Ep 470 - Asia Part 2
Asia 105-30-12-40 - February 7, 2022
Today I’d like to talk again about “Asia” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1. …
Perhaps because Nepal is situated at the highest altitude of any region on this planet, the power of the good spirits in the spirit world is quite dominant here. I believe that its situation helps Nepal to receive help faster than any other region, through the direct dominion of the spirit world. I feel that the meeting was such a great success because your heart is at a place where you can be connected more quickly not only to God but also to True Parents. Nepal in various ways is located where it can stand close to Heaven's heart. Moreover, the people of Nepal by nature have the ability to embrace everything in their surroundings, including their heaven-blessed natural environment. Therefore, if you continue to move forward centering on the Word, you may become the central nation and central figures. You should study the Word every day, and from that find out what you need to do. (2006.06.02, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Until now, True Parents do not know how much investment they have put in seeing Nepal as a country that can become one Cheon Il Guk nation.
While serving as the chairman of the Asian Continent, I poured all my heart and soul along with the leaders. Numerous political leaders and more than half of the members of the National Assembly have been educated on the principle.
In addition, the communist leaders of Nepal were also invited to teach the principles. Based on this foundation, we hosted the National Convention and Asian Summit with True Parents very successfully.
That is why Mother was so happy when she came to Nepal to join the Asian summit. She delivered a beautiful message to our dear brothers and sisters.
India is the nation where God gave birth to several religions. What this means is that there are people here who were prepared by God. We need to find those people and save them. The message given at the Universal Peace Federation Speaking Tour to Return to the Original Fatherland and Hometown will be more than valuable in reaping those fruits, for it is a message that anyone can accept. In the Cheon Il Guk era, we need to harvest and dedicate everything to God as quickly as possible. There is no time. We do not have much time for harvesting. True Father's work must be fulfilled at all costs. Geographically, India is located at a place of great importance in maintaining peace in Asia. After touring across island nations around the world, I saw that there is not one nation that is not swayed by China. This means that China exerts a strong influence on the world.
It would be nice if China worked together with True Parents centering on God's Will, but at present it stands in the position of Cain and is thinking only of its own interests as it increases its influence. The nation that can keep China in check is India. This Asian nation needs to stand on the side of the providence. Now that the time has come for us to achieve actual results, it will not do for us to just deliver the Word and let it drift away as we did in the past. You need to take charge of everyone who comes to our meetings. You need to set an example through your own actions, so that your heart can speak to their heart. I hope that you will thus link them to you with such a strong connection that they will not be able to sit still because they will miss you so much. (2006.06.03, New Delhi, India)
The following are the words of blessing from True Mother to Nepal at the Victory Celebration after the Rally for the Hopeful March Forward of Heavenly Asia in 2018. At that time, my whole Asian family and I united and had a successful Rally in the presence of the current Prime Minister of the government and the ministers of the government.
I think most political leaders participated in this Asian summit. True Mother was so happy. (There was) such a high level delegation, not just from Nepal, but from everywhere. It was a beautiful, unforgettable summit in Nepal. At that time True Mother gave a beautiful speech. Let’s study about that.
Victory Celebration for the Rally for the Hopeful March Forward of Heavenly Asia, True Mother’s Speech, December 3, 2018 – Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal
When I think of Nepal, I wonder how the dream of the Creator, God, would have taken shape. The demoiselle cranes of the Mongolian plains risk their lives migrating over the Himalayas toward the plains of India to prepare for winter. Although nobody taught them this, those cranes have always acted this way to preserve and reproduce. Then, I pondered about how the Creator’s, God’s original, planet Earth would have looked if human beings had not fallen.
Even in the history of this country, it has undergone torment from wars and conflicts. All of human history is like that.
As of yesterday, I hope that Nepal can show, in front of all people, the original ideal God, our Creator, envisioned at the time of creation, and what a nation of blessed people and families is like.
I pray that there will be unity among the Nepalese citizens, government and civil society and a new heavenly Nepal will stand proudly in the eyes of the world and humanity as it attends our Heavenly Parent. Heaven blessed Nepal with beautiful nature. Wouldn’t you like to make Nepal the most beautiful and livable country in the world by having more and more blessed families nurturing and taking care of its resources? You, who currently received good fortune and blessings, have to change in order to achieve that. For things to be different, you must fulfill your responsibilities as blessed families. You have to show others how to live a life of practicing true love, to be one who lives for the sake of others. Will you do this?
