Ep 457 - Learn Korean
Learn Korean 92-17-12-40 - January 25, 2022
We just now finished an international conference call with international headquarters. Wonju McDevitt said True Mother, who is almost 80 in Korean age, has become very strong and without missing one day, every day she is doing exercise. Her health is very good. Now in Korea they are preparing very seriously for the rally in February. Even under this very serious pandemic situation Mother never gives up. Mother is praying for all of you. Let’s pray for Mother. Can you imagine who in the world works as hard as Mother at such an age? A near 80-year-old woman is working hard on the frontline. Let’s pray for Mother, for her health and for True Parents providence.
Today I’d like to talk about “Learn Korean” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
The Korean language moves God's heart the most. It is through True Parents that God's heart was opened. There are many languages in the world but they were not made by God. They were made by human beings after the Fall. The Korean language is very simple, but scientific at the same time. It can express all the sounds. God allowed the birth of the Korean language because He loved humankind. The Korean language is very easy if you know the basics. The Korean language can establish the relationship of father and son. It is a vertical language. It is the language that can open God's heart. It is the language that God listens to first and the one that God speaks. Since you know this reality, you must learn Korean. When we do hoon dok hae, it is not just for us but God and all the ancestors in the spirit world are also listening. So which country's language should we be using so that everyone can join in? We have to use the Korean language. When I did the world tour, I tried to be considerate and did hoon dok hae in English and your native languages, but the principle is that it should be done in Korean. (2006.06.24, Riga, Latvia)
God loves the Korean language the most. There are more than 6,000 languages in the world but there are not so many languages that can move God's heart. The language in which we can understand God's heart and situation, comfort him and melt his anguish and pain is the Korean language.
Also, the Korean language is scientific. You can use the Korean hangul alphabet to write down the sounds of nature just as you hear them. Furthermore, the language form differs based on whether it is spoken to an adult or a child. Imagine there is a family of three generations living together. In the English language, a three-year-old can go to his grandfather and ask, "Have you eaten lunch?" using informal language, which does not express the respect the child should show to his grandfather. In the Korean language they would use the polite form. That is why the Korean language is most suited to attend and live with God. Once you know the grammar, you can quickly master the Korean language. (2006.07.03, Warsaw, Poland)
We know why we have to learn the Korean language. You are the ones who have really struggled to learn the Korean language. I think many of you really tried to learn the Korean language. How (can we) break through? It is not a simple matter. However, we need to seriously consider how to break through and learn the Korean language. Let’s study once again our True Father’s words about the Korean language.
Why Do You Have to Learn Korean?
<248-169> Why do you have to learn Korean? Because it is the mother tongue. If there was someone who could not speak the mother tongue, he cannot belong to his own country. Next, the reason you must learn Korean is because you have to read my speeches. If you could read and understand Korean immediately, how deep would you be able to realize and feel the heart? There is an infinite amount of knowledge that you did not know until now.
As long as you can read my words, you will have no problem lecturing or preaching wherever you go. So, you have to read in the original language, not the German, English, Spanish or French translation. You should read in the original language. The original version isn’t in English or French, is it? You must be able to read and understand the original. It is only after knowing all the content that you can become a leader in place of me wherever you go.
So, you have to learn Korean. I came to live in this country now and you are living in the same age as me. What language am I speaking in?
Germans speak German, French speak French, and Spanish speak Spanish... Think of God. Did God want it to be in so many different languages? Only one language is needed. Absolutely one.
I know it is difficult for Westerners to learn Korean. Isn’t the West completely different from the East? But no matter how difficult it is, you have to learn it. I am in the same position. Is it easy to learn English at such an old age? As I get older, I keep forgetting. Even if I try to memorize new words, I keep forgetting them. Even if I cram it into my brain, the next morning, what I memorized is quickly erased.
Let’s summarize what True Parents are talking about, the importance of the Korean language.
Why do you have to learn Korean?
1. The Korean language moves God's heart the most.
Because God is a God of heart, he is moved by a language of the heart.
2. The Korean language can establish the relationship of father and son. It is a vertical language.
What is important between parents and children is emotional, heartistic language. Korean has a wide variety of objective expressions, so you can express filial piety to your parents in Korean.
