Ep 872 - The Path of Life for All Humankind Part 13
The Path of Life for All Humankind - March 16, 2023
Key Points
True love is faster than light, can penetrate everywhere any time and can solve all problems and heal disease. It can conquer all, including God.
The only place we can experience and train ourself in true love is in the physical body in the family.
Then beyond the family we are to extend true love to all people, all races and all things, the country and world.
Until we possess true love we need to pay indemnity, and we need to pay indemnity in order to possess true love.
We need to pay indemnity if we fail to love our enemy, if there is an area we do not love or are indifferent to, if we have fallen nature or sin, and if we are not grateful.
We can enjoy true freedom and create unity if we live within the Principle of Creation in line with our original nature.
Where there is unity between husband and wife and between Cain and Abel centered on true love, there is true freedom.
To lay the foundation of our faith, first, we must clearly know that God is our Parent, and we are God’s child. Faith is treating ourself as God’s.
Secondly, we must know that we have fallen nature and fallen lineage which we must eradicate in order to return to God.
We do this by ceaselessly setting good conditions such as prayer, hoondokhae, attending Sunday service and serving Abel who is loved and trusted by God.
When we are under the dominion of Abel and receive guidance through him, our fallen nature gradually diminishes. We should have such a relationship before being Blessed and starting family.
Our relationship with Abel is the path to eliminate our fallen nature.
We should avoid criticizing others for their faults and feeling envy, jealousy and even anger, and be quick to forgive, feel compassion and take responsibility for those faults.
If we have the thought of loving, protecting, and taking responsibility for the other person in any environment, we can show compassion to the other person for his faults.
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 had breakfast with five NJ church members in my room. They are Francisco & Naoko Chamorrinha. They are champions of hoondokhae, as you know.
They are Masanori & Chie Nakamura and Keisetsu Nakamura. He is really working hard for CARP activities.
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 fastest action in the world is not the transmission of electromagnetic
waves. It is love. Love travels faster and flies higher than anything in the world. When two people at opposite ends of the Earth love each other, they pull toward each other from across the globe. That is the power of love. In the world of God’s original ideal, a person who has experienced true love has the ability and authority to possess instantly anything God wants. People need to experience such a state while on earth. One can rise to this position only if the physical and spirit selves become one while establishing a love relationship with God, centered on a true family. We can feel God's love by loving our countrymen, the people of the world, and creation. Each of us, regardless of nationality, has to develop the heart to love people of all races. We need to love not just people; we need to love even the smallest microorganism. This love has to spring naturally from within.
When a flower blooms, its beauty and fragrance come naturally. The blossom of love has to bloom in the same way. The fragrance of love would fill the air naturally. To do this, we need to receive the nutrients that make it possible for the blossom of love to bloom. In the same way that plants receive nutrients from the soil and air, we receive nutrients from our physical body and spirit self. We receive vitality elements from our physical body, and we receive living spirit elements from our spirit self. This is how we become beings who are totally equipped to love and how we develop the ability to fly anywhere. When this happens, the solar system and the entire universe become the stage of our activity. When human beings finish their physical life, they go through a second birth. This is called death. The place into which we are born this second time is the spirit world. We go into the spirit world and, on behalf of the entire universe, receive love from God, our third Parent. That is to say, we receive ideal love. So in the spirit world, unity is inevitable.
If there were the fastest action in the world, it would be the action of true love, according to Father. And if there were the fastest speed in the world, it would be the speed of true love. That is faster than light. Also, the thing in this world that is not restricted by time and space but can reach any place is true love.
And the greatest power in this world, greater than money, knowledge, authority, and dignity is none other than true love. The thing that can solve everything– any problem or disease—is also true love.
True love has such power. That is why if we conquer the counterpart with love, we can conquer their everything. No matter how great God is, if someone has love, they can conquer even God.
Therefore, if we possess true love, including the universe, we can even possess God. But the problem is the truth that this true love can only be perfected while we are in our physical bodies in this physical world.
And what’s more important than anything else is that the place where we experience and train that true love is none other than our families. Therefore, based on the experience of true love centered on the family, it is our life course to extend it to loving the country, the world, and humanity.
Each of us, regardless of nationality, has to develop the heart to love people of all races. We need to love not just people; we need to love even the smallest microorganism. This love has to spring naturally from within.
To possess true love, you must have the ability to love everything. It takes a lot of training and refinement to possess true love. Otherwise, indemnity must be paid. Indemnity is continuously paid until you possess true love. The fundamental reason for paying indemnity is to possess true love. Then, in what cases will the indemnity be paid?
I will explain according to my own experience based on Father’s word.
In What Cases is Indemnity Paid?
All courses of indemnity are training for us to possess true love. Then in what cases is indemnity paid?
