Role Model

Hyo Jin Moon
February 18, 2007 7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 18 February 2007. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim's website is: www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: definingmoment.tv/ and definingmoment.eu/
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

(Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage; he places a small notebook on the podium.)

Good morning!

(Hyo-Jin-nim pauses to survey the audience. He smiles and says)

There are too many young people here. OK.

Whether you like it or not, one of these days you are going to become a role model.

When we talk about the reality of how society is, we're always looking for somebody to blame or someone to glorify.

Why? Because it's Important whether people in general understand the concept, it starts from individual to family, and that family extension gets larger and larger and larger until society as we know it and to the nation and ultimately to the world. The vision on a worldwide scale happens because of a kind of individuality that can exist even within a family, that idiosyncratic dominance or preference. That's why you draw borders and that's what we see as a result in the ultimate thing.

Whether you're in a certain race frame work it doesn't matter; somehow it's going to be divided, and I don't think that is the intent of God because every religion fails to describe God in the ideal way as that kind of being, entity. However we're mystified by the reality, however lacking in terms of true knowledge, the bottom line is that God does represent the ideal and many times a conflict arises even among religions that believe in a lot of these things because they don't know the true nature of the ideal. There is a disparity somewhere. That's why it creates conflict.

So, having said that, what is the nature of the idealism of God? According to what we believe God cannot achieve the end result, the manifestation of the will of God, True Love without the presence of mankind. So if God represents the ideal, then man represents something else. The individual man that we start to create, humanity starts to become something important in the whole process of ultimately realizing the will of God.

When you put God as a representation, that individuality is humanity, because God is the representation of the ideal whether you like it or not. That's why we have religion. And we want to describe it (the nature of God) better than the other guy. That's the competitive factor within religion pursuing one God; who in the end is more persuasive, who can prove it better.

The fall occurred in the Garden of Eden, and because of the fall, all this chaos and conflict arose from that initial act. In order to restore that which is so crucial to the fulfillment of that ideal somebody has to be the true testimony of what blessing is. Because, as the objects to God, as far as we're concerned, the whole creation process is a blessing. Unless you can restore that blessing, that act of blessing, how do bless somebody?

Unless you can bring that back into humanity, and allow humanity to understand that and, on their own free will, to learn religion, manifest it to each other and to God, restoration is just a thought. It is not tangible; it is not substantial.

If we are competing with other people to proclaim and give a testimony a living testimony and be the bearer of the responsibility of rebuilding the ideal world, then ultimately that blessing factor has to be brought back through our efforts into the realm of humanity. In other words, in the end we have to be blessed by humanity. Otherwise it's not complete. It might be directional if you give to people to try to educate people as to how you can go about achieving it.

In the general setting of Christian thinking you have seven virtues, four cardinal, and three theoretical: justice, temperance, fortitude, prudence, faith, hope and charity. We have the basic kind of direction as to how we are going to represent that aspect of what God is. In terms of creating the ideal, we basically have a way in which we can try to live up to that standard as a basic guideline.

There has to be something beyond that. There has to be more than that. So when you talk about being a role model sometimes, even on a personal level, even when you have a family, it's a daunting task if you're just pushed into it. Some people might have been longing for that kind of opportunity but sometimes it can be shocking to the system.

How do you go about achieving the ultimate end of trying to represent something that is very serious because many times the importance is lost? When you try to do anything that doesn't come from the heart it is a meaningless quest. It is a meaningless task.

That is the difficult thing is trying to understand the importance of that individual thing, when we look at the idealism of God and God's representation. We are an individual to God and God and humanity has to become one. That aspect of achieving that important relationship, the value in that; it takes a lifetime to learn.

How often do you when you're old and think about something and you think about your potential and many times you want to show off and practice that basic virtue stuff, self restraint. All that little stuff that's important to practice, to understand, the ultimate value that we have and must understand in relation to God.

It's difficult. It's very difficult when you have to think about dying, because when you talk about value that is forever and everlasting and has to do with a relationship with God, it doesn't really matter what others think while you're breathing. The value as we know it in the secular realm can't go with you after death. Valuable things that we believe, as we try to idealize ourselves, and knowing what God's ideal is all about therefore I want to make that relationship workout and know God better; 'I don't know how much I know now but it has to be more than this. I need to know more. It has to be greater than this. 

As you push yourself in the end the answer is very simple: The values that you can take, there not many out there. There's not many here. You really don't see it. Things that are going to last; you really don't see it. It might be easier if money exchanged between hands and stuff and back and forth, but it's not like that.

