Contemplating on what defines a products value and its worth? For years, societies have inherently gauged a products value via the functionality and utility it provides to its user. Various aspects affects a products overall utility: Usability: In which situation does the product provide value? Efficiency: How best or easily does the product do the job it's intended for? Durability: How long does it last? Convenience: How optimal is it, in terms of weight, size, durability or cost-effectiveness, energy use (both electrical and manual), maintainability, among others. Greater the functionality, the higher it's value. No wonder our phones cost higher than a pocket watch (1 function vs n+ functions.)
The OSHO International Mediation Resort (OIMR) in Pune is a unique resort which offers not only the traditional relaxation services of a luxury resort, Basho Spa, swimming pool, sauna, Jacuzzi, etc. But also, true to it's name, offers more internal ways of relaxation. The various meditation techniques developed by OSHO himself for the modern man, that are held throughout the day and facilitated by many in-resident sannyasins or volunteer sannyasins. If you manage to stay at the resort for more than a week though, you'll quickly see the whole place is stuck in a pattern of some sorts, across it's various aspects, seeping right down to it's essential core. It's starts from their mundane weekly schedule of daily meditations, to the food options available at their Zorba the Buddha restaurant.
The pain of not being able to share the joy and love you feel, with anyone, again feels like a death process. The giving and receiving of love seems like another duality. In a world craving for love, we find that love comes from within before it comes from without, and when we find it within, there's an overwhelming sense of sharing it without. How do you share it when you finally have it? So far the problem was not feeling love and compassion, now the problem is how to share it, if the other is not in a position to receive it? Both Physically and Energetically?