Ep 684 - Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World Part 11
Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World - September 9, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Romina Raman
Key Points
• Absolute sex is the point at which God’s vertical and True Parents’ horizontal love, life and lineage meet in a right angle. This point establishes true love.
• The love organ of True Parents, who brought true love, true life, and true lineage to fallen man, became our eternal hometown. And our vertical and eternal hometown is the organ of God's love.
• When we are born inheriting the love, life and lineage of God and True Parents and unite mind and body, we can become the eternal companions of God's true love.
• Although God’s absolute sex was lost in the fall, it is being restored through the providence of restoration.
• We come from God’s absolute sex.
• The goal of all religions until now was to teach people to live centered on the conscience and to conquer the physical mind. The Word is always alive in churches where God is the center and conscience is the subject.
• Religion must be a place to train to conquer the body.
• Father said a person who has united his mind and body doesn’t need a religion or church anymore.
• When the mind completely conquers the body, anyone can experience meeting God, can live together with God, and can enter the realm of direct dominion. The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and the realm of direct dominion begin from conquering the body.
• Father said that when we restore one nation, one sovereignty, one people, everything will be controlled by the heavenly constitution and everybody will follow it. We will not be able to commit sin but will love and serve each other. Then our mind and body will no longer struggle with each other.
• All problems actually come from making mistakes in relationships with people.
• When we first meet, we are careful towards each other and pay attention not to cause damage. And we also try to understand the other person’s standpoint. We should continue to always relate to that person with this same “first heart.”
• In order for the foundation of heart to take shape, first of all, you need to invest all your sincerity in whatever you do. Then it will have eternal value and holiness.
• Being able to gain trust from your central figure and those around you is sincerity. It is key to relationships and a big reward in itself.
• People who are sincere to themselves must not be influenced by those around them.
• Sincerity is the key point.
• The essence of heart is that it moves based on utmost sincerity – whatever the circumstances.
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 “Women Will Play a Leading Role in the Ideal World” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at a national convention for the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia held on November 20, 1991 at the Seoul Olympic Fencing Arena> Where would the meeting point be between God and the original Adam and Eve? God's love and True Parents' love, God's life and True Parents' life, and God's lineage and True Parents' lineage come together at the right angle where the vertical meets the horizontal, and nowhere else. This is the official point that establishes true love. God is the vertical Parent of true love, and Adam and Eve are the parents centered on horizontal true love. When you are born inheriting the love, life and lineage of these two kinds of parents, your mind becomes the vertical self and your body becomes the horizontal self; and when this vertical self and horizontal self unite, human beings can become the eternal companions of God's true love.
<This speech was given at Women's Federation for World Peace rallies in 21 cities in Korea between May 11 and June 2, 1992> God has true love, true life and true lineage, and because we come from Him, we ought to have true love, true life and true lineage. Human beings were born to relate as parents and children united in God's true love; and so, just as God’s body and mind unite naturally through true love, the body and mind of human beings also are to unite naturally through true love. However, the body of fallen human beings, who have inherited Satan's love, life and lineage, stands on Satan's side and the mind stands at the forefront of God's side, and they are constantly fighting. As is apparent, self-centered love in today's societies manifests in relation to the body, not the mind. The body has become the dance hall of the devil. The body has become a ball and chain, oppressing all human endeavors.
Where would the meeting point be between God and the original Adam and Eve? God's love and True Parents' love, God's life and True Parents' life, and God's lineage and True Parents' lineage come together at the right angle where the vertical meets the horizontal, and nowhere else. Father called this place “absolute sex.” When Adam and Eve become one centering on God’s absolute sex, God’s love, life, and lineage are formed. This is the official point that establishes true love.
Although my horizontal and eternal hometown should be the love organ of my physical parents, the love organ of True Parents, who brought true love, true life, and true lineage due to the fall of man, became my eternal hometown. And my vertical and eternal hometown is the organ of God's love.
