Ep 502 - Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong Part 3
Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong 137-22-13-40 - March 11, 2022
Today I’d like to talk again about “Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Tomorrow I will go to Anchorage, Alaska. My second fifty-state tour will start. I hope everything can go on very well. I need your incredible support and jeongseong.
Let’s study Mother’s word again.
The fact that we have completed Chambumo Gyeong, the last of the Three Great Scriptures, in three languages today is truly a cause for gratitude and celebration. I would like to express my appreciation to not only the Chambumo Gyeong Compilation Committee, but also the various committee members as well as everyone present here today who have worked hard until now to compile all Three Cheon Il Guk Scriptures.
From now on, we should stand tall with confidence. God had a dream when He created the universe. He had a purpose. However, due to the Fall of humankind, our Heavenly Parent was unable to make that dream come true. After 6,000 years, the Heavenly Parent was finally able to realize that dream through True Parents. Let us show our gratitude to the Heavenly Parent and True Parents for concluding the sorrowful history of the providence of restoration through indemnity and opening a new age!
For Heaven, the beginning and the end are the same. The purpose of the Heavenly Parent is the same as that of True Parents. That is why the teachings of True Parents have stayed consistent from the early time till now. Though the wording may have been changed with the changing times, the central content has remained the same because Heavenly Parent's purpose and True Parents' purpose are one and the same.
In this regard, though there have been many scriptures, these Three Cheon Il Guk Scriptures are the essence of True Parents' entire history of the providence. They are the gist. They are the perfect jewels, with nothing to be added or subtracted.
For three years after True Father's Seonghwa, I dedicated myself heart and soul into this task, and you need to know that these books are the culmination of the love of Heavenly Parent and True Parents, who desire to love and embrace all humanity. That is why there is nothing to be added or subtracted from them. They are the core. There is nothing that anyone can do to make them better. They are perfect. In light of this fact, today you have come into the possession of the greatest, unparalleled jewels: the Three Great Scriptures. (2015.09.01, Training Center)
Today, like yesterday, we will learn about the importance of True Father's words.
You Cannot Always Live Together With True Parents
<315-184> Absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience are what you invest. Because we live for the sake of each other, the authority to liberate the family of eternal life, the heaven of eternal life, and the heaven and earth of eternal life will unfold. That is why I want you all to believe in me. You have to believe. Then you have to love. Then we have to live together. Likewise, my words should be the same. We must believe the Word, love the Word, and live centered on the Word.
You cannot always live with me. But in the midst of the Word, we always live together. Because the Word can be with you wherever you go, you must live believing in and loving the Word.
Then you will go to heaven because it is the same as believing and loving me. This is the way the Heaven I idealize will be realized. It is simple.
In the end, the words of Jesus will judge. He said that the Word will judge. It is the same. Absolutely believe in the Word, love it, then invest, and live for each other. Since you give for the sake of others, you obey everything. If you invest your whole self into it, you will have eternal life. We can be one eternally. We can be together eternally. The concept of eternal life takes place here.
True Father emphasizes that just as we have absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to True Parents, we must absolutely believe, love, obey, and live in harmony with the Word of True Parents.
Humankind and future descendants cannot always live together with True Parents. However, even if True Parents are not on this earth, the only way to always live together is to believe, love, obey and live together with TP’s words. This is because the words of True Parents remain as the truth forever.
Future descendants will go to heaven with the words of True Parents. According to how much absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience to True Parents' words they have, eternal life can occur and we can become one forever, and the way will be established and will become the standard of judgment for entering the kingdom of heaven.
After Jesus died, the New Testament, the words of Jesus, became the standard for all judgments, and whether you have eternal life or go down the path of death is decided depending on whether you believe in those words or not.
If True Parents do not exist on this earth in the distant future, the standard of everything is not the central figure, but the words of True Parents as the standard of judgment.
This is very important. Of course, there are many blessed couples and there are (members of the) direct lineage of True Parents. Maybe some of them can be central figures. But what is the standard of judgment? Not their guidance. It is based on True Parents’ word.
