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THE FOURTHWAY NANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 22 May 23, 2018 |
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TO KNOW, TO UNDERSTAND, TO BE By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho
(An excerpt from the original work,
Real World Views, Book 8, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled "To
Know, To Understand, To Be; The 'I's And 'it's Of Man; Commentaries,
Thoughts And Aphorisms On The Social Life Of Man
A.
TO KNOW, TO
UNDERSTAND, TO BE
1
Many a man probably moves without knowing what he is while in this motion
of his and what is it that causes him to be in motion.
If he has discovered the weirdness of
everything to be, in and outside himself, he would soon forget it. If you understand, you
can be.
To appeal to the various regions of the
body is to do and to be. As you work, you develop.
To
be
is definitely a
suffering.
Without inner being-effort, nothing can be
crystallized
permanently
in the inner world.
A certain amount of suffering is essential
to acquire a special
dimension
in the body.
He who will not suffer will not BE.
2
A developed man is a man who possesses higher cosmic psyche hydrogen
qualities.
Those whose psyche is coarse have more
matter than spirit and have less cosmic materials in their centers.
A person suffering is a person
experiencing immense spiritual crisis, and it is such a person who can
BE.
Thought, it must be understood, can only
be a produced through a long period of inner conscious labor and intentional
suffering and without which the special class of hydrogen could not be
formed to perfect objective reason.
These substances are powerful.
They have force when created in abundance.
Even a small concentrated amount in the
head could spark off prolonged action.
Its psychic power could rapidly generate
new psyche hydrogen and new forms of emotion as well.
When there is thought there is always
higher form of emotion in it.
3
When conscious knowledge of a vibrant character enters the body of man, the
mechanical forces inherent in the man and the conscious forces from outside
will contradict leading to changes in the nature of the two kinds of forces.
There, either coarse matter is raised to
the level of the spirit or the spirit is degraded to the level of coarse
matter.
4
Unless one passes through a phase of self-study, with self-consciousness,
one cannot reach objective consciousness; one cannot be objective to oneself
nor be objective to anything outside him.
First, one is not aware of oneself, one’s
consciousness or both.
One quickly loses oneself, ceases to be
because one is not properly separated from his observing ‘I’.
One has not yet succeeded in separating
oneself from oneself. One does not know oneself, cannot understand oneself
and cannot be.
5
Without self-study and knowledge of the inner world, one really cannot
perform any real “analysis”
because as one performs any analysis, one’s own inner process would erase
it, negates it and even re-records it.
It must be understood that some 80% of
these analyses ‑ the scientific theories, holy books, mathematics and other
functions are products semi-consciously issued out from these inner
being-parts.
Most of them are “noises”
rather than objective thoughts.
Certain objects, for instance, a radio, an
industry are produced by the objective sections of the more conscious part
of men.
6
New thinking is always
associated with the development of specific areas of the intellectual
center. If you are to bear any
new thought fruit, you must be prepared to suffer intentionally, innerly and
consciously. Only then can you
produce a great intellectual masterpiece.
7
When a man has great will, he is a master of his own body, and his
capability is immeasurable.
Here everything that is feasible can be
done.
If man fears death, the
fear-of-death
will reduce the number of “doings”,
that is, his “doings”
will always be limited up to within the
boundary of
non-death.
Unless he breaks through this barrier, he
cannot move higher.
8
Only he who has seen his smallness, nothingness and the truth of the
inevitability of his own death will calm down.
And he who has conquered the
fear of
starvation and
fear of
death is he who sees.
His centers are more stable.
9
There is a big difference between a man whose psyche is
singularly-directed-outwards-to-the-object
and another whose psyche is
singularly-directed-towards-himself.
One can only see the long march of the
outer world while the other can only see the long march of the inner world.
Both are equally lopsided.
But for real development, the long march
of the inner world and that of the outer world must be seen immediately.
Only then can a man control or direct this
march. For the struggle of
consciousness, these two lines must be with you always and everywhere,
otherwise, you are not.
Objective consciousness is the
neutralizing line for these two existing lines ‑ the line of
self-consciousness and the line of consciousness of an outside object.
10
The
mind of man is not free because objective and subjective conditions forbid
it.
Both the objective and subjective conditions
generate the problem for the mind to solve.
They come as strong inner and outer
impressions and crystallize in the inner centers paving way for possible
future ‘I’s.
The mind works on it and three centers
must participate to be effective.
Unless one economizes the use of one’s
three centers, depletion and wastage will result.
In life circumstances, so long as you are
still a being moving about on the surface of the planet Earth, the
brains
will have to face many more problems.
11
Keep
silent, make plans and act accordingly.
Come back, keep silent again, make plans
again and act again.
Never mind about the great turn of our
inner world.
Do this process continuously.
12
Continuous activity is continuous motion of a being.
If no one hits it, it will remain as it
is, and alive.
If it flows but does not make a
jump
off the track, well, it might be acted upon by a destruction force and might
perish.
To be attached innerly to a given mode of
material function is ‘enslavement.’
Well!
When the mind notices a possible
opportunity or a disaster, it must
jump.
To remain in the same ‘line
of motion’ or status quo would be
disastrous. What is important is conscious and intentional
directing of bodily being-parts towards a predetermined goal, and not
movement due to automation or mere previous conditioning. The inner being of man
can be developed by intentional ‘making-to-be’
of the thinking, feeling, moving, instinctive and sexual
‘dimensions’
and to refine them by intentional inner doing and projection.
When sad, make yourself happy; when
pessimistic, make it optimistic.
Strive to be different in the
manifestation.
Unless the coarse is made fine, we cannot
even
‘sense’ our
psyche. A lot of thinking makes our coarse psyche hydrogen
finer, and therefore, to the creation of higher thoughts.
A lot of feeling makes our coarse psyche hydrogen finer, and
therefore, to the creation of higher emotions.
For the moving center, there is no higher moving center but moving
center capable of more varieties of higher manifestations.
13
My friend was very shock when
suddenly he sees himself to be a BEING who will surely die.
14
I am just a ‘monkey’ with two
legs and a short tail, and am constantly devouring queer planetary what are
called rice, meat, vegetables, and what not.
The more I put myself in this state, the more I weaken the hard crust
of my false personality, and the more I know myself.
The more I know myself, the more accurate is my judgment and action. BACK TO E-JOURNAL
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