. When one means contemporary architecture, can we understand that architecture has been conceived in different value systems – some of them being highly exploitative to others that seem to be one with Nature? Isn’t it important to note and realize which values ought to be endorsed? And if appropriate values meant for Nature’s nourishment is made as a priority, then the definition of growth/ GDP/ development needs to be seriously reviewed.

There still exists a problem in today’s urban consciousness. Actions meant to respond to Nature’s nourishment, if coming from the realization of our individual survival, have a limitation, since decisions will continue to be compartmentalized. Actions, if at all coming from the realization of diminishing the mental boundaries of us and Nature have some validity. Herein lies the greatest of challenges for us. The pull of differentiation offered by AI verses the conscious intent of dissolving any sort of differences if arising by any kind of imagination.