Ep 789 - The Ideal Home and World Peace Part 2
The Ideal Home and World Peace - December 23, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Crystal Carlson
Key Points
True love can be felt only through experience and acquired throughout life.
People perfect their character as they experience, through this process of stages, the heart of a child, the heart of a brother or sister, the heart of a husband or wife, and the heart of a parent.
People's character and happiness are determined by how rounded, versatile and developed their love becomes as a result of experiencing these stages of life.
Because true love is felt only through experience throughout one’s life, once you lose your physical body, you cannot perfect true love.
God’s true love is experienced concretely through parents’ love, couple’s love, siblings’ love, and children’s love.
The place where these 4 great loves appear together is the family, the Holy of Holies where God is present.
To prevent the Fall, we need to obey God’s Words and the commands of the conscience from our original mind and then dominate our physical body.
The Fall is giving up eternity for momentary gratification, and true love is giving up momentary happiness for eternal happiness.
We must always meet with an Abel whom we respect in heart and with whom we can completely empty ourself, discuss things and make decisions. We should do this habitually.
We must value the parent-child relationship as we value life. It protects us from horizontal temptations.
Make God’s Word and your conscience connect, then deeply value and love Cain.
We should receive the Blessing and start a family, making a revolutionary new start that enables our descendants to eternally inherit true love, true life and the true blood lineage centering on God’s original characteristics of creation.
The purpose of receiving the marriage Blessing is to realize true love.
The family is the final destination of life where we raise true filial sons and daughters with jeongseong and love and in the process become true parents.
The mother’s thoughts, hoondokhae and jeongseong impact the quality of the blood lineage of the baby in the womb.
The mother’s heart, attitude of faith and jeongseong for the baby determine the baby’s quality of blood lineage.
The unborn baby’s mother should always listen to holy songs and songs of praise and read and meditate on True Parents’ words.
The couple should be united.
Great people were changed to good lineage when they were babies in their mothers’ wombs. Great people emerged through their mothers.
The father should love and actively support the mother in carrying the baby well and in bringing up the child well after he or she is born.
The couple needs to risk their lives and offer complete devotion. The heart of jeongseong, attendance, and serving ultimately purifies the blood.
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 “The Ideal Home and World Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the 2nd International Convention of the Women's Federation for World Peace, held on August 23, 1995, at Hotel Lotte World, Seoul, Korea.> As people grow, receiving their parents' love, they experience the heart of children. And through the love between brothers and sisters, they experience the heart of brothers and sisters. When they mature as perfected true people with true character, through their married life, they experience conjugal love and the heart of husband and wife. When they give birth to children, through those children they experience the parental heart. All creation wants love and needs love. And people are especially filled with happiness when they feel true love and live a life based on true love. When they give and receive love, they are vibrant with life. The perfume of life blossoms in genuine love.
Love is the fountain of an individual's happiness, life and joy. This precious, genuine love is not obtainable through external knowledge or external conditions or techniques. True love can be felt only through experience and acquired through life. Human beings were created to develop and embody God's true love, step by step, during their growth period, through their life experiences. In other words, people perfect their character as they experience, through this process of stages, the heart of a child, the heart of a brother or sister, the heart of a husband or wife and the heart of a parent. People's character and happiness are determined by how rounded, how versatile and developed their love becomes as a result of experiencing these stages of life. To achieve the perfected ideal, their love must come to have the same qualities of maturity, unselfishness and total investment that characterize God's own love.
Precious, genuine love is not obtainable through external knowledge or external conditions or techniques. True love can be felt only through experience and acquired through life.
In other words, people perfect their character as they experience, through this process of stages, the heart of a child, the heart of a brother or sister, the heart of a husband or wife and the heart of a parent. People's character and happiness are determined by how rounded, how versatile and developed their love becomes as a result of experiencing these stages of life.
Because true love is felt only through experience and acquired through life, once you lose your physical body, you cannot perfect true love. What we have to
know is that true love is not obtained through external knowledge or external conditions.
I emphasize once again: God’s true love is never an ambiguous love. If you ask most believers to explain in detail about what kind of love God’s true love is, none of them are able to explain.
However, the true love of God that True Parents speak about is one which emerges concretely through parents’ love, couple’s love, siblings’ love, and children’s love.
