Ep 661 - The Way The Women's Federation for Peace in Asia Should Go Part 1
The Way the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia Should Go - August 17, 2022
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Key Points
History until now was in the cultural realm centered on the archangel; the world order and social systems have been centered on men; the ruling philosophy has been the logic of power.
Thanks to True Parents we have passed the top of the growth stage and have entered the age of love which demands peace, compromise, compassion, love, tolerance, service and sacrifice -- not the logic of power; it is an age in which men and women become one and achieve harmony.
Whether you go to Heaven or not is a matter of your heart and substantial results of heart or attendance or hyojeong through experiencing the four great realms of heart.
To enter heaven you need the substantial results of completing the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and registering in CheonBoWon and then contributing to the building of Cheon Il Guk.
It is not easy to break through with three spiritual children, but once you do, it is much easier to go further.
We enter heaven by becoming a citizen of Heaven through, first, becoming a true person who has completed individual perfection, then building Heaven by building the family heaven and tribal heaven on the standards of individual Heaven.
First motivation refers to when you make a resolve after being stimulated or moved by something or when you are unknowingly moved beyond your own will through God’s guidance or some other spiritual force. This intervention is owing to your ancestors’ merits and substantial results and their guidance.
The mindset of self-denial of going as Heaven guides me is very important in the path of faith.
When we go through many trials, confusion, persecution, and Cain and Abel conflicts on the way, we often lose our first motivation and determination and love.
“The first will be last” because the first ones forgot all they were touched and moved by when they first knew about the Will and became exhausted.
Why don’t we have passion now? Because we lost our first love and do not have a passion for the will and no longing for the Lord in our hearts.
How can you preserve your first motivation and first love, and go even further and multiply it? Remember why you were originally touched; then serve people with the heart of a parent in the body of a servant and have an object partner whom you can always give to.
When you live this way, you can feel incredible energy and power from heaven.
You should attend your Abel, your wife or husband, and others as God.
One who lives for the sake of others can immediately capture what they need. He becomes spiritually very sensitive.
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.♦
I am still in Korea. Yesterday I was so excited to see True Mother with all the ILC delegations and ACLC participants. (We had a) really a good time meeting (with) True Mother. We had lunch together and listened to her encouragement.
Thank you for your prayer for True Father’s tenth Seonghwa anniversary. I think Mother seems very happy. I was glad (to see that). As long as Mother is happy and really healthy, everything should be alright, right?
Today I’d like to talk about “The Way the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia Should Go” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at a national convention for the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia held on November 20, 1991 at the Seoul Olympic Fencing Arena> Beloved members of Women's Federation for Peace in Asia and Japanese representatives who have come across the sea to celebrate with us! I believe that this assembly today has very great historical significance for women. The opening of this WFPA (Women's Federation for Peace in Asia) National Assembly for a World of Peace and Love is not a random occurrence, but a matter destiny, a necessity of the swift flow of history. Until now, the role of men has been emphasized. The world order and social systems have been centered on men, because in past history, the ruling philosophy has been the logic of power. However, the present age is different. Today, history is demanding peace, compromise, compassion, love, tolerance, service and sacrifice. The problems of this age cannot be solved by men's logic of power alone.
Last year, on April 11, my husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and I visited Moscow and met President Gorbachev in the Kremlin, which had been the inner sanctum of the world communist bloc. At that time, my husband advised Pres. Gorbachev: “The victory of the Soviet Union depends on whether or not you are centered on God,” and declared, “Atheism can lead only to self-destruction and disaster.” He also advised that the way for the Soviet Union to survive would be to pull down the statues of Lenin, the father of the communist revolution, grant religious freedom, and teach the people religious values.
Since that time, the Soviet Union has been changing rapidly. In particular, the response to my husband and the Unification Church has been completely revolutionary. More than 5,000 Soviet students and more than 1,000 professors and political leaders have received Unification Principle education. You are probably well aware of the difficulties Reverend Moon has endured in Korean society. The persecution that he has met due to the established churches' misunderstanding of this teaching and his work is inexpressible. He has received opposition not only from North Korean communists, but also from the governments of South Korea and the United States, where he suffered incarceration in Danbury Prison.
