THE FOURTHWAY MANHO E-JOURNAL Volume 90 November 29, 2019 |
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HOW CIRCUMSTANCES MOVE MAN ABOUT LIKE A SPRING-POWERED TOY 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 Aphorism on the Social Life of Man," April 1977 ~ September 1977 Discourses, Chapter 3, Section A: "How Circumstances Move Man About Like A Spring-Powered Toy," pp. 79~82)
A. HOW CIRCUMSTANCES MOVE MAN ABOUT LIKE A SPRING-POWERED TOY
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People who seem to be very busy with many
things, doing this and that, moving here and there, everywhere talking and
talking are actually creators, doers and foremost, actors in a repeating
circle. It appears many of them are just “doings” with duty-bound
‘I’s. They are just “toys”. The three springs of thinking,
feeling and moving bobbin-kandelnosts in them unwind mechanically and they
just obediently “work” or they operate by themselves. Many of these
‘I’s are even harmful to themselves and to others, and they are completely
useless in our frame of reference. They are unhealthy group of 'I's
that need to be destroyed and to rebuild consciously.
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You plan to accomplish a number of tasks in a day. You plan it in the
morning but just then, you are already different. You don’t feel like
“doing”.
Next moment you forget about it. And somehow you seem to be doing it.
Many people waste their time working in this manner. Later, you will
find that everything concerning work placed on you is forced labor.
Nature seems to force on you and others. You have to be caught in the
net because you are already caught. Your darling papa and mama did that
for you when they fell in love. 3 Many could not perform a single task perfectly. Inner work is very difficult. If our inner process is automatized in one direction, it will continue in that direction mechanically until we make an effort to change it. The mechanical life seems to keep us moving forward helplessly independent of our will, serving mechanically to sociotechnocosmic production. 4
Just sit down in a place where you
can observe others readily. Try to fathom the ‘I’s in their
activities. The result is zero. There are no significant ‘I’s
of worthy consideration. Try to
evaluate the ‘I’ in each activity and in most cases, you will be
disappointed. 5
Everyone is imprisoned everywhere, even
the masters. Worry, anxiety, pessimism, happiness, sadness and inertia
are useless. What comes must be done! 6
The work activities centering on these
rubber tree beings, oil-palm beings, car-beings, various product-beings and
the material-less service-beings, and the continuous shifting of one into
another mark the core of our social life. A car has no ‘I’ — it cannot
have a life although it can be automatized to move by itself. But man
has ‘I’s. He can move by himself. He also has life. 7
To change human beings and great nature is
a very hard thing. Yet, it is very important. What probably
happens to most people is that something is constantly happening to them all
the time and out of their control. They happen for them and they never
do to them. 8
In solving a triad problem, a set of ‘I’s
will participate but for result, only one ‘I’ must lead and the others must
remain supportive. Ultimately, the problem would be solved. In
life circumstances, our ‘I’s belong to someone else. We are not given
a chance to be on our own. Our ‘I’s are for another, and we are
obedient to be eaten. Selfishness on the one side is invisible as the
‘I’ is taken for real. When no one dares to use you, you have complete
freedom to be used by something else ‑ other sociotehnocosmoses or just
Great Mother Nature. From the moment you use human beings you have no
freedom, the “slaves” you are using will give you problems. A “slave”
is a person who has no ‘I’s of his own and who waits for people to use him.
Everyone can buy a ticket and take a ride on him. He has some ‘it’s to
satisfy his natural needs. A “master” in quotation mark is machine,
except that it has a criminal tendency to use beings similar or dissimilar
to himself for his own selfish ends. And he has acquired this habit.
He becomes a permanent Hasnamuss. 9
What actually lies behind these condemnations of everything is politicking
for position, power, control and leadership. Everything done is for
themselves, little for others. Talking to another differently is
another thing. What is said and what is done are now different things.
For those who are unable to see reality as it is, they will be “toyed”. 10
An internal revolution is
a movement of a new group of ‘I’s that tend to contradict existing
conditions of existence of men. It is not one ‘I’ but many
contradictory ‘I’s ‑ one
thousand is not a big number for these ‘I’s. 11
To be
altruistic to beings in your environment blindly is self-enslavement.
Always ask yourself what environmental factors are controlling you now. Chaos from within
confuses
the ‘I’s manifestation of man. If the chaos is directed in one
direction, it can be very creative or destructive. The inner world
must not be in chaos when external conditions become too unpredictable.
For survival, one must adapt oneself to the external conditions. It is
for others to adapt to the exploding ‘I’s. There is a balance between
conquest and adaptation. To adapt only is one-sided, so is issuing of
conquest everywhere. The two must balance. It is a harmonious
dance! Both esoteric and
exoteric schools always control a
certain sector of the world mind, an aspect known as sub-conscious
mystification. This traps the
minds. And moves man about like a spring toy.
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