OPEN BEING
VERSUS CLOSED BEING:
The Struggle to Be
Open Law
Replaces Natural Law (Purba Wisésâ)
The weapons
of love - the deeper and clearer the expression of
love among a people, the more natural accord is
present and the greater the natural participation
in its defense, as reflected in the "weapons"
present for the quieting of disturbances to its
tranquillity. The various levels of loving union
(breadth, depth, calm, justice brought forth,
sensitivity to nature and one another,
appreciation of the spirits of being, clarity of
the appreciation of what is sought [e.g., romantic
love, family love, clan love, tribal love, love of
God, etc.]) define the levels of sacrifice open to
a group and inspire its way of expressing itself
in trying to live up to its own standards.
Shallower unions are attracted to some things that
a calmer union would find disturbing and
dishonorable. The closer to tentrem ing manah a
group's love rests, the more powerful it is in the
sense that its tranquillity is a more universal
experience and concern and expression of nature.
In part this power rests in the selfless and open
character of such love which is openly accepting
and thus vulnerable but is defended through
participation in the totality of open being. The
speed with which this defense is enacted depends
on the "gather time" of the involved being and
love. Noble vision rests in this high degree of
accord and has inspired many behaviors
incomprehensible to lesser unions but which are
expressions of the greater wisdom of the greater
loving union and its members' greater loving
commitment and willingness to sacrifice.
The weapons of love are expressed in the mode of
living, i.e., that which appeals and that which
does not as based and dedicated to the level of
love valued and thus served. The breadth of the
union also determines the values lived by the
group and its appreciation of the nature of life,
death and being in general, witness the difference
in values between a high union of the faith
(in fact, articulated religions are most often
Devil's Covenants based on promoting the long-term
benefit of a small group of goody-goodies; they
violate Natural Law and Natural Justice and offer
salvation by faith alone as long as you are within
the group to start with. Closed unions of this
kind are simple "wish leagues" in their own sense
and promoted beings for everyone else) and the
actions thus inspired in defense of the faith and
the values of an unclear union like that of an
individualistic, "scientific", secular materialism
in many contemporary Western groups. A group's
distance from the open expression of reality
(Nature) and its corresponding discomfort in
contemplating death and high levels of sacrifice
is thus expressed. The higher the level of accord,
the less that death or physical form represents a
barrier or threat and the more it is appreciated
as a loving expression of the Will of Nature. The
lower the level of the accord, the more encased
the individual is in selfish concerns and the
greater the real threat represented by isolation
in selfish, narrow, ignoble, spiritual confusion
(hell) following death and during life in a sense
of isolation and alienation (i.e., only empty
superficial levels of exchange with those around
one which do not satisfy the deeper need for love
or provide values of action in accord with the
standards of love). This low perspective yields an
unsatisfying, debased, ignoble presence running
against the real needs of nature. Participation
therein is unpleasant and in a real sense (hell)
regrettable.
Scoldings in the inner being and the humble are
sometimes fierce in their love and counsel within,
e.g., the Javanese
Variation according to depth of love served and
responsibilities thus upheld
Effect on character, intelligence, life course,
etc.
As one of the weapons of love
Closeness of relationship on level of exchange and
character of counsel -- the deeper and closer the
union, the clearer the love expressed; the more
superficial and distant the union, the less loving
the counsel as the channel between restricts the
exchange
Broken counsel and its effects on the exchange of
love -
Things that can clog the channels between beings
Thought as a reflection of disturbance and a part
of the way to defend and return to tentrem ing
manah -- quieting of thought connected with
reception of reality
The buffer zones of being -- how much can you
stand of what is really there and how much
insulation is necessary? "Sense deprivation", the
interference with and/or overlay of the
experiential relationship of another, in
connection with trust violation in this area (I'm
better than and/or more competent than you are to
handle your experience) -- Group/individual
interactive interdependence and the sharing of
energy and information in the defense of the
experience of the members. False bottoms --
experiential interlock -- interlocked dependency
structurings that are mutually supportive but off
center (chungyung) and not in accord or
full contact with natural order. Orderings
(unnatural) based on such structurings. Leadership
expressed in artificial orderings -- promotional
leadership and general experience -- the unquiet
reflection of the gap in the middle -- Who suffers
-- those below the gap. But in the true ssense all
do through bad leadership.