3. The Korean language is the language that can open God's heart. It is the language that God listens to first and the one that God speaks.
Because God’s language is Korean, his response is very quick if you use the Korean language.
4. The language in which we can understand God's heart and situation, comfort him and melt his anguish and pain is the Korean language.
In Korean there are many terms that can solve God’s pain.
5. Korean is the language of attendance. The words used for superiors and inferiors are different.
Since Korean is a language of attendance, there are many respectful words used only by adults.
6. Korean is your mother tongue. The language of the kingdom of heaven is Korean.
Because humankind is one family under one God, the language must also be united.
7. Because you have to read TP’s speeches.
By understanding Korean, you can understand the depth of True Parents' words.
8. Only one language is needed. Absolutely one in the kingdom of heaven.
Only one language is spoken in heaven, and that is the Korean language.
I know you know we need to learn the Korean language, right? Even though you are an old man or an old woman, you need to challenge (yourself and) not just rely on the second generation or a translator. You need to learn the Korean language. True Father said when you go to the spiritual world, you will come to understand (regret?), “Why I did not learn the Korean language?” Father wants to communicate with us heartistically as a parent and child. If there is a different language between parent and child, how can we communicate heartistically? Between God and yourself? Between True Parents and yourself? That is why we need to learn the Korean language.
When I was young, I resolved to learn the English language and the Japanese language. Even though I don’t like Japanese and did not want to study English, since I joined the Unification movement, I learned why God chose me as a chosen guy and became a missionary. (He) asked me to help God’s providence to save all mankind. That is why before emphasizing for (people) to learn the Korean language, I needed to learn their own language first. Then when I say something (that is) unique(?) to the Korean language, then they have no choice but to learn the Korean language.
Then I realized what the best way to learn a foreign language is. How could I learn English, even though my English is still very poor. How could I learn English more quickly than anyone else? Do you want to know my secret? When you truly, truly love people who understand and speak English, then you can learn English. If you truly love Japan and Japanese people, you can learn the Japanese language. If you truly love and respect True Parents, you surely can learn the Korean language. If you love the Korean people, surely you can learn the Korean language. It is not a matter of time or difficulty; everything is an excuse. The best way is love, our attitude of love. If we truly love someone -- “I want to resemble. I want to inherit. I want to have the same kind of habits, the same kind of traditions, the same kind of language. That is why True Mother emphasizes again and again for us to learn the Korean language.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 13 - Life of Origin-Division-Union
From yesterday I am talking about “Life of Origin-Division-Union.” Let’s first study the EDP content.
The process of God's creation begins when the dual characteristics within God form a common base through the prompting of His universal prime energy. As they engage in give and take action, they generate a force which engenders multiplication. This force projects the dual characteristics into discrete substantial object partners, each relating to God as its center.
These object partners to God then assume the position of subject partner and object partner to each other as they are prompted by the universal prime energy to form a common base and engage in give and take action. They then join together in one harmonious union to form a new object partner to God.
This whole process - in which out of God, the Origin, two entities are separately manifested and reunited in oneness - is called origin-division-union action.
The four position foundation and origin-division-union look similar but are quite different.
Four Position Foundation and Origin-Division-Union Action
1. God’s purpose of creation is the completion of the four position foundation.
2. Four position foundation is the spatial concept where give and take action occurs, and through the result of give and take action God’s purpose of creation can be explained.
The four position foundation is the result after the process of origin-division-union action.
3. On the contrary, origin-division-union action is the time-based concept where give and take action occurs, and through the phenomenal process of give and take action God’s purpose of creation can be explained.
1. It is more desirable to understand the process of completion of God’s purpose of creation through origin-division-union action than the four position foundation.
2. In order for the existence of God’s true form to become the substantial existence by using Adam and Eve’s body, the process of origin-division-union action must absolutely be achieved.
Ⅱ. 分(Division) : Every Subject and Object Must Become an Independent Entity Centered on Origin.
Every subject and object must become an independent entity centered on Origin(Jeong). The subject and object which is not centered on Origin (Jeong) has no value of existence. God created the first ancestors of humankind, Adam and Eve, because He wanted them to become substantial objects of His dual characteristics. Therefore the first purpose of Adam and Eve in the growth stage was for them to stand as flawless substantial objects of God.