There is another gorgeous place in the world: the European Alps. I would like Nepal to make a heavenly Himalayas, which are more healthful and more beautiful than Europe’s Alps. I hope the Nepalese Family Federation members will be at the forefront, living truly loving lives as originally desired by God, the Creator.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 16 - The Life of 4 Position Foundation
When the origin, the subject partner and the object partner projected from the origin, and their union all fulfill the three object purpose, the four position foundation is established.
True Father’s word:
Love That Connects Three Generations
<86-47> Then what should we do to receive God’s love? You should perfect your individuality, family and the four-position-foundation, which as we explain in the Unification Church, multiplies goodness. In other words, you should form attend God as your parent on the earth, become children loved by God, and form a true couple in conformity with the heavenly principles and laws centering on God. Once you create a family that can be connected to the third generation through a son born between you and your spouse within God’s love, God will aid you for eternity.
In a word, the completion of the 4 position foundation means the completion of the 3 generations to the stage of grandchildren.
When the three generations are completed in this way, God stays in the family and cooperates forever.
If it is completed through the number 3, which is 3 generations, Satan can no longer take advantage of it.
Therefore, our homework is how to receive the blessing and complete the 3 generations. What is always problematic is the second, the number two.
The formation stage is ok, but Adam and Eve fell at the growth stage. Our first generation absolution(?) followed True Parents, but always the problem is number two, challenging number two. That is why if we really overcome (the issues with) our second generation very well, then we can complete number three, which is the completion stage.
The completion of grandchildren is the completion of my family, the completion of God's ideal, and the eternal resting place of God.
The completion of grandchildren refers to the stage in which they receive the Blessing. There is no fall, nor Satan, after formation, growth and completion.
Once completed, the completed model lasts forever.
Yesterday I spoke about this. To accomplish the four position foundation is difficult. Father said it is one of the most difficult things.
However, no matter what, we need to challenge and overcome and complete the four position foundation. Father said once it is completed, the completed model lasts forever.
All of you have already received the Blessing, right? Your challenge is how to raise your second generation, for them to keep purity and receive the Blessing. Not only that. How you can have grandchildren centering on 3 generations. That is our job.
Some families are really struggling (with) how to deal with each one of their children. They go their own direction. Some of them are already married to outside children. But we cannot give up. Our first generation faith (may be) ok. Still we are loving True Parents and absolutely obeying them.
(But) even though one of your children or two of them (may) have married outside people, still we need to encourage them to come back and receive the Blessing. We need to fix the problems one by one. If they come back and learn the Divine Principle (again) and receive the Blessing, that is one of the solutions, fixing the problems. Even though they did not keep their purity and are already married, do not be disappointed. Parental love is (unchanging?) no matter what; of course, (the situation) is very painful, but God’s love is continuous, lasting love no matter what.
In True Parents’ family, (they resolved the situation in) Hyo Jin Nim’s family. Heung Jin Nim passed away early; (Father) created the four position foundation centered on Heung Jin Nim and Hoon Sook Nim and got a child from the other (True) Children. Sun Jin Nim’s family … True Parents are arranging (their situations) one by one.
Some families may be fortunate; all (their) children (may have) received the blessing. Others could not do that. We need to encourage each other. Even though your family is OK, you need to treat other families as your own family and cooperate together. We are one family under God. We are the same brothers and sisters. We are the same children of God. (So, let’s) cooperate with each other. “Your problem is my problem.” If we really create that kind of environment within our church, within our foundation of the Unification Movement, I am telling you, our second generation will all come back. In the end, everybody needs to come back to God anyway.
Some families have completely given up. “They are no longer my child(ren). I really abandon them.” That is a problem. Even though many families have this situation, continuously pray and work hard. Gradually let them come back and connect to Heavenly Parents and True Parents. We are in that kind of transitional time period. I have told you (this) again and again.
So, no matter what, we need to complete the four position foundation, right? Through grandchildren I can complete my four position foundation. It is true. If some kids have problems(?), bring them back again and educate them. (Let them) receive the Blessing. Even previous family (members) may be in a category to join the first generation or (become a) previously married couple. Anyway, the Blessing is the Blessing. It is God’s incredible grace. It is better than giving up. This is our destiny.