In that sense, God is the vertical Parent of true love, and Adam and Eve are the parents centered on horizontal true love. When you are born inheriting the love, life and lineage of these two kinds of parents, your mind becomes the vertical self and your body becomes the horizontal self; and when this vertical self and horizontal self unite, human beings can become the eternal companions of God's true love.
God has true love, true life and true lineage, and because we come from Him, we ought to have true love, true life and true lineage. God’s absolute sex is humankind’s eternal original homeland. Humankind’s true love, true life, and true lineage came from God’s absolute sex.
What teaching is clearer than this. When I truly understood God’s absolute sex, I was so inspired. God is not just a conceptual, vague God. Many people say, “I love God. We come from God.” But no one explains (God) in detail. Father’s explanation is very clear. We come from God’s absolute sex. It is human beings’ absolute home town. Where there is God’s absolute sex, there is true love, true life and true lineage.
What was the fall? It means we lost God’s absolute sex. Satan’s sex became our home town. That is the problem. (Everyone) came out from Satan. We (received) Satan’s blood lineage, his life and his love.
What is restoration? It is the restoration of absolute sex through the messiah. God is an invisible God. True Parents need to show (up) as the visible God. They are the ones who begin centering on God’s absolute sex, which is true love, true lineage and true life. It is really so clear. I really love the concept of absolute sex. What is clearer than this.
Where do you come from? Of course, we came from God, but which part of God are you coming from? “I came from God’s absolute sex.” This is amazing and so beautiful and really clear. As long as I came from God’s blood lineage, God’s life and true love, how beautiful it is! The fall means that we lost absolute sex. Restoration means we go back to God’s absolute sex. That’s it. That is the conclusion of God’s restoration. How beautiful this is! True Parents could not share this content a long time ago. They built a foundation and finally could proclaim (that) our eternal hometown is God’s absolute sex. It is really amazing content.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Principle of Creation 66 – The Human Heart as Viewed through the Spiritual and Physical Minds
• The relationship between the spirit mind and the physical mind is like that between internal nature and external form. When they become one through give and take action with God as their center, they form a united functioning entity which guides the spirit self and physical self to become harmonious and progress toward the purpose of creation. This united entity is the mind of a human being.
• The conscience is that faculty of the human mind which, by virtue of its inborn nature, always directs us toward what we think is good.
• However, as the standard of goodness in fallen human beings varies, the standard of their conscience also fluctuates; this causes frequent contention even among those who advocate a conscientious life.
• The original mind is that faculty of the human mind which pursues absolute goodness. The original mind relates to the conscience as internal nature to external form.
• A person's conscience directs him to pursue goodness according to the standard he has set up in ignorance, even though it may differ from the original standard. However, the original mind repels this faulty standard and works to correct the conscience.
• As long as our spirit mind and physical mind are under the bondage of Satan, the functioning entity they form through their give and take action is called the evil mind. The evil mind continually drives people to do evil.
• Our original mind and conscience direct us to repel the evil mind. They guide us in desperate efforts to reject evil desires and cling to goodness by breaking our ties with Satan and turning to face God.
Father’s word:
Everyone Wants to Live According to the Commands of Their Conscience
<55-26> There is not a single person who wants to live according to the commands of their physical mind. Everyone tries to escape the path of the physical mind. It is good to follow the commands of your conscience. This is an undeniable historical fact. If you follow your conscience, the physical mind will be besieged. Any religion that teaches you otherwise is not a legitimate religion. If you look at religious operations, you can observe that all of their goals and methods coincide. They all seek to conquer the self. There are many religions, but if one of them strays from this main goal, they are not fit to be called a religion. If you cross the line onto the side of good, no matter how wicked Satan may be, he becomes weak because he no longer has an object partner. This is how the world works.
The goal of all religions until now was to teach people to live centered on the conscience and conquer the physical mind. But the reason churches today are gradually declining and becoming breeding grounds of corruption is because they failed to properly lead people towards the way the conscience wants to go.