It's about something that is of love, and try to describe love. How do you love your children? Pretty much that's the basic standard. God loves you right? God loves His children. In what way? How do you love your children?

Can you take that and put it in to someone that you don't know? That's difficult, but it can be done. That's the trial in fact. That's what we try to accomplish ultimately in the end. And how is that going to happen? I can't give you that answer. It's on a one-to-one basis.

You can try to simplify it but you can be over simplifying things if you're not careful. You have to know who you are. If you have to oversimplify something it got to be sort of an extreme circumstance, and yet you have to ask your self 'Why do I want to oversimplify this?  What am I getting? What am I looking for? What am I trying to get out of this stuff? In what way?

Because unless its war, oversimplification always is not ideal. Why because I don't know you, and I don't know you (pointing to audience members) and I can't say that you and you are identical. That's the problem.

That is the problem of dealing with people in developed nations. The level of expectation and self value, of course it varies, but it's very, very different in a developed nation. That's the problem. But that's not un-ideal. Everybody wants that kind of special attention right?

You can't fault you guys for that kind of desire. That's why it takes commitment. You have to realize what's right and what's wrong and it takes time and it takes time for us to figure that out even as we swim through this confusion of all these variations and differences and all sorts of separate existence.

It takes time. And it will take a life time for some people. And it will take a life time to the next generation until that is realized. It's not going to happen overnight. That's the reality and accepting it is a big step. You asked for it and you're going to get it. There is no exception to that rule.

I question myself some times. How far can I go along this path? There are many separate ways I could get off. I've figured that out. How far am I going to stay on this path?

It's up to you. You can't force somebody to do that.

I guess to have to have that desire for what is of true value to me. I must ask that and answer that to myself. That's the only way I'm going to be a role model to my children. One way, good or bad they're going to use me as an excuse. Right?

So how far? I don't know.

What is my highest or what is my greatest? I don't know.

How far can I go? I don't know.

Do I want to get there? Do I want to win? I guess so.

Something like that. That's all I can say sometimes, most of the time.

It's better than you having all the answers on that day. Then you should go to sleep & because you're no good when you're awake. (Laughter)

Anyway, take care of yourselves OK?

I'll see you soon.

I'll miss you a little bit.

Hyo-Jin-nim is going to Korea for True Parent's Birthday and then will tour with his band in Japan. He will be gone for over a month.

Memories

Hyo Jin Moon
February 11, 2007 7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim’s speech Sunday 11 February 2007. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim’s website is: www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: definingmoment.tv/ and definingmoment.eu/
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage.

Good morning!

Another week has passed.

For most of us a couple of thousand things happened last week. I guess we have to prepare ourselves for the next level.

Let me ask you a question: Do you have more good memories or do you have more bad memories when you look back on your life? (Good.)

I guess it’s up to you right?

A small boy sitting next to his mother on the front row says "bad memories" and the room is filled with laughter.

You’re just a kid, man, I don’t think you’ve lived yet.

Hyo-Jin-nim is amused.

OK, at least you’ve got an opinion and you’re honest.

The laughter finally dies down.

I guess that memories are the building blocks of the thing that we call intelligence. If you look at the animal kingdom, memory is a survival mechanism. It’s very, very important. Animals have a greater acute sense than we do because they have to survive based on that. Memory is very important. Right from birth they have to learn how to survive to catch prey and find food sources, navigate from point "A" to point "B," all that depends on memory and their life depends on it.

For us, too, memory is very important because that’s pretty much how we build our lives. If you don’t have many good memories, I guess that you have to build them to find it somehow.

So are there some things that we can rely on to help us achieve that end? Yes, according to the promise from heaven we have the greatest capacity in terms of storing memory, a capacity beyond just the building blocks of intelligence. There are all sorts of diverse applications of the intellectual capacities that we have to do the things that we want to do beyond what you see in the animal kingdom. So how would you create a good memory if you don’t have many? That’s why imagination is very important and creativity is very important. Because everything that you want to do after you have reached a certain stage where you have a basic building block of creating your greater self, because you have learned, you have memorized how to speak. You know how to read, how to write, how to do basic things. What you need to do is…

You have to plan. You have to plan your future. You have to envision yourself ten years from now. Let’s say you’re a twelve-year-old kid or barely a teenager, middle school, whatever. You have to envision yourself ten years from now, twenty years from now.

