Ep 752 - World Peace and the Role of Women 2 Part 7
World Peace and the Role of Women II - November 16, 2022
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Key Points
The four great special attributes of true love are the right to participate together in the creation as second creators, the right of inheritance of God’s true love, true life, and true lineage, the right of equal position as co-creators equal to God’s position, and the right to live together eternally with God as his children.
Understanding the four great special attributes of true love allows us to explain why man and woman are equal centering on true love.
The three factors for becoming a leader or a responsible person are that you trust and believe in people, live for the sake of others, and be able to love.
The three factors in the origin of the human fall are that Adam and Eve disbelieved what God commanded, were self-centered, and loved centering on themselves seeking self-satisfaction first.
Always check your emotion or feeling when you say “like” or “dislike.” What is it centered on?
We can clear a self-centered resentful heart by denying ourself, valuing others, regarding others’ mistakes as mine, listening well to others, serving others, practicing filial piety towards others and serving others with the heart of serving True Parents.
To establish God’s will in the family and workplace, think how to do it as the one to whom God has entrusted this place as its Second Coming, take responsibility for it, and serve with jeongseong and an honest and sincere heart with personal touch and without blame – aware that all families and work colleagues are carrying crosses.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Today we are going to send off our dear brother Rev. Inose.
Today I’d like to talk about “World Peace and the Role of Women II” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the 10th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Women's Federation for World Peace, held on April 10, 2002 at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center> Furthermore, a woman is not made to be a man's assistant or simply an object of his protection. Rather, a woman is an interdependent entity who completes a man by standing in a position that represents half of God. In the ideal of true love, a woman exists as a man's noble partner, as the recipient who can reciprocate his love. In terms of value, man and woman are equal. A man and woman who are united through the power of original, true love acquire entitlement to the same status. They also share entitlement to participate together and be with each other, whatever the situation or location. Moreover, a man and woman united in true love also share an ideal right of inheritance; they share ownership with each other, for she is his second self just as he is hers.
Thus, a man and woman united in God's true love ideal share fully and totally their rank and position, rights of participation, and rights of possession. Men and women were created to be equal in terms of value when they live in true love. Naturally then, a man and woman are not born to exist in a relationship of hostility or opposition, where they covet or attempt to mimic the characteristics and qualities of the other. There is no need for that, because man and woman belong to each other. Their relationship is originally designed to be one where all their qualities as well as possessions are shared with each other so that both can achieve completion and perfection, and thus together become a whole greater than the sum of the parts. Women have the important role of bearing children, raising them, and guiding the family as God's representatives, with the uniquely feminine sense of affection and love that God has granted to women. God endowed each woman with this essential feminine nature.
In terms of value, man and woman are equal. A man and woman who are united through the power of original, true love acquire entitlement to the same status. They also share entitlement to participate together and be with each other, whatever the situation or location. Moreover, they also share an ideal right of inheritance; they share ownership with each other, for she is his second self just as he is hers.
What are the four great attributes of true love? Father always talks about this. This is very important. Why should Adam and Eve be equal based on this principle centered on the four great special attributes of true love?
The four great special attributes of true love are the right to participate together, the right of inheritance, the right of equal position, and the right to live together. When we look from this perspective of true love, men and women are equal beings.
What Are the Four Great Special Attributes of True Love?
1. The right to participate together
2. The right of inheritance
3. The right of equal position
4. The right to live together
1. The right to participate together: Adam and Eve should have participated together in God’s providence to become the second creators through the human portion of responsibility.
If Adam and Eve do not participate in God’s creation, they cannot become the second God, the owner of all things. That is why whatever we do, we always need to participate. Whenever True Mother asks us to do something, this is (our opportunity to) participate in True Parents’ and God’s providence. Then we can have the same position as God and True Parents. That is why in order to inherit true love, the most important condition is participation.
Are you really participating in tribal messiahship? Are you participating in God’s current providence? If you do not participate, you have nothing (to do) with God and True Parents and God’s providence. You need to participate.
Adam and Eve were not concerned, did not participate, did not share responsibility together, so they could not become the second creators.
2. The right of inheritance: Adam and Eve should have participated together in God’s creation and inherited God’s true love, true life, and true lineage.
Through participating you inherit everything. When you participate in God’s and True Parents’ providence through heavenly tribal messiahship, you can inherit everything God and True Parents have. That is why the right of inheritance is one of the great special attributes of true love. You need to inherit God’s true love, true life and true lineage and also all True Parents’ victorious foundation through participating. Inheritance is very important.