Since Jesus left, his word became the standard of judgment. That is why we really appreciate our True Parents. They discovered incredible, eternal truth.
We are living together with True Mother. Now she is settling down everything item by item.
We should be grateful to our True Parents.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principles of Creation 25 - The Perfection of the Individual is the Completion of Mind-Body Unity
Let’s study EDP content first.
God's First Blessing: Individual Perfection
• The key to God's first blessing is the perfection of individual character.
• An individual's mind and body are discrete projections and object partners of God's dual characteristics. In order for an individual to perfect his character, he must form a four position foundation within himself whereby his mind and body become one through give and take action with God as their center.
• Such individuals become the temples of God (1 Cor. 3:16), achieve complete oneness with Him (John 14:20), and acquire a divine nature. They experience the Heart of God as if it were their own. Hence, they understand His Will and live fully attuned to it.
• When a person abides in the state of individual perfection, he lives as the substantial object partner to his mind. Because the center of his mind is God, he also lives as the substantial object partner to God.
• Both the mind and God feel joy as they experience their internal nature and external form through the stimulation which their object partners give them.
• Accordingly, when a person realizes God's first blessing, he becomes God's good object partner to inspire Him with joy. Sharing all the feelings of God as his own, he would never commit any sinful acts that would cause God grief. This means he would never fall.
Based on this EDP content, let's study Father’s word about how to make unity between the mind and body.
Unity Can be Achieved Only When the Mind Dominates the Body
<39-356> What is the problem? The mind should drag the body down to a place where it can freely dominate the body. In order to do so, a strong force must be injected into the mind. The way to inject strength into the mind is by praying. When you pray while offering jeongseong, strength wells up in you. You will experience a similar sensation as when you strike the earth and it cracks, or when you strike the heavens and the stars are crushed.
When you pray while offering jeongseong, you will discover the heaven and earth trembling within your bosom, and a powerful and cosmic strength that makes you feel that if you gave an order, everything would come crashing down at your command. At such times, if you grasp the sick and pray for them, miracles will occur. After joining the Unification Church, as long as you have that determination in your heart and believe it, you would be cured of all illnesses even without doing all that. That is the kind of strength that comes into effect.
How will you unify your mind and body? The body and mind are always at war, so unless some powerful force is applied to the mind, the body can never be defeated.
We talked about this yesterday as well, but there are two ways for the mind to gain strength. First, it is to gain strength through stimulation by the Word and also by God’s grace. As you know from experience, the Word has unimaginable power.
When you receive God’s word with God’s grace, you can feel the power of God’s word. It very much stimulates your mind and you can subjugate your physical body.
The second secret for the mind to gain strength is prayer and jeongseong. It is said that if we pray and offer jeongseong, God's cosmic power will come to us. Prayer and jeongseong are channels through which we receive direct support from God.
Therefore, we need to know that those who do not study the Word or offer jeongseong in the path of faith will lose their strength and become Satan's tools.
Again and again I realize Father teaches us very clearly how to subjugate our physical body. Two ways, right? One, you need to be stimulated by God’s word. Then his word becomes your strength. Then your mind becomes stronger and has a lot of strength to subjugate your physical body.
Secondly, how can we gain more strength? You need a lot of jeongseong and prayer. When you know the taste of jeongseong and prayer, you can really communicate directly with Heavenly Father through jeongseong. This offers incredible power as well. In our life of faith, without studying God’s word, without prayer and jeongseong, it is impossible to overcome our physical desires. In order to make unity, God’s word is so powerful. God’s word becomes God’s love and influences my mind. When you unite with God centering on his word, which is God’s love, overcoming your physical limitations is no problem. Many people do not know this top secret.
That’s why those (of you) who do not study hoondokhae and do not read God’s word, how can you gain strength? God's word is God’s life and God’s heart and God’s love. That’s why whenever our spirit body really relates to God’s word, we can always receive incredible strength and power.
