Ep 796 - The True Family and I Part 1
The True Family and I - December 30, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Takayoshi Miyamoto
Key Points
Please look back at the year and plan well for 2023. There is a huge difference between a year with plans and visions, and a year without.
The battle between body and mind is a more serious battle than the World Wars. It has been waged since the fall without interruption and continues into the spiritual world.
Because this conflict was caused by humans, it must be resolved by humans, not by God.
Until it is resolved, the conflict between husband and wife and between Cain and Abel will continue.
God set up the Commandment as on Object of Faith in order to prevent the fall, for humans to inherit God’s creative nature and creatorship, for them to have dominion over all things and have dignity of human beings and for them to govern even the angels.
Our responsibility until blessing is to keep the commandment and perfect ourselves.
Obeying the commandment and developing a strong vertical relationship with God is the way to avoid the fall and reach the Blessing.
The most important thing for teenagers is always to have a heart of filial piety toward parents.
Indemnity thought is to not treat all the pain, hardships, trials, and difficulties that come to me as mine, but treat them as Heaven's and comfort God's heart.
Treating our 5% responsibility as God's, worrying about and comforting God's pain and difficult cross is the path of hyojeong and restoration through indemnity.
We should “think of the cross” of Jesus or True Father’s ordeal in Heungnam Prison when we are in trouble.
When we learn about Jesus’ and True Parents' difficulties and suffering through our difficulties and suffering, the parent-child relationship is established.
When we are in difficulties and hardships, we gain strength when we think of what God, Jesus and True Parents went through. This is their benefit for us.
The purpose of the commandment of faith was to unify mind and body. It is for the completion of filial piety and for the sake of love.
We need to educate our children from 5 or 6 or7 on to keep their purity and be filial.
TF: When parents arrive home, children should drop what they are doing and go to greet their parents.
If children are closer to their parents than to any friend, lover or colleague, they can avoid destructive horizontal relationships and keep their purity. College or work relationships will not derail them.
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.♦
Now 2022 is leaving in two days, today and tomorrow. Everyone, please look back at the year and plan well for 2023. There is a huge difference between a year with plans and a year without. I hope you will spend a year in which God is truly with you by making good plans and visions for yourself, your family, and your work.
Today I’d like to talk about “The True Family and I” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between September 14 and October 26, 1995 during speaking tours to Japanese cities and Korean universities. > Today I would like to speak to you for a time on the subject, The True Family and I. This is because the world's problems stem from the family. Let us ask what we mean by a true family. If we ask whether the world we live in today is good or evil, the answer would be that it is evil. Why do we judge it to be evil? It is because whether we consider world history, this nation's history, or the history of any other country, we see unremitting conflict. Through conflict and struggle, the parties involved will not develop, but will necessarily decline. To say that the world is evil implies that its nations are evil, that its inhabitants are evil, and that we ourselves are evil. If we study ourselves we cannot deny that, within each of us, our mind and our body struggle with each other.
The origin or the cause of struggle remains a problem that must be resolved. If an individual does not possess within himself or herself a foundation for peace, then no matter how peaceful his or her family, nation or the world might be, he or she will not be happy. The individual is the true battlefield. As you know, World War I, World War II and the Cold War each came to an end. It will be possible to bring such conflicts to an end in the future. However, the struggle between our mind and body has existed from ancient times. It has continued throughout the course of history, it continues today, and we do not know how much longer it will continue into the future.
If we consider the existence of God, it is problematic that God would permit the struggle between mind and body to continue throughout history, and even today. However, if we consider that it was human beings who caused the struggle, then we can understand that it is human beings who must indemnify it. God cannot take that responsibility away from us, nor can He intervene in it. Where does the struggle between mind and body originate? We inherit life from our parents and from the parents of our parents. If we continue going back this way, we eventually arrive at the first generation, that is, the first human ancestors. The origin of our life is the love of our parents. If this struggle began before we were even born, we would have to conclude that the problem related to the circumstances in which our first parents entered into a love relationship with each other; that is, that the origin of the struggle between mind and body results from a problem in the conjugal love between Adam and Eve.
