The living human

The living human exists of a living body and a living mind. The living body is perceptible the living mind is not perceptible. A living human body without a living human mind does not exist, just as a living human mind could not exist without living human body. To keep and extend living life has developed the living will. Or inverse? The living will -will to live- has developed life? Living human thus have three existing properties: the living body, the living will and the living mind.
All around us in nature we observe the struggle for survival, and procreation for the future. That sequence takes place both at vegetable organisms and animal organisms. With plants we regularly see new shoots and leafs rise up, sometimes at places where we had not expected them to grow, perhaps of unforseen obstacles. If the garden is cultivated and looks totally bare, we see new shoots come into being at places where we had hoped that they were removed. Animals usually have their offspring in spring and autumn. As soon as life has been created both male and female will carry on as before, the ‘task has been fulfilled'.
If nature notes a failure the pass on task takes place again, because the living will of the animal appealeds to the pass on task of life. Some animals must fight very hard to fulfill the pass on task. The eel swims thousands of kilometres to teach the spawning grounds, the Sargossa Sea at the Bermuda Island. Eel larvae are born and become glass eel, where one assume the older animals die and the young ones return to their original habitat, with the glass eel in their wake. If the time is right they will begin the swimming juorney again to the Sargossa Sea, because the pass on task herald themselves. Sometimes the pass on task is a heavy price to pay as one may not survive as in the black widow spider. Especially when the (smaller) male of the black widow is often the victim of the venomous bite of the female. After the mating he must rush away quickly to prevent the female to live up to her name.
Also with humans the pass on task sometimes suddenly becomes apparent on an intuitive incentive, of an indefinable intimate attraction at each other, to give and to receive whereupon each living continue, because the ‘pass on task has been accomplished’, new lives has been ‘made’ .

As human we must feed the living body, to keep it alive. Food, food and drink, are necessary because humans without nourishment will die. To satisfy the physical desire humans bring food to themselfves.
The will to live, which forces a human herself to stay a live, asks activity of the body and the mind to accomplish that. Sometimes satisfying the will to ask we must survive and meet it headon. A wise man would fear thinking up a survival strategy in awkward situations. The body must carry out the intended strategy and the fight to it. The will to live forces body and mind to struggle for survival, which require bravery and courage. To satisfy the living will humans are challenged by life, he ‘must’ survive .
The living mind gives control in finding solutions to survive threatening life situation. When a practical idea has formed the imagination, the intellectual can test the idea on feasibility, by reason. If the reason finds the idea feasible, the body can carry out the idea under control of the mind. When the reason does not find the idea feasible or practical then a new solution must be considered for the given situation, or the intellect may recommend not to take action. To satisfy the living mind the reason will be queried to consider the correct strategy for the situation. Also humans can educate themselves to increase their chance of survival, finding ‘truth’ under the guidance of the mind.

The satisfactory activities for the living body, the living will and the living mind depends on the life situation and the development on individual people. Through the centuries these activities have been formulated in different methods both in the east and in the west. These descriptions intent is to improve people to guide them in a direction on the writers’ ideas. These are possibleties of philosophical and of religious nature and the expressions has reached in oriental and Western philosophy, religion, culture or orientation framework.

Eastern philosophy

	Bhagavad Gita	Buddhism	Iki	Taoism
			(Japan)	(inverse)
Living body	Tamo-guna	Doing	Sweat it out	selfless
Living will	Rajo-guna	Feeling	Proud	meritless
Living mind	Sattva-guna	Thinking	Coquetry	nameless

Western philosophy

	Plato	Aristotle	Spinoza	Gasset	Schopenhauer
Living body	Desire	Pleasure	Body	Body	Ascese
Living will	Courage	Tireless	Ambition	Soul	Quietism
Living mind	Wisdom	Reflective	Mind	Mind	Mystic

 

	I Kant
Living body	Judgement, aesthetics, feelig for desire and unease, well-being and discomfort, taste, enjoyment
Living will	Practical reason, ethics, capacity to covet, we only act if we are already motivated. I want that
Living mind	Pure reason, cognition, reason out what is true, objectively sincere and honest

 

	F Nietzsche
Living body	Act in what is pleasant, usefull and efficient
Living will	Act according to the pinciple of honour
Living mind	Self-regulation of what is usefull, suitable and honourable

 

	S Freud
Living body	Sexual drive, primitive drive
Living will	Attack drive, primitive drive
Living mind	Intelligence, comprehending awareness

 

	RW Popper  (Three-worldstheory)
Living body	World one; All physical objects and situaties
Living will	World two; The conscience, wishes, pains, intensions, fears, hope
Living mind	World three; Sels-awareness, objective mind, refinement, frame of mind, ideas

 

	H Arendt
Living body	Labour, repeated occupations in unison are pleasant, engrossing, persevering
Living will	Work, ability to make, the manufacturing of objects let's exist, success
Living mind	'Act and speak', the initiation of processes and passing judgment, truth-loving

 

	K Jaspers
Living body	The living existence, as how everyone has a seperate individuality
Living will	The existence, as how we can ourselven in our historicity
Living mind	The comprehension as conscience shows, as how we are all identical

 

	A Huxley ( Eternal philosophy, Philosophia perennis (Leibniz))
Living body	Body, act, desire for comfort, viscerotonic
Living will	Psyche, feeling, devotion, combative, somatotosensory (the deepest inspiring mind)
Living mind	Spirit, thinking, striving for knowledge, cerebrotonic

 

The living human is continually aimed at realising the desire of the living body, the living will and the living mind. Both Eastern and Western people are intuitively know that harmony and balance satisfy those needs, possibly aiming to make its existence complete, as a result they become complemetary need and that that is extremely difficult to realize. So difficult that many search for luck outside the human race, to hope to find it there.

The living human can be considered as a metaphor for a living organisation. For an organisation consists of people who want to survive, only that organisation will survive who can realize the three living needs as much as possibly.