Ep 781 - Women as the Turning Point for Peace Part 3
Women as the Turning Point for Peace - December 15, 2022
Key Points
WFWP has become a global peace movement establishing an ideal peaceful world through creating true-love families, educational programs, volunteer activities and reconciliation movements.
In L.A. Dr. Yong had a vision of holding VIP seminars in each district to encourage study of the DP and registration in the Cheonbowon.
Human beings have the ability to compare love which is not inherently evil. Feeling a sense of decrease is not a sin in itself, but how one digest’s that sense of decrease is important.
That comparative nature protects the absolute hierarchical and vertical standard and order of love in the creation.
In the hierarchy of creation, the things of creation, the angels as servants, and human beings as children should only share sexual love on their respective levels.
Since the Fall and all creation originated from heaven, God, as the Creator and parent, must take responsibility for everything.
God himself must absolutely obey the principles of true love.
God, with the tearful heart of a parent, took responsibility for the fall of his children and has worked hard to restore them.
True love must absorb everything, even evil. That is why hell must be completely abolished.
Whether a child becomes a delinquent or a filial son or daughter who cares for and always reports and seeks guidance from his parents, depends on how much the child is loved, respected, encouraged, appreciated and served by his parents.
We really need to repent in front of God and True Parents.
If the parents of a distant child can show a repentant heart with tears, the spiritual environment will really change and their children, even though they are grown, will surely be influenced by them.
Since God created our original nature, our heart and conscience are God within us.
We can strengthen our heart and conscience, gain wisdom and improve our relationships by living for the sake of others.
Loving people gives us wisdom about how to serve and please them and help them solve their problems.
Three generations – parents, husband and wife, and children – are the trinity of heart in a family.
For a new wife to win her husband’s heart, she must first “subdue” her parents-in-law and other in-laws with service and love and inspire their praise. To win his wife’s heart, the husband should do the same.
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 am going to go to the San Francisco area. I am so excited to go there.
Two days ago, I went hiking with 3 missionaries who are students of Sunmoon University and other leaders. And we really had a good time feeling God’s heart through nature. Whenever I see nature, it heals my heart. I always appreciate nature. It comforts and consoles me, and I can feel (as if I am in) God’s bosom. Sometimes we are stressed and so busy; I think we need to see nature often. It is really beautiful.
We took a group photo with our UPF leaders, the Nassar couple, Jose, Sunmoon University students and Rev. Tangan.
Yesterday, we had a breakfast meeting with CARP members, Kodan leaders, and KEA elders at Pasadena House. It was very beautiful with internal sharing. I can feel a promising future from our CARP members.
This is a group photo.
Today I’d like to talk about “Women as the Turning Point for Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the Women's Federation for World Peace USA Turning Point Assembly for the Abel Women's UN, held on October 27, 2012 at the M Resort in Las Vegas> Since such a women's peace movement can only be realized through global cooperation that goes beyond the NGO level, we hope that the launch of the Abel Women's UN will be the starting point from which the women's peace movement can establish itself in society as the Global Women's Peace Network (GWPN). Looking back, today's historic Abel Women's UN assembly began with the establishment of the Women's Federation for World Peace, which the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and I jointly founded as a central organization for the women's peace movement. With the declaration of the advent of the global era of women, WFWP was established, in accordance with the Will of Heaven, on April 10, 1992, at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. That inaugural event was attended by women representatives from some 70 nations plus 150,000 Korean women leaders.
Furthermore, the goal of the Women's Federation was not to be another ordinary women's organization. It does not aim to be an external, political and combative women's rights movement mainly targeting men, and advocating the expansion of women's rights, gender equality and the women's labor movement. Rather, it is a global peace movement on an entirely new level with the providential significance of realizing the ideal world as God envisaged it at the Creation. Inaugurated against a background of such providential significance, WFWP has engaged in diverse activities over the past twenty years, geared to realizing the vision and ideals of pure love, happy families, and a peaceful world, transcending the barriers of race, religion, language, and national boundaries. This has been carried out in the spirit of Reverend Moon's founding message, in which he urged us to expand a model movement of true love to the whole world based on living for the sake of others.