Religion, which should lead the world spiritually, is on the way to destruction because it is moving along with the secular world and completely loses the power of putting the Word into practice. Since many religions have become more centered on the physical mind rather than the conscience, God is leaving them.
The Word is always alive in churches where God is the center and conscience is the subject. Since it is alive, they experience God working. And since they move with the power of putting the Word into practice, they overcome physical desires demanded by the physical mind and they experience being resurrected and reborn. Religion must be a place to train to conquer the body. Religions that are not doing so have forgotten the original mission.
Father said that a person who has united their mind and body doesn’t need a religion or church anymore.
Do you understand why religion and church exist? (They) ask us to conquer our physical body. Church should be that kind of training place. But now church has become a Chapter Two place. Corruption has become a serious issue. That is why religion is losing it’s original purpose and mission. That is really sad.
The Physical Mind and the Realm of Direct Dominion
<55-68> As long as you are centered on your conscience, the time will come when you no longer need to struggle with your physical mind. Can you believe that? Have you ever even imagined a life in which your conscience and physical mind do not have to fight each other? If you enter the realm of direct dominion, your physical mind will come to follow your conscience
When mind and body are united, God will automatically dominate me directly. When the mind completely conquers the body, anyone can experience meeting God, live together with God, and enter the realm of direct dominion.
The reason I cannot experience the spirit world and God is because I still have not conquered the body. The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and the realm of direct dominion begin from conquering the body.
Here Father is talking about a very interesting thing when you no longer need to struggle with your physical mind. Can you believe that? Have you ever even imagined a life in which your conscience and physical mind do not have to fight each other?
Father said some day that kind of time will come when our mind and body no longer struggle. When will that kind of time come? What I heard from Father was that when we restore one nation, one sovereignty, one people, everything (will be) controlled by the heavenly constitution. Everybody will follow it. You will not be able to commit sin. Everybody will try to love each other and serve each other. Then the environment will completely change. Gradually everybody will come to live (according to) that kind of standard.
That’s why the physical, external way is very important, (the) heavenly constitution. Whenever we do something voluntarily, happily, (engaging in) any activity (with) our heart ... I think this kind of time will come when we really restore one nation, one sovereignty, one people, really establish the Cheon Il Guk substantially on the earth.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Essence of Heart
Self-Centered Actions Become the Start of Discord
1. In relationships, when people are disharmonious towards each other, we begin to have an unpleasant heart. This is actually common sense, but this is where incidents occur for everyone. This seems like a very trivial thing, but it is very important. We should be forming relationships with people around us well, but when it becomes self-centered, we make mistakes. If you assert yourself or put yourself first, relationships will start to crack. When we first meet each other, we are careful and pay attention. A self-centered heart does not come out. Making mistakes in the smallest things means discord begins when self-centered behavior among people who know each other well causes displeasure to others. This is where the heart is not preserved.
All problems actually come from making mistakes in relationships with people. In relationships, when people are disharmonious towards each other, we begin to have an unpleasant heart.
Then how can we build human relationships well? It is by being complete centered on seeking the interests of others. If you are centered on yourself, you will surely have conflicts and fight with each other.
Therefore, when you have interpersonal relationships, you should live with the heart of meeting for the first time. When we first meet, we are careful towards each other and pay attention not to cause damage. And we also try to understand the other person’s standpoint.
Therefore, we should always live with the first heart. Just like newlyweds, be careful and considerate of each other, and just like when children go to school for the first time, they are both nervous and excited, and careful about everything, we should live our life of faith with the same first heart.
When is the Foundation of Heart Going to Take Shape?
2. When we work with all our sincerity centered on the heart, it will be everlastingly valuable, everlastingly holy and you will be able to achieve eternity. When you do something and focus on achieving an external goal, you lose the center of your heart. However, even if you do one thing, the person who does it faithfully will feel everlasting value. Rather than working diligently with sincerity, if you just try to get things done quickly, you will feel ashamed from that moment. It is just like how quickly making a big fortune in one stroke without any effort actually brings disaster. Therefore, whether one year or ten years passes, if we regularly maintain a sincere life each moment without any loss, the basis of heart will take shape. And then you will gain trust from those around you.
