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THE FOURTHWAY MANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 51 May 18, 2019 |
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ESSENCE AND PERSONALITY: THE ETHICAL CANON OF THOUGHTS By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho (An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 12, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled, "The Trialectics of Man and Woman, the Logico-Psychophilosophical Method and Other Fragments of Teaching from the Inner Circle of Humanity," July 1981 - February 1982 Discourses, Chapter 6, Section A: "Essence and Personality: The Ethical Canon of Thoughts," pp. 142~147)
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Essence is the whole person itself ‑ all
the centers and the physical body together and at any stage of development
of the being. Essence deposits as thoughts, emotions and actions.
The nature of essence can be known by observing and investigating the
totality of the individual emanations for a period of time. 2
A healthy physical, mental and emotional body,
balanced and developed centers indicates a high stage of development of all
the four bodies in a person. Beautiful without internal and external
make-ups, balance of components and movements (grace) tied to a long-term
vision soaked in the positive value octave ‑ this is what we normally called
“having a real essence." 3
Once a person is
true to
himself sincerely and truthfully, he becomes essencely real in the course of
time. This requires removal of one mask after another. 4
They use personality disguised as essence.
Speak heartily to you but behind you, they talk bad about you. Your
essence may be in contact only with his personality and his essence may only
be in contact with your personality. He may be deceived and you can be
deceived too. 5
Communication in many social gathering is
hardly essence communication. It is mere personality contacts for the
satisfaction of certain social or business needs. Real essence contact
cannot really be supported by a smiling
gesture nor can it be substituted with a ‘Good Morning’ or a ‘Thank You.'
Essence must attack personality and drive it away from time to time.
For this inner battle to succeed you need assistance from people who are
also interested in the work on oneself. 6
Like flowing water which avoids the rock, essence
can change the course of its direction upon coming into contact with
stubborn personality within our body as well as without. 7
Essence develops a personality shield when
subjected to pressure from outside. Essence suffers when it is being
dictated by a hostile personality from within or without. It suffers
even more when the personality is using essence contact at its periphery and
personality context at its inner core. 8
Study the diagrams overleaf regarding the
behavior of essence within the envelope of personality. Essence is like a
feeler of the snail enveloped in its personality. The feeler is often
extended out of the border of personality but withdraws readily when it is
touched. It will re-extend its feeler later. Some snails do not
readily protrude their feelers into the outside world. The feelers may
come into contact with your personality and it will withdraw immediately and
your essence may come into contact with his personality and you will
withdraw. This typical behavior of essence occurs during human
interfacing and any ‘insecurity’ of the essence leads to behaviors peculiar
to the unbecoming of social interaction.
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Essence is pure, clean and without inner and
outer separation of voices. Essence, at whatever degree of maturity,
is intimate to the inner voice. Essence cannot be contradictory with
itself within its own context (even in conversation). Essence binding
is many times stronger than personality binding. Great essences or developed essences unite very
fast. It does not take a long time for essences to unite upon meeting
each other. Essence is a heart-to-heart relation sealed by a mandatory
third force. Personality can recognize an essence just as an essence
can recognize a personality. The difference is in the motives of the
essence and the personality.
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Your essence suffers when it is encircled
by personality friends. You have to be in personality with them but at
the same time to conceal
your essence. A person who cheats essence is a dangerous person.
Yet essence must suffer under personality to grow. How can essence be protected against personality
exploitation of ourselves and of others? Three ways are possible and
they are:
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Personality in reality does not trust essence for
it sees essence as also like itself, no more than just another personality.
Personality only knows and wants to exploit essence. Essence-flow has
to be covered by a personality shell for invisibility. Essence does
not give “work” or exploits another fellow in each of the sociocosmic
stopinders of the sociocosmic octaves without some kind of return or
compensation. 12
Do not be too ready to give objective knowledge
for it may just be robbed off by a personality. And even if a
personality has snatched a particle of essence, it could be changed into
essence after the ingestion and digestion of these essence-particles. 13
When the hearts are antagonistic (an essence
contradiction) the minds and personalities would tend to be used as a
camouflage for concealing the essences. Real essence cannot be
contradictory only personalities assumed to be essence can be contradictory. 14
To steal a kiss, to steal a proximity and
to steal a feeling. That is Pigsy. If Pigsy is a personality and
he claims he is not, it is a case of an ‘I’ not knowing what the other ‘I’
is doing. But for the past 365 days of the year he has been living in
that kind of pigsy personality. If Pigsy is a conscious intentional
artificial issuing,
then it disappears almost immediately after the issuing, for it constitutes
a very unimportant action for the man. 15
False motive must not take the role of essence
motive to deceive. He who uses false motive under the context of being
the real essence motive is a man that is controlled by the demonimmoralian
forces. He who kills the essence of another kills his own mother. 16
Essence grows by being deep. Only by
becoming deep to our own thoughts and feelings that essence can be reached.
When there is essence, there is personality and a person thus becomes a
two-layered being, the inner which is essence and the outer which is
personality. When he is merely personality he is like water when drawn
a line, it disappears as soon as it is drawn. 17
If out of 10 statements made by your
friend, 6 are against you then he is just your 40% mental-friend. If
out of 10 feeling dispositions made by him, 7 are negatively directed
towards you, then he is just a 30% feeling-friend. And if out of 10
actions made by him 5 are harmful to you, then he is just a 50%
action-friend. As a whole he is Mr. 4M - 3F - 5A friend or
the 4 - 3 - 5
friend. 18
Most people whom you mix in accidental mechanical
life circumstances are personality entities in relation to you. Only a
few might become your long term essence friend. Would you strive to
X-ray all the make-ups and false personalities that are coated just beneath
or on the surface of the skin and also of the aura due to such radiation in
our good creatures of Our Common Father? 19
You can’t speak to these creatures of shallow
waters, and hoping that they will understand you. They are surface
beings. A look at the diagram overleaf will tell you the story.
A personality man only understands the surface as
he moves along the surface.
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Regarding the starting point for the search of
essence and personality, the wise grandson instructs: Assess the
psyche 'I's which is the core of the person's activities as this is his
essence and personality.
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