If an individual does not possess within himself or herself a foundation for peace, then no matter how peaceful his or her family, nation or the world might be, he or she will not be happy.
As you know, World War I, World War II and the Cold War each came to an end. It will be possible to bring such conflicts to an end in the future. However, the struggle between our mind and body has existed from ancient times. It has continued throughout the course of history, it continues today, and we do not know how much longer it will continue into the future.
Even if you go to the spirit world, such mind and body conflicts and battles between the bad body and good mind will continue. The battle between body and mind is then a more serious battle than World War I and World War II. The challenge is who will stop the battle between mind and body.
When human beings are the ones who caused the struggle, then it is human beings who must indemnify it. God cannot take that responsibility away from us, nor can He intervene in it. If God could intervene, the battle would be over. The battle between body and mind must be overcome by human beings themselves. As long as the human body and mind continue to fight, the conflict between husband and wife and between Cain and Abel will continue as well.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 15 - Why God set up the Commandment as an Object of Faith
• God's second blessing was to be fulfilled when Adam and Eve entered God's direct dominion of love, by joining as true husband and wife and bearing and raising children in God's love.
• Indeed, the Principle mandates that human beings eat of the fruit once they reach full maturity of character.
• Accordingly, God's commandment, “Do not eat of the fruit," was binding upon Adam and Eve only while they were immature.
We need to know the difference between God’s direct dominion and indirect dominion. Under God’s indirect dominion we need to absolutely keep God’s commandment: “Do not eat.” We need to keep purity.
What is God’s direct dominion? “Please eat” and multiply. This is different. God’s indirect dominion and direct dominion are different. That is why when you receive the Blessing and start family with your spouse, you are already entering God’s direct dominion. You need to understand that point.
• Why did God nurture the faith of Adam and Eve by giving them the commandment, "Do not eat of the fruit"?
• In their immature state, Adam and Eve could not be directly governed by God through love. Because the power of love is stronger than the power of the Principle, God foresaw that if they ever formed a common base with the Archangel, there was a possibility that they could succumb to the power of deviant, unprincipled love and fall.
The purpose of giving the commandment of faith was to unify mind and body. It is for the completion of filial piety and for the sake of love. Parents must regard the commandment as an object of faith: “Do not eat the fruit.” This is the responsibility of the parents.
If you do not educate your children from childhood – 5 or 6 or 7 years old – and all of a sudden your children are teenagers and you ask them to keep their purity, it is already too late. You need to educate them from 5 or 6 years old almost every day. You need to really become the position of God. God told Adam and Eve, “Do not eat the fruit.” You need to share this commandment with your children all the time with love – not just orders, but in a natural way: “Do not eat the fruit. If you eat it, what will happen? (But) if you do not eat it, what wonderful blessings will come to you!” You need to teach (this to) your children. If you do not teach them properly and they become teenagers or 12 years old, if you start talking about that, it is already too late.
Children need to be educated that they have a closer relationship with their parents than their horizontal relationships. If your children are very close to their parents, then they are very easy to teach because the children listen to you.
True Father said that children should leave everything behind and run to their parents when their parents appear. Even if they play very closely with their friends, no matter how good you are with your friends in the world, it cannot be better than with your parents. The closest relationship above all else should be (that between) parents and children. You should be able to treat your parents more closely than your lover or friend. That is the important point. The reason Adam and Eve fell is that they trusted the archangel more than (they trusted) God.
Today when our blessed children enter college or find a job in society, they spend more time with their friends and lovers than with their parents. They are repeating the same problem as with Adam’s family. That’s why for children the number one (relationship) should be (that with) their father and mother. Adam and Eve should have thought that “My parents are God. We need to hear God more than the archangel.” It is the same in the family. Even though children may have problems with this and that, with friends and other issues, they (should) think, “If I confess to my father and mother, I can resolve any problem.” They should have that close a relationship between parent and child. Then children will never have problems.
Why do children have problems? Because the relationship between parents and children is not close. That is the problem. If children really love parents more than their friends, more than their job, more than anything else, this is the most important point. Adam and Eve could not do that.