3. The right of equal position: When Adam and Eve inherit God’s true love, they would stand in the position of the second creators, which is equal to God’s position.
If you participate and inherit everything, then God gives you an incredible blessing: “You and I are the same. You are the second creator; I am the first creator. You and I have an equal position.” Wow! This is a special attribute of true love.
When we talk about Adam and Eve’s, man and woman’s equality, without understanding the four great special attributes of true love, we cannot explain (why they are equal).
4. The right to live together: You participated, inherited everything from True Parents and God, and finally become equal (to God). But what is the purpose of participating, inheriting and becoming equal? What is the final goal?
As God’s children, Adam and Eve were meant to live together eternally with God. Forever!
How did Father discover this content! Without understanding the four great special attributes of true love, we cannot explain why man and woman are equal centering on true love.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 7
The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil(1)
• The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies the love of Eve.
• As a tree multiplies by its fruit, Eve should have borne good children through her godly love. Instead, she bore evil children through her satanic love.
• Eve was to reach full maturity only after going through a period of growth, in which it was possible for her to bear either good fruit or evil fruit through her love.
• This is why Eve's love is symbolized by the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and why Eve is symbolized by the tree.
• Eve was to have eaten the fruit of goodness by consummating her God-centered love. Then she would have received the essence of God's divinity and multiplied a good lineage.
• However, she ate of the fruit of evil by consummating her evil love centered on Satan. Hence, she received the essence of his evil nature and multiplied an evil lineage from which our sinful society descended.
• Accordingly, Eve's eating the fruit denotes that she consummated a satanic love relationship with the angel which bound her in blood ties to him.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Three Factors for Becoming a Responsible Person
<72-306>If I become the person in charge…it’s not enough to have the external ability or skill in order to become a responsible person. The responsible person must believe in people. He or she has to trust people. Then next, he or she should live for the sake of others. We must also do good for those persons. Next he or she must be able to love. The responsible person should love people. We should realize that those three factors are absolutely necessary for the responsible person as we continue our spiritual life and our church life.
Father here is talking about:
The Three Factors for Becoming a Leader (Responsible Person)
The archangel who is Satan could not fulfill his responsibility to take care of Adam and Eve. Father often talks about three factors that are important for becoming a leader. As a leader and a (responsible) member – we are all leaders, right? – we need to think about these three factors for becoming a leader.
1. You need to believe in people, (You need to trust people)
As a leader you need to trust your object partner, your members. For example, as the continental director, I need to believe in sub-regional leaders that they can (fulfill their positions). How much do I trust our sub-regional leaders and our national leader, Naokimi? As a church leader you need to believe in each member. One of the most important character (traits) of a leader is to trust people and believe in them. Without trusting and believing (in them), you cannot do anything.
In the family the mother and father, no matter what, need to believe in your children more than worry about them. The problem is that you worry about your children more than you trust them.
You need to believe in people, in your members, in your Abel and in your Cain. Everything starts with trust and belief.
2. You need to live for the sake of others
Not just trust and believe in them, you need to live for others. Always giving, always sacrificing, always investing unconditionally for the sake of your members, your Abel, your Cain. Then you have the character to become a leader. How much do you live for your members, your Abel, your Cain?
3. You have to be able to love.
You need to be able to live for the sake of others, and loving is the same, but Father explained it in a different way: you have to be able to love. Can your members feel love from you?
If you are the boss in your company, can each of your employees feel love from their boss? If they cannot feel love and just work as a worker, then they have nothing to do with you.
Just now the Lalonde family was talking about how much they love each of their workers. They treat them as God’s children, as family members.
This is the attitude: being responsible for, trusting, living for their sake and loving each one of them.
Just now I met Justin in the breakout. You see him as a leader taking care of each of the members.
Do members really feel love from their central figures or not?
❖ A leader (responsible person) should not meet only external conditions. Abilities and skills are secondary.
The important thing as a leader is your character, your true character. You have no other choice; you need to believe, to trust, live for and love your members. This is very important as a leader.
The Three Factors in the Origin of the Human Fall
<79-198>How did the foundation of sin, the Human fall, evil and hell come to exist specifically? Let us think back to the time of Adam and Eve. Let us go back to that time and think about why Adam and Eve fell. They disbelieved what God commanded; ‘Do not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.’ And secondly, their disbelief was self-centered. And thirdly, it was love centering on oneself. We can conclude that as these three were the main contents of the Human Fall, any disbelief or self-centered motivation is on the side of Satan. Therefore, human beings are those who make love based upon disbelief and self-centeredness. In conclusion, I can say that the people in this world are insisting on self-centered love.
