The benchmark of value.
I know what I am worth. I respect myself.
Despite this, the only value I have to other people is what I am able to do for them or to show them.
The stuff I have to show to other people so they value me is important.
People say “every person has a book in them”. If people do not have a hardcopy of that book which they have already written, they do not have any value as an author with a commercial product.
This is the difference between showing and telling. In the telling is delusion. In the showing is evidence.
Your worth to other people is what you can show them you’re worth. Without that you are considered worthless by society.
It may have taken fifty years of experiences and study to become a zen master. In modern society that lifetime is of no value to anybody other than the zen master. It is of imperative value to the zen master. We must do both. The self and the self in service to others are the two hands of living.
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