Then what is the (place where) these 4 great loves appear together? It is the family. That is why the family is the Holy of Holies where God is present.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 13 - The Physical Fall
• Eve then seduced Adam with the hope that by uniting with him, she could rid herself of the dread and stand before God once again This was Eve's motivation which led to the physical fall.
• Seeing Adam as her only hope of returning to God,
• Eve turned to Adam and tempted him, playing the same role as the Archangel had played when he had tempted her.
• Adam responded and formed a common base with Eve, and they began give and take action with each other. The power of the unprincipled love generated in their relationship induced Adam to abandon his original position and brought them together in an illicit physical relationship of sexual love.
• When Adam united in oneness with Eve, he inherited all the elements Eve had received from the Archangel. These elements in turn have been passed down to all subsequent generations without interruption.
• What if Adam had reached perfection without having yielded to fallen Eve's temptation? The providence to restore Eve would have been relatively easy.
Let’s study this more in detail.
The Things to be Careful About in our Life of Faith
Firstly: Who should you trust more? This is very important. Eve had to make a decision whether to believe God’s words or give into Satan’s seduction. It was a matter of life and death. If she had cherished God’s words more than the sexual arousal felt by her physical body and instead been sensitive to the anxiety and fear felt by her original mind, she never would have fallen. However, she turned toward the sexual arousal of her body instead of the eternal anxiety and fear of her original mind.
We need to first believe in God’s Words more and put them into practice. So, to prevent the Fall, we need to obey God’s Words and the commands of the conscience which come from our original mind. Therefore, we should be stimulated by the Word and gain spiritual energy and then dominate our physical body.
The Fall is giving up eternity for momentary gratification, and true love is giving up momentary happiness for eternal happiness.
Which one will you choose? Momentary gratification or eternal happiness. We need to control our physical desires.
Secondly: We have learned that all the attributes arising from the motivation and process of the spiritual fall between the archangel and Eve and the physical fall between Eve and Adam became the fallen natures and they have been passed down to our descendants. Here we can realize the great importance of subject and object in give and take action. There must always be principled give and take action between subject and object.
Principled give and take action between subject and object is important. So, you must always meet a good Abel figure. A good Abel is not just someone in the Abel position in terms of organization, it means an Abel whom I respect in heart and with whom I can completely empty myself and discuss (things).
We need to make a habit of always discussing with Abel and making decisions. If making self-centered decisions becomes a habit, your faith can no longer grow.
That is why we always need to have give-and-take with our Abel figure. Don’t make the decisions by yourself. If your decision-making by yourself becomes a habit, that becomes a problem. Then your life of faith cannot grow any more.
Another important thing in our life of faith is that we must value the parent-child relationship as we value life. It is a strict rule that when the parent-child relationship is severed, horizontal temptations are sure to come.
Therefore, make effort to always make God’s Word and your conscience connect. Then, you can maintain your vertical standard. Then you must love Cain on top of the foundation of first establishing that vertical standard.
Furthermore, when establishing a family, one should seek the position that has nothing to do with fallen Adam and Eve. That is, a position accomplished through indemnity. In that position, a bride and bridegroom should receive the blessing so that they can establish their family centering on true love. Thus, they should make a revolutionary new start that enables their descendants to eternally inherit true love, true life and the true blood lineage centering on God’s original characteristics of creation. This is the very blessing ceremony presided over by True Parents of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.
The position where we receive the Blessing and start a family is going through a course of original creation which Adam and Eve were unable to go through. Therefore, it is a principle that Blessed families start from the position that has nothing to do with the fallen lineage.
Thus, they should make a revolutionary new start that enables their descendants to eternally inherit true love, true life and the true blood lineage centering on God’s original characteristics of creation.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Family is the Final Destination of Life
1. Family is the final destination of life. What was the purpose of receiving the marriage Blessing? The purpose of receiving the marriage Blessing is to realize true love. However, seeing that many couples of blessed families lose this purpose and just go to work and focus on financial problems, God is very concerned. In particular, the mothers of the family should know that they did not marry to have a job or a part-time job. What we must clearly know is that we do not have families for the sake of surviving but for the sake of realizing true love. Of course, there are inevitable circumstances where the wife must work because of financial situations. However, if possible, the mother should do her utmost to nurture her children well. The reason we become couples and have a family is to raise true filial sons and daughters. Can you raise your children as filial sons and daughters without sincere devotion? In the family, rather than the mother having a job, the top priority must be to raise the children as filial sons and daughters. And she must always use honorific language form towards the children. Do not use casual language. Do not use casual language from the time the baby is in the womb.