Based on Father’s word, I would like to talk about the three factors in the origin of the human fall.
1. Adam and Eve disbelieved what God commanded. (Disbelief)
Disobedience: this is one of the natures of Satan. Obedience to God’s word, to my Abel, to True Parents’ word are very important. Everything begins from obedience.
2. Adam Eve’s disbelief were self-centered. (Self-centeredness)
Self-centeredness is one of the key characteristics of fallen man. Never Abel centered, never other centered, always self-centered. This was the motivation of the fall.
3. Adam and Eve’s love were centering on themselves. (Self-centered love)
Self-centered love is very selfish: “Me first.” Rather than for others, it is always “Me, me, me. I don’t care about you, about my parents, about my members. I think of myself first centered on my own satisfaction.” That is really evil.
❖ The fall is to try to fill self-satisfaction first.
❖ Check who is centered when your heart says ‘like’ or ‘dislike.’
“I dislike it!” Centering on what? “I like it. I like that girl. I like that boy.” Centering on what? “I don’t like my Abel.” Centering on what? “I don’t like my father and mother.” Centering on what? (Are you) centered on self or on others? Most fallen men like or dislike centering on themselves first.
That is why, always check your emotion or feeling when you say “like” or “dislike;” what is it centered on? You need to distinguish properly what is good and what is evil.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Why do Husbands Have Resentment Towards Their Wives and Vise Versa?
Resentment Arises When I am Centered on Myself
1. Resentment arises when I am centered on myself. If there is too much ‘me,’ my husband will also have resentment. When there is no ‘me,’ I will have the heart to value the other. If resentment towards my partner arises, I need to first clear that resentment first. Resentment towards the partner arises when I think that I am right and they are the problem. However, if I value my partner, even when my husband/wife makes a mall mistake, I regard it as my mistake. Do not have resentment towards your partner for not listening to you. Your partner tries to listen to God. Do they try to listen to their partner? The reason my partner does not listen to me is because I still have not become God to my partner. That is why if I have the self-centered way of thinking “they do not listen to me,” I become a bigger problem.
Practice Filial Piety Towards My Child First
2. Why doesn’t the husband (wife) try to listen to their wife (husband) well? Of course, if you respect the wife (husband), the husband (wife) will become humble. It is the same with children. Why don’t children listen to their parents? Try to extremely love your children. Try to practice filial piety towards your children with the heart of serving True Parents. Then, children will want to listen to their mother and father’s words and deliberately come and tell their parents to say things to them. However, if the mother and father normally get angry at their child easily, the children will not listen to their parents.
Let’s summarize:
How Do You Clear a Resentful Heart?
1. When I am centered on myself, resentment arises.
Resentment is (by its nature) self-centered.
2. Having a lot of resentment means that there is a lot of self-centered fallen nature. Therefore, we must deny ourselves.
One who has resentment, one who has an enemy resentful feeling is still self-centered. (You have) a lot of self-centered fallen nature.
3. When there is no ‘me,’ the heart to value the other automatically arises.
In any situation if you respect your subject or object partner, then the heart to value the other automatically arises.
4. Resentment towards the partner arises when I think that I am right and they are the problem.
“You are wrong; I am right.” It needs to be reported(?updated?), “You are right; I am wrong.” Only then can you restore it.
I discovered many things about myself. When I had a resentful feeling when I was young, “I was wrong.” Of course, sometimes the other guy is wrong, but our attitude should be “I am wrong” because even though he did evil things, if my quality of love cannot embrace hm and I have resentful feelings, I need to (resolve) this issue.
5. If I value my partner, even when my husband/wife makes a small mistake, I regard it as my mistake.
Always (be) a parental figure. If you are really a good guy and have settled your life of faith, when you see someone’s small mistake, always treat it as “My mistake.” (That) never hurts your heart.
But when you hate someone, you dislike someone, it finally hurts your heart.
6. Do not have resentment towards your partner for not listening to you.
7. The reason my partner does not listen to me is because I still have not become a God-like being to my partner.
That is why as a husband you should become a God to your wife. Parents should be God in front of their children. When children see their father and mother, “Wow! They are like my God,” and (they) automatically respect them.
How can I become that kind of Godly character? How can I become a kind of second God? True Parents’ position? That is our challenge. If we did not become like that, no one respects us. How can I upgrade my level of true love? This is the issue.
