Most of the times we are engrossed with the all the activities we are experiencing in this world that we forget to observe objectively even the most superficial facts that govern our realities. We are completely hooked in our tasks, relationships and other concerns that we end up as mere reactors to these life experiences. There is a tendency to look life according relatively on how they are presented to us. We base then that the true reality is what we experienced. What is outside our experience is not true and worse what we experienced is only the truth which we hold deeply in our consciousness.
Nevertheless, consider this. A corporation management in pursuit of maximum production from its workers designed a system wherein they can track the productivity rate of their workers. If the corporation for example is in the data processing business, it has installed a software wherein it can count the keystrokes of its employees. More than that, the management is raising the quota of production of every worker every time the worker meets the quota. This is for maximum production management applied by the company or firm.
More or less, the outcome of this looking from the vantage point of the worker is a stressful demand of his job. The workers can suffer health problems because of the management style being employed on them. But the sad part of this, the workers can only get a blurry idea of how the management is manipulating the situation with the goal of maximizing the company’s production.
The management, educated on the corporate psychology of how people behave in work, is using this knowledge to their advantage. They have a clear sight of the system of how to motivate, manipulate, lead and control their employees. This is unknown to the common worker but half-understood by those with keen awareness.
What’s the point of this example?
This is only partially to show that there is a system in every field of endeavor, physical and psychological realities that everyday we are experiencing. Those who have a higher understanding of any particular system can use it to their advantage to get what they want. Another point, and this is the main point really here, is that there is a system in ever aspects of our everyday life. Whatever this system is, undiscovered or known, is just there and we are merely, most of the times, reacting to them.
Going back to the example given above, the workers are burying themselves to work to meet the expectation of the management. Unknown to them, the management are only practicing how to get the most out of their employees using their understanding of corporate psychology. Where the workers end up in this setup is mere automatons reacting to the bidding of the management.
As far as there are systems to everything, take the usual reaction of a bereaved widow. If she is strong willed, she would vent her loneliness with anger around her. If she is weak-willed, she may just drown herself in her own sorrow.
To shortcut this discussion, let us just observe that the governing system of any field can be formally studied in universities. If one wants to study the behavior of a demented person, he can study psychiatry. If structure of building and the likes, engineering. And so forth.
It is emphasized then that there is a system to everything. Nevertheless, in terms of man’s ability to free himself from the trap of being merely reacting against every experience that he encounters in everyday life, be it in a workplace or his community or family setting, he must keep his awareness to these realities.
What he should avoid then is how to be an automaton that all he does is react to things. If he can put himself in a position where he can only observe how things run without bias, then there will be an opportunity for him to gain wisdom from his experiences. What more, he will never be a mere robot whose reaction is ruled by ignorance; but rather by wisdom and clear comprehension.