The transition from thought to silence -- silence
as an open expression of loving trust and proper
order in relationships -- tentrem ing manah.
Transitional periods length multi-determined --
phases and shifts in experience and behavior
partially reflecting experiential weight of love
served in the past -- sharp turns of experiential
nature a mark of this.
The more open a being, the more need to seek the
reason for behavior in its consequences -- greater
spontaneity yields reactions more attuned to the
real situation and results and less interested in
unquiet counsel (thought).
The weapons of hate -- frowning on others --
promotional ("promo") beings pretending to
superiority over others and misusing their sense
and energy -- fixed inflexible positions
maintained through structural and oft touched
(expressed or checked) positions -- use and abuse
-- effect on others -- energy drain and
experiential manipulation -- maintaining proper
distance
Crowding others -- overriding their position in
expressing your own -- obliviousness in relational
linkage effects -- as a source anger -- anger as
pleasure when energy not clearly received, i.e.,
below basal level of experience -- closer to and
arising out of centered chungyung natural being --
effects of such intrusion on group ordering --
competitive aspect -- irresponsibility of -- lack
of breadth of perspective on which it depends --
lack of respect expressed therein --
The more spontaneous, the less thought present;
the more thought, the less spontaneity, and the
greater tendency toward a mismatch with natural
accord and a lack of nobility of presence.
Ways of defending your love:
Java's soft line and hard line - the soft line is
more obviously practiced, involving minimal
defense, acceptance of attack on position in
energy loss -- faith in tradition is primary in
that eventually the natural accord of the position
as reflected in its calm, quiet core will assert
itself -- minimal gathering and expenditure of
energy -- in as much as the union is quietly
promoted as being in natural accord, it is best to
let nature defend it -- minimal anger expressed in
responding to unfounded attack. The hard line is
Kebatinan and Pantja Silat and in this area dukun
social patterning: how would the community be
behaving without interference?
Greek (Mediterranean, Middle East in general) -
high voltage response to intrusive energy and
attack in defense of calm, quiet, loving links
among group -- less in tentrem ing manah, more
energy invested in emotion and mobility of
expression -- slightly hierarchical within group,
much experiential overlap between groups --
emphasis on small community -- Javanese emphasis
on common experience on larger scale but also has
this element, e.g., Negara Surakarta - Negara
Ngayokya Adininingrat -- Interactive interplay of
strengths and weaknesses of various communities
united by the deep love of tentrem ing manah
informs relations -- similar to Greek city-state
tradition -- depth and clarity of the loving links
has to do with coordination possible between
various groups in a larger community -- as times
make more rigorous attacks on tentrem ing manah
level of loving union, groups tend to become less
tightly linked and gaps appear within the
community, e.g., splintering of Islam between
early period and present -- Greek heroic (Homeric)
period versus later city-state preoccupation --
The more out of accord a smaller union, the more
emotional expression in its presence, the more
sense deprivation practiced to avoid having a real
view of events openly expressed and sorting out
the situation in open being, the less natural
pride expressed, the more experiential
manipulation, the less breadth of perspective for
reference, the less reception of clear inner
counsel arising out of natural accord (sejatining
rasa), the less natural nobility of purpose
expressed in behavior, the greater the impulse to
destroy the environment, the less love of one's
tradition and trust in the expression of reality
in daily life, the more dependence on leadership
rather than direct experience, the more vulnerable
to movements involving high voltage energy swings
of intimidation and manipulation without loving
clarity, the more weapons of hate used to extract
the quiet energy of natural pain and opposition,
e.g., intragroup disrespect and insults to natural
ordering of participants, the more artificial
group organizational counseling structure (heads
used as energy sources through challenging their
competency), the greater the interest in torturing
nature for the energy it releases in open pain
(cleaner than other energies present), the less
mutual trust and appreciation of others felt and
expressed -- the more secular and narrow
leadership purposes and the more promotional their
expression -- convincing others of a course of
action by overpowering them and containing their
opposition rather than exposing the natural
situation calmly such that the proper natural
course of action can arise and defend itself out
of tentrem ing manah -- trust in leadership arises
out of the depth of the love and satisfaction
shared between a people and its leader (paku,
head). Expression of the "Nya gusti, nya kawula"
principle of leadership is strong in tentrem ing
manah groups; expression of competitive dominance,
"closed" leadership, is strong in groups separated
from natural accord with separation of superiority
from service emphasis, "open" leadership.