Also, you need to pray, to do jeongseong. If we do not do jeongseong, what happens? Immediately Satan invades us. That is why Jesus says that you have to be joyful and you need to consistently pray. Because fallen man does not pray, Satan immediately attacks. Because we inherited that kind of blood lineage from our ancestors, immediately Chapter Two thinking comes, horizontal thinking comes and disturbs us so much. How do we get out of that kind of garbage? Without prayer, without jeongseong, it is impossible.
Our True Parents’ (set the) example; how much Father loves God’s word! Even though he is the one who wrote the Divine Principle, he reads his own word again and again. Secondly, how much he prays! It is incredible. Even though He is a perfect man, in order to save all humankind, he puts in incredible effort. That is why his slogan is what? “Utmost sincerity moves heaven.”
No matter how intellectually clever you are and how much you study, it does not matter. In order to (have) give and take with God, you need to have a channel. What kind of channel? The channel of prayer and jeongseong.
So, there are only two ways you can get strength and gain more power and finally subjugate your physical body.
What is the Standard of Unity?
<91-76> What is the standard of unity? You have to know what becomes the standard for unity. That standard is established centering on love. God is the one who is inside your mind and body. If your mind and body become one, God can reside there. This is the teachings of the principle. Then why does God reside there? When a person’s mind and body become one, it is the principle that love resides in that place without fail. This is because the principle is such that love resides in the place of unity. We say that a person’s body is God’s sanctuary.
<91-76> What kind of place is a sanctuary? Is it a place to work? When we say temple, it is a place to find peace. When we rest, where would we rest? We find rest and peace in love.
So, what is a sanctuary? It is a place to find rest within God’s love. If human beings had an ideal, wouldn’t it be for that internal standard to be the standard of the highest ideal? That place which retains the love of that kind of heart is called a world of heart. That place is like a fountain that wells up without end. Why? It is because God is there. That is why we can set forth this logic that it has no end. Wouldn’t you also like to become such a person? [Yes.]
What is the standard for unity of the mind and body? This is very important. True Father said that it is God’s love.
Then where does God's love reside? God's love resides in the place of unity.
When the mind and body become one, God will surely come. Where couples become one, God surely will come and reside (there). Where Cain and Abel become one, God will surely reside (there). This is the law of the universe.
That is why, where there is unity, God is there. Where there is unity between mind and body, God is there. Where there is unity between husband and wife, God is definitely there. Where there is unity between Cain and Abel, God is definitely there.
Why can’t I feel love with my wife, with my husband, with my parents, with my Cain? Because there is no completed unity. (To the extent that) there is unity between husband and wife, surely you can feel God. Why can’t I feel love through my husband, through my wife, through my parents, through my children, through my Cain and Abel? Because there is no unity. If there is not complete unity, God is not there.
Then, the task is how to receive God's love. It is to love the word of God more than anyone else and to pray and offer jeongseong.
Then everyone, without exception, will inherit God's love. The conclusion is that if I inherit God’s love, my mind will gain tremendous strength and subjugate the body.
How can we conquer our body? Through God’s love. Then how can I feel God’s love? Through unity. What kind of unity? Individually, between mind and body. Centering on couples, between husband and wife. Wow! This is really clear.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Responsibility Starts with the Smallest Things
1. God cannot directly tell you about His circumstances. In order to know God's circumstances, we must live in the same circumstances as God. A child cannot know the circumstances of their parents. Just as children can understand the circumstances of their parents when they grow up and stand in their parents’ position, God is in a situation where He cannot tell Adam and Eve about the problem of love. To become the master of love, you must first be victorious, but that comes with risks. Love carries the risk of derailment and is fast. By taking control of love, we can know the circumstances in which Heavenly Father could not interfere.
In the end, human beings’ responsibility is to become the master of love. In order for human beings to become the master of love, human beings need to resemble God’s creative nature and inherit God's heart on their own.
It is like learning to swim to be free in the ocean water. If you don't learn to swim, you will die when the waves roll in or go deeper.
But learning to swim gives you freedom, not the fear of the ocean. The ocean water is not the object of fear, but rather, you can be free from the sea water.
