Ep 784 - Women as the Turning Point for Peace Part 6
Women as the Turning Point for Peace - December 18, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Tatayoshi Miyamoto
Key Points
If everyone can live a life for others with the principle and values of true love, all the problems in the world will be solved.
If we show it, everyone will follow, even if they are told not to.
The archangel and the angelic world are not perfected by the angels themselves, nor are they by God, but they are automatically completed when human beings reach perfection and govern them.
Lucifer and all things are perfected by receiving God’s love through human beings whose love has been perfected in God’s image.
They are loved most when consumed by humans.
God has determined the roles of parents, children and servants according to the principle of creation and judges them according to that principle, not originally intending to intervene in their activities nor to evaluate them.
At the time of the Fall, when Adam and Eve had reached puberty and were at the completion level of the growth stage, they were bound to have had sexual curiosity.
The archangel felt sexual temptation while watching Eve like that.
According to God's principle of creation of love, pluses were created to attract minuses, and minuses to attract pluses.
Because of this natural attraction Adam and Eve had to be mindful of God’s commandment in order to overcome the temptation and keep their purity.
As future owners of the creation, controlling their sexual organ by following God’s protective commandment was their portion of responsibility.
The purpose of our physical body, as the “tree” of our spirit, is for our spirit self to grow and bear fruit.
So, we eat, drink, and wear clothing not simply to sustain the life of our body but to receive the energy of God’s love, to grow our inner or spirit self, and to make our heart happy in order to attend our God well.
We should eat and drink with gratitude to God and to the person who prepared the meal.
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 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> Therefore, it is time for all people to be humbly obedient to Heaven's decree. Today, I hope you will bear in mind that that fateful date is approaching and that we need to devote ourselves completely, with a life or death commitment, for the remaining time, following the guidance of True Father, the king of peace, and savior of humanity, who now presides over the providence from the heavenly realm, and that of True Mother here on earth. Beloved women leaders! The course for humanity is set. Now that we have D-day, which Heaven has given us through True Parents, what reason is there to hesitate? We now have less than four months. Heaven will bless endeavors to establish a world of peace based on the Abel Women's UN.
However, I would like to reemphasize that the priority of the Abel Women’s UN should be creating a true family movement that emphasizes living for the sake of others based on true love, and carried out in conjunction with education in proper values. War and conflict arise from selfish motives—desiring to take others' land, others' possessions or the like, by force. On the other hand, peace arises from investing oneself for the sake of others—that is, giving based on true love. Those leaders who turn their faces away from the new realities of the world, or who fail to see them, will be pushed aside by the changes coming upon us like a tsunami. I believe the time has now come for us to step forward boldly and receive new opportunities and values.
True Parents have reemphasized that the Women's Federation, as the Abel Women's UN Movement, must prioritize creating a true family movement that emphasizes living for the sake of others based on true love, and carried out in conjunction with education in proper values.
War and conflict arise from selfish motives—desiring to take others' land, others' possessions or the like, by force. On the other hand, peace arises from investing oneself for the sake of others—that is, giving based on true love.
Therefore, we must instill in all people the princi ples and values of true love centered on God. If eve ry one can live a life for others with this principle and values of true love, all the problems in the world will be solved.
What True Mother has emphasized was that we must live a life that shows and educates the principles and values of true love. If we show it, everyone will follow. If we show how to be a true woman, a true wife, a true mother, and a true woman leader, the whole world will follow us, even if they are told not to.
Showing the model is the key from now on because we have God, True Parents, the Divine Principle and we can teach. The last thing is how we can show and become the model. That is our most important task and portion of responsibility.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 11 - The Spiritual Fall 1
• Lucifer wanted to grasp the same central position in human society as he enjoyed in the angelic world, as the channel of God’s love. This was why he seduced Eve, and this was the motivation of the spiritual fall.
• Lucifer, who left his proper position due to his excessive desire, and Eve, who wanted to open her eyes and become like God before the time was ripe, formed a common base and began give and take action. The power of the unprincipled love generated by their give and take led them to consummate an illicit sexual relationship on the spiritual plane.
The Standard of Perfection in the World
of Human Beings and the Angels
• The perfection of angels and the angelic world is to be accomplished through a perfected person not through God. Then lastly, all things are to be perfected. All things are to be perfected through a perfected person.
• The standard of perfection in the world of human beings and the angels is to accomplish a pair(couple). That of all things is to be accomplished when dominated by perfected human beings. If Adam and Eve get married, they are to enter the realm of God’s direct dominion as well as to have a first night in their marriage. Then they will never be able to fall again neither their children.