“Why are my children like that? Why is my destiny like that?” If you continuously complain about this and that, it will not help you. Of course, we need to repent (that) we could not raise our children. At the same time your lasting love without changing for your children, no matter what, (is important). (You need to) continuously love them. Do you agree with me?
Love That Represents God’s Love
<108-77> The love of the mother or father toward their child represents God’s love. Parents’ love is the manifestation of God’s love. Do you understand? The child’s love to his parents is tantamount to that of loving God. Loving one’s parents, loving one’s mother and father, represents the act of loving God.
Furthermore, Eve’s act of loving Adam, or a woman’s act of loving a man, represents the act of loving her children and God. A man’s act of loving a woman is also the same as loving God.
The love of parents toward their child represents God’s love. The child’s love for his parents represents God’s love. A sibling’s love toward their siblings represents God’s love. Also, the love a couple has for each other represents God’s love.
Loving my neighbor or loving the nation or loving humankind also represents the act of loving God.
Therefore, whoever I love, whatever nature and item of all things I love, I love while thinking that it represents God’s love.
Do not think that I love them because they are my physical parents: “I love them because they are my children, I love them because they belong to me and they are my assets.” Loving them in my own name means it becomes a love that has nothing to do with God.
Therefore, when loving all things, think that you are loving them on behalf of God. When you deal with them with love on behalf of God in this way, the four position foundation can be completed.
Even children express their love toward their parents. This also represents God’s love. Whatever I do, (it should) not just (be) humanistic love, my own love. I am the one who represents God’s love.
Who guides this way in such detail? Father is the champion of Love. He knows how to describe it, and he knows how to practice it.
The Four-Position-Foundation Is the Point of Settlement for Ideal Love
<120-157> I am a one who took part in my father and mother’s love. When a couple makes love horizontally (physically), they must vertically carry on God’s love. That is God’s love and at the same time children’s love. Consequently, God will reside within your love, the mother will reside within your love, the father will reside within your love, and you will also reside within your father’s love. When these four types of love are combined, the first cry of a baby signals the start of an ideal world. How great is that!
That is why everybody wants children. Why? It is because they can be part of the realm of love which God envisions as His ideal. By having children you can be part of God’s ideal realm. That is the completion of the four-position-foundation.
Why is True love so precious? It is because participation is an attribute of true love. The place where a husband and wife share horizontally (which is sexual love between the couple) is the place where God participates, (God comes down as) the husband and wife physically and spiritually participate, and the man’s sperm and woman’s egg come together and meet, creating an embryo (the fetus or baby).
There are 4 kinds of love: God’s love, the husband’s love, the wife’s love and the baby’s seed -- (which) is also participating -- based on the four position foundation.
Therefore the place where a husband and wife love each other is where the four great loves participate together. This is where the love of the four position foundation begins.
The completion of the four position foundation is the place where children are born and completed.
We can understand and describe everything centered on the four position foundation.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Good and Evil Seen from the Viewpoint of Purpose(1)
Good and Evil Seen from the viewpoint of Purpose
1. Next, let's have time to study together about good and evil seen as a sense of purpose. When the archangel and Eve had an illicit relationship, their sense of purpose in life was vague. Their fleshly desires became their motivation and were only satisfied with the flesh-centered reality. They did not have any solid sense of purpose in life. In order to have a clear purpose in life, one must value the relationship with God, the relationship with parents, the relationship with the teacher, and the relationship with Abel that one has grown up with to this day. This is because the purpose of life and faith becomes clear when we live through the subject partner.
If you have a clear purpose and vision, centered on God’s will, you will not be dominated by the surrounding environment or physical sexual temptations.
If your goals and vision centering on God’s will are vague, not clear, you easily bear fruit from the evil side. People who have a clear purpose of life have no time to be influenced by their surrounding environment.
In order for your purpose in life to become clearer, you must value your vertical relationship with God, your parents, and your Abel.
Because Adam and Eve’s relationship with God was unclear, they neglected God’s commandment not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
If our purpose and vision and goal are not clear, we easily become horizontal. When you become horizontal and lose your vertical alignment, Satan immediately comes to you. Then you become humanistic and self-centered. You lose the vertical connection -- any time; (then) you are a dangerous guy; Satan can invade you.
