Ep 577 - Training Period to Mature Our Hearts and Spirituality Part 2
Training Period to Mature our Heart and Spirituality - May 25, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Stephanie Diaz
Are you reading the Diagramed EDP lecture manual for 1 hour lectures?
I read this 100 times already a long time ago, but I'm reading it (as) a new jeongseong devotion condition, and last night I got a very amazing realization, and I repented and prayed for a lot of time. I realized something about rebirth, what it means. It really touched my heart. I was so grateful even though it was very simple content.
I hope that all of you will receive many blessings by participating in this condition of jeongseong devotion on the American continent.
Today I’d like to talk about the “Training period to mature our heart and spirituality” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
True Parents have fulfilled their responsibilities because they were able to forge all the paths on which humankind can move forward. You are blessed people. Be grateful in front of Heaven. When you were not yet aware, unspeakable pain arose in providential history. However, thanks to True Parents' hard work, the door has opened for the world. You need to understand that the place where one can experience the grace and blessings of both the spirit world and the substantial world is CheongPyeong. When your heart is sad and you miss True Parents, you must come here often. If you do so, the level of your heart and spirituality will develop. For instance, if a student pays close attention to his or her teachers in elementary school, middle school and high school, and even in college, and grows up normally, he or she will eventually be somebody great, with all types of knowledge. This place can help shape you into that type of person by supplying you with the essential spiritual and physical nutrients. A foundation was laid and grounds were prepared to enable this to happen. This is possible through Daemonim's providential works, centered on True Parents. (2016.05.08, Cheon Jeong Gung)
Not anyone can carry out the CheongPyeong works. It is typical of fallen man to often change. You came upon the Word, received the Blessing and became blessed families; yet, your daily life hasn't always been hopeful and you have been easily influenced by your environment as you still live in a fallen world. Daemonim, therefore, has been spiritually and physically healing such people, guiding them to possess a mature character, attain individual perfection and establish ideal families. That is why she is a “great mother. She has given her full material and moral support to guide fallen people to True Parents. This is different from Jesus' time. In other words, True Parents have emerged victorious and that is why they can open a new page in history and a new era. Regardless of where you are, pay frequent visits to CheongPyeong to check the state of your spirituality and health so that you can grow even more. The CheongPyeong Training Center is a place that helps you attain a mature spirit self. It is a place where you can liberate your ancestors and one that helps you follow the Way of God's Will in a healthy state. (2016.06.06, East Garden)
Based on this content, let’s study Father’s words.
<484-85> In order to produce True Mother, a family of three generations had to offer themselves representing the three ages: the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament Ages. The family had to have a line of only daughters.
After True Mother was conceived, Daemonim set out on the path by herself. Through history, three ages had sought for the pure Bridegroom. These three women representing the three ages had to raise up the pure Bride by carrying the cross over many hills. Not just anyone can be chosen as the True Mother. To True Mother, I, True Father, stood as her grandfather and father as well as her husband, and also as her older brother. So when she related to me, she regarded me as her older brother, as her father, as her grandfather and even as her king. Knowing this, I had to raise her starting from the position of a younger sister. I had to elevate her to the position of my fiancée, then to the position of my wife, and then to the positions of mother and grandmother, all the way to the position of queen.
In order to produce True Mother, a family of three generations had to offer themselves representing the three ages: the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament Ages. The family had to have a line of only daughters.
Just as Moses’ mother entered the Pharaoh’s palace and in the position of a nanny, thoroughly nurtured her own son Moses as (one of) the chosen people and raised him to become a leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt,
In raising True Mother, Daemonim stood in the position of a nanny (and) devoted her life to raising her as the only begotten daughter of God.
In other words, in educating our children today, we come to realize that we are like Daemonim in that we are physically in the position of parents to our children, but we must thoroughly raise our children as God’s sons and daughters in the position of a nanny.
Whenever True Mother speaks about Daemonim, she testifies, “My mother Daemonim’s position was that of a nanny. She raised me as God’s begotten daughter.” She was in the position of a nanny.
I really reflect about myself. Did I raise my children as my own physical children or as their nanny? I need to repent about this.
The problem we had in educating our children today was that we did not educate them as God’s sons and daughters from the position of a nanny on behalf of God, but the problem was that we educated them as sons and daughters of my own flesh.
Why could Jesus’ mother, Mary, not fulfill her portion of responsibility? Because she raised Jesus as her own son. That was a problem. She should have had the position of a nanny to raise Jesus. Then I think Mary would not have failed her mission.
I think it is the same (for us). There are many kinds of issues (now) with our second generation and third generation, all blessed children, not only blessed children, our blessed families’ children here and there(?) because we did not have this kind of concept.
