Value of Being

Value lies in what we are, not in what we think ourselves to be.

Could it be true, that real value lies in what we are, not in what we think ourselves to be?

Could being, existence, what is, what we are, be synonymous with value?

To exist is value.

We got this flipped. We see value in everything but this. We see value in what we can do, what we can accomplish, create, bring forth, understand and imagine. Yet we are deeply uncertain and insecure about our value without any additions from our minds.

When you look at the starry night sky do you think in terms of what you can add to it to make it better, more beautiful, accomplished, and so on? But this is exactly how we perceive our own existence. Always pushing and pressing for a better me. Before we make a better me, let’s at least stop for a moment and see what we have in front of us.

What do we have in this very moment? Breath, ground, body, light, shape, color, sound and inexhaustibly more. Take a moment, and feel what’s here. All of these are you. Now… do these have value? Are you valuable?

What if, our starting point was the felt sense of the mystery of existence?

What if the Universe that shines itself through us was our teacher? Directly, succinctly, simply teaching our minds the appropriate relationship with all things, by way of being itself through us? Not tomorrow, but here, now as you?

What if our activities, our moving and doing in the world were informed by a palpable, embodied sense of our inherent value?

What would it be like to be in such harmony with all of life?

What would we accomplish with the whole Universe at our side? Extending itself through, filling us, the space around us, all we see, touch, know and don’t know with the conscious recognition of the tremendous value that our existence has.

This is not the kind of value that gives reasons why it is so.

This value, that like our very existence simply IS.