True Parents said that they hoped that the launch of the Abel Women's UN will be the starting point from which the women's peace movement can establish itself in society as the Global Women's Peace Network (GWPN).
The goal of the establishment of the Women's Federation for World Peace was not to remain as another women's organization. It is a global peace movement of a new dimension with the providential and historical significance of the realization of the ideal world of God's creation.
In particular, we have achieved remarkable development and growth through the establishment of true love families based on true motherly love, various educational programs, support and volunteer activities to improve the status of women, and international conflict resolution and reconciliation movements.
What I (experienced) after coming to L.A. this time was a very clear vision of holding a one-day peace seminar centering on VIPs and leaders connected through ACLC, UPF, and YCLC in each sub-region as well as the Women's Federation to encourage them to study the Divine Principle, and educate them to register for Cheonbowon.
I was so impressed with UPF activity in L.A. There were really prominent people. Of course, we can do something through ACLC, but the number of ACLC members is still not enough. We need to work together centered on the four major organizations: FFWPU, ACLC and YCLC, UPF and WFWP. We need to bring them together and educate them very clearly about the Divine Principle, let them receive the Blessing and (go through) the 43-day condition. We need to teach them the Divine Principle one-on-one and let them register for the Cheonbowon. Then we can reach our goal faster.
In the beginning I wanted to break through that goal through ACLC, but since I met UPF members, I feel really great potential.
I would like to suggest that each of our sub-regional leaders at the beginning of next year, (in order) to break through, invite all the VIPs, educate them clearly and let them thoroughly learn the Divine Principle through one-on-one (teaching). I have confidence (we) can educate them plus we need to explain registration for the Cheonbowon as well.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 11 - The Spiritual Fall 1
• God created human beings with two components: the spirit self and the physical self. The human Fall likewise took place in two dimensions: the spiritual and the physical.
• The fall which took place through the sexual relationship between the angel and Eve was the spiritual fall, while the fall which occurred through the sexual relationship between Eve and Adam was the physical fall.
• How can an act of passionate love be consummated between an angel and a human being?
• All the emotions and sensations felt between a person and a spirit are exactly the same as those felt during contact between two earthly people.
• Undoubtedly, a sexual union between an angel and a person is possible.
• We can understand this more clearly from the fact that there are reported cases of earthly people leading a married life with spirits.
Let’s study Father’s word.
The Archangel’s Feeling of Receiving Less Love
<199-361> The devil was originally the archangel. He was a creature made to be an assistant during the creation of the heavens and earth. As an assistant he was aware that God loved Adam and Eve whom God created as his son and daughter. But he saw that God loved Eve very much and felt that he received less love than Adam and Eve. Besides, he thought that everything created centering on him went to Adam and Eve after they were created. When parents love the younger child then the elder child begins to hate him or her. This is human nature. It’s just the same with the archangel. Naturally, it’s not bad. It is for protecting the absolute standard of a system.
This kind of guidance is very important. I think our Divine Principle did not properly explain this, but Father’s word is very clear. So, let me explain a little bit more.
Originally, the archangel was a creature created to play an assistant role when creating the heavens and the earth. Before creating Adam and Eve, the archangel monopolized God's love, but after creating Adam and Eve, he saw that God's love for them exceeded what he received and felt a decrease in love.
If the parents love the younger child, the older one starts to hate him or her. Human beings have the ability to compare love even if they had not originally fallen. However, that comparing nature is not a bad thing.
Then why did God create humans with the ability to compare love? It is to protect the absolute standard of a system. The difference between God's love for all things, God's love for the archangel, and His love for His children must have a hierarchical and vertical difference.
Feeling a sense of decrease is not a sin in itself, but how you digest that sense of decrease is important. It is the original nature of human beings to be born with the ability to compare love. God did not create to love all things and humans, and angels and humans with the same dimension and value.
There are different levels.
Everyone needs to know where they are in their (respective) position. All things are like all things; angels are like servants; and human beings, as children, should (only) share love in their (own) position.
Without this comparative ability, what would be the order of God's love if humans and animals, and angels and humans could have sexual relations together?
The things of creation, angels as servants, and human beings as children should (only) share (sexual) love on their (respective) levels. If they don’t have different (positions) and values, then “Oh, archangel, you and I can have sexual relationships, we can relate any time, and we can share any time with all things.”
