Ep 864 - The Path of Life for All Humankind Part 5
The Path of Life for All Humankind - March 8, 2023
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Key Points
We are the fruit of our parents’ love, life and lineage, the union of their love and their partner in love. These are inseverable bonds.
Love has four attributes: The right of Participation through which we become God’s children and co-creators by fulfilling our portion of responsibility; the right of Inheritance of God’s true love, life and lineage; the right of Equal Position in which as second owners of the creation our position is equal to that of God; and the right to Live Together with God for eternity.
While husband and wife can share sexual love, siblings and parents and children cannot. So there is a principled order to true love, and there is no freedom outside the Principle.
Free actions must bring joy and happiness. That is the purpose of freedom.
True freedom also brings accomplishments of love and can only exist in love.
Freedom comes not in doing whatever one likes but in fulfilling responsibility.
To restore our heart, we need to set up all things as our Abel. This is formation stage restoration of the heart through indemnity by fundraising.
To do this our attitude is key: restoration happens not by focusing on results with a sense of duty, but on growth and restoration of heart.
If we focus on money, we will grow tired and hate fundraising.
Our horizontal relationships with family and others need to be centered on God and imbued with vertical values for us to avoid serious mistakes.
Suffering while fundraising, even intentional suffering, is for the growth of our spirit.
We have to fundraise in a way that brings joy to our original nature.
If we did our best and with all our sincerity, we have already fulfilled our responsibility.
Days with no results are actually days I can meet God, I can learn more, and reflect on myself.
If the internal mindset is not upright, we will not understand the Word even after hearing it.
Anyone who does not focus on the essence will flow away like water.
Who remains in the Unification Church and can enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Those who focus on the essence rather than results.
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 I’d like to talk about “The Path of Life for All Humankind” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between February 11 and May 29, 1999 at events promoting the Global Expansion of True Families in Japan, the United States and around the world.>
The Divine Principle of the Unification Church teaches that energy is produced when a subject partner and object partner become one. In a family, parents hold the position of the subject partner and children hold the position of the object partner. Once they have a reciprocal relationship of love they become one entity, a true family. This entity then becomes a new object partner that can unite with a larger subject partner. With God as the subject partner, the parent-child union becomes one with God. We can also say that when a perfect subject-object partnership is formed with God, centering on the ideal of love, God and humankind can exist in total oneness. When the realm of love between God and humanity becomes a reality, the light of love will shine throughout the universe as bright and constant as the sun.
In this way, each of us is a person in whom the lives of both parents are brought together as one, and is also a partner in our parents' love. We are one with their love and one with their ideals, including happiness and peace. For a parent, the joy of worldly success is nothing compared to the joy of reuniting with a lost child. This shows that the child embodies the highest ideals of the parents.
Each of us is connected to our parents' life, love and ideals, and no one can sever these connections. Even God cannot sever them, nor can the universe. In fact, all the forces of the universe work together to safeguard these connections. This is because the parents are the cause and the children are the result. The parents and children are one, centering on love. Cause and effect become one and form the substantial realm of love. This is a principle of the universe.
When the realm of love between God and humanity becomes a reality, the light of love will shine throughout the universe as bright and constant as the sun. In this way, each of us is a person in whom the lives of both parents are brought together as one and is also a partner in our parents' love.
Each of us is connected to our parents' life, love and ideals, and no one can sever these connections. Even God cannot sever them, nor can the universe. In fact, all the forces of the universe work together to safeguard these connections.
Then why is true love so great like this? It is because true love has four great attributes.
The Four Great 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
What are the four great attributes of true love?
1. The Right to Participate Together: Since Adam and Eve participated together in God’s providence of creation, they become the second creators. Thus, if we do not participate together in God’s providence of creation, we cannot become God’s children. Therefore, we also cannot become the owner of all things. In order to become co-creators with God, we must participate through our portion of responsibility. In this way, true love has The Right to Participate Together.
2. The Right of Inheritance: Because Adam and Eve participated together in God’s creation, they should have inherited God’s true love, true life, and true lineage.
3. The Right of Equal Position: When we inherit God’s true love, we stand in the position of the second owner of creation, which is equal to God’s position. In other words, we become co-creators and stand in the same position as God.
4. The Right to Live Together: We can live with God for eternity.
As God’s children we can live together with God forever.
