Valuation is the measure that the mind uses so that it could value the work it has done or the thing it has come upon or possessed.
Mind uses time also to value a thing. The older a thing is more valuable it becomes.
The mind seeks to possess things it considers valuable. By possessing it, the mind enhances its own value.
The intrinsic worth of a thing is separate and distinct from the value it is given by the mind.
The value of a thing is measured in terms of the currency invented by the mind.
The measure of time is computed by the units which the mind has invented to do it, namely, seconds, hours, days, years etc.
Time, like value, is not an intrinsic property of anything. Time and value don't exist in nature; they exist only in the mind that measures them by means of its own devices.
The mind measures time in other ways too. The chronological way of measurement is a physical aspect of measuring time. The physical measurement of time is scientific and the means used to measure are applicable world wide, such as a clock. This manner of measuring time is limited to the movement of matter, the work accomplished by humans and machines and the cycles of nature. It is universally regarded as accurate. Errors and disputes arising out of such measurement are resolved against common and universally accepted principles and tools.
The mind also invented a subjective way of measuring time. It is a personal reckoner, its own means to mark time for itself. These are many and they overlap with each other and sometimes align with physical time. When the mind hopes for a change in its present condition, it is marking time. When it is desirous of something, it is marking time. When it is believing in something, it is marking time. When it is impatient about something, it is marking time.
Time and value go together. If a change is desired in the present condition, then the mind is seeking to enhance its value. Until that improvement is reached, it is marking time, hoping that the change happens and the value increases in the time it has hoped it would happen. This kind of time is not measurable by any scientific means and its passage manifests in the mind as impatience, agony, frustration, despair and so on. The mind then resorts to other means in order to 'speed up' the process. It depends on its beliefs to 'get there', 'get that'. The physical time and this subjective psychological time then overlap and become a tremendous burden on the mind. When the desired change eventually occurs, its value increases greatly. Time through effort and agony enhances the value.
Nothing occurs in time. Only the mind is observing every occurrence in time. Strangely, the mind became subservient to its own invention. Instead of using it only as a tool, the mind has given it the status of a master and allows itself to be governed by its own slave.
Not knowing the intrinsic worth of itself or of the things around it, the mind invented value. In the notion of improving its value through possession of things it has valued, the mind is marking time to fulfil.
What happens when time and value are dropped from our observation - the internal subjective time and the external value of a thing? Could we then come upon the timeless existence in which we behold everything in its intrinsic worth? Is that what reality is, knowing the true nature of things, including our own mind?
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