Something in the Middle Called Life

Hyo Jin Moon
February 19, 2006
Belvedere

Here are my notes taken while Hyo-Jin spoke last Sunday. I am a poor note taker and these at most convey some sense of what was on Hyo-Jin-nim's mind and are not a verbatim record.

Joe Kinney

My topic is Something in the Middle Called Life.

We don't really have a choice about our birth or our death. Life is that thing in the middle between our birth and our death.

Scientist can claim to "create" live by in-vitreo fertilization. They use their knowledge to combine genetic material in a Petri dish but they can't really take credit for creating life.

Just because you have knowledge and power doesn't justify your activities.

You can use suicide can control the time and manner of your death, but it isn't really right.

So finally life is that thing in the middle between life and death. You have the power of choice which gives you control.

As you get older and older because life gets more complicated, choices can be more difficult.

If we consider life is 90 years and we sleep 8 hours a day, then we spend 30 years sleeping. The rest of the time you put stuff into your mouth and it is processed and then comes out and you move your body around from place to place.

You spend 18 years getting an education and this determines your life's goal.

Based on challenges you have to make choices.

Who is the biggest employer in America? The government is the largest and the next is Wal-Mart. Maybe the high-tech government contractors which have the brightest engineers and influential people have more power than Wal-Mart.

Any major project requires government support and organization, but besides that the economy is up to the free market which is fundamentally driven by greed for money.

So what is the end purpose of this economy? Money? Is that what's most important?

What is the purpose of power and money?

The best investment is to invest in people.

People want wealth and power. Everyone wants to move up.

Its very difficult to unify a single nation, much less the whole world.

What do you see in the USA's largest employeer Wal-Mart or Sam's Club? You see food, TVs and other stuff for your body.

Parents tell their kids to become doctors and lawyers because these are the most secure professions, not because they want them to find a cure for cancer or something. If they do it's just a side benefit.

Out of 90 years on earth you have just 30 years of time that you can use to make a difference. So how can you do it? You must have some kind of value and direction.

How can you use direction in your life? Two realities, pessimistic or optimistic.

We are always dealing with this kind of dualities.

We need a greater principle and higher value to make the right choices under the pressure of dualities.

God's command is called our responsibility.

It's fun to act irresponsibility and not to care.

I'll try not to curse, but that's the kind of people that I grew up with.

So if there is a market demand and I make a right product, I can make lots of money in the free market.

There is a limitation to this.

The free market can be very nationalistic. Americans may only want to buy made in USA and Koreans may only want to buy Korean mad goods.

You have to make choices every day and it can be overwhelming. That's called life.

This is why Father does things. Whose value is the greatest value?; The value that can tie everything together.

All the value of this (speaking every week) is if I can give you one or two thoughts that you can think about for a week. You have to know the limit of this.

Vainglorious stuff can really ruin everything.

There are no guarantees in life, but every day we need personal values to make choices.

Knowing what I can do. Knowing what I have to do. Knowing how to die well. Those are the choices we can make.

I made stupid choices in my life and I will pay for those till the day I die.

See you next week.

Family

Hyo Jin Moon
January 29, 2006
Belvedere
Transcription: T. K.

Good morning.

I'm in the process of debugging myself, so just bear with me today.

Today, I want to share with you about family.

How many people come from a large family? (Audience response) More than 10? (Laughter)

I have an older sister, older brother and,.many younger brothers and sisters and when you look at my family situation there’s always an issue, all the time -- resonating. Somebody always has a little more than the other guy.

In tradition in general, even in Western culture -- there are many countries in Western society that still hold on to certain kind of tradition, historical tradition. Let’s say having a monarchy. I need to have a certain, very strong way of thinking, in terms of government and politics and social structure. So there’s a basic structure that we pretty much accept. The reason I didn’t talk about it or mention our society already, is because it’s pretty much a given. In China, Japan, and Korea there are certain traditions that are just untouchable and it’s permanent and it always will be permanent.

So there are certain things that we always expect out of it and basically what it comes to even personally speaking my family situation, well there’s the horoscope way or even when I was growing up that he gets it more than me and I want to be equal, I want more fairness. (Laughter)

Of course all my little brothers and sisters, they like that too, they want that stuff more than anything because, I guess, someone, some unfortunate sole like me is the primary cause of all that ruckus.

So when you think about that situation, I don’t know, is that a blessing? Depends on how you look at it I guess. What if you got nothing? I don’t think that’s a blessing. What if you have everything is that a blessing? I don’t think so either. It could be a primary source of greater conflict and ruckus to come. So you can’t really just accept certain things just because it’s there, Because there’s a story behind the story, right? Always, because we’re human. In a human society even down to the microcosm level or single family, you know family, that stuff is real.

There’s a story behind a story. Why? Because they’re individuals who make up a greater something and it moves up. So as it moves up obviously the story gets larger and more complicated because there is a story behind a story behind a story… blah, blah, I don’t know. So that’s the basic kind of complex reality that you have to kind of sort through if you want to do something like make changes in society. So you have to try to understand, so basically even when we talk Principle, we talk about Principle in a very simple way. We know you must first understand when you go through the rigors of basic workshop up to an advanced workshop, we try to understand the reality of subject and object relationship.

Starting with that let’s just start with that. What is the point of going through the rigors of being educated about that relation of subject and object, which is fundamental in Divine Principle. And just trying to remind us how to think and how to approach how to analyze how to understand not just myself but that guy, the subject, and that is the basic. That is the basis of trying to, you know, kind of pound you with the basics. And that is the essence of what we have to walk away with after hearing all those things over and over and over again. Not just knowing myself, but what about that guy?

That is the basic, the premise in which why we go through the rigors of going through those workshops and being drilled with things over and over and over, because it’s difficult. Why, because it’s ongoing. You have too many times ... the greater difficulty and practical reality is that things happen -- you have to understand and learn at the same time, in real time. And it’s changing constantly. It’s not always just linear and stagnant, it’s constantly flux and many times the peaks are higher, many times the values are lower, it’s not always consistent and even if it’s always on the course of a ripple. It is very, very organic. That’s the problem that we face. So based on certain kind of even simple measurement or standard of measurement we have difficulty because sometimes it peaks above it sometimes it dives under it.

So how do you measure yourself, when things like that happen? In those circumstances what is my duty, I guess, what is my, you know, responsibility to somehow secure myself to give me some kind of stability. Because in the end you’re in control of yourself in terms of stability, right? Because you’re in control of your actions in the end! Right or wrong, you have to face up to your consequences if you want to be responsible. If you want to deny responsibility, yeah you can do whatever the hell you want. But if you want to be responsible you have to make that responsibility and creating that stability for yourself. So how do you go about doing that?

Well let me just start from myself, you know. I have a older sister, I know she wants to be me (Laughter). And have a lot of younger brothers and sisters who want to be me to. Some have it more than others and that’s fine with me. But I think about, so how do I fit in with even just the basic family situation -- that we all have as person who’s standing in front of us, who has a position whether I like it or not, it’s not voluntary stuff. It was just shoved (Laughter), given to (Audience laughter) I had no choice. I lent myself for that, no, you know what, it doesn’t come like that just, hey do that, okay? You’re just stuck with it forever. Alright, so what can I do with this stuff.

So in this kind of horizontal… the funny thing is, the girls, they, you know, my little sisters they’re constantly complaining, “I want to be treated like the boys, I want equal treatment, I wanna so everything like a man, How come all these boys get all this preference treatment” Blah, blah, blah… on and on. And I, you know, okay, okay, okay no problem I can handle it. But some of the other boys might not agree (Laughter). So pretty much the girls want what the boys have and whether it’s younger or older. But the boys want what the older brother has. (Laughter)

And in our unique situation because we have Cain and Abel type families and children centering on Father, you know, Cain family they want what Abel family has (Laughter). But it’s all this kind of chasing around, stuff, and what are you chasing basically in the end? That’s about it. That’s the cause of the problem, a bunch of them, pretty much general conflict 99.99 percent of the time that’s about it. It’s very rare to fight over something else. And that’s it! And it starts from your family, whether you like it or not.

I’m not special. We’re not special in this case, you understand me? Everybody has this problem. It’s pretty much universal and that’s the sad part. Right? That’s the problem that needs to be resolved. So how do you go about that? What would be the ideal… kind of... I guess position, of an ideal elder son? Let’s just say the boys are over here and the girls are over here, if I’m stuck in the middle, because I pretty much have to stand in the middle, and to allow them to come in and have access to above, to the vertical. That would be the ideal, elder brother. Not always hogging it, but multiply, selflessly, if you can do that, always, then you can pretty much create peace, all the time.

Wouldn’t you say theoretically speaking. It seems so simple, but it’s so hard to do. Why? Many times, you know, we have different things that we like. I guess because of character differences, or personality differences we like certain things more than others and many times it’s difficult to accommodate all that difference. The problem is because of that. Because of everybody... based on a situation, of course it’s constantly, hopefully, moving forward, expanding, growing larger and stronger. But sometimes that growth, you know, is not fast enough to cover the demand. And you seem powerless or you seem, I guess, you know, not caring to the people that are demanding. That’s about it.

If only those who are demanding something, at times, be just a little patient you can recover from that kind of potential crisis. But sometimes stuff gets the best of the situation. What’s the stuff? What do you think? You fill in the blank. And why do you need to have it so quickly? What are you going to do with all this stuff when you have it? If you have everything that you want, what are you going to do with it? I see what you do with it, that’s about it, I don’t think that’s a good thing, man, that’s going to come and bite you on the behind, any time soon (Laughter).

And I’m worried about that stuff. And it’s not because of... I don’t know how to do that, and kind of try to avoid it. You’ve got to know your limitation you’ve got to know your circumstances. And some things is not going to work so well, I guarantee you. That’s why you don’t do it. That’s why you avoid it. It’s not that you walk around shit, not because you’re afraid of it, it’s because you don’t want to step on it. I mean, you can get pissed off and you can do that. But you avoid it because, obviously... And that’s about it. And some times we just get too hurried and we want too many things all the time -- too quickly. Just walk away, sometimes. Just step back. I don’t really need it now. If you give yourself that kind of time and try to think about more positive things rather than very selfish things, maybe all those things, all that stuff that you want, might not be that important when you mature. Give yourself the proper time to grow.

I know the world is in a hurry. And what does it do to you? And you follow that and you become sensitive and sensible to that kind of stuff. What do you think you’re going to end up with? You’re just being like them, that’s about it. You’ll be chasing the same thing that everybody’s chasing. And the way they chase it and the strategy they use to chase that stuff... it’s nasty stuff, it’s not something that you want to be proud of, to be holding your heart to be proud of, forever stuff, I don’t think so. The glory might be temporary but if that’s what you chase, I can’t stop you. So that’s about it.

So how do you start with creating an ideal world? You start with yourself and your basic understanding of even your basic family that you grew up with. Even the family that you have if you have unresolved issues, try to make it up, try to do something about it. Start from there. Don’t look too far away, don’t look too far -- start from you. You, all of you have to have that cleared out and proper. That’s the only way we can start to influence society, right?

So if you want to go about it properly, let’s just be proper. (Laughter) Then we can talk about it. We can make a strategy that is real that can make things happen otherwise it’s just talk. And who gives a hoot about just talking. There’s plenty of people who can just talk. But let’s talk about something that can make a difference in you. So, I think that’s important. That’s the kind of stuff that needs to be said.

People need to talk like that. The more people talk that way and try to walk it, and I guess we can have a foundation to start making things different. Because we’ll have an army who can stand on their own and we can cover each others back. Some fighting you can’t just do alone. And that doesn’t mean that just because you have numbers that you’re automatically going to win either. In this stuff quality and speed matters in competition and you really have to work on those suckers, if you don’t do that it doesn’t work. So that’s about it. That’s what I want to share with you.

What’s family? Family’s about learning about proper stuff… proper order, subject object relationship. How to live with God?! For crying out loud. If you can’t live with each other in brotherhood just because you have this elder son stuff, how the hell do you live with your parents? How the hell do you live with God?