1. If we fail to love our enemy, we must pay indemnity.
If we cannot love our enemy, we need to pay indemnity. Why did Heavenly Father provide us with the enemy? He asks us to remove our fallen nature and become a perfect being. We need to appreciate that God gave us an enemy and asked us to remove our fallen nature. It is his greatest gift to us to become a perfect being, for us to remove our fallen nature. Without an enemy, how can we remove our fallen nature? That is why an enemy is the greatest gift. If there is no enemy, it means we have already become a perfect being.
2. If there is an area we do not love, we must pay indemnity.
With true love we can digest everything, even the smallest things, all things. If we cannot love something, we need to pay indemnity.
If there is an area we cannot love, if we cannot love someone, if we cannot love all things, if we cannot love our father, then we need to pay indemnity because we have not yet become a perfect being. That is why we need to love everything, including our enemy. If we can love everything, we can become a champion of true love. That is why we need to love all kinds of people, all kinds of races, all kinds of cultures. We need to embrace them and love them.
3. If there is an area that we are indifferent to or ignore, we will definitely pay indemnity.
That is why we need to be concerned with every area. We should not ignore people, not ignore somewhere, some certain area. We need to be concerned for and love everything because true love can embrace everything, true love can digest everything. That is why if there is an area we are indifferent to, we ignore, we cannot love, we will definitely pay indemnity.
4. If we have fallen nature, we pay indemnity.
If we are arrogant, jealous or have hatred, if we have fallen nature, we need to pay indemnity.
5. If we have sin, we pay indemnity.
We should not commit sin. Once we commit sin, we become the slave of Satan. Once we commit sin, how much we (must) struggle to get out from our sin! We always feel pangs of conscience, right? There is no way to avoid it. Even though God forgives us, even though True Parents forgive us, all our brothers and sisters forgive us, our spouse forgives us, but in our heart our conscience still feels pangs. That is why we should not commit sin. When we commit sin, we need to pay indemnity.
6. If we don't have a grateful heart and take everything for granted, we pay indemnity.
We need to always be grateful. A life of faith begins from gratitude. When we wake up, “I am so grateful that I am still alive.” “God provides me with air, food, everything.” We are so grateful. The more grateful we are, the more any complaint just disappears.
I still write down my gratitude every day. ... Gratitude gives me all kinds of strength and power. We should not take things for granted. Those who do not appreciate have to pay indemnity.
Why does indemnity exist? We should not avoid it but appreciate it because all courses of indemnity are training for us to possess true love. We should pay indemnity willingly, happily, joyfully, gratefully. We should appreciate it. I love indemnity because through indemnity I can become a perfect being, I can gain true love, I can become a rounder character. I can come closer to Heavenly Father.
Many people do not like the concept of indemnity. I love it. We need to love it. How beautiful it is! Everything is digested in the name of true love. We should not run away from it. We need to love it. Then finally we will become a man of true love.
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.
You Cannot Enjoy Freedom Until you Seek the Principle of God
<213-25> All living things in this world are united by the formula of the Principle. Each living thing enjoys their freedom allocated to each one of them, and it is connected to every phenomenon of this world and the world of nature. Don’t you think so? That is the formula of the universe and the concept of God’s law. You cannot enjoy freedom until you seek the principle of God. That is the true truth. God exists in the true truth and the true value. When you are united with God there, you don’t need even God’s commandments. So, what is the true truth? That is something closest to the origin; in other words, as I have been telling you, something which exists inside true love. True love can make everything be united completely. There is no other of God’s commandments than it that can do so.
There is Eternal Freedom in True Love
<213-25> When you are united with true love, you can enjoy freedom. Freedom can exist in you forever. Do you understand? Freedom can exist forever in true love. When heavenly parents see that people enjoy freedom as much as we have, He says, “I’m happy. I hope you can become my eternal son.” Is this not so? The concept of husband and wife is like, “My husband is my eternal spouse. It is the eternal freedom. That means that I can do to my husband whatever I want to do.” At this point, what should the wife do? She has to be united with her husband centering on true love, then the wife’s heart should be behind the true love. Even after doing so, she can accept everything in her whole life. Do you think so? “Yes.” The true freedom can exist in such a place. The same is true for God. He can be connected to happiness through the true freedom. Then, a happy family can be expanded to the world during the war, and be connected to the world, and create a peaceful world.
If we live according to the principle of creation and formula that God created, anything can be united, and we can enjoy freedom within that principle. Therefore, true freedom can only be enjoyed by pursuing the principle created by God.
Even God can only enjoy freedom when He dwells and moves within the Principle He created. Human beings cannot enjoy their freedom to the fullest if they deviate from the principle of creation and do not live according to their original nature.