If Adam and Eve had become complete subject and object centered on God (Origin正), received the blessing and performed a give and take action of love, they would have given birth to children (子女), another of God’s object. If they had established a family and expanded to clan, race, country and world, the kingdom of heaven on Earth and in Heaven would have been established.
Ⅲ. 合(Union) : Every Subject and Object join together in one harmonious union through give and take action centered on Jeong
Origin (正) is followed by division (分) and union (合) because it desires a greater thing. God created everything expanding from one. Therefore the people working for the creator God must try and become bigger. They must try to develop. In order to do so, subject and object must be centered on the origin, be divided, and unite again in order to create results which can give joy to God.
The reason human beings were divided into man and woman was to find God’s love, reproduce, and establish eternal successive generations. It was not because of money, knowledge, or power. If Adam and Eve had become one, they would have become a model family for tens of thousands of generations. Any human being born as children of their parents grow up and become couples, give birth to children and become parents. This is the 3 stage logic of origin-division-union.
Based on this content let’s study directly from Father’s word.
The Reason it is Divided from Origin in Origin-Division-Union
<275-309> Why did the origin from origin-division-union begin from God? It was to unite. Unite centering on what? Money? Knowledge? Power? 「No.」 Then what? 「True love.」 The purpose of origin began from God is for true love.
Then, the question is why did God divide the origin(正)? Proceeding from the division of origin, did it divide because man and woman desired it, or did it divide because God desired it? Who desired it? 「God did.」 The motivation of division also came from God. God divided in order to do what? He divided because of love.
<275-309> In origin-division-union, there are three stages of formation, growth, completion for division to take place. After passing through three stages can man and woman mature. One cannot mature in one stroke. When looking at Adam’s era, it is the same as Adam going up through the 3 stages of formation, growth, completion.
Man’s mind and body become one through plus and minus, and woman’s mind and body also becomes one through plus and minus. There cannot be the concept of conflict. Man and woman do not become one by conflicting. Then through what do they become one? It is through the power of love. Is it correct? How does the power of love meet? Man is convex and woman is concave. Man is made convex and woman concave, thus they meet through love.
The purpose of Origin-Division-Union is to bear the fruit of true love through the growth process.
Even if humans try to achieve individual perfection, they must go through the action of Origin-Division-Union.
In order to achieve the ideal family, true children, true brothers and sisters, true couples, and true parents must go through the process of growth, that is, origin-division-union.
True love does not suddenly appear overnight, but must go through a process of growth called Origin-Division-Union.
Why you need a course called Origin-Division-Union
1. This is because true love can be realized through the process called Origin-Division-Union.
True love did not all of a sudden drop from the sky or heaven. A certain process was needed. A time period for growth is necessary. That is why origin-division-union action is very important.
2. This is because humans can grow through a process called Origin-Division-Union.
That’s why True Father says that even God is growing to realize true love with human beings. When a child reaches age five, its father and mother’s age becomes five-years-old as well. When children become 18 or 19 years old, the parents (also) become 17 or 18 or 19 years old.
God (also) is growing up together with human beings through the process of origin-division-union. I have never heard anyone say that God is growing together with human beings as parents. When Adam and Eve (would have) become True Parents, then finally God (would have) substantially become True Parents. We learn from our own family. When we raise children and grandchildren, as a parent (and grandparent) we grow together (and learn) what children’s, siblings’, couple’s and parental love is.
Why do you need a course called origin-division-union?
3. This is because, through the process of Origin-Division-Union, humans can resemble and inherit God's true love.
In order to inherit God’s true love, in order to resemble God, you need to go through the process of origin-division-union action.
4. Finally this is because humans can bear the fruit of true love and reproduce through the process called Origin-Division-Union.
Through origin-division-union we can multiply, become a family, tribe, people, nation and world and finally become God’s kingdom of heaven. That is why origin-division-union and the four position foundation are different. Origin-division-union actually is a kind of processing period. The four position foundation is the result of origin-division-union action.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Proper Faith
We can say “right faith.” What is proper faith?