Brotherhood is this horizontal stuff, this is where we work out that ultimate quest of living with God. Rather than just seeing my little sister as… ”Arghh, I’m better than a boy”, well let’s see what good you got. You know, that kind of simple stuff. You do more of it and all that stuff goes away. It’s not that difficult if you just practice it. When you have a good family it works in a lot of situations because you’ve got this void of, you know, no communication. Jump starting it, that adds some tremendous challenge.

That becomes the greatest problem and challenge, but it can be done. And if it’s done, no matter how difficult and daunting it might be, if you do it, in the end it can be resolved, no problem. But getting that stuff ironed out, it’s important at every level, but one way or another it has to be done. And the more clear we are, the more focused we are the better soldiers we’ll be. No doubt about that. I believe in that stuff.

Anyway, I’m just here to perform, to give you a pep talk, right? So that’s pretty much all I have to say, I guess, not much, huh? As far as this topic is concerned.

So for you, I said to myself, I’ll be here every Sunday from now, but I have to go away for a few days, next week I don’t think I can make it, but the week after, I’ll be here.

So, take care you guys, alright? 

How Deep is Your Love?

Hyo Jin Moon
January 22, 2006
Belvedere
Transcription T. K.

How are you doing? Nice to see you.

Before I start, some people have a problem with my colorful words. My advice to you: stay home!!!

Having said that, I’ll try to make the choice of my words as dull as possible, can’t guarantee you of anything, but I’ll try.

You know today I came back from spending some time in Hawaii, and this is kind of a new start for me and I’m volunteering to do this and its important for me and, that’s why, might as well start with something general -- start with something big.

Let’s think about love, let’s talk about love, how deep is your love? You know I guess if you just talk to people in general and kind of observe how they use language, the word love, they use it in a very, I guess, on a secular level, they do use the word love a lot. "I love chocolate, I love Gucci, I love money, I would love to have all power, I’d love to have that position or this position, I’d love to spend just one night with that famous person."

And love gets used a lot, in a way, kind of secularly speaking, it’s used like a literary supplement to highlight or heighten your value and description of your needs and that’s pretty much what love has fallen, come down to. That’s how people use the word love in their lives. And just think about it, if that is the definition and description in which people in general in society, when we have to live gregariously constantly share with one another, then what is the true meaning of love?

Does the meaning of love end with the definition, the value that we at this point in time are comfortable with or accept? Or does it have some greater meaning? That’s why, I guess, people seek religion. Because something inside tells them, I don’t know maybe some inner voice, whatever.

Because you have to understand that in the individual self there is, like we all know principle teaching, there is spirit, mind and body. We have physical body, we have intellect, and we have spirit and self. And even in self, there is three stages. So we understand that because of Father’s teaching, but in the external world, in the secular world the understanding of even the simplest thing that we pursue, we hold valuable, because of what we understand, what we believe… what others believe is pretty foreign to us. We understand why they want those things, why they love those things, because, I guess, one time or another you loved those things too. When you want something more, that’s why you seek something greater, that’s why you try to understand God. And that’s a life long process, it’s never ending.

How do you understand the depths of love, you know? Because when you look at God’s way of love, many times you have to accept a lot of things that you don’t want to accept. You don’t want the definition or value of love to be something such as suffering… pain… misery. You have to be sadistic to like that kind of stuff. If you’re a prize fighter you can teach or train yourself to love pain, because that’s how you make a living.

But beyond that it’s very difficult to accept, because in many cases in the life of pursuing God’s course; or God’s ways; or God’s understanding; or learning about God’s definition of things in life -- is the opposite of what people consider love to be. Because, you know, I like chocolate too, but if you like chocolate too much you’re going to get fat. Money’s good, sure, you can buy a mansion, you can buy, not just one, buy ten of them, have them strewn all around the world and take time off and go to those places and choose something, try to conquer the world again and be the richest man on earth!

All those things maybe you like to talk about, you like to think about them at times, sure. There are many ways to go about, just if you don’t think about those things, maybe it’s because I haven’t learned about these things almost to the point of brainwashing ever since I was a boy. Maybe I can’t, you know it’s very difficult for me to part from it, just cut away from it, because I don’t want to go down in history as such and such and such, because that’s kind of engrained into me. There are ways to go about pursuing that kind of stuff, but if I do I’m going to go down in history, because of my lineage, what I belong to, is something that I can’t ever change.

Just because you change my children’s name from Moon to Hong doesn’t mean that they’ll forever be Hongs. People can do that, crazy people do that kind of stuff, without my permission they can burn my son’s body, they can deprive me of my last right to see my son, they can do that kind of stuff. And what happens after that?

I think about the consequences no matter how at times, how difficult for me it is to accept certain things. I have to think about those things because I believe how I came to accept that, that’s not the problem. The situation is that I believe it, that’s the problem. Because I accepted, I have to deal with that issue, because I believe in the consequences, that’s why I have to make and interpret things based on that direction and that’s why it is very difficult for me to try and go the opposite direction, I struggle with that.

I wish when you think about, you know, giving excuses and stuff you can rationalize things, yes I can do those kinds of things to, BUT WHY? What am I doing it to? Who am I doing it to? WHY? For what reason? It’s like forget you, don’t even talk about it at all… but that’s not important, that’s not important.

I’m here because I want to be here, not because it’s my duty, so I want you to make the best of it. I know what duty feels like, you know, I was there pretty much a long time, every Sunday, pretty much for eight years, but this is not something of that nature, it’s something different. And I feel that I have something to say and I’m going to do my best to do so.

So having said that how do you go about trying to understand God’s love? First I have to understand my parental love. If you want to go up -- everybody has someone above them. Right? Even Messiah has Father. So immediately that’s where I would start. That’s the first thing that you base yourself on and of course in life. You have bosses and stuff, subject and object relations, but let’s just be intimate and the best way you can start in general, that we all have, which is parental relationship with self. So that’s the fundamental kind of primeval subject and object relation that we can start with.

In order to understand your father, you have to understand yourself first. And there’s “Where’s my limit," "Where do I belong in this relationship?” Many people I see in the secular world like certain positions, and they’ll do anything to achieve… attain them. But many times just getting it is not the end of the story, it’s only half of the story. You have to fulfill the position, you have to understand the responsibility, you have to be accountable for the position, the demands of the position that you have just acquired by any means necessary. So even just having the position is not the end of the story. It’s just the beginning. So just start with yourself, don’t think about any other position that you’d like to achieve or attain. Think about yourself.

I’m Father’s son, OK. What am I? Who am I? What is my limitation? How should I define myself?

When you talk about the definition of yourself you have to understand the merits of your responsibility. And what is that? What is the nature of my responsibility? What is the merit of my responsibility? What is the expectation? When you talk about merit you have to connect it to your expectation, the expectation of your position. Otherwise there is no meaning. So when you talk about expectation, how do you go about trying to understand the meaning of that stuff, if you don’t start to try to understand who is your subject? Because, that is the basic relationship that you’re trying to achieve. That is the beginning of understanding greater, ultimately God, right?

If Father is to far from me, let me start with Mother or something. You know what I’m saying? Well I do have an older sister. Maybe if my older sister can be some kind of indicator for me to understand and familiarize myself with the basic direction as to how I have to approach understanding my Mother. Then maybe that’s where I should start from. Sometimes you have to take things step by step.

You can’t just think big all the time. Especially when you want to be, if you are really serious, you want it to be meaningful; if you really want to find a quality, achieve quality, then you really have be cautious, right? You have to do things step by step. You can’t just always take giant leaps, maybe in general as humanity we can, but not as an individual, Right? So that is where you should start.

And if you get to know that, know your ultimate, then maybe you’ll have a little more understanding as to what kind of direction you should choose to make that contact and start to build something on that, something more meaningful. And if you have that kind of prepared knowledge then you can try it out, it can be exciting and it can be more stimulating for you. Because you have the kind of properties that you can bounce things off because you have all sorts of greater options then, maybe you’ll hit the mark, because ultimately in the end you have to make it work, somehow. That’s your responsibility.

I mean we understand God as a suffering God and He’s trying to make it work. So long in waiting, of course, it can be perceived as something painful, miserable, tremendous suffering, never ending agony and concern, worry. But you have to start somewhere, so starting somewhere I feel that you have to understand about who you are, and try to make the best preparation possible and try out all sorts of different things and find the thing that works to make that connection upward, properly.

In the past I just did it, I just did those kinds of things, I did what I was told to do. I was kind of a crazy kid, I knew all the crap about the world when I was young and there came a point in my life when I changed and I did everything I was told. And I did my best that’s about it. Might as well, I don’t like it, I really don’t like it, but if I’m going to do it, I might as well do my best. Try my best. See what happens. What you see is what you get. Why would I hide anything from you, the only reason that I don’t talk about it is because I can’t. I’m not afraid of men. You can kill me, you can shoot me dead, you can poison me, I’m not afraid of you, you think I’d lie to you. I think about myself first, okay.

Let’s just talk about men. Things that men have problems with in dealing with relationships -- I kind of simplify into a definition of three words… ”triple A” I call it: Arrogance, Aggression, and Ambition. And that is pretty much the basic premise that we deal with in terms of subjectivity. And if femininity the woman’s kind of stuff… I call “triple S” to keep it simple: Sensitivity, Sensibility, and Seduction. You know why do men have a problem with aggression… and arrogance… and ambition? To put it nicely, you know… Ambition is, ”oh he has a high goal”… Arrogance is… ”oh he’s proud”… and Aggression is… ”oh your so tough and powerful”

And when you look at physical self and intellectual self and spiritual self that “triple A” stuff has a different meaning but all those different kind of words have the same value in the end… there’s the same meaning. When you talk about Messiah, you talk about him as an arrogant, ambitious, aggressive, it just as different words describing that basic nature of it of words that I’ve just used… that’s about it. How would you want to put it? Absolute? Someone that demands absolute obedience, absolute faith.

All those properties that we have, have meaning behind them. But we abuse it, we misuse it. Many things we mishandle. It’s not the gun that kills people it’s the people who pulls the trigger of a gun that kills people. Everything that we have is a tool. We can misuse it. Our intelligence first of all is a tool, therefore all the words that we create to enrich our lives beyond monkeys are tools. So we can enrich our lives, you know, and grow harmoniously and in an infinite way and all sorts of possibilities.

Even music, anything that we have, instruments, it’s a tool, it’s only a tool. TO DO WHAT? Of course that’s what we have to figure out and that’ll take a lifetime. You’ll go through the journey of redefining, defining, revising the value of words that we normally use till the day we die. And hopefully everyone can always enhance the quality of it and in that, that will be the ideal world, if everyone were to pursue that kind of endeavor. If they never ever stop enhancing that quality of things that they understand and try to enhance the quality the value and the definition of even the basic things that we understand… till the day we die… never stopping. If you push till the day we die. Yes we can change the world. Yes that would be the beginning of the ideal world.

Because we struggle with the things that we describe as our needs, that’s why we, want to have religion, we want to unify that stuff. The basic stuff that we rely upon to create community, to create society. And think about yourself. Think about yourself just dealing with the basic understanding of words that we, describe, that we use to communicate with one another.

There’s a difference when you use basic language for children and your immediate family and even the same meaning will have different kind of tone and you’ll use a different kind of words with a similar meaning, but you’ll use it in a different way. Or choose different words when you go to a tribal meeting a social meeting or on national stage or on a global stage. This is kind of informal for me, that’s why sometimes I would curse, but if this were some kind of public rally I would choose to not use certain language. You know what I mean.

Who gives a hoot if I use colorful language at times? I don’t think that that would demean the value of what I’m trying to say. If I’m trying to make a point, that’s what’s important, and I don’t think that you should be distracted by frivolous things because many times if you’re that kind of person, I don’t think that you’re going to make it in this world, I don’t think that you’ll be somebody, okay?

You know, it’s very easy to criticize, but it’s very difficult to create something, okay? And if you understand the value of that, the basic things that are important in life and how to go about achieving it, you wouldn’t be that critical that cynical. Because what’s important is the essence of stuff that you try to create, and why do you do that? Because if you’re trying to do it for God, you’re not doing it for the money, right? You’re doing it for the sake of the betterment of federal man, right? Everybody needs the secondary stuff, it’s not a primary concern. If blessing comes… so be it. And if I’m more, I can give more that’s about it. I’m not going to take it with me. I see my sister [In Jin Moon] come and try to fundraise for Col. Pak. Did you guys give? I gave a long time ago.