That is why as a parent how can we educate children, not just educate them, but (how can we create) an inseparable relationship between parents and children? That is important. If there is a heartistic relationship between parents and children – “I love my parents like God. I respect my parents more than anything, more than my teacher, than my lover, than my friends – then the game is over. When our children go to college or the university and are influenced by friends and professors and some kind of wrong theory and lose their faith, what is wrong with them?
Our main goal is how to raise our children as filial sons and daughters. This is a really important point.
The Commandment as an Object of Faith
1. Parents must regard the commandment as an object of faith ; “Do not eat of the fruit.” This is a responsibility of parents.
2. Children need to be educated to have a closer relationship with parents rather than horizontal relationships.
When I raise my children, I always feel my education is not (sufficient). Sometimes I feel very sorry, I would like to confess to you. (It is) not because of my job, my missionary mission going here and there. I need to rely on my wife. When I come back home, I don’t have good memories with my children because I have not spent much time with my children. That is why I don’t have beautiful memories, unforgettable memories. I cannot blame this on being a missionary. Of course, the children are obedient. I really appreciate my wife. But still there is a gap between my children and me, a heartistic gap. I want to be closer (to them). This is my point of regret. Brothers and sisters, don’t do that, okay?
3. Must keep the commandment as an object of faith through filial piety.
I realize again and again the importance of filial piety, filial heart. Your job is over when you have raised your children as filial sons and daughters, when you become true parents. Then everything is finished. As a couple and a parent, when is your job finished? When your children become filial sons and daughters and your sons and daughters are better than you, then your job is over.
4. Adam and Eve had to know that if there was a being they could love more than God, that would be Satan. Therefore, our children should know that they should prioritize loving their parents more than anyone else.
Adam and Eve loved the archangel more than God. They should have loved God more than the archangel. God should have been No. 1. Wow! This is happening these days in our families, our society, in our blessed families, right? We need to remember what Jesus said:
5. Matthew 22:37 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."
... If you do that, you can become filial sons and daughters. This is the greatest commandment, the first commandment. This is filial heart, filial piety. “I love my job(John?) more than God. That is Satan. You become like Adam and Eve. Jesus said this is the first and greatest commandment. ... I have to be a filial son and daughter. It is the most important. If you keep this first and greatest commandment, you can become individually perfect, you can become an ideal family, you can achieve the third Blessing. ... Loving (someone?) more than God is Satan. ... The commandment as an object of faith does not simply say, “Do not eat.” (We need a) heartistic relationship between parents and child.
What is the greatest number one commandment? Put God first. That is everything. ...
• It was not only to prevent their fall that God gave immature human beings the commandment. God also wanted them to enjoy dominion over the natural world by inheriting His creative nature. In order to inherit this creatorship, human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the Word as their own portion of responsibility.
Giving the commandment was not just to prevent the fall. The human body is the representative of all creation. Training to dominate the body is to have dominion over all the creation. Therefore, the reason God gave Adam and Eve the commandment was to train them to have dominion over the creation and for (them to fulfill their) portion of responsibility to realize true love.
(• Furthermore, God gave the commandment not to the Archangel but only to the human beings. God wished to exalt the dignity of human beings as bestowed by the Principle of Creation, which entitled them to stand as God's children and govern even the angels.)
Let us again summarize:
Why God Set up the Commandment as on Object of Faith
1. To prevent the fall. When our children reach their teens, there are so many possibilities for them to fall.
When Adam and Eve reach the top of the growth stage, the archangel is waiting. We definitely need to pass through the top of the growth stage. Temptation surely will come when your children become teenagers. That is why the father and mother say, “Be careful. Do not eat the fruit.” God said the same thing. We need to emphasize, “Do not eat.” We need to educate them, but not just educate. We need to have a close relationship between parents and children. Then the children love the parents, so they have no choice and need to listen.
2. In order for them to inherit God’s creative nature.
In order to have God's creativity, you must set the condition that you have completed your portion of responsibility yourself. Students are responsible for doing their own homework. It doesn't mean anything if parents help.