That is why Father talks about a vertical system. We have to be very clear about that. If we cannot distinguish the vertical system, (things) become very confused. That is why God provided each human being a comparative ability.
“Oh, the servants’ level is like that. Children’s level is like that. The level of all things is like that.” We need to have a comparative ability. If we don’t have it, that would be a big issue. Then (there would be) no respect: “You and I are the same.” We need to understand very clearly why God created things like that. Without this comparative ability the order of God’s love would become very confused.
Even God Absolutely Obeys True Love
<296-20> Rev. Moon blessed the saints with murderers this time. From God’s point of view, Satan came from God. God made him. The reason Satan felt less love was due to the love of God. Since everything came from God, God has to digest it all in order to unify everything and become one. There should not be a God who is not able to digest it and gets diarrhea. What if love has diarrhea? What if love gets sick? True love owns subjectivity which is more than enough to digest everything eternally; even God can obey based upon true love. Through this, the logical foundation that is able to settle the unification of the whole world can start. Christianity has thought so far that the absolute God can do anything He wants. But that’s not true. The reason why the Unification Church is great is because it reveals the fact that even God absolutely obeys true love.
True Parents blessed the Four Great Saints and even the worst murderers in history, such as Hitler. Although the Fall was caused by human error, God had to bless even the murderers because God, as the Creator, must take responsibility for everything.
Satan, the devil, and all by-products of the Fall ultimately originated from God's creation, so it is a historical event that True Parents took care of this on behalf of God.
Since God is the God of true love, God himself must absolutely obey the principle of true love that He established. Many believers thought that the absolute God could do whatever he wanted however he pleased.
But that is not the case. The greatness of the Divine Principle is that even God must absolutely obey the principles of true love that He established.
If God does not practice his own principle of true love, who would practice it? God showed the model. He also had to obey his own principle of true love ...
Since both the Fall and creation all originated from heaven, God, with the heart of a parent, took responsibility for the fall of human beings and worked hard to restore them. From that standpoint, we can see how miserable God is.
God needs to follow his own principle. If somebody is a bad guy and immediately judges this and that without following the law of indemnity, this is a big issue.
God is really an amazing guy. He showed the model. He obeys his own principle of true love and the universe.
Therefore, in God's ideal world, no matter how evil the world is, such as hell, it must be completely abolished. In that respect, you should know that hell is something that needs to be abolished someday, not a place that will remain forever.
According to each religions teaching, hell exists forever. Those who have committed sin need to go to hell and stay there forever.
True Parents’ guidance is that hell should be abolished someday. No one will remain in hell. This is total salvation.
If God created hell as an eternal place, then God is not a good god. That is contradictory, right? God is (indeed) an absolutely good God. He does not allow even a small percentage of evil. He did not originally allow any kind of hell of hells, any sin. He (wants only) total liberation.
That is why Father says, “I came to earth in order to liberate hell.” If we liberate hell ... then that is the Kingdom of Heaven. Anyone who has an experience of the Kingdom of Heaven needs to go through hell. When they liberate hell, that is the Kingdom of Heaven.
I really appreciate Father’s ... effort(?). Everybody asks why he came to Las Vegas? Everybody say Las Vegas is “sin city.” Many religious leaders (ask), “Why does he create something over there in Las Vegas?” Father thinks, “If I liberate sin city, which is Las Vegas, that represents liberating hell.” That is why Father went there as the worst place morally. “I need to really re-create this place as a holy place. If I create a model place in Las Vegas, this means I can create the Kingdom of Heaven in the entire world.” That was Father’s motivation. Many said Father went there for gambling or whatever. You need to know what True Parents’ original purpose was. True Parents are amazing; they are surely the messiah. Don’t judge what Father is doing.
I really admire Father and Mother. As religious leaders they went to Las Vegas and loved that place and educated so many people. They created IPEC as the Abel United Nations headquarters.
“You truly loved the world and all humankind. You went to the worst place like the hell of hells like Heongnam and Danbury. You loved them, cared for them, prayed for them.” Our father is an amazing guy. How can we deny that he is the messiah?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Children Who Are Loved by Their Mother Become Children of Filial Piety.