You know you see people sometimes and you try to justify yourself and you pick and choose what is favorable to you, that’s why I don’t like to make excuses. I’d rather just say forget.

Anyway if you talk about this love stuff there are just so many things that we have to work out within ourselves. So when we paint the an outward picture of ourselves and try to advertise who we are, you gotta put that stuff, it has to be in the stuff… you have to put the proof in the stuff.

You know when I think about Shin Gil, I feel sorry in my heart, I feel sorry that I couldn’t spend much time with him because I couldn’t, because the court wouldn’t let me, it’s a unique circumstance, unprecedented stuff. In a way, I know that is my victory when it comes to what had happened. But I feel sorry that I couldn’t spend much time with him. And I really wanted to. And it was just about at the point I could spend some time, because he would be legally independent. That’s the kind of stuff the kind of gets you. We were planning all this stuff and well I’ll just have to wait a little longer. That’s about it. We all die, we just have to die well. That’s what is important.

And when we look at our individual lives with our individual families… they are constantly trying to understand the value of love. And normally you’d start with language… the words that you use, because it’s basic it’s where everything begins… with an idea, exchange of an idea. And we have to understand the eternal concept of divine love so we have to begin somewhere. And it starts with words. Words are very, very important to little kids and the meaning of it, that they’re constantly asking you. And if somehow they pick out a certain word and try to use it in their language and they communicate with each other or relate with me. They’re constantly trying to expand the understanding of it. And many times in that expansion when they feel love is kind of interesting is because it has to be something personal something that they can recognize as of value.

If we talk about something of value, even kids with their limited understanding, its important, they feel love and you somehow kind of promise them stuff, and I’m going to give you more and more and more stuff. And the promise of that expansion at that least that they like it, gives them all sorts of tingling sensations in their head and they’re happy, because they understand the importance of that possibility, because it is going to give them some kind of fulfillment -- some joy.

And of course you start with physical self pretty much those valuable needs to those little kids are very, very tangible stuff. That’s where you begin. Then as you grow as you mature, normally you start to see when a teenager reaches a certain age maybe 15, or 16 or 17… friends become more important than your whole family (your brother and sister your father and mother). They start to become tribal they go beyond at a certain phase they go beyond the family they will start to be tribal.

And they expand to society and nation… And in Korea and normally if you reach 60 years old and if you give yourself 0… 10… 20… 30… kind of decade and spread it out, it will take till about 60 yrs to get to the global stage of some sort if you have a defined pathway and you have preplanned some kind of program and if you’re successful at it most likely you’ll reach that stage -- that phase. So in Korea when you reach 60 years of age, that’s where you begin again. Most likely on the path they didn’t live that long so if they reached 60 yrs of age obviously you’re getting a second chance at life. That’s kind of process stuff but there is a philosophy behind it and that’s about it, your life begins at that age… and why? That’s my interpretation.

So the value of that kind of needs change as you move up in life from family to tribe to society to nation, the value will change to the world and if you go beyond it of course the value will change. In terms of your needs. If I started with a bunch of toys in the beginning but it will change as it goes up. The value of your needs. The definition of your needs.

Because ultimately you have to understand what God sees as defined love or valued love. That’s what you have to understand. That’s what we’re trying to understand and we have to constantly upgrade our value. The definition of our needs.

That’s the most important thing I feel if you want to understand God’s love. You can’t just get stuck at a certain kind of level and say this is God’s love. I think that’s stupid. I think that’s blasphemy. You have a basic direction of love because in the end all this plus and minus, good and evil stuff and Tree of Life it was all contained in the Garden of Eden so the important thing is what’s the next step. You just have to choose one direction, that’s what absolute is. Because that’s what’s in yourself. Selfishness is bad, living for the sake of others is good and that’s plus and minus and that’s what we start with. That reality will never change. We’ll always have that individual self to deal with to try and accomplish that task. Forever!

Certain things can be habitual. We understand there are properties there, there are tools out there even built in, innate. We just have to trigger it. That we can use to make or make that kind of process, but all these things have to be triggered -- have to be connected and triggered.

We do have all the tools. But you have to understand what that is and trigger it and keep it moving then you can automate it and it can be habituated. You have all the basic stuff you just have to use it in a functional way.

You know you can build you can make, give yourself a lot of bad habits, but you can also give yourself good habits too. Right?

You can teach yourself to give, right? Because there is great joy in it, there is pleasure in it. And it’s better in your pocket than in my pocket and you see that person just light up and you get a kick out of it. Even with the simple kind of giving… with stuff. There’s a pleasure in it. And you can make that into a habit. You can get addicted to that kind of stuff. Not only things that can kill you.

So you choose it. You have all this stuff even things that can kill you or many times save your life, right? Vaccination. There’s all sorts of stuff, we just have to understand the meaning of it. Understand why it exists. Define it properly. And as we heighten the definition into greater truth, greater sensitivity, sensibility, yes, everything can benefit us based on right choice making. Everything. It’s up to us. Some people get that, that’s why you have to share that kind of stuff. You have a social duty to do that kind of stuff if you’re civilized, right.

So everything that is basic we already have it, we just don’t use it properly, we don’t stress it enough at times. We kind of bury it away because someone wants to be vainglorious, you know? That’s about it. That’s the only reason that we struggle. Just think about it if we can focus the kind of resources that we have... we are absolutely unique. In certain ways we can have more cash than any large corporation in the world in a given year.

How many people will envy that? That’s something for people to envy, you know?

And that’s reality! And at the same time we’re a unique church. Why, because we put emphasis on the Blessing. And we actually have this kind of reality of all this international blessing coming together, seeing the importance of being engrafted, understanding the importance of lineage and trying to establish that kind of foundation of substance based on the ideal of who we are. That’s very unique.

We can talk about all kinds of racial propensities and there is a lot of stuff that we have to push and we have to challenge the world with, but we can’t do it alone. We need to have an army. We can literally start a television network with a certain amount of money and with certain kinds of characters. Yes we can make it work based on... if we have some kind of prepared investment capital and if we’re willing to use it solely for that reason, sure, we’ll make it work one way or another, in ten years. If they can do it, we can do it absolutely. But that time will come.

Father will do his best to complete his mission while He’s breathing, period. Here’s the right way. That’s about it.

Do the best you can. Father I hope you’re successful. That’s all I can do. I’ll try to help you though if I can. Sure, I’ll do that.

But taking the next step -- sure we can do that stuff. We already have that foundation we just have to act on it and then that day will come, I know. I absolutely believe it. It’s not that difficult we already have the... to do it. It’s just a matter of doing it. We can wait. That’s about it.

You measure your love.

How deep is your love?

How far away from God are you?

How do you define love, you know?

How do you define your needs?

Measure yourself… I don’t know you, just as you don’t know me that well. If some of you think you know me, you only know me because I had my obligation… my duty to study in front of you for a long time that’s about it. And pretty much that’s about it. And to me the reason I like the kind of creativity because it keeps me simple, because that process is really painful and complicated. So I like my life to be simple. I need that balance.

That’s why I can’t really understand people who criticize… Blah, blah, blah, blah, because they don’t understand that process. That’s why they just have so much time on their hands and so much energy, they criticize, this nonsensical garble, superficial analysis.

Do something meaningful. If you really want to use your head make something meaningful. Then you will truly appreciate the simplicity of life.

Only you can’t start to see the essence of stuff unless your life is somehow balanced. When it’s all jumbled up you aren’t going to find it. You want to understand, to find God’s love? Find something. Bring some kind of balance into your life. In order to do that you have to try to do something meaningful, make something meaningful, create something meaningful.

You can start to recreate even the basic definition of what life is to you, the things that are important to you, the needs that are important to you. Do something that will actually be meaningful to you that can change you. If you can’t expand outward yet, start with yourself first, you know? Only then can you start to see some clarity. Otherwise everything is jumbled up, you already have all this cynicism, criticism, all these jumbled thoughts in your head. You’re not going to find anything.

So, please, start with the basic things first. First stuff first. First things first. Find a new definition of life. The things that are important to you that leads to, I don’t even want to say love because that’s too big for me even, even I’m trying to redefine the basic stuff, I don’t even want to think about love. But it’s leading up to that stuff that’s about it. That’s my faith. Okay, I hope that I shared something with you that you can use.

Anyway, Take care, okay. 

What is Father Doing?

Hyo Jin Moon
January 8, 2006
Belvedere
Transcription: T. K.

How are you doing? Good… I’m doing fine

It’s been a while…it’s been, what…10 years, something like that I didn’t come here to talk about me, that’s my problem. So I want to talk about what Father’s doing. And I’m here to help you.

So having said that, where should I start? Have you been attending Father’s speeches...Father’s rallies? What do you think is His main point? Why does He think that’s necessary? Do you feel it? Do you feel it in your heart? Do you feel it in your gut? Do you feel it in your body? (Yes) Well, I don’t think so.

Well let’s just start with the building a bridge over the Bering Strait. It’s like almost fifty miles long and wretched waters. I don’t know, it’s like forty-eight mile or something like that. They did some kind of feasibility study on a documentary ten years ago, still gets aired on one of those learning channel stuff. They always constantly update the money, in terms of the cost, but it’s doable, it is doable. If you can tunnel your way between England and continental Europe, it is doable, sure.

We do have technology, it’s just tremendous, astronomically expensive. How do you afford it, so many countries have to come into play and basically between the Bering Straits your talking about America and the Soviet Union and trying to have get them to play and all those stuff. It’s a big, big, big responsibility. And I think, unless you have some kind of where-with-all in terms of practicality in terms of politics, economics, it’s very difficult, okay? But it’s doable, that’s where we start.

How do you start anything, when you haven’t done anything, and when it’s never been done before? Where do you start from? So, okay, you know, in order to understand Father’s reality, you have to understand a very simple concept, why is He here? What is He here to restore?! And who the hell are you? What are you made of?

When you look at yourself is there some kind of universality that we can all say, in unison, regardless of what cultural, in other words, you know kind of influential background that you come from based on thought and whatever environmental kind of happenings or whatever. Is there something that is universal? (Yes) So what is that? (couple of answers) What are you made of? If you have to define yourself, if you have to define yourself, how would you define yourself? (children of God…child of God).

Okay, well let’s put all that together, simply put, how many levels do you think you got? One, two, three…ten… twenty… a million? Simply put, look at yourself first. You think you’re a spiritual being right? You struggle to be one. Okay, well talk about spirit. And you want to be intelligent right? You want to be smarter than the guy sitting next to you right? And you’re a physical being. However it plays out whether you want to be tougher than the other guy next to you or whatever. It becomes apparent that that matters to everybody. You measure each other based on those conditions.

Very simply three conditions… spirit, mind and body. I think that’s universal. If you’re going to start anything, if you’re going to try to reason anything and try to communicate to the rest of the world beyond yourself you have to find some kind of basic commonality where you can create a focus in which you can create some kind of uniformity in the end. Some reason some rationality. Without that basis there is no rationality, there’s not even a breath of it. It doesn’t matter, even if you want to sell an icicle to an Eskimo, you have to have something like that.

So having said that, what’s Father’s condition? What’s Father’s life? What’s Father’s course? And when you look at it, to me, it’s very simple. It echoes that kind of stuff. It basically echoes that individual manifestation and just on a larger scale, that’s about it. So all you need to do is always focus on what that is. What that individual responsibility is that magnifies to whatever level. That’s the key point of understanding what the hell He’s doing. Don’t look at it any other way, because you are and idiot if you do.

So all this historical stuff, what is, what does it represent? It’s just preparing the way for the Messiah? Do you believe in the Messiah? Okay, let’s say, I’m talking to this in-crowd here, if you believe that shit, so be it. Excuse my language. (Laughter) So be it. Okay, all of that is there to receive that spiritual entity, spiritual, that entity that represents that spirit, initially. And His course goes opposite, restoration is opposite. So it has to restore the intellect and the body, right? And that’s plainly been seen in history. So ideologically, there’s ideological wars, horizontally it’s just if you put Cain and Abel picture into the scene. WHY? BECAUSE IT’S A CONFLICT!!!