Except in closed unions, DCs, cabals, etc., the
more group awareness of what is lost by violating
natural order, the more emphasis on receiving
chungyung and quiet counsel, the more a group is
inclined to find a noble, naturally proud role in
their gathered union with other groups, the more
suffering it accepts without dissolution and the
less disturbance it generates in its natural
environment. Many examples: China in its present
divided course of investigation of unnatural
order; Greece, Spain, Italy, Islam in their policy
of "under-development" in defense of community,
real worth, open clarity and pride of being.
[Negative example] Brazil and the US in
destructive development fervor reflecting lack of
breadth of perspective, lack of value or
appreciation of life, and narrow secular
appreciation of responsibilities. This approach
involves defining a promo presence as the purpose
of the union and ends up openly practicing a form
of witchcraft as its maintenance technique.
The effect of narrow, selfish leadership is
expressed intergenerationally in that such
leadership tends toward eliminating the group by
throwing out it of accord and children come to
distrust the source of counsel that pushes in this
direction. This is especially true in the period
when individuals are struggling to find a role in
the adult world and a service orientation gives
over to a more competitive bent on existence in a
system that does not value (punishes) open
receptivity -- It must be remembered, however,
that souls are attracted by circumstances familiar
to them: children often start off as rotten as
their parents.
Too much candy rots the teeth.
Options: either eat too much and suffer for it in
the long term (hell and debased environment for
children) or don't eat enough and get attacked by
the candy industry (be like us).
Hell is a custom made event and a natural record
of your existence expressed in the nature of your
relations with other beings, and of the pain you
have caused them by being the way you are.
Monkeys chattering, humans chatting, birds singing
provide good examples of the nature of connection
in presence maintenance and sharing.
Decision about what to believe in -- the pretended
boundaries of responsibility
Opinion maintenance whether in personal or social
interaction or religious definition as a violation
of Natural Law in not letting the real sense sort
itself out.
The Nature of the Problem
Natural
Manners - The nature of distinction and the
consequences of denying natural order in
interaction -- veneration, nobility, respect and
natural law. Why the high spirits in a group are
invested and the effects of not doing so in terms
of engendering irresponsible leadership
Anger, Vengeance, Satisfaction, Revenge and Hate -
Its natural component and action. A collective
manifestation and comment on conditions: the
return of pain to the source of its definition
and/or promotion.
Mercy - Denying duty and responsibility in Nature
and the use of unnatural mercy to justify the
undermining of natural leadership. Natural mercy
does not really exist: pain must be paid off with
pain and a natural sense of releasing the
associated pain and avoiding the behavior
established as a result and inhibiting the
repetition of the abuse.
Natural distinction - Clear love and accord with
reality as the source of power and influence.
Presence - A promoted sense involving energy
collation systems coming out of interactive
experience through sense deprivation as expressed
in a common tone and pretense of being. This can
result in group isolates that define themselves
irrespective of reality on purpose, i.e., closed
unions.
The structuring of presence and presence
maintenance with lack of head's consciousness and
system structuring through affective links.
Various manifestations:
1. quiet passive head
2. angry disturbed head
3. active natural head, helping the situation to
sort itself out in reality by pulling its sense
into open being whether it wants to go
or not.
Mechanical aspect dominant in relationships of
control. Supervisory aspect dependent on the
tightness of inner circle of "counselors" --
control of head's experience through manipulation.