Why did Adam and Eve fall? Adam and Eve did not have a clear vertical alignment and were not clear about the purpose of their life. God gave them a serious commandment: “Do not eat. If you eat you will surely die.” That was so serious, but they forgot. They were not so serious. They became horizontal. Once you lose vertical alignment, you have no more power. Then Satan will invade you any time.
God warned Adam and Eve that if they ate the fruit, they would surely die, but since they did not think seriously, they fell into the archangel’s temptations.
Therefore, if your purpose is unclear and your relationship is unclear, you will lose your sense of direction, flow towards the evil side and then Fall.
If I do not have a definite goal and vision, Satan will always enter me and play the role of the owner.
2. When we say we want to live a happy life, the purpose and motive of who I want to live happily for must be clear. But if you want to be happy for yourself, you are a person who has no purpose in life. Because you can never be happy if you live for yourself. This is the principle of the universe. Happiness is a blessing that comes only when you live for the sake of others. The love that the archangel and Eve exchanged was centered on the flesh and was dominated by the environment, so their love had no purpose of living for someone and bringing joy to someone.
3. If we center on physical desire and fall into fleshly impulses, our original nature loses freedom and our purpose becomes vague. But the person who dominates freedom has a thorough sense of purpose. Despite suffering in reality, they overcome hardships because of the vision and purpose of their life. Even if the given environment of reality is good, I come to think about whether it is good or bad centered on the purpose and relationship I establish. Even if it is good, it is good and happy because it is in line with the good purpose I have set up. A person whose purpose, visions, and goals for life are set by the center do not live by the circumstances of the environment of reality. Reality always transcends the environment. From this point of view, it can be said that the love between the archangel and Eve had no purpose in life.
It is easy to be fooled by the environment if you are not clear about the purpose of what you eat for when you eat, what you live for when you live, and what you earn for while earning money.
Then I will live as the wind blows, as the years pass, and I lose the freedom of my original nature. That is why the Bible says that people without a vision will perish.
A vision that has nothing to do with God will eventually disappear. That is why the Bible says those who live without vision will disappear.
Whenever I educate my three children and their spouses -- they are doing very well; they have a good job and are going to get a good salary; their job is stable; now they already have (grand)children -- sometimes I worry. If they focus on their own job, it is ok, but I ask them, “What kind of vision do you have? Make money? Create a successful business?” Of course, they have vision, but if your vision does not connect to God’s vision, someday eventually surely it will disappear. Your vision has nothing to do with God. That is why the Bible says without God’s vision it will eventually perish.”
So far, (over the) last 6,000 years people came and why did they perish? What is the reason? Even though they were surviving -- what to eat, what to wear, what to drink, very much focused on the secular world -- how many of them are still alive?
Whatever you do, your teaching job, business job or professor job, anything is ok. Whatever you do, you need to reflect, is my vision really connected to God’s vision or not? If there is no connection to God’s vision, eventually (you?) will disappear, eventually (you? will) perish. (This is true) not just (at) individual or family level. Why are so many nations declining and do not see hope? Because their vision and goal has nothing to do with God’s goals. That is why they will perish.
How did America become the center of the world? It is very clear. The entire hope and vision of America connected to God’s vision, related to God’s vision, so America surely prospered.
Even in our movement if whatever you focus on (has) nothing to do with God’s vision, hope and wish, as the Bible said, you will eventually perish. Even if you make lots of money, if you made this money without connecting to God’s vision and wish, only focusing on what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, centering on my own family -- this kind of lifestyle will eventually disappear.
To have vision is fine, but what kind of vision do you have? Even though you have vision, does it really connect to God or not? If your vision is very clear and centered on God’s vision and will, whatever you do will always prosper and (be) very hopeful because God is there.
Our American unification movement, our family vision and our nation vision, does our nation of America really have God’s vision or not? … The entire American goal, the national goal, I’m not talking about our church, outside America, the government goal, how much is it connected to God’s vision and wish? No connection? No matter how hard you work, it will surely eventually disappear and perish.
4. Most people who are dominated by their environment, especially those who make mistakes in illicit love, are not clear about their purpose in life. That is why you get confused and dominated by your environment. No matter what kind of suffering you face, you must distinguish between good and evil, centering on your sense of purpose. Even if we face difficulties or suffer, we need to check our goals and purpose as to why it has to be like this. I need to check on and find the reason I have to be persecuted like this, why I have to be so misunderstood, and why I have to be disrespected. In reality, even if I suffer, God rescues me when I have a definite vision, clear set of values and hope.