History until now was in the cultural realm centered on the archangel. The role of men has been emphasized, and the world order and social systems have been centered on men. The archangel-centered cultural realm was an age (in) which the ruling philosophy has been the logic of power centered on men.
However, thanks to True Parents in the present age, all indemnity has been paid and we have passed the top of the growth stage and have entered the age of love. Therefore, this age is demanding peace, compromise, compassion, love, tolerance, service and sacrifice. The problems of this age cannot be solved by men's logic of power alone.
So, what we have to clearly know is that the age of indemnity is over and we are now in the age of love.
The age of love is not just masculine, nor is it feminine, it is an age in which men and women become one and achieve harmony. Because women have been oppressed so far, there will be a time when women will regain their authority in all respects over a period of time. However, in the end, men and women must go out in harmony in the age of love.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 63 - Heaven and Hell (2)
• It is not God who decides whether a person's spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself.
• Humans are created so that once they reach perfection they will fully breathe the love of God. Those who committed sinful deeds while on earth become crippled spirits who are incapable of fully breathing in the love of God. They find it agonizing to stand before God, the center of true love, and choose to dwell in hell of their own will.
• Since the human spirit can grow only in the soil of the physical self, the multiplication of human spirits takes place at the same time that the multiplication of physical selves occurs: during earthly life.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Boundary Between Heaven and Hell
<32-231> Do you want to know where Heaven and Hell are divided? Whether you go to Heaven or Hell does not depend on how well you know the Bible. Your results and your heart are the deciding factors. In the end, whether you go to Heaven or Hell relies on the boundaries of your heart, as well as your lifetime results.
Father said that in the end, whether you go to Heaven or not is a matter of your substantial results and heart.
Therefore, in order to enter Heaven, we need both internal and external heart and results. First, you need heart. Results of heart means how much I knew and experienced God’s heart and comforted Him while I was living in the physical world. Therefore, the results of heart ultimately means results of attendance, that is, results of hyojeong. And it also means experiencing the Four Great Realms of Heart horizontally in the family and inheriting God’s heart. Secondly, Father said that that you need substantial results. First, you need substantial results of completing the Heavenly Tribal Messiah mission and registering in CheonBoWon. Next, you need substantial results of contributing to the building of Cheon Il Guk. The results of Heavenly Tribal Messiah ultimately begin from witnessing.
That is why recently I have been emphasizing that we need to break through with three spiritual children first. Anyone who breaks through with three spiritual children can increase to four, five, twelve and twenty. It is not easy to break through with three spiritual children, but once you break through, it is much easier to go further.
You need to bring substantial results restoring a tribe of 430 couples as well.
First, Become a Citizen of Heaven
<3-295> Ladies and gentlemen, you should not think that you want to go to Heaven. You should think that you will build Heaven on the earth. Furthermore, before you can build Heaven, you must become a citizen of Heaven within your own self. If you want to become a citizen of Heaven, you need to unite your heart with Father to the point where you can say that Father’s heart is your heart, and your heart is Father’s heart. T herefore, you need to become the earthly representative for Father’s heart, God’s heart and your ancestors’ hearts. Only if you do that can all historical problems be resolved.
What should you do to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? First, instead of thinking that you want to go to Heaven, you should think that you will build Heaven on the earth.
Secondly, before you can build Heaven, you must become a citizen of Heaven within your own self. Then what is the standard of a person who has become a citizen of Heaven?
True Father said that the standard of a citizen of Heaven is that you need to unite your heart with Father to the point where you can confidently say that Father’s heart is your heart, and your heart is Father’s heart.
In conclusion, according to Father’s words, in order to go to Heaven, you must first become citizens of Heaven. This means to become a true person who has completed individual perfection. Second, Father said we have to build Heaven. This means to build the family heaven and tribal heaven on the standards of individual Heaven. If these standards are met, you can go to Heaven.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: How Can you Keep Your First Motivation?
This content is very important. Please listen well to what is the answer to how you can keep your first motivation. Let’s study.