The archangel and the angelic world are not perfected by the angels themselves, nor are they by God. That world is automatically completed when human beings reach perfection and govern the angels and the angelic world.
In addition, when human beings reach perfection and dominate all things, all things are completed. As long as there is no perfection of human beings, there is no perfection of angels, the angelic world, and all things.
How important our portion of responsibility as human beings is. We are the ones who make all things perfect, (including) the archangel and the angelic world. Our portion of responsibility is really incredible!
Perfection of All Things and of Lucifer
• Perfection of all things means to receive God’s love. All things are to realize God’s love through human beings (one whose love is perfected resembling God’s image).
• The best way for all things to receive love from humans is for all things to be absorbed by humans and become part of human cells. In that sense, when all things are consumed by humans, they are loved the most.
• Lucifer knew the Principle of creation better than anyone else.
• God had already fixed each role of parents, children and servants according to the principle of creation. The parents are to judge the results upon the principle of creation, not to intervene in the process nor to evaluate it.
True Father said that all things consider it the most glorious when they are consumed through the human mouth. This is because when they are ingested by humans, they become part of the human body and become cells.
By being eaten by humans, they become human cells, and all things become one with humans. Therefore, True Father said that human beings should think that they are eating God's love while consuming all things.
Perfection in Adam and Eve
As long as Adam and Eve are able to keep their purity of their sexual organ before the marriage by God, they can be perfected. The responsibility of the archangel, Lucifer was to protect them to keep their purity in the sexual organ before the marriage. If he had kept the standard, Adam and Eve would never have fallen. However he committed the fall in an instant sexual desire while comforting and hugging Eve.
Since Adam and Eve had reached puberty when they were 17 or 18 years old, they were bound to have had sexual curiosity. At the time of the Fall, Adam and Eve were at the completion level of the growth stage, with the level of love being almost the same as that of the archangel.
When Adam and Eve fell, they had already reached puberty. When they reach puberty, they naturally become sexually curious, and the archangel also felt sexual temptation while watching Eve like that.
According to God's principle of creation of love, pluses were created to attract minuses, and minuses to attract pluses. At this time, Adam and Eve had to think about the commandment given by God. Even though there was a temptation from the archangel and their bodies pulled, they had to overcome the temptation and keep their purity.
Overcoming the temptation of the archangel was Adam and Eve's portion of responsibility. If they had overcome the temptation, they would have stood in the position of a better owner than the archangel because they would have been in the position of controlling their sexual organ, the organ of love.
Just as temptations come to our teenagers when they reach puberty, God knew that when Adam and Eve passed the top of the growth stage, there would always be temptations from the archangel, so God gave them the commandment.
Of course, externally we are talking about temptation ... Plus and minus need to have give-and-take. They need to pull each other. If they did not have that character, how could (there be) a relationship between man and woman? (That is) the natural law of the Principle. When Adam and Eve became 17 or 18 years old and became teenagers, automatically they had sexual curiosity. That is original nature, not the fall, not sin. The archangel was at the same level. Definitely Adam and Eve had to pass through that kind of level at the top of the growth stage. The archangel had kind of the same spiritual standard. When the archangel looked at Eve, “Wow! So beautiful!” He felt tempted. At the time Eve had to be careful because physical desire is very strong. Sometimes we can forget God’s word at that point. That is why we need to remind ourself what God is saying, what his commandment is. If she remembers his commandment and overcomes temptation and controls her sexual temptations, she fulfills her responsibility.
When our children become 13 or 14, or 16 or 17, all temptations come (to them). They need to overcome them. If they overcome (them) and have self control, wow! They become qualified to be the owner of love. ... This is a natural process to overcome that kind of temptations. How can they overcome it? They need to align (themselves) with God and know the commandment. This is important.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Body is the Tree of My Spirit Self
The Reason Why We Eat Food
1. If there is no taste when eating, that person is sick. Every time you eat a meal, it tastes good, and if you are happy and thankful, it is proof that you are healthy. Every time I eat, when the food is good, I feel very happy, and I feel grateful to the person who prepared the meal. These people are mentally very healthy. And I am grateful to my mother who prepared the meal, then I go further and thank God. But why do we eat food? Although it is just consuming food, in the end we do it to make our hearts happy based on our physical bodies. Why do we eat delicious food? To make our hearts happy. From this standpoint, my heart is the God of my body. Then what is the purpose of making our hearts happy? It is to serve God who is related to me so that my inner self, my spirit self, grows well. Therefore, you need to know why you eat. It is not because of the body that we consume food.