Parents can’t help. You need to do your homework by yourself. That is Adam and Eve’s responsibility. How can the father and mother follow the children to the university and sit down with them for 24 hours? We cannot do that.
3. In order for them to have dominion over all things.
4. God wished to exalt the dignity of human beings as bestowed by the Principle of Creation to which they were entitled as God’s children and to govern even the angels.
Why did God set up the commandment as an object of faith?
> My responsibility until blessing is to keep the commandment; “Do not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” If I eat it, I will surely die.
> Human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the word ; “Do not eat of the fruit.”
> To inherit God’s creatorship is to have self-dominion.
> In order for them to inherit God’s creatorship so that they can dominate all things.
5. In their immature state, Adam and Eve could not be directly governed by God through love. Because the power of love is stronger than the power of the Principle. God foresaw that if they ever formed a common base with the archangel, there was a possibility that they could succumb to the power of deviant, unprincipled love and fall.
6. No matter how powerful the unprincipled love might be, had Adam and Eve adhered to God’s commandment, forming a common base with God and engaging in give and take with Him and no other, the power of the archangel’s unprincipled love would not have affected them; they would never have fallen. Tragically, Adam and Eve did not obey the commandment, but formed a common base with the archangel and had give and take with him. Hence, the power of illicit love pushed them off the track.
You must absolutely obey God's commandment not to eat of the fruit, and not have a reciprocal relationship with angels.
Do not engage in give-and-receive action horizontally. What is important is for teenagers to have more vertical reciprocal relationships than horizontal ones.
The most important thing for teenagers is their relationship with their parents. Therefore, always have a heart of filial piety toward your parents.
We should not just say to children, “Do not eat.” The first (priority) is the heartistic relationship between parents and children. Then children will listen to you. But if there is no heartistic relationship and if you only externally emphasize “Do not eat the fruit,” it does not work.
You need to put your love first for your children. If there is a really inseparable and heartistic relationship between parents and children, children never fall. That is why (we need to) raise our children as filial sons and daughters. This is so important.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: True Father's Abilities and Benefits
Live by Indemnity Thought
1. What is indemnity thought? It is to not treat all the pain, hardships, trials, and difficulties that come to me as mine, but treat them as Heaven's, and comfort God's heart. If I live with this kind of indemnity thought, God will give me His 95% victory fortune. Although my circumstances and difficulties are extremely small, will God be moved if I first worry about God's suffering and sorrow? Or will he not? True Parents said, "You must know even 5% of God's circumstances and sorrows." Then God will send you 95% of God's fortune to overcome your circumstances and difficulties. Humans have only a very small 5% responsibility, but I should be treating it as God's, worrying about and comforting God's pain and difficult cross first.
Mindset of Indemnity
2. The same is true of our attitude of filial piety to our parents. As I go through pain, I think of what my parents have worked hard for me all their lives, and I come to treat my pain as nothing. Thinking like this is the mindset of indemnity. No matter how difficult the reality we are in right now, my difficulties are nothing compared to the environment in which my parents grew up when they were young. In my parents' days, many people didn't have money to go to school, they didn't have a phone, they didn't have money to ride the bus, so they walked all the time. Of course, our current situation is also difficult in its own way, but considering the past 30-40 years ago when our parents lived, we live very comfortably now. Of course, we are currently facing many challenges besides economic difficulties. However, my hardships are nothing compared to the generation my parents suffered.
Because the world does not know the indemnity thought, everyone becomes discouraged and fails in life. It is truly amazing that True Parents have discovered this indemnity thought.
No one is talking about indemnity thought. How did Father discover this? This is really incredible! No religious leaders, no sages, no saints speak about this.
Then what is indemnity thought. It is to not treat all the pain, hardships, trials, and difficulties that come to me as mine, but treat them as Heaven's and comfort God's heart. If I live with this kind of indemnity thought, God will give me His 95% victory fortune.
That is why whenever you feel any pain and hardship, do not treat it as your own. When you treat it as God’s, then you can create a parent-child relationship between God and you and become very close.