God cannot directly tell humans of His circumstances and heart. This is like a child becoming an adult, gradually learning the circumstances and heart of their parents, and eventually becoming a representative of their parents.
Just as parents cannot tell their young children all of their circumstances, when Adam and Eve were too young, there were circumstances that God could not speak (about) even if He wanted to. In particular, there are circumstances in which God could not speak to Adam and Eve regarding the issue of love.
When children are very young, 3 or 5 or 7 or 9, if they try to play with a knife, we cannot explain (the danger) in detail. “Don’t do it! Do not touch it!”
“Do it!” “Don’t do it!” Simple orders and commandments. To explain in more detail takes time. That is why God gives a very simple commandment: “Don’t eat!” “Do not touch!” “Do not look at that!” Why even a 5 or 7 year old boy or girl asks God, (it is) not easy for God to explain about it. (?Sometimes it is not easy for God to explain to a 5 or 7 year old boy or girl why he gave a direction or command?) It takes time, right?
To become the master of love, you must first be victorious, but that comes with risks. Love carries the risk of derailment and is fast.
2. Even the Bible says to give even a cup of cold water to the little ones, and to have compassion for those under you and those who are insignificant. We should not ignore people. We should treat others with sympathy, even if they are insignificant. Even when dealing with the weakest people, do not ignore them because they are weak, but treat them with a heart of attendance. Even the smallest things should be cherished. People who cannot be responsible for even the smallest things usually have a lot of wrong thoughts. They always looks left and right, there is a lot of emptiness in their heart, and they are troubled. Their mind is not stable and they feel frustrated or bored.
Then how will you go on to dominate yourself? You must take responsibility very well, starting with the smallest things. If you are victorious in handling the smallest things well, you will eventually reach the stage where you can have dominion over yourself.
Even Adam and Eve had to faithfully obey the small tasks of “do” and “do not do” that God told them to do since they were young. Then, even when they reached adolescence, they (would) not (have) disobeyed God's commands.
This is very important. When you raise your children, properly educate them: Do or do not do. Do or do not do. Then children obey their parents well, and their parents guide them well on how to obey. (They have a) kind of heartistic communication and listen to their parents from when they are young, 7 years old, 8 years old, and 10 years old. It has already become a good habit. There is a good relationship between parents and children. There is no more heartistic gap, heartistic distance. Then when they become 16 or 17 years old, they already have good habits and a good relationship with their parents. Then if any temptation comes, they naturally ask their parents what they should do. Then their parents tell them, “Don’t do it” and they follow “Don’t do it.”
The problem is when children are young, the parents don’t know how to guide them. They only feed them. (The children are) just eating, sleeping and going to school. (The parents just) support them and pay school fees. They do not guide them with Father’s word. That is why from infancy, you need to invest a lot.
Since I came to America, I realized I need to invest a lot in our kindergarten and Sunday School. If we do not (run) Sunday School and kindergarten properly and (our children) become 13 and 14 and later on go to college and university, we will lose all of them.
Adam and Eve had the same problem.
If there is no heartistic distance from early childhood, when parents ask them (and when God asked Adam and Eve) to do small tasks, when they faithfully obey (doing) small tasks of “do” or “do not do,” Wow! That is such a good condition.
That is why True Parents emphasize again and again to do hoondokhae from infancy. (If you think that they are) too young (and that there is) no need to do (hoondokhae), when they become 13 and 14, it is already too late. That is why (we should) start (hoondokhae) from infancy. Naturally it will become a good habit. They will love God’s word.
That is why the Bible tells us that when dealing with insignificant people, do not disregard them as insignificant, but rather with a heart of compassion. And again, it tells us to cherish the very little things, not to regard them as very little things.
That is why (we should) guide (our children to) do even very little things faithfully.