What was the purpose of receiving the marriage Blessing? The purpose of receiving the marriage Blessing is to realize true love. In that sense, the family is the final destination of life. All fruits should be seen in the family.
Blessed families must put the realization of true love as top priority. However, God is very concerned because blessed couples just focus on work and financial problems and neglect their family.
Depending on what Blessed families put as their top priority, they might receive Heavenly fortune or not.
What we must clearly know is that we do not have families for the sake of surviving but for the sake of realizing true love.
The reason we become couples and have a family is to raise true filial sons and daughters. To raise your own children as filial sons and daughters, rather than money or school education, you need to raise your children with even greater jeongseong and love.
Through the process of raising children of filial piety we become true parents.
We cannot become true parents without children of filial piety. Therefore, becoming true parents is the final course of perfecting true love.
Why did True Parents give us such a wonderful Blessing? Of course, we need to make money; we need to have a job. But the first priority is realizing an ideal family. What is an ideal family? As parents we need to raise our filial sons and daughters very well. When we do this, we truly become true parents, our job is over. That’s it. This is the most important thing.
If a person puts his job as the first priority, that is an issue. If he doesn’t have time to talk with the children, has no give-and-take action and just feeds (and cares) for them externally, this is a big issue. Why did we receive the Blessing? Receiving the Blessing is to realize an ideal family, that is, raising our sons and daughters as filial sons and daughters. That is the main purpose. When you raise sons and daughters very well, then you already have the qualification to become true parents.
The Mother’s Thoughts Have an Influence on the Quality of Blood Lineage of the Baby in the Womb
2. A couple must offer utmost sincere devotion from the time the baby is in the womb. The mother cannot use casual language towards the baby in the womb. During the ten months in the womb, the couple must be united and offer sincere devotion. In particular, the baby’s mother should always listen to holy songs and songs of praise and read and meditate on True Parents’ words. When the baby who is born from that kind of jeongseong comes into the world, when they hear holy songs, even if they are crying, they immediately stop and calm down. And when the mother does Hoondokhae, the baby will sleep peacefully. When the mother has a baby, the mother’s heart and attitude of faith determines the baby’s quality of blood lineage. If she just spends her days with her normal habits without any jeongseong like other pregnant women of the secular world, when she has the baby, the mother’s lineage comes out as so. The baby comes out without any change of lineage. The mother’s thoughts and attitude of faith determine whether the baby’s blood will become holy or clouded. You must clearly know that the mother’s thoughts have an influence on creating the baby’s blood lineage.
This is truly amazing content!
To become true parents, you need to raise your own children as God’s filial sons and daughters. To raise your children as filial sons and daughters, the couple must offer utmost sincere devotion from the time the baby is in the womb. You need to start offering sincere devotion before the pregnancy and offer even greater devotion after becoming pregnant.
The mother should live by first conceiving the Word for the sake of the baby in the womb. There is no better education in the womb than for the mother to live by always conceiving the Word. During the ten months in the womb, the couple must be united and offer sincere devotion. The quality is different for children born after the parents offered sincere devotion.
While the mother has the baby in the womb for 9 or 10 months is extremely important. It can determine the quality of the blood lineage. That is why these 10 months are extremely important. Once the baby comes out, his or her destiny(?) is almost completely decided. One cannot change it. It is almost impossible to change. That is why the most important time period is while the baby is in the mother’s womb.
In particular, the baby’s mother should always listen to holy songs and songs of praise and read and meditate on True Parents’ words. When the mother has a baby, the mother’s heart and attitude of faith determines the baby’s quality of blood lineage.
The mother’s jeongseong for the baby determines the baby’s quality of blood lineage. If she just spends her days with her normal habits without any jeongseong like other pregnant women of the secular world, when she has the baby, the mother’s lineage comes out just like that.