Conscious presence maintenance - basic structuring
more unified and relationships no longer express
independent presence control through affective
override and undercut in justificational
expenditure of energies.
General character - role of clarity defined by
pure love of the central expression.
Interaction of presences
primary - those in accord
secondary - those in indefinite support
tertiary - those in opposition
The sharper a paku and the more unbuffered his
expression, the more naturally just the
perspective and the less partially committed the
participating beings:
fewer secondaries
more coherent tertiaries
Group feeling
and presence - tentrem ing manah and rage - rasa
murni -- Power reflected by depth of relaxation
and height of anger and the distance between the
passive and active state.
Breadth and clarity of a presence determined by
closeness to center and union with natural
movements, partially reflecting justness and
pointedness of central experience.
Clumsy experience management through ambition and
emotional interlinkage.
Emotion as a weapon of experiential manipulation
in others
coercion
persuasion and dissuasion from courses of
action based on relative influences
Pathological interlocked structuring leading to
independence of interlocked structuring from
supervision, e.g., high voltage religions like
Islam with all their praying as a form of
witchcraft by defining individual and group
experience in terms of the chanting rather than
paying attention to actual reception.
Constant narrowing of perspective of dominance as
linkages and relationships are violated for
supportive or hedonistic use.
Secularization of perspective as broad natural
concerns of real consequence are lost in a vision
of increasing mechanization and narrowing of
participation principles -- valued roles defined
more restrictively -- experience more narrowly and
intrapsychically defined and interpreted --
connection with reality downplayed or denied.
Natural Law and disturbances
Order independent of natural order as a source of
disturbance and injustice
Distance from accord with Natural Law as reflected
in presence maintenance principles and techniques
Inclusiveness (promotional) of presence over
others versus participation through open linkage
Disturbance of presence and mental illness --
suffering within a presence
Head containment through structuring
Forces in opposition to natural clarification
Exposure of violations and irresponsible
leadership
Exposure of irresponsible group practices and
narrow perspective consequences - hell and natural
consequences
The total concern of natural leadership versus
limited concerns and definitions of responsibility
of structured leadership
Unity of perspective within primary group - group
feeling
Simian (baboon) Ring organizational structure
Undercut/Override modes of control within a group
-- affective links and the nature of affeective
union -- information embedded in affect and the
manipulation of experience through the marshaling
of energies -- emotional information = functional
intelligence in low times
Centered experience, i.e., tentrem ing manah,
sejatining rasa, the response of draining the
inflated affective union by remaining in the gap
between its upper and lower expression -
tranquillity versus positive affect - natural
accord versus disturbance in split experience
management -- high road/low road "Intelligence"
based on interaction and tightness of linkages as
well as the number of open participants contained
in the union making it a Natural concern to defend
it. Purposes and values reflect the breadth of the
being united in love.
Looser linkages involve a less clearly defined
center, more limited purposes served, more
injustice (natural) supported by union, less
concern with natural issues and real consequences,
more emphasis on mechanical and secular
structuring through use of affective links and
in-betweens intelligence, more concern with
physical form of expression allowing isolation of
participants in contradictory expressions,
limiting of interaction in order to avoid
expression of contradictions in disturbances,
narrowing of community boundaries, loosening of
discipline and natural responsibility in linkages,
disintegration of tribe, clan and family linkages
as their natural character is violated for
hedonistic pleasure purposes, movement toward
isolated individual unaware of natural links and
responsibilities, emphasis on individual
"happiness" and the loss of honor and natural
dignity through defining and floating on a cloud
of hate.
The honoring aspect of the expression of injustice
in a system -- maintaining presence at the expense
of the most worthy, the above/below character of
presence maintenance in a closed system -- credit,
faith and trust in this sense do not exist in open
being. Mechanical aspect and the separation of
primary experience into loosely linked groups
under and over valuing contributions to support
presence maintenance through callous handling of
nonaligned contributions to presence maintenance,
denial of credit while continuing to use
contributions -- attenuation of bonds through
violation.
1981, revised 1993