3. Hard-working people don't feel frustrated or bored. Because they are happy through their achievements, they are intoxicated and have fun working, fearing that they will lose that intoxicated atmosphere, and hoping it lasts longer. They don’t go anywhere, even if someone asks them to. They keep a precious heart, relate with God and are unaware of the passing of time, but if someone comes and disturbs them, they want to say, “Go away, Satan.” A sincere person receives recognition through fulfilling their responsibility. However, unfaithful people are open-minded and curious about the wrong things. They want to go to other places, and feel bored when they are alone and lonely. These prove they are inept. Many temptations come to those who are not sincere. Blank spaces keep appearing. It's like opening a door and letting the wind in.
In order to fulfill one's responsibilities well, first of all, even in the smallest of things, do not think of them as being too small, but do them with all your effort and sincerity. Second, about the little things you do, think that this is a work God has given you, and do it with excitement. In other words, work with joy and gratitude.
Most of the people who are not diligent in small things enter a state of emptiness in their minds and get bored easily with loneliness. They think very simply and ignore very little things. And rather than being faithful to what they are doing, they wait for the results first.
If you do that, you are more curious about the unreasonable things than what you are doing. And there are a lot of temptations coming in, and a void keeps forming.
If you are sincere even in the smallest of things, you will become absorbed in the passage of time without realizing it. If you do your best with such passion and sincerity, you will be rewarded with substantial achievements of joy after you have fulfilled your responsibilities.
4. A person who studies should be faithful to their subject. Studying the subject should be gracious and intoxicating. Even if you finish school, you don't want to leave, and the time when you finish should feel so sad. This means that the person has been living a normal life to the fullest. When God gives human beings responsibility, it does not mean to see it as big. God sees how you treat the smallest of things. What do you think of and how do you deal with the smallest things? Even the smallest things cannot be seen as small. We achieve great goals through the smallest things. The smallest moments are accumulated and connect to one's entire lifetime. One moment can determine a lifetime. Therefore, you should regard each moment as a lifetime. Accordingly, extremely small things cannot be regarded as ordinary.
When testing people, try not to entrust them with a big task but start with a very small task.
You can see a person's future by how they handle the smallest things in the universe.
Even the smallest things cannot be seen as small. The very small moments add up to make a day, a day turns into a year, and a year turns into a lifetime.
Therefore, we must treat a moment as if it were an eternal time.
5. Some people become serious when they are told to value extremely small things. You may think that you will get a mental illness if you pay attention to even tiny things in every matter, but you will not get sick because you find joy in it. There is no problem if you try to do your responsibility well, know its value, and take it seriously. However, if you think of your work as too much and do not understand its value, only think of it as work, and are only serious in carrying it out, you will get sick. You have to be serious in that there is something worthwhile, rewarding, and beneficial in it. Seriousness without grace, joy, and achievement leads to sickness. Grace and income here are love. Joy comes through love.
In order to be able to take responsibility for the work we are given, first of all, it is necessary to establish a clear belief and ideology that what we are doing is God-given.
It is God’s will. This kind of attitude is very important. What I am doing is God’s will, God given.
Secondly, think that this moment is eternity, and do your best with all your heart and in the given time and reality.
Do not do the work given to you out of a sense of duty or a sense of mission. Be joyful and grateful because it is a God-given task.
Always do it because it wells (up) from the heart. Then it will surely produce a result of joy.
The Power of Selflessness
6. If you get benefits despite hardship, you will not get tired. Others see it as difficult, but the person himself is joyful. Through hard work, you acquire a secret that you could not feel until this day. Through experience, you obtain a principled formula. When this happens, you don't get tired. You have a serious mind when you do something, but when your heart comes out, you become intoxicated. You go into a trance.
The reason a business owner does not get tired no matter how busy they are is because they make a profit through their business.
If you do the work entrusted to you with joy and gratitude, and you do it from the heart, you will surely reap the benefits of love.
Today we learned many things, right? How to make unity between mind and body. We need to treat small things very well. If we can handle small things very well, then we can gradually have bigger responsibilities and we will be able to handle them very well. When we do not do small things well, it will cause so many problems.
Let‘s be faithful in whatever we do (feeling) this is God’s will; (it is) given by God. If we have such an attitude and work not out of duty but work heartistically and faithfully, then our life of faith will become very meaningful.♦
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