But if you do not think about God’s pain and his trials and think that these are your own trials and difficulties, then nothing (you are doing is) dealing with God.
Although my circumstances and difficulties are extremely small, will God be really moved if I first worry about God's suffering and sorrow?
“Heavenly Father, even though I have this small problem, but I think of you, how much you suffer, how much you conquer all kinds of troubles and without giving up you love me, love all humankind.” If you console and comfort God, he surely will cry...
But if we just believe in God “Almighty God, you are my lord, omniscient, all powerful God, whatever you want, you can do anything...” we just externally believe in God in such a way and do not think about God’s sorrowful heart. ... we just feel our difficulties and challenges and problems and do not think about God’s difficulties and challenges and problems. ...
The secret to becoming a filial son or daughter to God is to practice this spirit of indemnity.
Treat my own difficulties as God’s own difficulties and console him. ... As a filial son or daughter, why do so many problems and hardships come to us? It is to let us have a closer relationship with God.
Humans have only a very small 5% responsibility, but treating it as God's, worrying about and comforting God's pain and difficult cross is the path of hyojeong and restoration through indemnity.
True Father's Abilities and Benefits
3. If we think of the sorrow of Jesus being nailed to the cross, our persecutions are like nothing. That is why we are told to “think of the cross” of Jesus when we are in trouble. And think of True Father's life in prison. It is to think about the fact that True Father lived in the realm of death, the hell of hell, for three years. Our difficulties and True Father's difficulties cannot be compared. When I think of such things, the circumstances and difficulties that I and my family face are nothing. It is nothing compared to True Father's suffering. When I am in difficulties and hardships, I gain strength when I think of what God and True Parents went through. Even when I am at a loss for my suffering, when I think of True Father, I feel that this is nothing. This is True Father's ability and benefit to me.
If we think of the sorrow of Jesus being nailed to the cross, our persecutions are like nothing. That is why we are told to “think of the cross” of Jesus when we are in trouble.
When we are in trouble and think about Jesus’ cross, our cross becomes nothing. Wow! This is a benefit from Jesus. When we feel difficulties and hardships and think about Jesus’ cross, then we can be liberated. This is a benefit from Jesus.
Compared to the hardships that True Parents faced, any hardships we face are nothing. Think of True Father's life in Heungnam Prison. Through the hardships and sufferings I am experiencing, I come to know the circumstances, hardships, and heart of True Parents.
The important thing is that when you learn about True Parents' difficulties and suffering through your difficulties and suffering, the parent-child relationship is established. The parent-child relationship is established when you have difficulties and then comfort God. That is the moment to build up the relationship between parent and child. “Wow! My son, you recognize me. I have never seen such a person throughout human history. How come you comfort me? How come you recognize my suffering and difficulties? I have never seen this kind of person. In that moment you can establish the parent-child relationship.
The fact that True Father liberated the realm of death, the hell of hells, for three years. Our difficulties and Father’s difficulties cannot be compared. When we think of the circumstances and difficulties that our family and we have face
It is to think about the fact that True Father lived in the realm of death, the hell of hell, for three years. Our difficulties and True Father's difficulties cannot be compared. When I think of such things, the circumstances and difficulties that I and my family face are nothing.
That is when you feel difficulty, you need to think about the greater difficulties True Parents have experienced in their life.
It is nothing compared to True Father's suffering. When I am in difficulties and hardships, I gain strength when I think of what God and True Parents went through. Even when I am at a loss for my suffering, when I think of True Father, I feel that this is nothing. This is True Father's ability and benefit to me.
Whenever there is any issue, (we should) think of Father’s situation and Heavenly Father’s situation. Then we can immediately overcome. This is True Parents’ ability and benefit to us. Because they suffer more than we do, when we think about it, our problem is solved immediately. When we think about Jesus’ cross, any of our crosses can be resolved. It is an amazing benefit.
Today I talked about True Father’s abilities and benefits.
(Testimony Takayoshi Miyamoto, Chinese Ethnic Community Blessing)♦
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