And we went through Cold War, right? Ideologically, yeah? That kind of stuff, that kind of stuff. And, that’s the intellectual stuff, crazy intellectual stuff, right? Now it’s coming down to the physical stuff, that’s about it. China will be the richest nation on earth in about a decade. Everybody knows that. And that’s potentially conflicting to American presence. But it’s something and, something similar nature, right? They all want to be rich. It’s not like “I don’t believe in God, and you believe in God…I’m going to kill you mother… some bla, bla” You know I would always say it, but since I’ve been here, and since I’ve... It’s been a while, I’m going to try to hold back as much as I can. (Audience laughter) That’s about it.

And when that happens, when that happens it’s a great time for us. Why? Because now we have something to work with, as long as there’s a conflict of interest, Parents can always put it right. (Laughter) Isn’t that sad, but true. Then what?

It’s interesting because it will be connecting pretty much every archangel nation; America, Soviet Union, and your China. Any you talk about amenities and prices and of course that interest is there. Why? Because of oil. Why do you think you’re rich. Because you’re rich, you have the money to buy that stuff and you can spend it as much and you want. And of course in those areas there some kind of just backward kind of places, however they know your weaknesses. They know the nature of the indulgence of capitalism.

That’s basically what they’re feeding on. And it doesn’t matter if it’s theocracy or dictatorship, it doesn’t matter. Because ultimately in the end they have to play to the people… that’s what they feed on. And whether you like it or not there’s no way you can stop that anymore. I mean even ten years ago, like fifteen years ago there wasn’t stuff to buy, they’re very expensive, but now it’s cheaper and it’s global, you know? You’re talking about tens of millions of dollars and they’re so god damn, excuse my language. It’s available to all. All those things, knowing what the nature is, it’s doable. It’s not that difficult. As long as you believe in what you are.

How many Christians out there want to see Father as the messiah? I remember a long time ago, about seventeen years ago, I was watching the 700 channel, and I talked about it to you, and he said actually on television, “How can that little yellow man be the Messiah” What the… What does he look like then? Blond hair, blue eyes? They got some TV show on that said that least he’s not blond haired at least not brunette haired. That’s funny. Do you think they really want to be judge, they want the Messiah to come and judge them? What’s he going to look like? What does the Messiah look like?

There’s a simple kind of step even to Father’s course, to when it comes to Father’s course. And he had to start with, kind of, spirit, mind and kind of body stuff, and kind of put it… teacher, parent, and now what do you say? It’s very difficult for some of you to understand.

Teacher is the body stuff, you understand me? I mean for many parents, I’m sure all of you had that parental experience, you don’t even feel like you’re a parent when you’re dealing with little monkeys, you know what I’m saying? They’re little monkeys, they’re not even humans. And you try to teach them stuff, you know, you can’t even try to be a parent to them, they don’t understand what that stuff is. You’re basically dealing with physical monkeys.

And look just think about it, you understand, you have this church hierarchy, he used to be a president of Unification Church and he goes around to these seminaries and he’s trying to make a point. After all this time, you know he’s come to this realization that… of his success, you know, his understanding and why others who’s not here -- who’re thirty-six couples and who are thirty-six couples who have failed. And talk about that kind of birth stuff… birth and children -- that conflict. The reason they fail, his conclusion is, the reason that they fail was because they believe in the children’s concept even to Father, even to the nature of Father. He was chosen somehow, so they somehow ultimately can be chosen one too. That’s not of birth.

Why do you think, what do, even Christians think about birthright anyway? Why don’t you play that to the man himself. You don’t want to put that just up on elder son crap. You know what I mean, you want to be a messiah, go ahead and be you. Why would anyone in their right mind want to be that miserable? But misery is relative, right?

Pain is relative, right? So is the opposite, right? Who gives a… What do you want? So it’s up to you too, that’s relative too. So, I didn’t come here to… I’ve really have seen a lot of crap these days, just recently, I mean unthinkable crap. And I don’t really give a… You know why, because I’m going to let someone else judge that… not me. I’ll move on forget it. I’ll try my best to find some forgiveness in my heart… Look…Okay…

So how can we help America? (Laughter) Or god damn move on, okay. How can we help America? What the hell is America anyway? You know, there’s so much, you know, all my brothers have kind of gone to school and they got high education stuff. If only if we could use that kind of funds, all the blessings that we had in the past used it in a certain way and as well could be so much, okay, sure, but that’s in the past. And Father did it for His reasons, not yours. I mean I have more sympathy when it comes to that when it comes to the Japanese members than American members, that’s for sure. Because I deal with those interesting types, I like colorful things, colorful stuff.

Even dealing with colorful, I don’t mind. I think that’s interesting, it’s exciting, it’s stimulating. Yeah, sometimes it’s the absolute opposite and it’s a pain in the, but that’s the stuff, that’s reality. So be it. Now, having said that all that stuff, why did He do that, for what reason did He do it? Obviously to make the conditions of the spirit, the spiritual foundation. And what did He do? He absolutely tried everything, just, almost like wasting dollars just to create all these organizations, all the stuff that have come and gone. Just to give, give, give to the, I mean, you have no idea, if I talk about it, it will blow everybody’s mind. It is astronomical, and where did that…come from? That was blessing and this stuff that Father envisioned, even on just a physical level, it’s in shambles it’s shameful.

And whose fault was that? It’s our fault, we have to fix it, okay? This is nobody else’s problem, but ours and that’s about it. You don’t want to be stupid, if you want to advertise, you go to school to learn how to properly advertise, you dumb monkeys, don’t do the obvious no, no stuff. And we can do that stuff, because there is still a whole lot of blessing still here. There is. It is doable. Why do I believe that? Okay, since you pushed me (Laughter).

You know I do watch my competitors, so I kind of watch those people speak on Sunday, you new comers like Joel Olsteen, I pay attention to all those guys, saying all this, okay, okay. All packaging. Don’t try to give me that. And what do they want to do? What do they want to do? They want to set an example, and example of something. Okay, that’s okay, we can compete with that. We can do that too. Let’s just start with that. We can also do that too.

Just start with the body first, we can focus on the body, that meets their concern. The thing about, you know kind of, materialism is that when that controls everything, pretty much in the end, your whole concept, whether you like it or not, if you’re not really thinking about anything, it will just, just consume you completely. The physical stuff, when you look at America especially, you know Pilgrims stopped coming to America to find God hundreds of years ago, seventeenth century. People come to America to find opportunity, riches. They want to be godly… they want to be rich. That’s about it. There’s no other reason to come to America.

You don’t find it here, you don’t, that’s about it. It’s not even freedom, it’s about opportunity. What freedom, freedom to be what? I mean what if you were religious? American freedom is very offensive to you, you know what I’m saying? It has nothing to do with freedom, it just says that so many times... And people, you know always like to put their best foot forward, whether it’s true or not it’s irrelevant. When they think that they have the power to do so, then they will do so. Based on how they want to be perceived, because without that perception, you don’t get that accolade. And it needs to have that kind of glorification so it can fuel itself, in terms of its need for consumption and excess, so be it that’s reality.

Okay so when you’re talking about America’s freedom, and in essence in the end, it is just about that, capitalism. What does capitalism create? What’s important in capitalism? Opportunity. What does, if you’re so concerned with opportunism, obviously you are going to become an opportunist. If you become an opportunist, you are not going to be a very caring person for somebody else. You’re going to be a self-centered. And if you’re a self-centered SOB, you’re going to be, you know obviously, not a good role model for the rest of the world, because you’re so caught up in your own individualistic need. You’re a pure individualist. Then what?

When you create a frickin climate of that stuff and you encourage that stuff how do you think society will end up. Do you really see in it a future? No, I don’t think so. Somebody will use the United States as the wrong example and try to modify it somehow to be better than your stupid dumb ass, that’s about it. It might be a little bit, but still in the end, they’ll succeed. Because you’re going down the wrong path, point of no return and that’s about it. It doesn’t matter how much you try to deny it, it will happen eventually.

It will start from you it will go up to even your, you’ll contaminate even your mother and your father, never mind your children and your posterity. Because that’s all they see. That’s the American dream. I don’t think so. Somewhere along the line the American dream has passed away. And who the… how many Americans, I’m not American. I’m proud not to be an American. I can, because I’ve been living here technically I’ve been here over thirty years. I came here because my Father had his mission, that’s about it I tagged along. I guess he carried me along, I had no choice I guess about it, so be it, it doesn’t matter. That’s not the point, but Father spent so much time and energy, and so much stuff, if I actually started, line item by line item, it would blow your frickin mind, but I’m not going to do that. Not today. There’ll be plenty of time for that crap later. But that’s all in the past. What’s important is what’s going to happen in the future. And what you can do.

There are times that, I’ll share since I’m in a sharing mood I’m going to share. Okay you know, I let myself, normally I don’t behave that way, but I did and at one point in my life, and I do regret it, but that’s why I’m telling you. I let it go, I just let it go, I didn’t want to resolve it, I didn’t want to deal with it. I didn’t want a solution. I just let it go. I just let it go. I just let that anger just go. And it grew. And it grew. And I realized in the end why it was growing and started getting out of control. Because everything is connected. And that’s the realization that I had.

The reason that it was growing and getting bigger and bigger and it was going and going, because I didn't resolve it. I let it go and it was just connecting to all sorts of other stuff. And that’s the thing about living about being a human being, it’s, you’re connected. And when you know it’s not good for you get rid of it as fast as you can!!

And I believe in the future we can do a whole lot of good stuff. Why? Why, because we’re unique god damn it. We’re absolutely unique. And we can prove this… we've got something better. Hey we’ll compete and we’ll win. We’re here to stay and we’ll compete till the end. And let’s compete, alright, it doesn’t matter. In goodness, screw badness, in goodness let’s see who’s the better man in the end, you know what I’m saying? And that’s why in the end there’s an attraction to democracy. Because that’s kind of brotherly stuff, you know what I’m saying, right? Because that’s also a very important part of restoration, not just restoring Adam’s position but Cain and Abel stuff.

Then, we can win. And let it happen. It’s better to have, I’d rather have a democracy to work with than some kind of theocracy, you know what I’m saying. There’re a lot of nuts out there, crazy people “la, la, la” I’m not saying anything, if you know me, it’s just a joke, okay. (Laughter) I’m just very, in many ways, the way I express is very shallow. And sometimes it works. (Laughter) Not all the time. That’s about it.

Anyway, I believe we can do this kind of stuff, okay you know what I’m saying? This is kind of the first time for me in a long time. I’m going to keep it short, okay? And I try to stay away from this note stuff. If I have notes I’ll speak longer, that’s why I don’t have notes. (Laughter)

Anyway you guys take care, I’m fine. You know things will happen the way they should. And I see tremendous hope for the future. And thank you for your concern and your prayers. And I’ll do my best to help you guys as much as I can. To share with you to be with you, okay? Thank you. 

After the Passing of Shin-Gil-nim

Hyo Jin Moon
January 1, 2006
Belvedere
Transcription: T. K.

It’s been a while. Seems like ten years since I met members. Among the members here, I am sorry for not remembering the faces of some of the members. When hearing the communication about Shin Gil, I could not understand that as itself. The phone call was from my older sister [Ye Jin]. “Shin Gil was in a car accident. Did you hear?” I was in the midst of taking a shower.

Unfortunately, I became a parent in a world where the child passes first; before the parent.

What is a person’s life? What kind of life makes it a meaningful life? The important thing is how to go through the final stage and how to go to the spirit world. Shin Gil only went to spirit world a bit before everyone else. At the time of the accident, the driver’s license read “Moon Shin Gil” and that made me at ease and peaceful.

I called the cell phones of my other children and no one answered. However, no matter what others say, it does not change the fact that Shin Gil is my son, and the grandchild of my Father. The spirit world that Shin Gil went to is where Heung Jin Nim is, and I know he will take care of him. So, it is okay not to worry about Shin Gil going to the spirit world; and it's okay not to worry about me.