Two Reasons We Have a First Motivation
1. When you first join the Unification Church, you are very surprised to hear words that you did not know until that day. However, when you undergo some trial or some difficulties come, when that person has to face a turning point, they lose the self that was moved by the Word. When anyone sets off with the Will, whether that person’s standards are high or low, whether they have experience or not, each has a motivation. When we start off with a motivation, there are people who have a reason and purpose for it, and there are people who are indebted to some other force and don’t even know what caused them to set off like that. The testimony of St. Paul also said that he did not know himself. St. Paul said, “It is not me.” These are words that come from very high standard experiences. That is why we cannot criticize ourselves recklessly or promise to become such and such kind of person.
One of the first motivations or first determinations is when you make a resolve after being stimulated or moved by something. Next, there are also times when you unknowingly have a motivation against your own will.
When you unknowingly have a first motivation against your own will, it comes from God’s guidance or some other spiritual force. That is why St. Paul said in his testimony that he does not know himself. St. Paul said, “I am not me.”
There are cases when we unknowingly enter the Will and walk on the way of the Will, owing to our ancestors’ merits and substantial results and their guidance. St. Paul received his calling through directly meeting with Jesus.
That is why the mindset of self-denial of going as Heaven guides me is very important in the path of faith. You always need the attitude of opening the doors to your heart and going as Heaven guides you.
The Reason You Lose Your First Motivation
2.People with immature faith often unknowingly have motivation due to someone or some spiritual way. After some time, they will feel “Hey, back then, it was God that did that!” “God guided me in that way!” “I was not myself.” When your faith is still young, you will go through experiences of God working together. The problem, however, is that as we become more and more involved in human relationships, we become conflicted and frustrated, and we say, “Oh, I don't know either.” Without realizing it, the content that was pulled and connected by Heaven should continue and become the driving force, but it does not. I cannot even maintain the things bonded with Heaven and me and cultivate them. If you go out to the frontline, try hard and experience something, you are not sure, but you remember that you had a good experience for yourself. Then something was missing. What is missing? The motivation is gone.
When anyone goes on the path of faith, each gains their first motivation and determination in their own way. But when we go through many trials, confusion, persecution, and Cain and Abel conflicts on the way, we often lose that first motivation and determination and love.
Many people lose their first motivation and first determination of faith and become a failure. Without realizing it, the content that was pulled and connected by Heaven should continue and become the driving force, but it does not. I cannot even maintain the things bonded with Heaven and me and cultivate them.
Why the First Will be the Last
3. Look at the Israelites of Moses’ time. They had experiences of “we have kept our tradition well so far,” “we have overcome the 10 plagues,” “we crossed the Red Sea,” but they all forgot being deeply moved by God who was with them at that time. While following Moses, there remained God who liberated the Israelites through the 10 plagues. However, they forgot all about the content that moved them when they felt in their hearts “Hey! He is truly an amazing God!” “How can God’s work be so amazing?” In other words, the fires went out. Since they lost the content that touched them, the fire in their hearts went out and only the circumstances of hardships remained. That is why the words “the first will be the last” mean losing the first heart-touching content and first love. Losing your first heart-touching content means losing your hope and will.
The Bible says, “The last will be first, and the first will be last.” Then why is it that the first are not the first but are pushed to being the last?
It is because the first lost their first love, first motivation, and first determination and the fire in their hearts went out. It is because they forgot all they were touched and moved by when they first knew about the Will and they became exhausted.
People whose fire of their first love is extinguished have neither attachment nor enthusiasm for the Will. They are just called a member. Such people do not even have gratitude; they are not touched; and they do not have joy or will in their life of faith.
The First Motivation of Faith and the Parable of the Ten Virgins
4. In the early days of our church, even though the number of members was small, we had a great influence on society. But how about these days? These days, many people say that our church is difficult. What does that mean? Symbolically, it is like fire going out on a candlestick. In the Bible, it says that it is losing the first love. This means losing the first motivation. Symbolically speaking, it is like the Lord came while the virgins were out to get oil for the coming bridegroom. In order to preserve that first love and first heart, the five virgins who prepared oil in advance and acted wisely while waiting for the bridegroom are truly righteous. There were the wise virgins who preserved the oil and welcomed the bridegroom, but the other five virgins who did not prepare oil were ones who forgot their first love.