1. In order for us to have proper faith, we must have a clear concept of good and evil. Then what is evil? Evil is always self-centered. On the other hand, goodness always puts the other person and the whole first. A person who is full of worries and concerns centered on themselves is an evil person. A person who is full of worries and concerns centered on themselves does not have the heart to live for others. For this reason, they are easily victimized by others and always prone to resenting others. Since they think on the self-centered side, they easily hurt others and commit evil acts.
2. However, a person who always thinks of the other person and their surroundings first and has a heart of concern for God will try to sacrifice themselves and yield to others first. Because they know that the pain they inflict on others will return several times greater, those who always make much effort to live according to their original mind are good people. The question is how do we go beyond our own worries and return joy to God? To return joy to the intangible God, you must return joy within your life.
3. First, we must live with a clear belief that bringing joy to the subject partner (Our Abel) we serve in our lives is bringing joy to God. In other words, we must live with the belief that bringing joy to the people whom God has established is what brings joy to God. Cheon Il Guk's view of faith is to have the belief that man is God's representative and treat people like God without thinking of God and man separately.
4. We should not call God only the intangible God in Heaven or the Holy God spoken of in the Bible. That is not the view of God that He desires. The faith view (神觀) that seeks only the intangible God is a view of God (觀) that is too distant from our lives.
This kind of guidance is very important. When we study Heavenly God through the Bible and through other faiths, we can think God is an absolute, powerful, transcendent God. “I cannot relate to God. He is too powerful. I am just a small and tiny human being. How can I relate to God? I only respect and absolutely follow his order. We learn this through the Bible. We cannot feel that God is so intimate, that there is an inseparable relationship between God and human beings.
Jesus was great because he said, “God is my father. I am his child.” He really brought God down (to our level). He explained that God is living together (with me) in my heart. This is an incredible explanation by Jesus. God is not simply beyond space and time, and I cannot dare to reach Heavenly Father. Jesus clearly explained (that there is) a parent-child relationship. “He is my father. I am a son of God. I am a daughter of God.” The cheon il guk view of faith is that man is God’s representative and (should) treat other people like God. God is not simply transcendent, but relates very much to me every minute, every second, every day, every hour. He relates very much to my daily life. Without this kind of thinking, how can we build a parent-child relationship?
In the Unification faith, this is a great discovery: How we can live together with God..
5. The life of faith that God desires is for us to know human beings in our lives as precious as God and bring them joy. This is life for the sake of God. This kind of faith is the faith of those who know God.
6. In other words, in Principle, we must practice faith that can go through Abel. When I go before God, I have to go through Abel. It is to think of Abel as God. Therefore, we must always live seeking and serving our heartistic Abel. The life of always living for our subject partner is the life of faith.
We should not only believe in and respect God and try to follow God. Everyone can have such a vertical faith. The important thing is how I can feel God substantially in my daily life. When we see our Abel, we need to relate to him. He is God’s representative. God is not just a conceptual, ideal God; through my daily life I need to treat Abel as God, as God’s representative, and treat my father and mother as God. How substantial, how detailed (this is)! This is important guidance from Father.
7. It is important to pray and worship while attending church, but you must lead a life in which your actual life becomes worship and life itself becomes a prayer. Prayer is not just getting down and seeking. The heart of concern for the subject partner is also a prayer, and the heart to know the wishes and worries of the subject is also prayer. Then the subject's circumstances will be known.
8. The proper faith must bear fruit in the relationships with people. Passionate faith apart from human relationships becomes self-righteousness (獨善) and may bear the fruits of evil. Faith that leaves human relationships like this becomes a problem. A spirit who has lost this relationship always becomes lonely, sad, frustrated, and miserable. It is losing the path to be loved. A prodigal son who leaves his parents’ bosom is tragic.
We are speaking about the importance of prayer and worship while attending church, but you must lead a life in which your actual life becomes worship and your life becomes a prayer. When you attend Sunday service, it may be a very holy Sunday service, and you (may) wear a necktie and a nice dress and go to church with your family members and see your brothers and sisters, it (may) really (be) a holy Sunday service and you hear God’s word, but when you come back home, what is your life like? Father said after you come back home from Sunday service, your real daily life (needs to be) more serious than Sunday service. Your life ... should be a life of worship, more serious, more holy, more concentrated, with more give and take with God. Then Sunday service has a true meaning.