Whenever you have God’s vision and hope and will(?), you will never perish.
Most of the people who fall in love with an affair due to the fall are wandering, and there are many people who do not have a clear goal in life. And the relationship between God, parents, and Abel is not so good.
Your relationship with God, with your parents and with Abel are (all) very important. If these are not so good, you will connect to Chapter Two problems and you will connect to the secular world. It will be easy to become horizontal, humanistic, self-centered and arrogant.
Your relationship with God centered on clear purpose, your relationship with your parents, and your relationship with your Abel, these are (your) lifeline. If your relationship with God is very good, then automatically it will be good with your parents and with Abel. Then everything can be protected. But when your relationships are not so strong, immediately Satan will invade you.
When Adam and Eve’s relationship was not clear with God, not strong enough, the Archangel immediately attacked them. Then Adam and Eve lost their original purpose. Their vision and goal was not clear. Secondly, their relationship with God was not clear. (That was) very dangerous.
5. Even when Jesus died on the cross, his heart was unchanging because he had a clear goal and purpose as to why he had to be crucified. Even looking at the results of God's resurrection of Jesus, we can see that Jesus' purpose was unchanging. When a person faces a crisis, they lose their will and purpose. There is a proverb that says even if you are bitten by a tiger, as long as you come to your senses, you will live. This means that even if you are bitten by a tiger, you will live as long as you do not lose your purpose. However, when a person is bitten by a tiger, if they lose their mind before being eaten by the tiger, they also miss the chance to live.
Do you know why I respect Jesus so much? He is my father … I really love him. He is my messiah.
Jesus did not die on the cross in vain, but he had conviction of the spiritual salvation of all humankind by becoming a sacrifice.
If Jesus had had any regrets or dissatisfaction while dying on the cross, that means he (would) not have (had) a clear objective for dying on the cross even while dying, he (would) not (have) lost that objective. That is why even though he died, he did not actually die.
Because he had an unchanging objective, Jesus, who died, was resurrected and went (on) to convey God’s will.
Imagine how strong and clear the will of Jesus must have been when he rose from the dead and raised up and gathered and educated the scattered disciples again. That is why Jesus is still alive and working.
God’s will is very clear and unchanging.
After Jesus died, his will was so strong that he resurrected and came back again.
He called each of his disciples and gathered them together and educated them. Even though he died on the cross, after he died, his will and goal and purpose and vision were unchanging. Even though he physically died, he did not die. He was still alive and still working.
I really want to be like Jesus. I envy Jesus. Even after death, I want to become a person who can work on the earth just like when I was alive and working for the will of God more than while I was on the earth world.
Jesus did not die. He is still alive. After Jesus died, he resurrected. How did God resurrect him? He did not care whether he was living on the earth or (physically) dead. His mindset, his purpose, his goal, his vision were unchanging.
How can I carry on Jesus’ spirit: It does not matter if (I am) alive or dead. If we have that kind of strong spirit and goal and vision, how can Satan invade us? Until the moment of death, Father worked so hard.
Daemonim passed away, then returned to work centering on Cheongpyeong.
You and I when we die someday, we should be like Jesus and True Father and Daemonim. Our vision should be so clear. We should have han. Jesus had han. “No matter what, I need to fulfill God’s vision.”
Then we will be able to say, “Even though you physically (will have) died, you did not die yet. You are still working very hard.”
Do we have that kind of vision and goal?
6. The righteous are the ones who overcome death and suffering because of the will and purpose they have set up. Pain is like the practice of death. All my life of eating, sleeping, waking up, and ritualism must be consistent centering on the will and goals I set for myself. If you have a clear goal and will toward the Will, you will receive guidance from the spirit world even in your dreams. "Father! As long I have the Father’s body, I cannot help but sleep. Although I sleep, I cannot change the goal and purpose of my will.” If we pray like this, God will not be able to forget such children.
What kind of vision and goal do you live with?
If I do not have a vision, goal and purpose of life, I flow away to the evil side (at) any time. On the contrary, if my vision and sense of purpose on God’s will is clear, I will flow to the good side.
It is a fact that whether I become a person of goodness or a person of evil is decided depending on my given goal and vision.
Today we learned very important things from God’s word.♦
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