Honestly, I don’t know how it is going to be from now on. However, I know that Shin Gil is going to a good place. I don’t think I will talk long today.

Shin Gil has changed me to an even better human being. That phone call from the time of Shin Gil’s passing to the spirit world -- my life has become a better life than before. From today onward, I wish to become a good human being. Shin Gil made me that way.

Thank you very much.

A Note About Hyo Jin Nim's 2006 - 2008 Speeches
Joe Kinney

It is important for those that read these speeches in the future to understand something about the context in which they were given.

Hyo-Jin-nim’s son, Shin-Gil-nim died in a traffic accident on 28 December 2005. Hyo-Jin-nim began speaking at Belvedere four days later on 01 January 2006.

Hyo-Jin-nim spoke every Sunday that he was available and delivered his final speech 09 March 2008.

These speeches began with the passing of Hyo-Jin-nim’s son and ended with his own passing, March 17th 2008.

Hyo-Jin-nim chose to deliver his words from the same stage at Belvedere where True Father spoke in the seventies, eighties, and into the nineties.

Hyo-Jin-nim’s speeches were attended by a relatively small group of those who loved him and appreciated the significance of True Father’s eldest son speaking again after an absence of several years.

There were members young and old, first and second generation, American, Korean, Japanese, European, and many other countries including the international leadership trainees who attended regularly.

In the beginning we were unknown to each other, but we became close brothers and sisters who loved our elder brother and each other.

After a few months Hyo-Jin-nim could recognize most of the regular attendees and he often expressed affection to us in his own way. It was very special.

Recording and transcribing his speeches every Sunday was a privilege and a blessing that I am unworthy of and will thank God for forever.

Nearly all the speeches in this volume are verbatim transcriptions from recordings. The first speeches are from T. K. who transcribed them from a video DVD. Next Hyang-Hwa Oh’s recordings provided the resource. By August 2006 I was recording and transcribing. When I couldn’t understand something, I would ask Hyo-Jin-nim’s assistant Janine Takahashi to ask him for clarification.

Hyo-Jin-nim and his staff were aware that these notes were being sent all over the world and Hyo-Jin-nim was pleased that they were.

Hyo-Jin-nim’s speeches were brief, but intense. He spoke straight from the heart. His words and directly experiencing these speeches changed all of us forever. I hope that by prayerfully studying these notes you can be changed forever too. 

How We Can Restore America

Hyo Jin Moon
February 24,1991
Belvedere, New York

Good morning everybody. As you can see, Father is away today. I really didn't plan to come here today. To be blunt, since Father is away I felt obligated to be here today. The topic of what I want to share with you today, is "Let's Restore America" or "How We Can Restore America." Father is giving us the responsibility to take charge of the world, in your case, to take responsibility for America. I want to share some of my opinions on that subject.

Father recently gave us a great new direction. Most of you, I am sure, attended Father's speech on his birthday. Everybody came, right? Were you inspired by Father's message? Father gave us a new direction that day. Father gave us freedom. He gave us the freedom to minister to the public. What does it mean to have the freedom to exercise the way in which you minister to the public? Obviously when Father says this he is certainly not directing you to act the same as you have acted in the past. This is certainly not his intention. What he's giving you is the freedom to minister to people, to your family, and in your mission, as you see fit, based on your understanding of the Principle.

That kind of concept itself is borderline, it's uncertain, however, based on your understanding of the Principle, Father is trusting you to the point where he is giving you permission to go out and minister as you see fit. He is completely entrusting his belief to you. That itself never happened in the past. He never gave us that kind of direction. Why is it happening now? Why did Father not allow us that kind of freedom in the past? Why is it happening in this particular time? Why not forty years ago, why not right from the outset of the church ministry?

What do you think is the most important aspect of the principle? [Five percent portion of responsibility. Becoming a true son]. I guess that question is too broad. We understand the importance of the restoration of Cain and Abel. We know the importance of the struggle between Cain and Abel. What is happening within that relationship? Why is it so important within God's dispensation? When Father talks about restoration of elder son's position, when Father talks about restoration of the parents position and ultimately of kingship, what is he saying? Why is it important? Why is it that Father's ultimate goal is to attain the restoration of kingship? Of course to reach that ultimate goal, there has to be certain phases completed. Why is Father stressing this? It is important to understand.

What do you think is the most important aspect of the Principle? Receiving love. You like to talk about true love. True love is important, everybody wants true love. But how do you receive it? What kind of position do you need, in order to receive true love? Can you just attain true love? Is true love without any condition just freely dispersed to you? No. How do you receive true love, what kind of conditions do you first need to prepare in order to receive it? That is very important. Restoration of Cain and Abel is such that without restoring the Cain and Abel conflict, there is no way fallen man can receive God. And without being able to receive Heavenly Father there is no way you can attain true love. What is happening in Cain and Abel's relationship? What are we addressing when we confront that Cain and Abel struggle? What did Heavenly Father lose in the Garden of Eden? What was man supposed to do? What was the responsibility of man from God's point of view? In facing God, what is man's position? Ultimately to become His children, but what must man do to accomplish that? Man must become the object of God, the object of God's love, and the object of God's will. Without having man in the object position, God cannot minister nor have dominion over this physical world. God needs a body. Without man attaining the position of recipient, a physical form as the object of God, God cannot have dominion over this physical world. That is what He lost in the beginning. That is why the Cain and Abel conflict is very important. Ultimately what it comes down to is restoring dominion. You must restore dominion. God wants to build a kingdom of Heaven, but without dominion how can He do that? How can He build a kingdom if He has no foundation of Adam and Eve being the object to Heavenly Father? Without fulfilling that goal, there is no end, there is no reaching God's goal.

When you address the question of the Cain and Abel struggle, what is important is that God must have dominion over the dispensation. God's will is propagated and manifested in this physical world through the presence of Adam and Eve. He lost Adam and Eve to Satan's temptation. Man was in the position to receive Heavenly Father through his own will. In order to receive Heavenly Father, man had this obligation. Man had this great task of becoming God-like. God expected man and woman to realize the importance of becoming one with Heavenly Father. Through their own accord they were to receive Heavenly Father. Man's fulfillment is the only way that God can become God-like.

God did not spell out why man should follow. He did not make it unequivocal that man follow the commandment. God gave man free will and the power of choice. Why did He do that? So man, through his own accord, through his personal involvement and motivation could realize God's ultimate goal. By putting man in that position, man becomes the ultimate part of God's plan. Without man fulfilling that ultimate task, man is not worthy to receive Heavenly Father. Man must become worthy to receive Heavenly Father. Man must become like God; that is the only way to be worthy.

Almost all of you here are blessed. In a way, you are in a very special position, but you wouldn't be here if all the foundation prepared by the spiritual world to receive the messiah had been fulfilled. You wouldn't be here. There were many attempts to erect the foundation even before Father went to North Korea. There was a religious sect prepared, it was called the Congress of Israel. That kind of religious organization was prepared by spiritual world in South Korea before Father went to the north. These people were receiving spiritual revelation. They received direction from the spiritual world telling them specifically that Father was not an ordinary person, but somebody special with whom they must unite. The revelation came that Father was in the position of King Solomon. Not King Solomon the fornicator, but as the king who built the temple of Israel, the temple of God. To these people who belonged to the Congress of Israel, this kind of spiritual analogy was very significant. Not only the leader received the revelation, but many of his followers as well. Father started to associate with this group and after that all these revelations started coming. Many of their members were receiving revelations which told them not to listen to the leader but that they must follow this young person. Obviously this preparation in South Korea at that time ultimately failed. So God asked Father to go to North Korea, where Father met up with another religious sect called the Inside Belly Church.

What is the reason behind all these preparations and settings created by the spiritual world? They advocated a transference of power by a certain leader to Father. That's interesting and very important. When we look at the life of Jesus Christ, we study the significance of the relationship between Jesus and John the Baptist. John was in the position of an elder to Jesus Christ. But he was also in the position to minister. He had a greater foundation to minister and influence his family as well as the Israelites in general.

By looking at the importance of the Cain and Abel situation, by looking at the situation of Jesus Christ in terms of his relationship with John the Baptist, and looking at Father's position in terms of the beginning of his ministry, we see that all these settings have a similar circumstance in which certain rights, which are elder son's rights, the authority of dominion, are transferred to the person who represents Heavenly Father's side. The reason behind that is that because of the fall of man there is the reality of the coexistence of good and evil. That in itself, the concept of a coexistence of good and evil, should have never happened, never existed. However, because of the fall, Satan has a claim to this physical world beside Heavenly Father's claim. Without having this physical world, God cannot build an ideal world of true love. There is no way. This physical world is significant because only in its context can there be a realization of true love. So God must have dominion over this physical world.

Unfortunately because of the fall, there is coexistence of good and evil. In order to separate the existence of evil there has to be union between Cain and Abel. These two entities basically represent the coexistence of good and evil. If there is unity between these two entities which represent the existence of good and evil here on this earth, and that unity is attained based on good, then the substantial presence of evil will be eliminated. That kind of condition is important, that's why the Cain and Abel struggle is stressed so much. That unification has to be magnified to the level of the world. That is the ultimate goal. In every aspect, every step of the way, the important thing is to reach the point where we can ultimately have dominion over that conflict. We must unify in such a way that the evil forces, the evil claim, that substantial foundation of evil will be eliminated. That's why there has to be two figures or two entities which represent good and evil. I'm emphasizing the reality of the coexistence of good and evil. It should never, never have occurred. That possibility should never even come to our minds. However because of the fall, that is reality. The unthinkable became thinkable. The unimaginable became imaginable. It should have never happened.

Do you understand what I am saying? The only way we can separate from the coexistence of good and evil is to have these two entities attain unity based on God's direction of goodness. This will eliminate Satan's stranglehold and claim on this physical world. That is the ultimate goal.

Father is telling you to become what? You have to restore the elder son's position. You have to restore the parent's position and ultimately you have to restore kingship. What does that mean? The position of Jesus Christ in terms of his relationship with John the Baptist was that of physically younger brother. What is the position of John? In many verses he was identified as the person to make the path straight, to prepare the way for the Lord. He was in the position to receive Jesus and to prepare a certain foundation. Through the presence of John and his responsibility, Jesus would be able to fulfill his mission. And what is fulfilling the mission? Jesus, as someone in the position of True Parents, must restore the world, but how do you go about reaching that goal? It doesn't just happen. It goes by phases. The first phase is to establish that relationship between himself as Abel and John the Baptist who represented Cain. Through their unity, Jesus would have reached the national foundation and through the people of Israel he ultimately would have reached the world. Certain things must come first though, and that certain thing was for Jesus to have dominion over the relationship with John. He first needed to receive dominion.

What must happen after receiving that dominion and eliminating the position of Satan? You go back to the beginning, back to the Garden of Eden, in the position of parents. Why? Without restoring parentship there is no life. Parentship equals life. Without having the power of parenthood there is no life. You cannot give life. We want to build the ideal world of God. Without the power to give life you cannot build this kingdom. So after you restore the conflicting relationship of Cain and Abel, through unity based upon God's ideal will, the mixture of good and evil can be eliminated, at least conditionally. Do you understand? Based on that what must happen? You must restore the position of parenthood. Without a person who represents God in that position to give life, you cannot recreate. The whole restoration process is recreation. In the case of you becoming Father's children, it's not physical life that he has given you, it is spiritual life.

Maybe I'm going a little too fast. I want to be a preacher. [Laughter.] What's wrong with that? So you understand the parenthood part, right? What happened after the Pentecost? The Holy Spirit came down. The spirit of Jesus came down and what did he say? At that moment, did he come into every individuals mind? Did he knock on everyone's heart? Did everybody in the world receive Jesus? [No.] He came to his disciples. He revealed himself spiritually to his disciples. After he died in the position of fulfilling his mission, why couldn't he just reveal himself to the rest of the world? If everything had been realized why couldn't he reveal himself to the world. Why only to his disciples? There must be a certain reason. What he didn't realize was the ideal relationship between John the Baptist and himself. His disciples were, in a way, in the place of John because he failed to receive Jesus.

