Dynamic & Static Value

Hello,

Today a bit about Dynamic and Static Values, from Robert Pirsig (photo), author of ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE and LILA. He developed a Metaphysics of Quality, which is worth researching if you are into philosophy or metaphysics at all.

One aspect of the Metaphysics of Quality is the concept of static and dynamic value. Static value is established value; dynamic is a new potential that is in the process of emerging, or, in David Bohm’s terms, unfolding (from Bohm's Implicate Order). Eventually, the dynamic value emerges fully and transitions into the new static value, awaiting the next dynamic impulse to appear. So existence is an ongoing process of emerging potential creating new expressions of reality – this is the process of evolution in all aspects of existence.

Pirsig describes this ongoing process as one of continual becoming. We are more acutely aware of this process today, because the rate of change in the world is accelerating as the world becomes more complex via this very process of emerging dynamic values. Thousands of years ago, little would change in a lifetime, or for many lifetimes. Today, the rate of change is more and more rapid, meaning that we face a much greater degree of dynamic value than ever before. Dynamic value is stressful when not understood and embraced.

If you are a seeker, you are constantly encouraging dynamic value to emerge. A problem might be that many seekers view static value as the enemy - as that which is entrenched and needs to be replaced. Actually, as with all things, both are essential in a universe of duality. Without static value, nothing could be sustained; without dynamic value, nothing could develop or grow.

In Conscious Evolutionary terms, dynamic value is the emergent property of Spirit. What emerges must become static if it is to last, so the ideal is the promote positive dynamic value and to allow it to become positive static value, then don't get attached, because a new dynamic wave is on the way. Pretty interesting stuff.

Love and Light,
RevLockard.