THE FOURTHWAY MANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 72 August 28, 2019 |
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BODY FUNCTIONS: ON NEEDS, DRIVES, MOTIVES, ACTIONS AND SATISFACTION By Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho (An excerpt from the original work, Real World Views, Book 10, by Professor Dr. Tan Man-Ho entitled, "Uncovering the New Dimensions of Our Social Being, The Enneagram Summary, Special Exercises And The Mathematical Being," January 1978 - August 1979 Discourses, Chapter 2, Section A: "Body Functions: On Needs, Drives, Motives, Actions and Satisfaction," pp. 27~32 )
A. BODY FUNCTIONS: ON NEEDS, DRIVES, MOTIVES, ACTIONS AND SATISFACTION
1 Man
wants supply of water, he wants supply of electricity, he consumes water
directly, he also consumes electricity but in the substances of its
manifestation.
2 Do
not make any attempt to repair or change the parts of yourself or give to
doctors to do it for you without you knowing fully the need for it. 3
On Needs, Drives, Motives, Actions and
satisfaction (psychology): I want you to see this in its own order. I do not
want you to mixture it up with the category of ‘I’, mental body, emotional
body and physical body. These are elements of another category of study.
It is also different from the study of the 7 centers. Here 'needs'
are 'wants' or 'I's; drive is a 'power'; 'motives' are 'motions' and
'activity' is manifestations. When a need arises, power is generated which
lead to inner motion and activity. With the activity accomplishes the
'wants', satisfaction results and the whole process comes to a standstill.
4
Stop inner and outer mechanical talking, humming
and petty body language such as scratching, touching, unnecessary
tensioning, mechanical movements, playing teeth with the tongue, nail
biting, groin scratching, arm folding, toe playing, finger playing, winking
at attractive chance passing-by ladies, restlessness, etc. Put a full stop!
Remove the full stop and just observe without interference! Put the
full stop again! Then repeat!
5
With the development of mechanical processes,
nature's growth processes as well as life processes gradually come to a
standstill and in a couple of million years or less the earth would soon
become like other planet remains subjected only the laws of physics. No
biological laws, psychological laws and social laws are needed to comprehend
this planet henceforth. The laws are no longer on the planet’s
surface. The essences responsible for bio-psycho-sociological
processes embodied in beings will soon return also to its nearest prime
source.
6
Decision of an emotional man is centered on
emotion that is decisions are made in this state of the moment. As emotions
can be in a positive or a negative state, or in various types and degree,
the decisions from them are not reliable and not dependable for its
practicality and usefulness. Depending on such decisions can be
disastrous and are good only occasionally. The decision of an
intellectual man is centered on thinking and is more rational with greater
accuracy but is bad as negative imagination is also a mental state of the
intellectual center, and can distort right decisions when decisions are made
in that negative mental state.
7
I live deep in the inner world of my body very
far away from my outer world. It took me years to work my inner
miserable inner world to this stage of nothingness. Now I am working to
extend myself to the surface of my body. I need to go beyond outside into
my outer world.
8
For active thinking or emoting or moving we
require energy - when the energy is limited, the process cannot be carried
far.
9
The throat is an excretory organ. The blood
throws out toxic substance in a variety of ways ‑ carbon dioxide through the
lungs, salt and excess water through the skin and mucous through the inner
wall of the throat. Carbon dioxide is thrown out at the rate of once every
3 seconds; saliva almost 'continuous' and mucous once in 6 months or
thereabout depending on the amount of toxic substances that has accumulated
in the blood.
10
Man is born a slave and a machine. He has been
following instruction from outside and never inside, because his inside is
actually subservient to outside forces. It only appears that he is
following the instruction from inside. For these people their lives
are destroyed by outside instruction.
11
Now concerning the Earth's
being-adat or
customs, it is best to give up this mama's darling practice – only a few can
be retained for remembrance and entertainment. I heard the countless
wishes in my own body, but I do not know which to stay put, for none of them
are reliable.
12
It is impossible to have only one ‘I’ throughout
your life, but it is possible to have one real ‘I’ controlling and
regulating all the other ‘I’s, controlling both the essential and
non-essential ‘I’s. This is possible and it is the thing which has to be
acquired. However, a group of very strong and lasting “main” interests
such as a life-long hobby, ambition or a “mission” in life producing
historical phenomenon cannot be fully equated as REAL ‘I’, or master ‘I’.
The REAL ‘I’ besides having long-term, everlasting “interests” capable of
producing history has one big difference and that is this ‘I’ observes,
controls, maintain and repair all the other ‘I’s and ‘it’s inside one’s own
body consciously and with knowledge and being of the self-in-presence,
whereas those strong directions are often strong identifications and beliefs
on an ideal about and for an outside world, and the energy slips into the
moving center to produce historical events. The inside “Master” is
mostly invisible to him, even unknown – just continue to the outside goal
which is preset by something which is unknown too!
13
The ‘timing between the rate of flow of blood
and that of the rate of flow of air in the lung’ should be in the right
proportion to ensure breathing harmony.
14
Healing music accompanied by therapeutic dance
lubricates the moving center of the physical body, a therapy for rheumatism
and holistic defects indeed.
15
The story of Dragon Maid against Monkey reveals
a knowledge of the scale of beings and the nature of ‘spiritual marriage’
beyond the periphery of one scale of being from the other, beings of the
same physical type reproduce the same physical type up to a point of
transition of species. Man produces man; fish produces fish. Man
has in himself monkey essence, pig essence, fox essence, frog essence, snake
essence, fish essence, etc. He has all the primordial essences
indicated in the horoscope of animalian beings in the Chinese calendar and
his embryonic development has gone through all the stages of the mammalian
octave. These primordial animal essences are scaled. Primordial
essence here means vital primordial life energy from various life forms in
the biocosmic octave. Even if a person
massages his way to develop in his body the psychic substance bearing the
popular name ‘Goddess of Mercy,’
it is not true to say that he is an immortal in the real sense for he will
still perish under the shot of any gun. This substance because its quantity
is limited, is not produced in an economic way and therefore like diamond is
sacred and rare. It has to be produced through conscious labor and
intentional suffering.
16
It (kompang)
resembles the gong ‑ there are like brother and sister. They produce strong
thundering sounds, and thunder into our hearts sometimes causing our sons
and daughters to cry in fear. Used in palace they denote power of the
group, and why? Because of this very quality that their existence find
their use-value.
17
A simple the idea becomes other than itself -
nothing; so also the sex impulse become other than itself and changes to
nothing. Then more ideas come and there is transition into movements;
so our sex impulses begets themselves other impulses of the same kind and
this is accomplished by movements. And so on and so on.
Meditation often dwells itself in the intellectual center; now modern
meditation has to be on all the separates centers.
18
Muscle and flesh should be kept soft, elastic
and flexible rather than hard and rigid. A weak muscle must be strong
and a strong muscle must be weakened. A hard muscle must be softened
and soft muscle must be ‘hardest'.
19
One kind of action produces one kind of result;
a destructive action produces a destructive result and a non-reconcilable
action produces a non-reconcilable result. In the realm of
psychological like poles attract unlike poles repel; in the realm of
magnetic field effect like poles repel unlike poles attract. In the
physical sex realm of the body unlike poles attract and like poles repel.
20
Everything is moving very fast inside; you say
stop, nothing happens; now your watch ‑ it speeding inside; you introduce a
music to with it; you slow down the rate of motion of the musical tone,
everything gradually slows down.
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