1. Love makes your heart attached to your object partner and miss it. All children become filial children when they receive the utmost love from their mother. However, when a child is raised being beaten by their mother, it is easy for them to become delinquents. Under no circumstances should parents use the language of violence against their children. They should use honorific language. “My dear, my special one, this mother exists because of you, son.” Parents must always respect their children. That way, the child's stubbornness will disappear. They consider their mother's love as the best. A child who has received love from their mother is willing to ask and report anything to her, "Mom! What should I do about this?” But when the mother gets angry with her children, hits them, and makes them feel bad, the children feel resentful. A lot of children wander off because their mothers yell and talk down to them in an adult position.
Whether a child becomes a delinquent or a filial son depends on how much the child is loved and raised by the parents. When children are beaten by their parents and always scolded, it is easy for them to become delinquents.
Under no circumstances should parents use the language of violence against their children. They should use honorific language. “My dear, my special one, my prince, my princess, this mother exists because of you, son.” Parents must always respect their children. You must give constant encouragement and praise to your children.
In particular, children and youth grow well when they receive constant encouragement, love, and praise from the first generation.
In the end, children's stubbornness disappears in front of parents' great love. If parents use respectful words for their children and always encourage and love them, the children will think of their parents as the best. Children who are loved by their mothers try to ask and report anything very naturally.
But when the parents get angry with their children, hit them, and make them feel bad, the children have Han and feel resentful. A lot of children wander off because their parents yell and talk down to them in an adult position.
When I prepared this content, I repented a lot about how well I educated my children. Even though they received the blessing, they still have far to go. Their shortcomings come from where? From me. I cannot blame my wife. She is better than I am.
When I see their shortcomings and weak points, if before I started family I had removed my weak points and fallen nature, how would (they be) now? The quality of my children would (have) been much better.
As you know, I am going to be 66 years old. Our children are already grown up. I realize that my life is getting better. I am getting closer to God. But my children are already grown now.
Oh my God! Before I started my family, if I had removed all my struggle and conflict and fallen nature, how much better the quality of my children would have become. They are still very faithful and try to do their best, but centered on God’s point of view they are still far.
Some children have not yet received the Blessing and (go) here and there wandering. The parents worry about them. First of all, we really need to repent in front of God and True Parents. We need to start from repentance. If we truly repent, the spiritual environment will really change. ... Even though they have left the church or do not connect to the church, even though it is very late, the mother and father (can) show a repentant heart with tears. Even though you cannot express much, (if) you have that kind of heart and mindset, your children, even though they are grown, will surely be influenced by you. Even though it is late, do not give up. You and I have the same kind of fallen nature, right? Without giving up, still serve and love them; that is the point.
Have Sincere Respect for Children
2. Parents, try to sincerely respect your children. Children act based on their original nature, so they know very well whether their parents value them or not. Children don't know their parents’ hearts by learning some kind of psychology or ethics like adults do. Children know by their original nature. Children are not taught to know that. Children know automatically because their hearts are pure and innocent. Children live according to their original nature, so even if they don't know the Principle, they automatically know the answer when they think, “When is my heart happy?” Therefore, my heart is God. In other words, my conscience is God. Then what can I do to strengthen my heart and conscience? Living for the sake of others gives you strength. If you live for the sake of others, your conscience is clear. If you have your own stubbornness and your own concept of possessions, the fallen nature asserting “me” will appear and you will become a coward, a lonely person, a troubled person, and your relationship with other people will deteriorate.
If parents serve and respect their children as if they were serving their parents and Abel-figures, there is no child that does not change.
Children act based on their original nature, so they know very well whether their parents value them or not. Since (children) are spiritual beings, they understand (this) well (through their) original nature even without academic study.
Since God created our original nature and works centering on that nature, if we ask our original nature we immediately get our answer. Even if you don't know the principle, if you think, “When is my heart happy?” you automatically know the answer.
Therefore, my heart is God. In other words, my conscience is God. Then what can I do to strengthen my heart and conscience? Living for the sake of others gives you strength. If you live for the sake of others, you will gain all wisdom.
If you love someone so much, then you can gain (the wisdom) how to love that person.