Daemonim was really great. ... Moses’ mother was in the position of a nanny just as Daemonim was in the position of a nanny to raise True Mother. Even True Father’s mother, Chungmonim, was the same.
How can we fulfill our portion of responsibility as the parents of our children? We need to think that God temporarily gave these children to me, but this is not my child, my son, my daughter. These are God’s children. My position is that of a nanny to raise my children and finally offer them to God.
I really need to repent. I could not do that. Now I don’t want to fail my mission with my grandchildren. I need to use respectful words to my grandchildren. (Not,) “Oh, you are a young boy” and not using respectful words. That is a problem. Their position is higher than mine. The nanny position is lower.
If all our blessed families when we raise our own children (assume) the position of a nanny, wow!
Now our Unification Movement is in a different situation. ...
I repent to my grandchildren because I treated them as my own grandchildren, my own (grand)son, my own (grand)daughter. My education was really wrong.
When I look at Daemonim, wow! She is incredible. In Las Vegas, True Mother spoke to jeongjinnim(?): “You need to raise your children like this. You need to tell your children who their real mother is. You need to show them the photo (of True Parents) very often. Daemonim treated me in such a way.” Mother spoke about a very important thing.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 50 - The Indirect Dominion and the Human Portion of Responsibility
The Reason for Human Responsibility
• God endowed human beings with a portion of responsibility for the following reason:
• By fulfilling their given portion of responsibility, with which even God does not interfere, human beings are meant to inherit the creative nature of God and participate in God’s great work of creation.
• God intends human beings to earn ownership and become worthy to rule over the creation as creators in their own right, just as God governs over them as their Creator.
• This is the principal difference between human beings and the rest of creation.
The Completion Stage of the Portion of Responsibility
If human beings could have gone to the completion stage of the portion of responsibility, with the creation of that 5% of God's love, they could have completed God's love. God just desires to give human beings the chance to join in the creation of ideal love. So you must be aware of how valuable human beings are.
Where does God live? Does He live beneath the stage of the completion of the portion of responsibility? Or does He live above it? Where should God live? He should live above it. <November 4, 1981, Korea, 430 Couples Ideal Garden Rally>
As I said yesterday, in order to achieve God's work of creation, God absolutely needs human beings’ 5% portion of responsibility. In that sense, you should clearly understand that each and every human being is absolutely necessary and indispensable to God.
Even if all mankind, except for me, have completed their 5% portion of responsibility, if I have not yet fulfilled my 5% portion of responsibility, the ideal of God's true love has not yet been fulfilled – because of me alone.
Ultimately, when I look at myself as an individual, the fulfillment of the purpose of creation between God and me cannot be accomplished without me.
From this point of view, it should be known that I am a truly indispensable and absolutely necessary existence with unique and divine values that can help God's ideal of creation.
Even if I went to hell for committing many sins, I need to know that God is a pitiable God who must come to hell to save me and has no choice but to help me fulfill my 5% portion of responsibility. Think of God who has to complete His ideal of creation by saving not only myself but also all the children who are lost in hell one by one. How pitiable is God!?
How sorrowful he is! Who makes God complete? Human beings. It is I. I am the one who makes God complete. (I am a) co-creator. God needs my help. I need God’s help.
No one knows about the human portion of responsibility. No one declared that humans have a portion of responsibility as a co-creator. Without human beings help, God cannot complete his mission.
This is incredible. Father found out about this. The human portion of responsibility is really one of the greatest discoveries among the Principles. If you do not fulfill your responsibility and go to hell or somewhere, then God needs to come to you again and encourage you to stand up and work hard to fulfill your own portion of responsibility. That is why God cannot abandon any human beings. God is a perfect God. If everybody fulfills his portion of responsibility except for one person, God needs to complete him.
That is why each human beings is an indispensable person, an absolutely necessary existence. That is the amazing value of human beings. He has God’s value, divine value, unique value. How many human beings know their own value? It is incredible.
The Limit of the Portion of Responsibility
<November 4, 1981, Korea, 430 Couples Ideal Garden Rally> What if there were no human portion of responsibility? You could not join in God's work of creation. Even though you were not originally fallen, for example, you would still have the responsibility to co-create with God. In order to be a completed human being, you have the responsibility to add to what God has done. A Principle is something that cannot be compromised. You must go. You must go no matter what, forever. If God could manage by Himself, he would not need to go through the difficulties of the course of the providence of restoration. Because there is a limit to the portion of responsibility, God has been going through lots of difficulties for the restoration of humankind. You must understand that the responsibility does not lie only with God. It is a common responsibility with human beings.
Without the human portion of responsibility, we cannot become the second creator together with God. If the completion of God's ideal of creation could only have been accomplished through God's responsibility, why was human history prolonged and (why did) God have to walk the path of indescribable pain and indemnity?