But when you attend Sunday service and you pretend, “I am a good guy; I really follow the tradition” but come back home and to your workplace and repeat the same kind of habits and fallen nature and daily routine, that doesn’t make any sense. What is the purpose of attending Sunday service? My daily life has to be holy. We have to invite God and live together with him. This is more important. Father often talked about that.
9. The parable of the prodigal son in the Bible means a person who has lost the subject of his heart. It is a metaphor for a person who thinks according to his own will, makes decisions according to his own will, and lives as he pleases. He is not called a prodigal son because he left home. A prodigal son is persistent and self-assertive and is not concerned about others and does as he pleases. A prodigal son causes his subject partner to worry.
10. We must also live a life of parent-child relationship with God. This means the relationship with my subject partner within my living sphere. To do that, you have to do things that make your parent happy. More than anything, the thing that brings joy to parents is siblings reconciling.
11. True Father also said, “God’s resentment is the incident of Cain killing Abel, and that incident struck God and became an incident that made Him lament endlessly.” Because the older brother struck and killed his younger brother, Father’s heart was bruised.
12. Rather than have their children be awfully filial for them while having issues with their siblings, the parents’ heart wishes for siblings to live for each other like parents.
13. If brothers and sisters treat each other as they lived for their parents, how happy would the hearts of parents who have such children be? As a parent, what makes me happy when I see my children is when the younger brother treats the older brother like a father, and the older brother values the younger brother just as a parent values their child. Parents with such children feel reassured, and they are more reassured than their children being directly filial to them.
As a parent what makes me happy is when the younger brother treats the older brother like a father, and the older brother values the younger brother just as a parent values their child.
When I raised my three children -- of course sometimes they argued about this and that -- they got along very well. Sometimes they struggled with each other. When I look at that -- okay, maybe they don’t respect me -- but my desire is for them to have a good relationship among them. That is what I really want. That is real filial piety.
I think God is the same way. We say we respect God, love God and really want to unite with him, but when God looks at human beings, (if) the relationship between Cain and Abel, between brothers and sisters, is very beautiful, how happy Heavenly Father is! We need to think about it.
14. God’s desire is for sibling reconciliation. In our living sphere, there are siblings' relationships in the family, but in our lives of faith, there are spiritual siblings. In this way, we should build good sibling relationships internally and externally. The word “orphan” means a person who does as they like, even though they have their own parents and family. If you live self-centered and act self-centered, you are prodigal sons and orphans. Among the young people these days, those who do not like to listen to others and try to do their own thing are the prodigal children and orphans.
15. What is proper faith? God should not be thought of only as a transcendent being. If I only regard God as a transcendent being, I cannot have a heartistic relationship with God as a parent and child. Many believers think of God as a transcendent being that transcends time and space, and as a being that humans do not dare to approach closely. However, God wants to live with me 24 hours a day.
16. If we think of God as a transcendent God that transcends time and space, it is an idealistic (conceptional) faith. God wants to rejoice with me when I am happy and grieve with me when I am sad. You need to know that God really wants to establish an inseparable relationship between parent and children. To do that, I have to serve and love the people and all things around me like God. I must live a life of faith that lives with God whom I meet in my life.
That’s why when I read the Bible and see all the central figures' relationships with God, I feel God is fearsome. I cannot reach God; I am so scared that if I commit sin, God will judge me. It feels scary. However, I came to understand through Jesus: he called God “Father.” For the first time he explained who God is: our parent. We are children of God. God cannot survive without children; children cannot survive without parents. It is an inseparable relationship like that of mind and body. The relationship of dual characteristics is inseparable. When God created, he wanted to live together with me every second, every minute. However, we disregard this kind of relationship between God and ourself.
I am amazed at True Father’s guidance. True Father teaches us that you need to serve God. You need to attend God in your daily life. And then you need to live together with God. Then every day you can feel that God is a living God, that God is alive. You can discover God in your wife, husband, children, siblings, Cain and Abel, all things. Then God can live with you for 24 hours. God wants to participate (in your life); when you feel joy, he also wants to feel joy; when you are sad, God also wants to feel sad. (He wants) that kind of heartistic relationship. God is not just a conceptual God, not just an idealistic, admirable, almighty God. God isn’t like that. He really wants to build a parent-child relationship. So let’s practice in our daily life how to feel God in that way.♦
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