We need to know these four great attributes of true love: participation, inheritance, equal position, and living together forever. We need to inherit these attributes of true love from God through participating, through inheritance. Then finally we come to have an equal position as co-creator, as parent and child and live together not just for one day, not just 100 days, but forever.
What is the greatest word among words? True love. This is the common point. All things love true love, God, human beings and the spiritual world (all) love true love. What is the common point? True love. Why were we born? To realize true love. The essence of the Principle is true love. God exists because of true love. Why did he create...? Because of true love. Why do we exist? Because of true love.
All things love true love. All things focus on this common point. God, humans and the spiritual world like it. The essence of the universal principles is what? True love.
In order to get along together, we need to participate – in Sunday service or the formula course or whatever. This is our portion of responsibility. Through participating we can inherit everything. When we inherit everything, then God and we are like co-creators with equal positions. What is the purpose of equal positions? Living together as the subject and object partners, as father and mother, as children of God.
It is amazing that True Father discovered this principle. I cannot deny that True Father is the messiah. Divine Principle is so wonderful!
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 26: The Meaning of Freedom from the Viewpoint of the Principle #1
Freedom and the Human Fall
• What is the meaning of true freedom? In light of the Principle, three characteristics of freedom stand out. First, there is no freedom outside the Principle.
• Freedom requires both free will and the free actions pursuant to that will.
• Free will and free actions have the relationship of internal nature and external form, and perfect free dom is achieved when they are in harmony.
• Therefore, there cannot be any free action with out free will, nor can free will be complete without free actions to accompany it.
• Free actions are generated by free will, and free will is an expression of the mind.
• The mind of an original, sinless person cannot operate outside of God’s words, that is, the Principle.
• It will never express free will or generate free action apart from the Principle.
• Undoubtedly, freedom of a true person never deviates from the Principle.
• There is no freedom without responsibility.
• Human beings, created according to the Princi ple, can reach perfection only by fulfilling their res pon si bility based on their free will.
• Accordingly, a person pursuing the purpose of creation as prompted by his free will ceaselessly strives to carry out his portion of responsibility.
• There is no freedom without responsibility.
• There is no freedom without accomplishment.
• When human beings exercise freedom and carry out their responsibility, they strive to accomplish re sults which complete the purpose of creation and bring joy to God.
• Free will ceaselessly pursues concrete results through free actions.
Let’s study Father’s word.
Three Great Principles of Freedom
<123-133> All of American people say about the equality and freedom. You have to know the concept of equality and freedom clearly. Up is in the upper position. Head cannot be foot, nor vise versa. Up is up and head is head and foot is foot.
Everything is in confusion. Free sex doesn’t refer the freedom that a man or a woman can make a relationship with anybody. Between a husband and a wife, it is free. Can the sexual relationship among siblings be established? Between a younger sister and a brother, is it free? Undoubtedly, it is wrong. If you follow the Principle which is for the sake of the whole, this logic can be established. You have to take responsibility for freedom.
Then, the third is to accomplish results. Accomplishment. You have to accomplish results through actions. You have to accept everything. You have to accept north, south, east, and west, and everywhere, and others.
We have to know the concept of equality and freedom clearly. Up is in the upper position. Head cannot be foot, nor vise versa. Up is up and head is head and foot is foot.
Everything is in confusion because we do not understand the concept of freedom and peace clearly. Just because there is freedom in sex, doesn’t mean that we can make a relationship with anybody.
Between a husband and a wife, it is free, but can a sexual relationship between parent and child be established? Can a sexual relationship among siblings be established? We need to know that there is undoubtedly an order in true love. Because of this, it establishes the logic that there is no freedom outside the principle. We have to take responsibility for freedom.
Then, accomplishment follows freedom. If we take free actions, there must be accomplishments of joy and happiness. The purpose of freedom being granted is to create joy and happiness.
There is a reason God provided freedom: to create joy and happiness centering on God, not centering our own individual desires. That is why when we really follow freedom, we need to bring the results of joy and happiness.
Because of that, we need to know that true freedom will surely bring accomplishments of joy. Know that true freedom brings accomplishments of love that anyone can rejoice (about) and welcome.
Freedom can Exist Only in Love
<137-199> The power of love can transcend the law as it likes. Do you understand? “Yes” The freedom can exist only in love. In the biblical phrase, “Freedom can exist only in the love. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” The truth refers to the truth of love. It is not the theorem of Pythagoras who is a scientist. The word, “Truth,” in this biblical phrase is for the principle of love. Do you understand? You have to think that way. Do you understand clearly? “Yes”
There is freedom only in true love. “Freedom can exist only in love. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” The truth refers to the truth of love.