God's work of creation can only be achieved when human beings fulfill their own portion of responsibility. Just as a student must do their own homework, no one can help each other in their own portion of responsibility.
The Principle is something that cannot be compromised. You must go anyway in order to fulfil your portion of responsibility. Even if you die, you must go in order to fulfil your portion of responsibility. You must go no matter what, forever, in order to fulfill your portion of responsibility .
That is why God has to wait until you fulfill your portion of responsibility. Because we are co-creators, love can only be fulfilled through the object partner. God has no choice. No matter how much sin you have committed, he needs to work with each human being. That is the only way he can fulfill his ideal of creation. No one knows this miserable situation.
If God Himself can do as He pleases, then there would be no need for God to go on the path of suffering in the course of the providence of restoration.
What you must understand clearly is that the responsibility does not lie only with God. It is a common responsibility with human beings.
Even though the human portion of responsibility is very small, only 5%, we need to know that it is a common responsibility with God.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Child’s Filial Hearts Towards Parents
1. An inseparable, heartistic relationship must be maintained between the parent and child. In particular, the child must have a heart of filial piety towards their parents. This filial heart towards parents is expressed as a filial heart towards the Word, filial heart towards the will, filial heart towards True Parents and filial heart towards Abel. A person who has this kind of filial heart will not controlled by the environment. A person who has a filial heart will not lose their temper recklessly. Even if there is something good, they laugh while examining the parental heart. Why? It is because laughing recklessly, rejoicing recklessly wastes your filial heart. Children should not expose their filial hearts toward their parents but always keep it a secret. What is the secret of the universe? It is that God and human beings have a parent-child relationship.
A child's filial heart toward his parents is the standard of all love and ethics. Because the root of the universe is the relationship between parents and children, if this vertical standard is broken, it is impossible to establish a horizontal standard.
This is because if filial piety to love God becomes a vertical standard, I can love my parents, my brothers and sisters, and all things with the same standard and method. That is why the Bible says we need to love God the most. The greatest commandment is what? Love God the most. Why? Because this can become the vertical standard. If you love God, then this becomes (your) standard.
Then you use the same method and skill and attitude to love your father and mother (in) the same (way) as you love God. You can love your brothers and sisters the same as you love God. You can love all things the same as you love God. This is a very important standard. The most important (thing) is this vertical alignment between God and human beings.
Once you have set up this vertical standard centering on filial piety, you can overcome and love everything. Without setting up the vertical standard, you cannot set up the horizontal standard. What is the second commandment? Loving your neighbor. Loving your neighbor is very easy once you set up a vertical standard. Then you can love your neighbor as you love God.
What is the most important thing between parents and children? It is filial heart. When we have a filial heart toward our parents, it is expressed as toward God word, toward his will, toward True Parents and toward Abel. A person with a filial heart will not be controlled by the environment because he already has a vertical standard. A person with a filial heart does not lose his temper recklessly. He is never self-centered.
One thing we need to be careful about is that when children have the heart of filial piety towards their parents, they should not reveal it but always keep it a secret. Just as the roots of a tree are not exposed, filial heart must not be exposed but be shown through practice.
The secret to maintaining faith is to know the secret of the universe. What is the secret of the universe? That is, the relationship between God and humans is that of parent and child. The important thing in the parent-child relationship is the filial piety centered on the heart.
What is the greatest secret of the universe? So far, many people do not know (it). It is that the relationship between God and human beings is a parent-child relationship. “The powerful God, omniscient God, omnipotent God is my father. I am a child of God.” Wow! The human’s value is incredible.
If you know the top secret of the universe that God is my parent and (that) I am a child of God, you gain the universe, the cosmos, and you gain everything. “His belongings are my belongings, and my belongings are his belongings.” How powerful (you are)!
Why do you worry about what to eat, to drink and to wear? You worry because you do not believe in God, that God is your parent. You do not believe you are a child of God, even though you believe in something, but (that belief is) very much in an external way in your head. You recognize (truth as) theory. You don’t have conviction! You don’t have absolute belief.
If you really believe that “God is my parent, I am a child of God,” then nothing is impossible. Then you can do anything, overcome anything, because the omnipotent God, omniscient God, the champion of love is my daddy, my parent! I am a child of God. Nothing is impossible in the name of God. I am a queen (or king or prince or princess... I am a child of God. ... Who can accuse me?
How much do we have that kind of faith, absolute belief? Human beings, fallen people, do not have that kind of absolute faith ... because of the fall.
2. Many believers today do not know that God and I have a parent-child relationship. If this parent-child relationship is severed, it is like a tree without roots. Just as a tree’s roots are not exposed, a child should not let their filial hearts towards their parents be exposed but preserve and nurture it well. Children of the era of Cheon Il Guk must become people who take responsibility over God, the Parent. Without this filial piety between the parent and child, they can never become close. Human beings are children of the Creator. If you know that God and human beings have a parent-child relationship, there would be no need to discuss about whether a parent’s love is big or small. When a child is born, they are born indebted to their parent’s great love. The being called “me” is a “lump of love” that was born through the love of parents.