The early days of our church were burning with passion, but why don’t we have that passion now? And although early Christianity was on fire, why did the passion fade over the years?
It is because they lost their first love. Symbolically, it is like fire going out on a candlestick.
It is like having a lamp to hold oil but not having the oil. It is like having only a body and no heart. As believers, they are called believers, but they do not have a passion for the will and no longing for the Lord in their hearts.
How to Preserve Your First Motivation
5. Looking at this content, how is my present self? If you lost hope and will, you must go back to the beginning. It means going to where you lost it. Going back means seeing where in the past and in what kind of environment the fire in my heart was turned on. Always remember the motivation of that time. Speaking in terms of the Principle, it means to live with the heart of a parent in the body of a servant. Then that heart is no different than usual. Then how can you keep your first motivation without losing it? Just as the Bible says that one who gives has fortune, a person who always has an object partner to give to can always keep his spark, a desire to give, a desire to serve, a desire to attend. If I have such a heart, I can preserve my first motivation.
Beautiful content!
Then how can I preserve my first motivation and first love, and go even further and multiply it?
First, you should go back to where you lost the first motivation and first love. In other words, return to the first time you began your faith. It means to remember why you were touched when you made the first motivation and first determination.
Next, serve people with the heart of a parent in the body of a servant. This is a very important point.
Your body needs to adjust to the environment: sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad, sometimes there is persecution, sometimes there is a happy situation. Your body needs to adjust.
However, no matter what the external environment, you need to have a parental heart all the time. Even though your children may betray you, even though they may run away, the heart of the parent is always the same. You love them and have a longing heart for them. That is the heart of the parent.
If you keep that heart of a parent while wearing the body of a servant, this is one of the ways to keep our first motivation.
If you live this life of serving like parents, you can keep your first heart and motivation in any kind of environment.
And one important thing in keeping your first motivation without losing it is to have an object partner whom you can always give to.
As long as you have an object partner to whom you give and give and invest in and continuously give to, you will get incredible spiritual power all the time. That is why one who gives all the time, I am telling you, will always be so inspired! You can overcome any trials and persecution because your heart is very stimulated through giving.
I discovered this principle from Father and Yo Han Lee; when I thoroughly watched his life, his life was always giving, not just words, even money, small material (things), always giving and giving. What is the best way he took care of his spiritual life? Through a giving life. I captured(?) this as one of the top secrets. His spirit was always bright, always smiling. He was always giving for the sake of others.
(When you live this way,) I am telling you, you can feel incredible energy and power from heaven.
Then, you can keep your first love and fire of your first passion.
(You should) have a desire to give and give and forget, a desire to serve, with a parental heart, serving and serving - whether someone is a good guy or bad guy, it does not matter – just continuously serving, not much to talk about, just serving with a desire to attend. (You should) attend your Abel as God, attend your wife or husband as God.
Whenever I meet anyone, I try to attend them as God. This is the way I can preserve my first motivation, my first love, my first resolution. Beautiful!
Today this is a top secret. Don’t forget.
When you have difficulty, are exhausted and so tired, with no energy and stimulation to go forward, that means your battery (is depleted). How can you recharge your battery? (There is) only one way: through giving and serving. This is the only solution. Then you can preserve your first motivation and first love all the time. Through giving you can create profit for your spiritual life.
If you do not give and have give-and-take with someone who persecutes you and misunderstands you, just horizontal give-and-take, you will surely lose your first motivation.
What is the best way to recover? Giving and serving with a parental heart.
I really love Father. And when I served Yo Han Lee, I captured his top secret. So many people waited (to see) Rev. Yo Han Lee. They brought out their issues and problems. He listened so well. At the end he immediately captured “This person needs my encouragement,” or “This person needs some money,” or “This person needs some food.” He really knew and understood what (a person) needed. It was really amazing.
Therefore, one who lives for the sake of others can immediately capture what they need. He becomes spiritually very sensitive. Then he always has a motivation to live for the sake of others.
This is a top secret. Please bear in mind what I am talking about: how to feel(?) your first motivation and love.
LIVING TESTIMONY: I’m a Living Testimony for Whom Anything is Possible
(Testimony of Miyoung Eaton)♦
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