The disciples, these fishermen, these people who were nobodies, came to be in the position of John the Baptist. The disciples truly loved Jesus Christ, obviously not to the degree to sacrifice on behalf of Jesus, however they loved Jesus more than John did. When Jesus came down, he spoke to his disciples and he told them to go out and minister. He told them, "You must go out and teach and proselytize the people of the world." And from there, their ministry began. So ideally speaking, people who are in the position of John the Baptist must unite and restore the elder son's position. Based on that restoration Jesus becomes the parent. With that foundation, he could build his family to the degree where he could ultimately influence his people, meaning families other than his own. He would then become the father of all people, not just his family. And what is that? That is the kingship. Kingship means becoming the father of that people that Jesus represented. What is the responsibility of the messiah? As the Bible says, "King of kings." Those aren't just symbolic words. Do you understand that?

What I'm trying to get to here is very important. Jesus eventually had to reach the position of king. Only one man can become the king of kings. Why am I saying this? Because it has absolutely to do with your responsibility as Tribal Messiah. You represent your own race and lineage which physically has nothing to do with the messiah. Through you receiving the word from Father and being inspired by Father, taking the example that Father set forth, your lineage can be connected. In terms of restoring lineage you must take responsibility and become a Tribal Messiah, the king of you r own tribe and lineage. By your fulfillment of that position, what ultimately happens is that Heavenly Father has the condition to connect all the races of the world to one center. That is important -- one center. Ideally speaking, even in the time of Jesus, if the relationship between him and John had been great and John had become his object, they would have laid the foundation to restore the Israelites. Jesus would then have been in the position to become King of Israel and he would have chosen certain members to go out to the world.

Father has said that at that time certain nations were prepared to receive the message of God. Jesus would have picked missionaries from his people, sent them out to the world and through them, all people of the world would have been inspired. The flock would have come to Jesus. Ultimately then, Jesus could anoint people representing each region, each civilization and culture to become the messiah of their own people. That would then fulfill the condition to substantially bind the people of the world, all humanity. That is the ultimate end. That's why the responsibility and position of Tribal Messiah is so important. Without you, Jesus can't do it. The messiah can't accomplish alone because he has nothing to do with your lineage. He does not substantially represent your lineage, but you do. The only way he can do it, is to inspire you, and motivate you so that you can follow in his footsteps in becoming the tribal messiah in your own lineage. If you accomplish that, becoming the only person with dominion over your lineage, and you connect to True Parents, you bring your whole lineage to Father. That kind of process must take place. That's why Father is saying the Tribal Messiah process is so crucial in the restoration of the world. Do you understand? Father cannot do that, that much you have to do. Father can try to inspire you to fulfill, however that is as far as he can go. To the extent which you understand the importance of that mission, the realization of God's will can be accomplished.

Father talks to me sometimes, and to the elders. He says that from now on, as much as he suffers, that much more quickly he will go to the spirit world. Father has fulfilled his responsibility and he is trying to make you understand your portion of responsibility. Every individual has their own responsibility. Especially you people. You are the ancestors of your lineage. There has to be restoration of that position, otherwise you cannot cleanse all of humanity. Everything must have an origin; everything must have a source of purging, a point from which God can cleanse all the different races and lineages that exist in this world. And that is you. Father cannot do that. Although he is in the position of messiah, he can't do the responsibility of the Tribal Messiah. He can acknowledge, he can tell you, he can give you such a direction, so that by following you can realize the goal, however, he cannot realize it for you. That much is your responsibility. That is your five percent. Do you think fulfilling five percent means just "following", just avoiding the way of the secular world? That's not five percent of responsibility. Your five percent responsibility is to become a Tribal Messiah. Obviously you will not suffer what Father has gone through in the past, or experience all the torment that Father has suffered because of people's neglect and irresponsibility and arrogance. I'm talking about those people who were prepared by the spiritual world.

Because of their contempt Father had to suffer. Because Father has laid the condition of restoration, Father has won victoriously. His efforts climaxed at Danbury, when he completely and victoriously finished his forty year course of indemnity. Father is now telling you to fulfill the responsibility of Tribal Messiah and on top of that is giving you the freedom to minister as you will. That is unprecedented. It is tremendous! The only thing that I kind of feel bad about is my own shortcomings in sharing with you. I can't say it to the degree I can squeeze out all the importance and make you understand what this means! But you understand what I am saying, right?

Father says that, "The more and more I suffer from now on, that much I will more quickly go to spirit world." That really makes a great deal of sense to me. Father is True Parents. I told you Father cannot take your responsibility, however, he can prolong the dispensation to such a degree that you will eventually be inspired so you can do your mission and responsibility. In prolonging this dispensation, Father is doing it for your sake, but to the extent he does this, you are becoming indebted to Father. More and more you become indebted and that much you will have to pay, and if not you, your children will have to pay. As True Parent, if Father stays here longer to do this kind of thing, prolonging time for you to come to your own senses, for you to grow up and realize your portion of responsibility, you are becoming indebted to Father, you are becoming burdened for your neglect and the pain and suffering it causes to Father. In that case, unfortunately the best way for him is to go to spiritual world and not be here in the physical world. Do you understand what I am saying? Father has done all the responsibility. Of course he has his children, but you will miss Father when he dies. For many of you, your hearts are hardened. However if Father dies, most of you, even the coldest heart, will sit back and come to your senses and try to repent. That is so terrible. I want to see Father stay here longer, to see us grow and see us bring victory. I don't want him to go to spirit world. Of course his message will never die, of course his victorious foundation will never disappear, however I don't want him to die just in order to wake us up.

Rightfully, ideally, justly speaking for all the neglect that you have caused, which brought suffering and torment to Father, from now on we should force Father not to work. Rather try to make it ourselves; try to please him. That is the only right thing. If anybody expects that Father will take all the responsibility, even your responsibility, you've got another thing coming. That's not good. You should really repent. You should take responsibility. I have a certain portion of my responsibility and you have yours. You know we really have to get serious and get into it, into restoring America.

So, how can we restore America? Father is giving us the freedom; what can we do to restore America? Does anybody have suggestions? Jesus tried to communicate the message of his responsibility and mission on the earth to the leaders of the Jewish people. He tried to convince the Sadducees and Pharisees; however, the Pharisees ultimately crucified him. He tried to persuade these people, these arrogant, Bible stomping people. He wanted them to wake up and receive the son of God. However they didn't pay any attention to him. They were inspired by his words but because of their arrogance, shortcomings and pride they could not receive Jesus.

So what did Jesus do? Wisely, he did the only thing he could do. He went out and preached to the people who were in the position to receive his message of a new beginning, his message of hope. That is, he spoke to the suffering people. The people who already had positions of authority and prestige weren't interested in a new beginning. Why would you want a new beginning if you had everything? So what do you do then? Obviously you have to go to the people who have nothing because people who have nothing have everything to look forward to. That's why Jesus spoke to the fishermen and the prostitutes, he spoke to the beggars and cripples, the trash of humanity. He completely changed his tactic. He spoke about hope and salvation to these people who were in dire need of change. They needed hope, they were suffering people. Just by looking at Jesus, you can see he adapted to his surroundings, he adapted to a certain situation. Right away, as soon as he realized the failure of unity between the leaders of the Israel people, he turned to the people who were in need of change. He quickly adapted to that circumstance.

What I am trying to say is that Father gave us permission to work freely to minister the word. What we need to do first of all is to find such a group who are in need of receiving the message and build a relationship. Don't go out and just start from right off the bat speaking about all these things about restoration. We have to work in phases, the first phase being laying a relationship. Lay a foundation to at least give and take, communicate with these people. After developing that foundation a bit then we will introduce them to more about the Principle and our belief. We'll introduce them to Father's teaching and understanding. However our first goal is to lay the foundation to have give and take with the rest of society. We have to find the society to target, those who are ready to receive certain things, a certain new message. We have to find a group in the society who are ready for change. You can see the great effect we are having in the Soviet Union and other eastern bloc countries because right now they are in a stage of new formation. They are in a process of change. Change is in the air. That's why the result is tremendous. The impact that Father's word is having is tremendous in those places.

How can we bring about that kind of change in America? America is very well-to-do and is a very proud nation. From now on, unfortunately, we have to work in many avenues. As Father has said many times, we have to get involved in the cultural aspect of American society. That is very important.

In a way Christianity was most successful, not with the people of Israel, but with people of other religious persuasions. It was most effective with the pagans, including the Greek pagans. Christianity thrived as a pagan's religion. Jesus wanted to convert his own people, the Israelites, first, but because that failed, then they tried to find another way. Christianity went in a circle opposite from the way it was supposed to go, ultimately coming back to the lost foundation. In taking that route, that huge and long detour, what they have done is convert people other than those of the Jewish persuasion. So Christianity thrived among pagans. Our time is different than the time of Jesus. Father is absolutely focusing on restoring Christianity. Christianity is the second Israel and it must be restored. We have a tremendous foundation in terms of the restoration of Christianity. However, at the same time, we also must target other religions. "Other religions" means secular religion.

Secular people have concepts of atheism or whatever, and those are their forms of religion. These people have to be touched, because, simply put, without liberating them, there is no Kingdom of Heaven. If you do not liberate the utmost dirty and utmost filthy part of this world, you cannot restore this world. As long as that kind of element lingers, there is always the possibility of a breach of security. There is always the possibility for Satan to claim a certain influence over people. You cannot leave any Satanic influence in this world. There is no room for Satanic influence. Everything has to be restored, even hell has to be liberated. What we need to do is from now on, aggressively reach out to the secular community. The most crucial group is, as always, young people.

Unfortunately, because of the circumstances, people are forced to think in terms of their physical pleasure, but inside their heart, they are searching for eternal joy, eternal happiness and eternal pleasure. That is their original mind speaking. Of course those eternal things can only come from God. Because the world is under Satan's dominion and as long as Satan has his claim in this world, he will somehow make them disregard the callings of their original heart. So what happens? In place of that eternal joy, Satan has to provide something else. It is the eternal joy and happiness that man seeks, so Satan has to provide other things in place of that. Physically Satan has the edge. Why? As long as the environment is created in such a way that certain pleasure, although it's not eternal, is presented to the people, people will. take it. Kids will be influenced by it. It's what they want.

Obviously once a person reaches their thirties, they will come to realize that's not the end. However when you reach that point, it's too late. Many people become hardened in that lifestyle, they just start accepting it. They become bitter, sarcastic, cynical. That is the effect of growing up in those kind of circumstances. When you are hardened under that circumstance, even if you have the will to break away from the Satanic bonds, that experience will linger with you and haunt you. Look at the experiences many of you had prior to joining the family. Sometimes they come and haunt you, don't they? It comes and tempts you. That is the most strong tool that Satan has over all humanity. When you look at pleasure, the physical effect is the same as . . . specifically speaking, for example, the lovemaking action that you do with your husband or your wife is similar to the action of fornication. The effect is similar, though the circumstance is different. Satan is giving people certain conclusions, he is offering a certain effect. However the process or condition with which you attain that effect is completely different than in God's way. The physical effect is the same. Just as when you make love to your wife, that physical joy you receive is the same as that resulting from fornication. However, that kind of joy is contorted, degrading and evil. In a way, by receiving this kind of joy you are caught up in pleasure and the physical effect of it. But, does man only five with a physical body alone? No, man has a spirit and soul. Although physically they may be satisfied, spiritually they are being depleted.

The more and more they live that kind of life, though they may be satisfied in that moment, when that moment ends they start suffering. More and more suffering comes. When you live in a society where there is a tremendous amount of fornication, even psychologically, you are tormented. Why? Because if someone wants to mess around, so will that person's partner. All these kinds of thoughts bother the heck out of them. If you think about it, it is torment in every aspect. But because the physical effect is similar, you go on chasing it even though you feel empty. People these days say they want a meaningful relationship. More and more people want more than just a physical, sexual, relationship. Once you start getting into that promiscuous sexual behavior, you chase that physical joy on and on, even though you are becoming depleted in every aspect psychologically, physically, spiritually.