In our life of faith, when the parent-child relationship between God and me is cut off, it is like flying a kite and if the string is cut off, the kite plummets towards the ground.
Like this, when the vertical alignment between God and me is severed, my faith plummets without mercy and it is difficult to revive again.
That is why vertical alignment is what? A life line. When it is cut off(?), it is (nearly) impossible to recover. Look at Adam and Eve. They lost ver tical alignment. Then their faith plummeted. They went straight to the ground, to hell. If we lose vertical alignment, we immediately go to hell.
Therefore, the relationship between God and me, and the relationship between parents and me in the family, should be regarded as a life(-line).
And our filial piety should (not?) be as invisible as the roots. Just as a tree’s roots are not exposed, a child should not let their filial hearts towards their parents be exposed but preserve and nurture it well. Just as parents do not reveal their hearts toward their children but show them through practice, children should also show their filial piety toward their parents through their actions.
When you know that God and human beings have a parent-child relationship and (you) have absolute certainty (about this), amazing miracles will happen and all things will become possible. If this parent-child relationship is maintained, you can always receive tremendous spiritual power and love from heaven.
3. Since all children are born indebted to the love from their parents, they must repay this debt of love to their parents as they grow up. They must repay with filial piety. Only by repaying with filial piety can the parent and child become closer. If you do not take responsibility of filial piety, the parent and child cannot become closer. Children who are born heavily indebted to their parents’ love cannot live a self-indulgent life. If they are happy or sad centered on themselves and not centered on the parents, it is asserting oneself. That is just like betraying Heaven. Therefore, those with a filial heart do not recklessly fool around horizontally. Those with a filial heart are unable to commit any crimes because they treat themselves as belonging to their parents. Why is that so? It is because I belong to my parent.
My existence is born with (an) unimaginable debt of love from God and my parents.
How much devotion a parent puts in to give birth to a child, and also when a baby is born, and the mother must overcome the unimaginable pain of death! God paid an unimaginable price when creating humans and all things more than human parents, and put in 100% utmost sincerity.
Therefore, children must repay this debt of love to their parents. They must repay with filial piety. Repaying by filial piety can make the relationship between parent and child closer.
Those with a filial heart are said to be unable to commit any crimes because they treat themselves as belonging to their parents. Why? I can't live asserting myself because I belong to my parents.
4. To have a filial heart means to regard myself as my parents’ and having the heart of serving and being loyal to them. Just as roots are not exposed like branches or stems, even when you serve your parents with devotion, you must make sure it is not revealed outwardly. Filial piety done for the sake of showing parents is not filial piety. Even when you are filial to your parents, you must put in all your heart to not to reveal yourself outwardly. You must always have a filial heart in secret. Filial heart is not revealed, but you must be able to touch the heart of parents of people around you when they see your actions. Since the person who practices filial piety not only towards their parents but to surrounding people as well, they become people that impress and have moral influence.
5. The reason you cannot reveal your filial heart towards your parents is because filial heart is the secret of the heart. Also, if you cherish the filial heart, it can have moral influence in horizontal relationships with people. You must have this kind of filial heart and always preserve your heart and check yourself. Even while studying, is it really studying with filial piety? Even while living a life of faith, is it really a life according to the filial heart? If you move with everything based on filial piety, you will never fool around in a self-indulgent way. What a filial child does is fulfill the parent’s wishes. Therefore, you must be completely filial and repay. If you do not have such filial heart, you cannot maintain a heartistic relationship between parent and child. This is the essential point of Eastern ethics. That is why True Father said that all Western philosophies, theologies, and literatures must find the vertical traditions of Korea, which is rooted in filial piety. Heavenly fortune will surely come to the heart of a filial son who wants to take care of his parents.
One's filial piety toward parents is the secret of the heart. Like the root of a tree, children should serve their parents without revealing it. Filial piety that is revealed is not filial piety. Filial piety that wants to be shown will one day be exposed from the ground and the identity of myself will be revealed.
If you cherish the filial heart of loving your parents, you will have the moral influence to form a relationship with anyone.
That is the power of filial piety. As long as you have such filial piety, you can (have) influence everywhere.
What a filial child does is fulfill the parent’s wishes. Therefore, we must take responsibility for God's wishes and dreams. We must go further and take responsibility for God's sorrow and han. I must bear God’s cross. This mindset cannot come from anything other than the filial mindset.
The Bible says that everyone who is filial to their parents enjoys the blessing of long life by blessing their children from heaven. Filial piety is the base and root of all virtues.
This is very important content.
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