The center of God’s principle of creation is true love. That is why anyone who becomes one with true love can enjoy freedom forever. Freedom enjoyed together with God resembles God’s nature, so it is eternal, unchanging, and absolute.
Therefore, we need to become completely one with God, the owner of eternal freedom. Where there is unity centered on true love, there is true freedom.
When the husband and wife become one centered on true love, there is true freedom there, and when Cain and Abel become one centered on true love, there is true freedom there.
Do you feel complete freedom (with) your wife? What do you think? Do you feel complete freedom (with) your husband? If not, you are not yet a couple of true love. Father asked if 24 hours a day, can you exchange love with your partner if you want love? Can you welcome your partner 24 hours a day, whenever you want love?
A good example: it is very cold weather. The husband comes home very late at midnight after working hard. His hands are very cold. When he touches his wife’s sexual organ, how would she feel? Would she reject him? Or embrace him?
If there is true freedom between husband and wife, then at any time we would welcome our spouse, at any time we could make love like that. That is why I am asking, do you feel complete freedom (with) your wife or not? Husband or not? Between parents and children or not? Where there is true love, there is real true freedom. What beautiful guidance!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Things I Need to Realize in My Life of Faith
1. In order for our faith to be well-grounded, we must first realize who we are. We must always realize that we ourselves are descendants of the Fall. Because we are descendants of the Fall, we have fallen nature passed down through the blood lineage. That is why you have to realize that you have the responsibility to eradicate this fallen nature in order to go back to belonging to God. When you have the attitude and basis of faith, although they are external, you will form a vertical bond. Things like attending Sunday service, praying, and doing Hoondokhae are all external conditions. Until all those external conditions enter our hearts and take root, Satan keeps following us. Since we have fallen nature, if Satan gets the opportunity, he will try to make conditions of disbelief through us. Then why does such thing happen? It is because we have fallen nature since birth.
In order for our faith to be well-grounded, we must first clearly realize our identity, who we are. If we do not know our identity, the foundation of our faith cannot be established.
To lay the foundation of our faith, first, we must clearly know that God is our Parent, and we are God’s child. Faith is treating ourself as God’s belonging.
Second, we must realize that although we are originally God’s child, due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, we became a descendant of the Fall. We must know that since we are a descendant of the Fall, we have fallen nature from the blood lineage.
That is why we have to realize that we have the responsibility to eradicate this fallen nature in order to go back to belonging to God. To remove this fallen nature, we must ceaselessly set good conditions, set external conditions, such as attending Sunday service, praying, and doing Hoondokhae, and completely separate fallen nature – and also serve our Abel.
Until all those external conditions enter our hearts and take root, Satan (will) keep following us. Since we have fallen nature, if Satan gets the opportunity, he will try to make conditions of disbelief through us. We must not give Satan the chance to create conditions of disbelief but ceaselessly set good conditions so that God and the spirit world can work with us.
I Must Live a Life of Serving Abel to Remove My Fallen Nature
2. Just because we have faith, it doesn’t mean that our fallen nature is removed. To remove fallen nature, you must have an Abel of faith. You must serve Abel along with having faith. The Divine Principle emphasizes a life of faith through Abel. Then who is that Abel? Abel is someone connected with God. Abel is someone who receives God’s love. Abel is someone trustworthy in God’s eyes. By serving the person whom God trusts and loves, my fallen nature is gradually removed. When I am under the dominion of Abel and receive guidance through them, my fallen nature gradually diminishes. In the formation stage, an Abel of faith must become my central figure. In the growth stage, I can become Abel only when I become a person who is respected by Cain. In the Divine Principle, this is called the foundation of substance. That is why we need the Messiah and an Abel of our faith. Within my environment, my Abel of faith is in the same position as my messiah.
Just because we have faith, it doesn’t mean that our fallen nature is removed.
Formation stage is based on the relationship between Heavenly God and us.
We have to surpass the level of faith and reach the level where Cain and Abel substantially give and receive and remove fallen nature.
If we look at the central figures of the past providence of restoration, most of them established a foundation of faith with God...
Noah completed the Foundation of Faith, right? Abel in Adam’s family, and Abraham’s family. Of course, Abraham failed in the beginning, but recovered later on. Most of the central figures did not have an issue to establish the Foundation of Faith.
But most central figures failed in the Cain and Abel relationship of eradicating fallen nature.
Since we must remove fallen nature through relationships, we must have an Abel of faith. Then who is that Abel? Abel is someone who receives God’s love.
That is why before receiving the Blessing and starting family, we need to have a clear relationship between Cain and Abel. We really need to overcome. How to overcome Abel is very important. Without going through this Cain and Abel relationship and starting family, all problems go to our spouse and to our descendants as well. After starting family who is our substantial Abel? Our spouse is our Abel.