It is Not Freedom to do Whatever you Like
<182-111> Is it easy to study, or difficult? If you shut yourself in a laboratory and work hard on a research, are you free or in bondage? Speak out. How do you interpret it? If you have to study despite you don’t like to study, are you free or in bondage? “We are in bondage” Why do you seek it even though you are in bondage? That is a problem. That is why the problem is how we correct the concept of freedom. It is not the freedom to do whatever you like.
Why do we study even when we hate it? We don’t like to study? We are free. Why do we still (invest) our heart to study even if we don’t like it? Studying even when we hate it is not freedom but bondage.
But then what is the reason we study even though it is bondage?
It is not freedom to do whatever we like. Although we say that studying is bondage, we do it to fulfill our responsibility. Know that freedom is absolutely followed by responsibility.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: When We Focus on Results and Accomplishments, Our Spirits Get Tired
1. Fundraising is the restoration of love and restoration of heart. Restoration of love means that it becomes worthwhile to me, and I gain a proud heart. When I have good thoughts and a good mind, the results will be good, too.
However, when most people return from fundraising, they focus on the results. When they fundraise and return, the first thing they ask is how much they sold. That is why they think that the results, that is, actual achievements, are above everything else. They think that money is the main thing. If you go out centered on results, that is, centered on achievements, you go in the direction of selling a lot without choosing a means or method. After observing Korean theology students fundraising, some students would go find places where they can make achievements, such as their relatives’ houses or even their own church. If this happens, there won’t be any cultivation or development for yourself. Then, you will hate going fundraising. When we go, focusing on results and achievements, our spirits will surely get tired. What kind of development is there when we come back indebted to others? Relatives and acquaintances felt sorry for the fundraisers who carried around rice cakes (Korean fundraising product) on a cold day, so they bought them humanistically.
Simply put, the fall is losing the heart. It is losing the heart for God, the heart for people, and the heart for all things. That is why to restore our heart, we need to set (up) all things, which is the formation stage, as our Abel and go on the path of restoring our hearts.
In that sense, fundraising is the restoration of love and restoration of heart. However, when going on this indemnity course, which is the restoration course, we cannot have an attitude that is unwilling or just going out of a sense of duty. To restore our heart, our attitude is most important. Our attitude must be voluntary and enthusiastic. And more important than anything else, rather than focusing on results and accomplishments, we should focus on and put the essence in our growth and restoration of heart.
But when we look at our members who do fundraising, most of them consistently focus on the results. When they fundraise and return, the first thing they ask is how much they sold.
“Did you reach the goal? $1,000? Or $2,000?” They first ask for the result.
That is why everyone thinks that the results, that is, actual achievements, are above everything else. They think that money is the main thing. If we go out centered on results, that is, centered on achievements, we go in the direction of selling a lot without choosing a means or method.
If this happens, there won’t be any cultivation or development for ourself. Then, we will hate going fundraising. When we go, focusing on results and achievements, our spirits will definitely get tired.
Life of Faith Should Not Flow Humanistically
2. This goes for fundraising, too, but our life of faith should not flow humanistically. Since Jesus went out and was often cursed at, Jesus’ mother was hurt and told Jesus to stop witnessing and come back home. This is humanistic. Jesus was doing his best to realize God’s Will, no matter what kind of opposition he faced when going out into the world, but since his own mother flowed horizontally and humanistically, it put him in a difficult situation. No matter how much the world beat him to death, Jesus was doing so meaningfully to testify to God’s will. However, Mary saw Jesus’ suffering humanistically and it hurt her heart. Also, when True Father was in Heungnam Prison, his mother, Chungmonim, came and saw him with human eyes and cried a lot. Since Chungmonim did not understand why her son was suffering in prison then and showed her tears, True Father rebuked her, telling her not to shed humanistic tears before him. He scolded her, “if you’re going to show such tears, do not come again” and sent her away. This is because at the slightest slip, a son could weaken at the sight his mother’s tears.
Oh my goodness!
A life of faith should not flow humanistically. We should have good horizontal relationships, but they must be horizontal relationships centered on the vertical. Horizontal relationships without vertical values will flow humanistically.