As much as you love God, you can get incredible wisdom from heaven and apply it to your family and your society (and) in your workplace. Wisdom comes from love.
“I don’t know how to love my son. He (has) already left the church and married outside. I have no idea. I am struggling with my wife and children. I don’t know what to do.”
Before saying this, you need to know how much you really sincerely love them. (However much) you love them, God will provide the wisdom how to love them because wisdom comes from love.
Sometimes if you have no idea how to unite with your spouse, you need to (ask) before solving the problem, “How much do I love my wife, my husband?” If you reflect on that point, then you can gain the wisdom about how to love your spouse.
If you have your own stubbornness and your own concept of possessions, the fallen nature asserting “me” will appear and you will become a coward, a lonely person, a troubled person, and your relationship with other people will deteriorate.
How to Naturally Subjugate Your Husband
3. People who live for the sake of others will have many relationships with good people. First, you must build a good relationship centering on three generations, starting with your own family. Parents, couples, and children are three generations, but in the family, it is a trinity. If women want to get married and their husband to easily fall in love with them, they need to be praised by their parents-in-law first. Her husband is then immobilized and completely subdued. When a woman gets married and serves her parents-in-law well and is praised by them, her husband is ashamed. Why? He could not serve them that way and thinks that his wife pleases his own parents more than he does. Then, automatically, the husband realizes that his wife is precious through his parents. Then, conflicts with the husband begin to disappear. When a woman gets married and the relationship with her parents-in-law deteriorates, the relationship with her husband eventually begins to deteriorate. So, when a woman gets married, she must serve her parents-in-law, sisters-in-law, and brothers-in-law well. When a woman gets married and lays such a foundation, her husband is completely subdued. This is called “natural subjugation.”
Not just women. Also, men. Before loving your wife, you need to love your wife’s relatives, your father-in-law and mother-in-law and your wife’s brothers and sisters. It is the same.
A person who (lives) for the sake of others will have many relationships with good people. The more people live for others, the more God gives them the wisdom to please others. How does wisdom come about? Loving people gives you wisdom. Wisdom comes out (about) how to serve that person, how to please that person, and how to solve that person's problems.
First, you must build a good relationship centering on three generations, starting with your own family. Parents, couples, and children are three generations, but in the family, it is a trinity. Father uses the word “trinity.” Know that parents, husband and wife, and children are the trinity of heart in a family.
In our family, who is the trinity? It is a fundamental trinity.
If a woman want to get married and (have) her husband easily fall in love with her, she needs to be praised by her parents-in-law first. Her husband is then immobilized and completely subdued. Therefore, when a woman gets married, she must first subdue her husband's parents with love. Then the husband naturally surrenders. This is how to subdue your husband. When a woman marries a man and is praised by her husband's parents, he respects his wife and conflicts disappear.
This was my real example. My younger brother married a Japanese wife, Hiroko. I completely surrendered to her. Do you know why? She loves my mom more than her husband, more than anyone, more than me. That is why all the Yong family members completely surrender to her. My mother has a very strong character and sometimes is very stubborn and speaks very loudly. But Hiroko takes care of my mom so well. My younger brother cannot say anything to his wife because she conquered my mother’s heart. When he is angry with Hiroko, then my mother is very upset. “... you said that!” My younger brother and his wife have really united!
I am so grateful that Heavenly Mother sent that kind of incredible gift to the Yong family.
Not just women; it is the same for men. That’s why when my wife said (to me), “Darling, maybe I need to bring my mother and father to Australia to stay with us because no one is taking care of them,” I immediately said, “Yes.” (Now) I really try to love them more than anything else. If I conquer their heart, I (will) automatically conquer my wife’s heart.
When a woman gets married and the relationship with her parents-in-law deteriorates, the relationship with her husband eventually begins to deteriorate. So, when a woman gets married, she must serve her parents-in-law, sisters-in-law, and brothers-in-law well.
When a woman gets married and lays such a foundation, her husband is completely subdued. This is called “natural subjugation.”
On the contrary, the husband must naturally surrender his wife's parents as well.
Today I talked about “Children Who Are Loved by Their Mother Become Children of Filial Piety.”
(Testimony Chungbom Katayama, SR3 CARP leader, Witnessing)♦
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