We need to lay a foundation to initiate the first phase of building a relationship so we can ultimately reciprocate with the secular community. That can come in many different forms. That's why Father stresses culture and using culture as a medium to communicate to a secular audience. Many young people, and I'm sure a lot of you, were influenced by cultural forces while growing up. Everybody loves art. Especially young people need art. Without art they can't live. It brings them joy. Man cannot avoid trying to seek and obtain joy. It's natural. If you try to avoid it, it isn't wise. In the past, in order to restore the foundation of John the Baptist and ultimately because we had to go through the course to lay the condition of indemnity, we avoided this. But from now on, because Father is giving us permission and Father has now completed indemnity, we have to get involved in building the kind of medium to reach out to the secular audience in a way to proselytize them just as Christianity did to the pagans.

When you look at the synoptic gospels, you see all the authors and all the texts are different. Each book has a different theme, the reason being that each author was responsible for a different region. They weren't all conglomerated into one group; they were responsible for different cultures. According to such conditions, they had to adapt. What I'm saying is not that we should start a whole new pagan religion. Our purpose is to lay the foundation to make a relationship so we can get a certain reciprocal action going. Build trust and build a kind of bond so that we can eventually spill our hearts out and talk to these people heart to heart. That's what is needed.

This world is very arrogant and selfish. The key is understanding that point. Because this world is a selfish world, Father talks about being a servant of servants. To be in that kind of a position you have to satisfy these people. You have to serve these people to a degree. You have to sacrifice first. Our objective is to restore these people. The cultural medium that we are trying to influence, for example in the music thing I'm trying to do, I'm not trying to change the people of the world through music. No, that's not the whole concept. The only reason that I am doing this is to build the condition, build the foundation, so we can draw these people's attention and interest. I'm serving them, I am serving them with what they want. However, I represent something completely different than what they can receive or gather from the rest of the world. The packaging might be the same but the content is completely different.

Why do we need Insight why do we need newspapers? Why do we need that kind of conventional format? Why do we need to go through that system of conventional media? Because we need to communicate with these people to the point where we can build a bond between us and the selfish public, the very defensive public. Do you understand what I am saying? Throughout history many people have been neglected, many have been abused. Obviously people are selfish because they have Satanic lineage, and at the same time they are defensive because they have been abused and neglected so many times. There are so many hypocrites and thieves out there and you can't trust anybody. There is a trickiness, a complexity in utilizing that kind of music or entertainment format. Although people love what the performers are doing, they do not trust these people because so many of them are hypocrites. However the entertainment media has a great influence over young people. A great, great influence.

The Korean second generation is being wiped out by American culture. Look at Japan. Ever since the loosening of governmental power Korea has declined morally. For instance, teen pregnancy is almost like fifteen to twenty percent. It is unthinkable! When kids reach high school about thirty or forty percent have experienced sexual relationships. That is unthinkable. Why do you think it is happening? Because of you, because of American culture. People who have kids know the effect of television and music right? Kids follow anything. They see these beautiful people and it is very titillating and tantalizing. It's stimulating. Looking at all these beautiful things, beautiful people, beautiful colors, hearing beautiful music stimulates them more. They try to copy exactly what they see. It is just ruining young people all over the world and no one wants to do anything about it, why? The entertainment culture is the lowest culture, especially in the Orient. You look down on these people. They are like the lowest of the social order. It's not prestigious.

All of you want to become congressmen, senators or president, don't you? You have to do it sooner or later. I can't do it. But I have to raise people, Father has to raise people, so they can be responsible for missions even at that level. What Father expects from you is that you take all the things that Father built and take charge, become a leader using all those things Father has prepared. Obviously Father would like to see the Washington Times run one hundred percent by members. Also the World and I and Washington Television, all run by members. This kind of media is necessary because through it we can communicate to the masses, the general public. If our goal is to restore America it means we have to communicate, we have to get to the public, and mass media is the way to do it. In the past we didn't have this kind of foundation. In order to build it, we had to start from scratch, from the very beginning, going door to door. However we have this kind of foundation now and we have to take charge of it.

Father is saying it is up to you. It's your freedom, but with freedom comes responsibility and your responsibility is to ultimately fulfill Tribal Messiahship. If you're wise how can you let this opportunity pass you by? How can you just let it slip through your fingers? The time is right. Father has great influence over the intellectual, economic and academic communities. We have their backing, so in a way we have the freedom to do almost anything. Many religions are believing that Father is the only hope for the future. We can do almost anything to try to communicate to the general public. That is our responsibility. We have to at least be in the position to gain the public's interest. Once we attain that position, what we do will make a difference. Why? Because we are different from everybody else.

For instance, we might provide certain music that people like, but our attitudes, our presence, our way of living, our beliefs will be completely different from other people. People want change. People want something different. People cannot trust the media now. But in a way they are sleeping with the enemy. They can't do without it. They want music, however the only music that is being provided is by these hypocrites. When you grow up you realize this, but young people, they don't know it. They just accept it without understanding the nature of the music. Now more academics are getting involved and raising awareness of the effect of music culture and pop culture on young people. You know, more and more courses in college are being focused on just that topic. Harvard just came out with this certain study that lasted for about fifteen years, and their conclusion is that music and television affects young people. [Laughter.] It took them fifteen years to realize that is the conclusion?

The entertainment culture is very low, however we must liberate hell in order to build the kingdom of heaven. Why should music be the lowest culture? Do you like music, do you like watching drama and theater? Do you like literature? Do you like art? [Yes.] So why should that belong to Satan? Why should that signify Satan the most? Why should that thing which we want become an effective tool for Satan? Why should that be the case? More than anything else it is committing the greatest devastation to young people. You can't neglect it. I'm not trying to promote my position, but in my being responsible for the second generation, how can I neglect that? It's like something inside is always telling me that this is important. It says, don't worry about what other people think, you should take care of this situation. I really believe that. Without restoring this, it is no good, there is no way we can change the future. You know the old cliche, young people are the hope of the future. They are the future. If we neglect these young people, if we disregard the most influential force over young people, how can we change the course of history? How can we bring about a better future? It's common sense, it's basic. Of course education is important, but does education alone change people? No.

In the beginning Father didn't allow any of us to listen to rock music, the music that you like. Right? It was very difficult, right? You had to live without many things and most of you are survivors. Prayer alone and Father's presence alone have dragged you this far. [Laughter.] In a way you are special people. Just that alone, sacrificing that much, living without all this physical joy and having to isolate yourself from all those possibilities which could bring you joy, and you have survived this far. So you are special people to that degree, I'll give you that much credit. [Laughter.] You are special people, why? Because your responsibility is special, it is an extraordinary responsibility. Not every man could do that. You have sacrificed to a degree. It is incomparable to Father's suffering and course, obviously, but you have suffered to a degree to receive that kind of blessing. However our responsibility from now on is to restore the rest of your lineage and the rest of the people of America.

The only way in which we can reach that goal is to gain complete dominion of all those things, physical as well as spiritual. You have laid the foundation to receive spiritual blessing, what you need to do is claim all the physical things that God has given unto mankind and that God has created for the sake of mankind. We have to restore these things. That is our ultimate responsibility. That is the Principle. Having received the position of Tribal Messiah, you have to sacrifice, you have to disregard, you have to neglect physical things. You have to neglect your physical body because you have to lay the condition to restore and recreate yourself. You have to reject all the physical things. You have to endure to the point where Father is saying, "Now new life begins." Until the point in which you can receive a new beginning by way of Fathers consent, you have to sacrifice, you have to lay the condition of indemnity. That is physically sacrificing, completely disregarding what you have a right to receive. God gave us all the things of creation for the sake of our happiness, but all those things have to be neglected. In order to restore the fall, you have to do that, you have to disregard what you want and what you like. You have to completely restore and recreate yourself.

The fall occurs by just following what Adam and Eve liked. That was the fall: disregarding what God wanted, mankind followed their own will. The restoration process is completely different. You have to reject what you want and what you need. Lay a condition of indemnity and based on that condition, when the time is right, blessing will come through the consent of Father, just as blessing would have come by the consent of God to Adam and Eve. Based on God's consent the time will come when you can receive all these things, and now is the time. Father is saying you can do it. Father is giving us the freedom to go and minister.

I think things are going okay, don't worry about me. Worry about yourselves, okay? Big things are happening, but I don't want to say anything. I have faith and I'm confident that I can really change this world and greatly effect the second generation and also the first generation. They have no where to go. What they need is, what the first generation wants, is order and within the Principle they can find eternal order and security. They can find security. With the first generation they want to find security and social order. Those are the most important things that they want. The only eternal security and the only eternal social order can come about through the application of the Principle. Until young people restore all these physical things, they have to come to us because we offer them . . . we're true. You'll see, I hope soon.

All people will be affected because our message and our action are completely united, they're not separate. We're doing our best to make things that are better than the things Satan offers. That is our goal, that's what we have to do. Father has given us everything. God and Father have given us the tools. Father has given us the training and environment to work in with the tool, the tool being the Principle. We have the word of God and the word of Father. There are all these things that Father has created for us and what we need to do is perfect it. Our Washington Times has become the best newspaper. World and I is the best periodical. Manhattan Center will become the best record company and Washington Television will become the best television station. We have to become the best, we have to try to perfect our foundation, and not lose the competition with Satan. We want to offer the very best we can possibly offer to Heavenly Father through our own efforts from now on. That's what we have to do. That part is left over and that is not easy. But compared to what Father has done, well it's incomparable. But we have to do it on our own and that itself is difficult.

So you have to try the best you can. You ultimately have to become the king of your own lineage so that Father can become the king of kings. I hope you can understand what I wanted to say today. Honestly speaking, there are some times I come here to share with you and sometimes, well, you test me. [Laughter.] Anyway it's good training, I like to look at it as good training. However when you come here, please come with an open heart. It would be much better if someone of your own race could convey Father's heart and Father's teaching. That is most natural.

So please understand what I am trying to say and what we need to do. Please open your heart and let's take control of all of Father's establishments. Father wants everybody to become a leader and take charge of all those things and be involved in those kinds of things. To some of you I know it's kind of late in the hour, but you have to start somewhere. You can't just say, "We'll find the competent people to fill those vacant positions." Don't think like that, try to do it on your own. Why is it that I have to start something? I am the second generation. Ideally speaking we should be receiving the completed foundation for us to keep the work going. That's the ideal way. However, so many things are not prepared.

Many of the first generation have failed their responsibility. Do you think it is ideal for you to just let that responsibility fall into the hands of the second generation? I don't think so. If you have that kind of attitude, "Well someone else will take care of it," then you really don't deserve the blessing. You should really repent. Why should I have to suffer to make these kind of things? I should be working on top of a foundation already built. Why am I trying to just build it from scratch? Do you understand? Taking the responsibility and passing it on is difficult enough, so why do I have to build it from scratch? Because it hasn't been done, it has been neglected by the first generation. Right? Father doesn't have this tool. Father needs this tool at this time and he doesn't have it. Father talks about restoring Hollywood, did you give him that foundation? Starting from scratch is difficult.

Just do your best. Every step of the way is a challenge, but I have confidence. We are getting closer and closer. We're going to make something happen. Just believe in Father's words. Right now the time is here, Father has given us the freedom to minister at our will. So take this opportunity and do your best and let's bring victory to Father. Father deserves it. He has suffered on behalf of us for too long. It is our responsibility to take charge now. Take charge and bring victories without Father telling us always to do this and do that. Let us be responsible for our own missions without Father's assistance. Of course we will unite with him absolutely but without his assistance. That's different. That's my goal. I want to ask less and less of Father's assistance in my work and ultimately I want to reach the point where I don't need his assistance at all. I want to use my own power to bring victory and glory to him. That is my goal. I don't want his help. I love him and I am absolutely united with him, I will do everything that he wants. However, I don't want his help. I want to do it with my own power, my own hands. That's different.