Adam and Eve fell because they neglected their relationship with God and had horizontal give and take with the archangel. Husband and wife relationship, friend relationships, senior and junior relationships—these are horizontal relationships but if we do not form horizontal relationships centered on the vertical, everything flows away. All people make mistakes in these horizontal relationships.
Even Jesus’ mother, Mary, thoughts of Jesus in a humanistic way. Even True Father’s mother, Chungmonim, thought horizontally when she went to go visit him in Heungnam Prison, and True Father scolded her strongly.
Even Jesus’ disciples thought of Jesus humanistically and failed. Although we usually form horizontal relationships, we deal with them while going through the vertical God. Otherwise, we flow horizontally and easily end up being humanistic.
The Attitude in Fundraising
3. In order to sell fundraising products right away, some students will visit their relatives. And the relatives who see the students fundraising know that they are suffering, so they buy many things. If that happens, they would sell everything within a short period of time and return home. Actually, to sell just one product, don’t you even have to visit at least 30 houses? Then, to sell all the products you have, you need to visit hundreds of places in a single day. However, if you sell everything to relatives or people you know and return home quickly, your heart will feel ashamed. Even if you couldn’t properly sell one product despite visiting 300 houses, your heart will be proud. Why? It is because you did not neglect to train yourself. Since you have delivered all fundraising items of God’s blessings to every family, you have fulfilled your responsibility. The reason you couldn’t sell products was because it was the people who rejected you; it is not your responsibility.
When we go fundraising, the reason we have to suffer even intentionally is because it is for the restoration of the heart. But if we focus on selling products, even if we make good results, it has nothing to do with the growth of our spirit.
When fundraising, focusing on selling products, making money the goal, or choosing the easy way and selling to relatives is deviating from the original purpose of fundraising, so if we will eventually get tired. We have to fundraise in a way that brings joy to our original nature.
The Internal Mindset is More Important Than Results Revealed Externally
4. It is the same with witnessing. Even if you couldn’t witness to a single person despite going around an entire day, if you did your best with all your sincerity, you have fulfilled your responsibility. If you did your best to convey God’s Word, what can you do about people whose hearts are so stubborn that they do not believe you? Restoring people is not easy. Just look at Jesus’ disciples. Jesus witnessed to twelve people through signs and miracles during his life, but when he died on the cross, they all ran away, and Simon of Cyrene carried the cross for Jesus. All the disciples ran away, yet out of nowhere, a rural farmer carried the cross for Jesus. While Jesus was alive, he toiled with blood and sweat to find and raise disciples, but when Jesus shed his blood on the cross, there was not a single disciple weeping at the foot of the cross. In that sense, doesn’t it mean that even Jesus couldn’t do actual witnessing? He shed blood even up until he was crucified, yet there was no true disciple in front of him. Looking at things like this, there is nothing for people to get excited about when they see results, such as external signs and miracles. Therefore, we must be stimulated by something more internal and make a determination. The problem is internal. If the internal mindset is not upright, you will not understand the Word even after hearing it. Even if your hear the Word, you will not realize it.
It is the same with fundraising or witnessing. Even if we go around an entire day without selling a single thing or without being able to witness to a single person, if we did our best and with all our sincerity, we have fulfilled our responsibility actually.
My mood cannot go up and down depending on results. Days with no results are actually days I can meet God, I can learn more, and reflect on myself.
If we did our best to convey God’s Word, what can we do about people whose hearts are so stubborn that they do not believe us?
While Jesus was alive, he toiled with blood and sweat to find and raise disciples, but when Jesus shed his blood on the cross, there was not a single disciple weeping at the foot of the cross.
He shed blood even up until he was crucified, yet there was no true disciple in front of him. Looking at things like this, there is nothing for people to get excited about when they see results, such as external signs and miracles. Anyone who does not focus on the essence will flow away like water.
Why do we follow the Unification Church? If we just focus on the external, we will give up. Who remains? Who can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I am telling you, anyone who does not focus on the essence will flow away like water.
Therefore, we must be stimulated by something more internal and make a determination. The problem is internal. If the internal mindset is not upright, we will not understand the Word even after hearing it.
Today I talked about “When We Focus on Results and Accomplishments, Our Spirits Get Tired.”
(Testimony Yuuki Tanaka and Younng Joo Scharf, Ocean Challenge, Kodiak, Alaska)♦
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