8. Therefore, completely abandon the self-centered way of thinking “they do not listen to me.”
We need to completely throw away this kind of concept: “Why don’t they listen to me?” We need to know about that. If we blame them and have a resentful feeling, this is fallen nature. If we have a resentful feeling, that is the proof that we still have fallen nature. If we are a man of true love, then we do not have any resentful feeling.
9. Do not try seek to be served by your partner or children first but try to extremely serve and love them.
10. Try to practice filial piety towards your children with the heart of serving True Parents.
This is a way to really clear our resentful heart.
I Came to My Family as the Second Coming
3. From now on, never think of your wife (husband) as a child or husband (wife) centered on yourself. Then, what must I always think centered on? It must be centered on God’s will. How do I establish God’s will in my current given circumstances? You must pray to Heavenly Parent and True Parents on this matter. “How do True Parents who dispatched me to family wish for me to serve my family?” It is my responsibility to establish a standard of heart and serve each family member individually in this way. So, I just have the responsibility to serve my partner. Do not blame the partner no matter how they treat you. I need an honest and sincere heart about how I deal with my partner from the position of God. God entrusted me with this family. Think that you came to your family as the second coming. So only think about and take responsibility over how you can serve the family well from the position of God.
The Reason Your Own Partner and Children Do Not Listen to You
4. Doesn’t any family member, your own partner or children not listen to you? Are there any partners or children that listen to you well? That is why if I serve and attend them first, that person will value my family. If I attend my partner and attend my children well, in the end, they will all listen to me. Don’t children respecting their mother and the husband cherishing his wife mean that children are willing to listen to their mother and father? However, if you tell them to listen without any jeongseong or foundation, they will not listen.
How do I Establish God’s Will in the Family and Workplace?
1. Do not think of your wife (husband) as a child or husband (wife) centered on yourself.
We need to really change our concept. “My children don’t belong to me. They are God’s children. God just borrowed my body. The children come from my body that God borrowed.” We need to completely throw away (the idea that) “They are my children.” For your husband or wife, it is the same.
2. Think “How do I establish God’s will in my current given circumstances?”
3. Think that I came to my family and workplace as the second coming
Oh my God! Father’s thinkng! “I came to my family as a Second Coming in order to save my husband or my wife, my children, my parents. My position is as the Second Coming.”
So you need to think that even in your work place, you are not only the boss. “I came to this workplace as the Second Coming. I am the representative of God and True Parents. I came here as the Second Coming.” That means you need to be fully responsible as the owner. Your mission is the mission of the messiah as the Second Coming.
4. Think that God entrusted me with this family or workplace.
That is why you need to treat each of your family members as “representatives of all humankind, and I am the Second Coming.” What am I responsible as the Second Coming?
5. Therefore, take responsibility over and ask, “How can I serve this family well from the position of God?”
6. Therefore, practice as Jesus said, “I did not come to be served, but to serve.”
I came to my family as the Second Coming. What is my mission? To serve. Not to be served.
7. Serve each family member well individually with personal touch.
I love the words “personal touch.” As a father, mother, church leader (or work leader) how can I have personal touch with each member in the family, in church and in my workplace? They (need to) personally feel that “My boss is my God.” Each family member should say, “My father and mother love me the most.” Each church member will say, “My church leader loves me the most.” You need to have that kind of personal touch.
8. I only have the responsibility to serve the other person. No matter how they treat me, I cannot blame them.
If you fulfill your portion of responsibility and serve them and love them, if they treat you very badly in not such a good way, it does not matter. Just fulfill your portion of responsibility.
9. Have an honest and sincere heart over how you can deal with the partner well from the position of God.
That is why jjak sarang is very important. Sometimes the boss treats you badly or your children dislike you, it does not matter. You need to remember jjak sarang. It means unconditional love even though that person likes me or dislikes me, it does not matter. Your love is always the same, continuously loving. “Even though you betray me, my jjak sarang never changes. It is eternal, forever, absolute.” That is jjak sarang.
10. Any family member, your own partner or children do not listen to you.
11. All families are carrying crosses.
“My husband or wife does not listen to me. My parents, my children do not listen to me.” Every family has the same thing. We know that that is reality.
12. Therefore, if I serve and attend them first, they will value me.
There is no other way.
13. If you tell them to listen without any jeongseong or foundation, they will not listen.
14. If I serve my partner well and serve my children well, they will listen to me in the end.
Today I talked about “Why Do Husbands Have Resentment Towards Their Wives and Vise Versa?”
Very important guidance, right?
(Testimony Mark Anderson, Project Phoenix)♦
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