There are all these details, sometimes tremendous, however let's do it. That's the spirit that Father wants to give to us and I think that has been neglected in the past. But from now on let's change that for the sake of your children and the sake of the future generation. Let's become a true example that the future generation can emulate. Let's galvanize this nation with the power and through the example that Father has set forth. Without assistance from God, Father has built this foundation, so based on that which you have received from him, how can you not take charge and be responsible on your own without his assistance? It's shameful. Let's truly take charge and let's bring victory to the American Church as well as to America and ultimately to the world. The world is our stage. So let's do it, okay? Can you do it? Lets pledge. Thank you very much.

Reaching Out to the Affluent West

Hyo Jin Moon
May 22, 1994

Thank you all for attending this inauguration to welcome Jin Hun Moon and Sung Am Moon. I am truly hopeful for the future because not only spiritually and symbolically is Father claiming the time for the second generation, but he is now giving us substantial authority to be the leaders of the world. More than ever, greater authority is coming to the second generation.

It is very difficult in any situation when you are in the position of having to nurture. I am sure that many of you have children and you know that nurturing a child is a very difficult thing. Suppose you have nurtured a child until a certain point of maturity and he has the potential to take over the care of the household, but a time comes when that child has to be let go of. Maybe he has to go off to school or he may be drafted; the separation isn't easy. In many ways CARP has been nurturing many of our human resources. Because of Father's worldwide activities and his establishment of so many different organizations, many of the human resources that CARP raised up had to be re-distributed.

Within any organization the redistribution of assets for the betterment of the whole is very important and has to be done. Father demanded that many good young people from CARP be redistributed, so we had to sacrifice in many ways. This is the kind of tradition that CARP has been under from its inception. However, that tradition is now changing because of the time. I feel great hope in the future because we can now focus again upon all the human resources that we had previously been distributing outward and re-direct them inward, so that we may focus upon the development of this particular organization and its function. This makes me feel that in many ways it is truly and substantially the second generation's time. It isn't symbolic anymore and this causes me to feel very hopeful and inspired.

My vice presidents have been sharing certain things with you such as the importance of mass communication. CARP has that foundation. The Manhattan Center is CARP's organization. As long as Father gives me the responsibility for this particular organization, I will use whatever resources are available to me for that purpose. I realize you are aware that America is in need of a different method of persuasion, a different method of communication. We really need a better way to deliver our message to this country. It is my belief that mass communication, be it through video three-dimensional animation, music or video presentations in general, is the right way to go for the future.

It is not so easy to find converts in a society where the need is focused upon assets. However, it is very easy to find converts in a society where the need is focused upon survival or the basic necessities of life. It is very important to find the need of any particular society. The reason that it has been so difficult to witness to American people since the 1960s is that this is an affluent society and many of the middle class reached a point where a great deal of abundance and wealth was available to them. Therefore the basic need was no longer focused upon basic necessities, but rather upon assets.

We are living in a physical world with a physical body and this is the one thing that screams out the most. When this physical body is yearning and seeking external stimulation, it is very difficult to convert people to the religious perspective. The reason we are experiencing such a tremendous response in Russia is because that country has only just opened up. Their needs are focused upon the basic necessities of life and reaching out towards greater things. That is why it is happening on such a large scale in Russia. We are investing the same resources but the conclusion is so different. The reason for this is the difference in the need of the people of these two societies. That is why it is so difficult for us to make it happen in America.

How can we break through to people whose need is based on assets? That is why we have to get into the kind of things that are able to reach the emotions. Now, even in America, the cycle is turning and it is becoming again more like the 1960s again. More and more people are losing jobs, becoming distrustful of governmental authority and thinking more and more about the basic things of survival. When your focus is upon survival, you are no longer thinking about assets but rather about having food on the table and a good life without fear of being harmed. That level of desire is occurring now on a national basis. This causes me to feel that this is the time when we can really accomplish something nationally.

We really need to ascertain who is capable of accomplishing certain things and begin creating an organization that can produce products that are able to stimulate those who still are seeking external stimulation. At the same time we can also work with those who are basically striving to live a better life. On top of the organization that exists now we can try to create a structure that will be able to produce products through which we can start to communicate with the people who are seeking satisfaction through all of life's trappings.

This new beginning is a great time for our church and really gives a greater responsibility to all of the second generation, not just me in particular. I feel that now is the time for us to show Father what we can really do here in America. Until now Father has been doing everything on his own; now he is affording us this opportunity to be the ones to make something happen here in America. This is truly our time. Father is giving us substantial authority. He is telling me that I have the authority to change leadership, to change the regional leader, if that particular person is not capable and has no ability. That is substantial power. Therefore, we really have to do something and we really have to be able to show Father what we are able to accomplish in a substantial manner, not just in some symbolic offering or in a prayerful or spiritual manner. This is something for which I have really been waiting.

I am truly happy to have the tremendous support of both Sung Am Moon and Jin Hun Moon who are really two very masculine individuals, whereas I am a more feminine person. (Laughter.) Not true, eh? (Laughter.) I am very happy that all of you came to welcome Jin Hun and Sung Am Moon to this CARP organization. In the future we will have a great deal to exchange with the people of the world: all the things that you have accomplished. That is what I want us to be able to do. I think about how to run a 24-hour a day television station? That is a big challenge. To create a program that is compatible with our teaching and at the same time satisfies the expectations of the audience one is trying to reach. That is very challenging. Many of you will have to be able to participate in it.

I would not mind creating a program where I am showcasing-two or three hours a week or even seven hours a week-some person's good deeds. We see this on regular television news programming, so why not showcase something you all have accomplished or are doing now. I could showcase you: introduce you and what you are doing, and draw a conclusion that not only uplifts you, but uplifts the viewers as well. Not just the Principle, but your daily lives and activities, can motivate millions of people. Teaching through deeds is the way we can witness in the future. We have a great theory but we also need to show great deeds. Everybody in this particular church out there is doing something great and inspiring. We are not just a small band of people doing good things. Now if we could showcase this to the world, it would really be something about which to boast. That is what I want to do.

The telecommunication system is equivalent to the nerve system of the human body; it really needs to link into every different organization. We really need that, because it is the only medium that transcends time and space and we really need this capability. With this capability Father can do anything he wants. Father has a tremendous amount of wealth to share with the rest of humanity. I know what Father has done and we have much to share about Father's deeds, but I want to show your deeds as well. If everyone had been doing what they were supposed to have been doing then we surely would have a tremendous amount of wealth. I know that. Therefore, I have nothing to worry about because in this way we can truly reach out to the world and become the leaders of the world. There is no other religion in modern history that has sacrificed so much. Do you think that the Catholic Church sacrifices one hundred percent of its resources for ecumenical work? No, but we do.

I am a very boastful person, but I have been keeping my mouth shut because I am aware of certain concepts. We should be able to declare good things out loud; we just need the right medium. We have a tremendous amount of resources to boast about. The time is here. Father has done everything and now he is giving us the power and the authority to move ahead. If you have great ideas then I am all ears, because I truly believe that every individual has a certain divinity. If each individual taps into their true self and truly wants to give unselfishly, I know that individual has something to offer to God and the rest of humanity. If you are particularly talented in certain areas, particularly at this time when we are restructuring the world CARP organization, please offer it.

I believe there is a great deal of possibility for betterment and a tremendous promise for the future. With the assistance of these two individuals and with a greater number of old faces returning to the CARP organization, I know we will be able to make the organization grow, prosper more quickly and become a tremendous organization so we will be able to save America.

Personally, I am a hermit who likes to be off in the woods somewhere alone and hunt or live a quiet life. However, this is a tremendous time for us in America. The time is right once again, just as in the sixties. Just imagine if Father had all this foundation in the sixties. We no longer have to worry about the Christians giving their foundation to Father; we have that foundation. This time we are not going to miss the boat, because Father has the foundation and we can make it happen. You may have been thinking that things have been lagging, but it has just been waiting for our time; that time is here now. I feel tremendous hope and you should also.

Thank you all once again for coming today. Let's all work together. The CARP organization is your organization because the second generation is your future. The highest priority is continuity and perpetuation. Eternity is our destiny. How can you reach eternity without the second generation? Your destiny is with the second generation. (Applause.) Therefore, please have hope and congratulate my two vice presidents for joining the CARP organization. I know they will do tremendous things for you and the second generation of the world in general.

A Harmonized Mind and Body

Hyo Jin Moon
Hanmadang Sports Festival: Main Address
August 23, 1992

Today, I would like to offer my deep appreciation to God for allowing me to open the 8th Hanmadang Sports Festival in Korea, our religious fatherland.

I am especially and deeply grateful that our True Parents, the founders of the CARP movement, are here today to encourage us. With our whole hearts we appreciate their presence among us.

In this year of the 1st World Culture and Sports Festival, it is deeply meaningful that the CARP rally, as part of the festival, opens centering on the Hanmadang Sports Festival.

In the Hanmadang Sports Festival, the youth of the world can show off their hopes and dreams for the future, which are expressed by God's ideal for the creation, in a beautiful, international forum of unity and harmony.

If the mind and body of man had truly reached completion without any Fall, man would be a temple in the service of the infinite God. Our very existence could be united directly with God, and with God's parental heart, and all people would represent God visibly as complete, holy individual beings.

However, because of the fall of the first human ancestors, we became sinful descendants whose body has become subject over the mind and whose sinful mind has become subject over the good mind, which is the cause of all corruption and immorality.

This has also caused us to become friends of evil and to a further extent it became the cause of unrighteousness. The problem of everything has come from egoism, from centering on oneself. From this, social, national and world egoism have evolved.

Finally, egoism has been split into communism versus democracy, theism versus atheism, and idealism versus materialism. As a result, the whole of human culture has become centered upon a corrupted body and on domination by force, bringing war and the abuse of human life.

People have become uncivilized and dehumanized and their actions have even become a most fearful force against themselves.

However, since the beginning of God's restoration providence, people have always been eager for true freedom and true peace, and they are sick of such a disordered society, longing for true order centered upon new hope and true love.

Now, the world of God's ideal will be the enlarged form of an ideal person who is unified in mind and body. If the mind becomes a subject of goodness, it can give clear direction to the body. Therefore, if our minds become the subject of goodness, we can build the ideal world which the world has always desired in its original human nature given by God.

The wide community

Through the Hanmadang Sports Festival, we can achieve the original harmonized mind and body, enlarge our experience, and build the world of the new order centering on the mind which looks for goodness.

All the power of the physical body comes from the action within a healthy and true mind. There are many different games. Some games are played individually like the marathon, but there are also many different team games which are played by many different people.

Team games, where different characters can be truly beautiful masterpieces of harmony, achieve unity and harmony through compromise and understanding, through love and virtue.

In order to play team games, we have to keep the rules of righteousness. They also help a player to develop a strong spirit of competition. We have to learn to accept and obey decisions taken in the game.

At the end, the loser holds up the winner's hand, but the winner should also inspire the loser, and when they do this, we all feel deep brotherhood and love.

The meaning of "Hanmadang" is very important to understand: "han" means large and wide, and "madang" is the symbol of community spirit and working together.

As we know, in the Olympics, the true spirit of the games has become a fight for medals, and the nations with few medals have become disregarded in the competition.

Therefore, the Hanmadang Sports Festival was founded as a forum for a spirit of cooperation and prosperity only achieved by mutual love as the basis for the foundation of a new culture. Hanmadang is also a forum for the passionate call of the youth to building an ideal world of principle.

Let us give our very best effort and the skills for which we have trained, and then both winners and losers will all ultimately be victors.

World CARP members: today, the significance of the Hanmadang Sports Festival does not only mean winning, for it is also a forum where one can share true brotherhood and sisterhood and participate in the great global family of God's ideal of creation through the games. It is also the place for sharing love among true brothers and sisters centering on True Parents.

It has been the hope of the True Parents throughout their lives to see the ideal world. Now that the 20th century of tension, confrontation and conflict is passing away with the end of communism, the coming 21st century will create the new Eden culture which will open a new chapter of a harmonized humanity.

Today, through the youth of the world, we can show the model of the ideal Kingdom of Heaven through the Hanmadang Sports Festival.

We will now make a fanfare of harmony of friendship of love and of peace. Let us work together in this forum for true love, creating eternal and unchangeable friendships, moved as we are by the natural passion of youth which aims at the opening of a new world. Thank you again for your coming, and God bless you!