The internal change of blood lineage of whether the baby’s blood will become holy or clouded is determined by the mother’s thoughts and attitude of faith.
Great Mothers Make Good Children
3. Jesus’ mother, Mary, conceived Jesus in her womb and risked her life to protect the baby as she spent 10 months offering sincere devotion. After Jacob’s wife, Rachel, conceived, because she offered sincere devotion day and night, Joseph was born and later became the prime minister.
If you look at great people, all of them were changed to good lineage when they were babies in their mothers’ womb. You need to know this. If the mother becomes pregnant and her heart and attitude of faith are good during 10 months, a child of lineage better than the parents will be born. So if you look at history until now, great people emerged through their mothers. This is the reason we hear that good children emerge because their mother was great rather than the father. More than hearing that great children were born because their father was great, we hear that great mothers make good children.
Jesus’ mother, Mary; Moses’ mother Jochebed, Jacob’s Mother, Rebekah; Joseph’s mother, Rachel; Isaac’s mother, Sarah; True Father’s mother, Chungmo Nim; True Mother’s mother, Daemo Nim, and so on conceived their children while risking their lives for their children, protecting them, and offering sincere devotion.
If you look at great people, all of them were changed to good lineage when they were babies in their mothers’ womb. In order for there to be internal and heartistic change of lineage, you have no idea how important the mother’s jeongseong and attitude of faith are.
So if you look at history until now, great people emerged through their mothers. This is the reason we hear that good children emerge because their mother was great rather than the father.
And the fathers of families should actively support so that the mother can carry the baby well and bring up the child well after he or she is born. The father must make sure that the mother is loved and moved by him so that it becomes energy for her.
Change of Heart and Change of Lineage
4. A great child being born is not something that depends on the father but on the mother. We must know that the baby’s blood is changed in the mother’s womb. In fact, you will realize that heart or blood can be seen as the same. In the end, the heart of attendance and serving purifies blood. Therefore, we need to purify our blood through attendance and serving. We need to recreate the blood lineage centered on fallen nature until now to blood lineage of God’s Words. We need to get rid of the blood centered on fallen nature and change it into God’s blood. This is change of lineage. Therefore, for this change of lineage to happen, change of heart must first take place. We have not known where and how it is changed until now.
The father’s jeongseong is also important for a great child to be born, but we need to know that it depends entirely on the mother. If you know that the baby’s blood changes in the mother’s womb, blessed couples have to risk their lives and offer the greatest devotion.
We need to risk our lives and offer our complete devotion just like Jochebed, Moses’ mother; Mary, Jesus’ mother; and Daemonim, who raised True Mother.
In conclusion, the heart of jeongseong, attendance, and serving ultimately purifies blood. So, knowing that blood is purified through offering jeongseong, attending, and serving, we need to offer sincere devotion starting from when the baby is in the womb.
Therefore, for this change of lineage to happen, a change of heart must first take place. We have not known where and how it is changed until now.
Today I spoke about “The family as the final destination of life and the change of heart and (blood) lineage.
We receive the Blessing, it is an external condition to remove the original sin through drinking the holy wine, 40 days separation and the 3-day ceremony. But internally in order to completely change our blood lineage, it is very important before starting family as a husband and wife., always (to invest) jeongseong (and consider) how we can really have a wonderful baby. The husband and wife really need to invest a lot of jeongseong. Then when the wife becomes pregnant, they need to seriously put in more jeongseong. Through this kind of process, the baby’s quality is much better. Once the baby comes out, it is not easy to change. His life is almost (entirely) destined.
We need to (give birth?) very well. This education is from the principled point of view and our True Parents’ guidance.
(Testimony Crystal Carlson, Midwest BFM coordinator, Achieve Program)♦
(Response to sharing) If we have the experience of the transformation of our heart, then our blood lineage will have changed. Changing the heart means changing our blood lineage. That is why (in order to) change our blood lineage, how can we change our heart? How can we understand more about God’s and True Parents’ heart? This is important. The extent to which we change our heart, we can change our own blood lineage. That is the point.
(Response to second sharing) When I study this content, (I imagine) if I had known more (about this) earlier, my children’s quality (would have been) much better.
I prepared this content for our young generation. As the older generation, you need to teach your children how to raise your grandchildren well.♦
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