Very important. I am talking about sincerity. I love that word.
In order for the foundation of heart to take shape, first of all, you need to put in all your sincerity in whatever you do. Whatever it is, when we work with all our sincerity, it will be everlastingly valuable, everlastingly holy and you will be able to achieve eternity.
However, when you do something and focus on achieving an external goal and lack sincerity, you lose the center of the heart.
This is the main point. Why do you lose the center of heart? Because of a lack of sincerity. You do not (invest) your utmost sincerity. That is why Father says that “Utmost sincerity moves heaven.” Not just “moves heaven;” moves someone’s heart, your wife’s heart, moves your husband heart, everybody’s heart. It moves heaven.
However, even if you do one thing, the person who does it faithfully will feel everlasting value. Rather than working diligently with sincerity, if you just try to get things done quickly, you will feel ashamed from that moment.
Sincerity. Investing my heart, my effort, my sincere devotion. (This is) how to settle my heart.
The Essence of Heart
3. One who is devoted to even the smallest tasks will eventually gain their central figure’s trust and be entrusted to greater responsibilities. If you do your best to fulfill the responsibilities given to you each moment and do well, you will be trusted by the people around you. This is actually receiving a big reward. This is greater than suddenly making a big profit. If it is a life of gaining profit while being trusted by others, that trust is actually more precious than the profit itself. However, regardless of whether we are trusted or not, we come to think that it is the best if it is profitable for us. That is the problem. The essence of heart is like a seed that brings everlasting benefits. Therefore, we must live as people who have this seed.
One of the most important things in human relationships is gaining the central figure’s trust. Being able to gain trust from those around you is sincerity, none other than that. If I am sincere, I can move everyone’s hearts. That is why the essence of heart is like a seed that brings everlasting benefits.
Therefore, even if the task given to me is the smallest thing, it does not matter; the one who is devoted to that task with utmost sincerity will eventually gain their central figure’s trust and be entrusted to greater responsibilities. Gaining trust is actually receiving a big reward.
Be Sincere to Yourself
4. Our lives today must not be influenced by those around us. You must be sincere to yourself. You cannot live a life of deceiving your original nature. For example, if there is an assignment you need to submit to the teacher but you submit someone else’s and get praised, although the teacher praised you without knowing what you did, it becomes a shameful life for yourself. Sometimes, Father praised us for false things and rebuked us for things we did well. From a humanistic point of view, it is sometimes incomprehensible. But later on, we realize that Father believed in them so that he would not break the morale of those who were excited at that time. This is something we often experience in our lives, but there are times when we feel proud when we deny ourselves and live our lives according to the standards that Heaven desires.
People who are sincere to themselves must not be influenced by those around them.
If someone looks at you or not does not matter. (You are) just sincere to yourself. That means sincere to God.
That is why we cannot live a life of receiving (deceiving?) our original nature. When you deceive your original nature and just work to look good or kill working time or work out of sense of duty, it becomes a very shameful life.
True Father was the number 1 model laborer in Heungnam Prison. Regardless of the circumstances, True Father put all his heart into the work entrusted to him and did his best, thinking of it as God’s work.
We often experience (undeserved trust?) in our lives, but when we lose face without being conscious of someone and (nonetheless) live our lives according to the standards that Heaven desires, our hearts will feel proud no matter what we do, anytime and anywhere.
Today the key point, the key word is what? Sincerity. Why can’t we settle our heart? Because of a lack of sincerity. Only the utmost sincerity moves heaven. There is no more gap, right? What is the best way to build good relationships with God, with people, with your parents, your Abel, your central figures, with your job? What is the best way to have good relationships and settle your heart? That is sincerity.
The essence of heart takes place when it moves based on utmost sincerity.
(Testimony of Romina Raman, Co-District Pastor of District 11, fishing at the leader’s retreat in Alaska)
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