The purpose of a tree is to bear fruit. Fertilizing and spraying pesticides on trees is to produce good fruit.
In the same way, the purpose of our physical bodies is for our spirit selves to bear fruit. What we eat, drink, and wear is ultimately for the growth of our spirit selves.
Therefore, we must know that the purpose of eating is not just to satisfy the physical body, but also to grow the inner self, the spiritual self.
Every time I eat, when the food tastes good, I feel very happy, and I feel grateful to the person who prepared the food. These people are mentally very healthy.
The purpose of eating food is to make our heart happy based on our physical bodies. Then, what is the purpose of making our hearts happy? It is to serve the God who is related to me well so that my inner man, my spirit self, grows well.
From this standpoint, my heart is the God of my body. Therefore, we need to know why we eat. It is not because of this body that we eat a meal, and it is not just to sustain human life.
Therefore, when we take food, we must always be grateful. All food that enters my body becomes the energy to practice love. Father said, “Food is God’s love.” So, don’t think you are (simply) eating food, but (that) you are eating God’s love. Think that God is providing me with the energy of love by providing food.
When I ate the food my mother cooked, I ate love. One of my ministries is a food ministry. Serving food to others is serving them God’s love. Before you go to the spiritual world, check how many people you served food to. 100 people? 1,000 people? 10,000 people? Don’t forget that serving food is sharing God’s love. Whenever I have a meal with someone, I try to pay for the food all the time.
Imagine, for example, we live to be 100. Our year has 365 days. If you serve food to others for 365 days, that would be 36,500 times. I think that anyone who serves food to more than 30,000 (people) will never go to hell, and will go to heaven because food is God’s love.
When you have a meal, don’t just enjoy it physically, but really appreciate it, “Wow! God has provided this food. How many people touched this food to bring it to my table? Somebody planted it to bear fruit, someone arranged to bring it to my table; before that it needed to be well cooked. All kinds of people (were involved). We really need to appreciate it when we eat something; then it is connected to our spiritual body.
So, food is God’s love. We really need to share (food with) people. That is why I really try to serve food and when we eat together, I try to pay for it. This is the culture of hospitality. The more I serve, the more I do hospitality, God will provide everything. We never will become minus.
That is why I (ask myself) before I die, how many people can I feed. (If I serve) once a day, let’s say 36,500 times. I am now 66 years old. How many times did I buy and serve food to others? I did not calculate; I do not want to calculate, but let’s say we serve that much to others, give food to others, this is sharing God’s love. We need to have that kind of mentality, concept and attitude. Always serving. The culture of hospitality is very important. Then your spiritual body becomes very strong. Don’t forget that the reason we eat food is to receive the energy of God’s love and bear fruit with my spirit self.
The Body is the Tree of My Spirit Self
2. Most of us think we eat because we are hungry. That is not the case. The body is the tree of my spirit self. The purpose of the physical body is to grow the spirit self. That is God's purpose of creation. The body eventually returns to dust. The relationship between the physical body and the spirit body is like that between a fruit and its tree. A farmer fertilizes a tree to make it bear fruit. A farmer wakes up at dawn to look after fruit trees and takes care of and loves the surrounding environment so that the tree can produce well. So why do we love our bodies? It is so that our spirit selves can bear fruits well through our physical bodies. You should know very well that your body develops your spirit self. However, the problem is that the physical life for the sake of the physical body has nothing to do with our spirit self.
Our body is the tree of our spirit self. The purpose of the physical body is to grow the spirit self. That is God's purpose of creation.
Why do we love our bodies? It is so that our spirit selves can bear fruit well through our physical bodies.
You should know very well that your body develops your spirit self. However, the problem is that the physical life for the sake of the physical body has nothing to do with our spirit self.
The reason people in the world eat food is simply to satisfy hunger and maintain physical health. But those who know the Principle must not forget that the reason for eating is to become a person of love.
Therefore, when we eat and drink, we should always eat with gratitude and love, knowing that it is for the growth of our inner self, the spirit self.
Whenever you take any meal, you need to think, “Is this only to satisfy my physical desire, or does this relate to my spiritual self?
Today I have presented about 'The Body is the Tree of My Spirit Self'.
(Testimony Tatayoshi Miyamoto, Thanksgiving Youth Reunion, NYC)♦
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