But before receiving the Blessing and starting family, (if) we have already removed our fallen nature, then it is much easier to relate to our spouse. But if we were unable to remove our fallen nature, then after receiving the Blessing and starting family, husband and wife will have so much struggle and so many issues between husband and wife. That is why before starting family, we really need to remove our fallen nature through serving our Abel and serving our Cain.
Abel is someone trustworthy in God’s eyes. By serving the person whom God trusts and loves, our fallen nature is gradually removed. When we are under the dominion of Abel and receive guidance through him, our fallen nature gradually diminishes.
The reason we often suffer from people and get into conflicts in our life is proof that we have that much fallen nature. Therefore, we need to obey Abel and remove our fallen nature.
See Others’ Faults As My Faults
3. In the formation stage life of faith, I must completely come under the dominion of my Abel of faith. I must be absolutely obedient to my Abel. I must set Abel as a mediator and find out about God’s will and elevate the level of my heart. People who do not have an Abel to attend from the early stage of their faith have no path to eliminate their fallen nature. Therefore, to eliminate our fallen nature, we need effort and sincere devotion to serve our Abel.
The formation stage life of faith easily criticizes when seeing others’ flaws. But when faith grows, when I see others’ faults, I feel them as my faults. Among our brothers and sisters and among seniors and juniors, isn’t it easy to see each other horizontally and blame each other?
Just because I say that your senior failed to be a model, can I ignore my senior? When I see a senior member really do wrong, I must first seriously reflect on myself. I should think that if somebody who joined the church before me and offered that much devotion while walking on the way of the will until now can make a mistake like that, somebody as immature as me might make an even greater mistake when I reach their age.
Before Worrying About Others, First Worry About Yourself
4. Such mistakes are not just that senior’s problem. Rather, I should reflect on myself with a serious heart, thinking that I could become a greater problem than that. In this way, life of faith is about first reflecting on and worrying about oneself before worrying about others. That is the principle. But we often worry about others instead of worrying about ourselves. Even if seniors in our faith have a lot of bad points, when I see them struggling to practice a life of faith perseveringly, I should think of them as precious. When this happens, when I see others’ faults, I will realize and reflect on the fact that as someone who also has shortcomings, I can also make mistakes like them. We need such self-awareness. In this way, while seeing others’ faults, true faith must reflect on oneself and make a strong determination not to make mistakes themselves.
In the formation stage life of faith, we must completely come under the dominion of our Abel of faith. To be under Abel’s dominion, we must be absolutely obedient to our Abel. We can elevate the level of our heart by setting Abel as a mediator and finding out about God’s will.
People who do not have an Abel to attend from the early stage of their faith have no path to eliminate their fallen nature.
That is why relationships are important: with our parents, our own brothers and sisters, between Cain and Abel, with juniors or younger brothers and sisters. Through relationships we can remove our fallen nature.
Therefore, to eliminate our fallen nature, we need effort and sincere devotion to serve our Abel.
Not just Abel. We need to serve everybody.
If I am unable to be recognized by Abel, my spirit will stop on the formation stage.
The formation stage life of faith easily criticizes when seeing others’ flaws. When we see the other person’s faults, criticism is the first thing that comes out. Envy and jealousy easily come out and we cannot easily forgive their mistakes. This is proof that we are still in the formation stage faith.
Easily angered. We cannot forgive someone easily. That means we are still hanging around in formation stage faith.
But when someone see others’ faults and feels them as their own faults and has compassion for them, that person is someone who has already entered the growth stage faith. He has already passed through his Abel.
If we see our senior make a mistake, instead of judging that senior, we should first reflect on ourself and think that we can also make a mistake like that. When we think that we can make an even greater mistake than (our senior), we become humble.
A life of faith is first reflecting on and worrying about ourself before worrying about others. But we do not worry about ourself but worry about others first. That is why when juniors see the many faults of their seniors of faith, they must think of taking responsibility for them. They must even think of carrying the cross of their mistakes and protecting them.
Whenever we see the good and bad points of people, how can we love (them) without exception? We need to think first: “No matter what, I need to love them.” First we need to think about love. Secondly, when we see someone’s faults and problems, we need to think, “I want to be responsible for that person’s faults” – responsible like the parents’ position.
Then thirdly, no matter what we want to protect him. We are responsible for him and no matter what we want to protect him centered on parental heart. We want to raise him up. With this kind of parental heart, we want to really be responsible, rather than scolding him, rather than criticizing him. This kind of heart only comes from parental heart. That is the heart of the true Abel.
If we have the thought of loving, protecting, and taking responsibility for the other person in any environment, we can show compassion to the other person for their faults.
Today I talked about things we need to realize in our life of faith.
(Testimony Soonmee Iwasaki, Activities in CARP, Philadelphia)♦
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