It hasn’t happened yet. You don’t have it in your memory, but you can store those mental images that you’re creating about yourself. It might not be true at the moment in physical form because it hasn’t been manifested yet however, that image that you see of yourself perhaps one day, if you do the right thing, if you are persistent and you do what it takes to get there and keep at it, perhaps the image of you that you have stored in your head when you’re a sixth-grader, ten years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now, will come true.

All the stuff we store, I guess we store it mostly for some reason, but some things we don’t even think about it, we just store it. And some times it just comes up. Sometimes it can be helpful, but if you are not careful it can also harm you. Because most likely if you store certain things that you are not fully in control of you are going to create something not nice.

Now let’s say that you have to love somebody. You have to love your parents. You can’t hate your parents. You have to love your siblings. You can’t hate your siblings. You’re going to be with them forever. There are many things that make a relationship work and sometimes you have to work at it. And it’s not one way; it’s always both ways. And there are things that can sometimes get in the way of building a greater relationship. How do you go about achieving a greater relationship when certain images or certain memories always get in the way?

There are so many people who I do not know personally out there walking around on this planet. If I make judgment based on one casual image that I perceive in a moment then that would not be good.

So it is with my siblings. The only memory I have of intimacy with them is Hung-Jin. We shared the same room until I reached my teenage years. Other than that there is too much age gap, so I don’t know these kids except when they were very young. That’s the only memories that I have of them.

What I see now, in my mind I’m concerned to put it nicely. Still I have to make that choice of holding on to that. And I do have that capacity to make greater memories, even if it is not happening now, even if it is not real now. It can happen tomorrow. And I guess that’s where religion comes in. It talks about faith and it tries to teach you the importance of faith.

How can you achieve faith when obviously you can’t project yourself into the future? You try to make yourself happy. I’m happy now, but if you go out and look at the world, it makes you angry. You get depressed. No matter how you try to make yourself happy you just want to hold on to your happiness. You pretty much have to do that and start blocking out all other things.

I like to see greatness in people that I care about. What you see outside should be the same as what is inside. Sometimes because you care about somebody, you do care, it should matter to you.

Sometimes, yes, you do get emotional about it. Why? Because it’s not right, it’s not going anywhere like that. It’s not like war that we’re fighting with bullets and guns. It’s competition. Success depends on the quality of how you achieve it-self. It’s not that simple. Murder and mayhem might be simpler than loving competition.

I still remember all sorts of stuff that Father used to talk about, the kind of images of fantasy that he drew in my head with His words. I still hold on to those images because I don’t think they’re bad. I’m not going to say because I’m getting too old for this, and I’m more practical than that. It isn’t going to happen in my lifetime. I should hold on to it. Why? Because it looks nice; let me just start with that. If that can happen, the world will really look nice.

How do you get there? We have a lot of really good people doing a lot of good things all the time. It’s kind of unfortunate that the number kind of stays at a certain level. It really doesn’t fluctuate too much. A lot of people come for all sorts of different reasons and I guess it’s important that we start to branch out on that level because its very difficult to find quality help. Right?

Those people do make that kind of association / connection because they think we’re successful; we’re somebody. We’re great in this and that however we commercialize ourselves. I don’t know how true in essence it is, through all the propaganda that we make.

It is serious stuff, just making propaganda, especially in a free society, because the absolute ruler in a free society is the masses. The presidents and all the politicians are just managers. The masses can get rid of them if they don’t like them. Most people like to stay away from politics because they’re busy taking care of their own business.

How can we trust all the people that we connect with, especially the politicians? Even if there is a genuine person who wants to get into politics to make laws that help society and benefit people, their power is limited. In the end you have to get permission from the masses. So pretty much people do what ever freedom allows and the easiest way to live free is to think about yourself, focus on yourself. "I don’t want to get involved in all this stuff other than what I have to deal with in my own life. How can I change this world?"

And when you want to change, you have to try. You can’t just think about it. That’s a losers’ way. What’s the opposite? I guess that’s the winner’s way. You have to DO what you think is right. If you’re going to change the world, you have to start changing the world trying to build that relationship that is important. Ultimately you have to bridge the gap between humanity and God and True Parents.

It has to start, genuinely from the persons that think that is the way. If everybody thinks that is the way, that’s what everybody has to do, no exceptions. It’s difficult. It is difficult. It is difficult to try to get more… more… more… Sometimes you don’t know what more is.

I don’t get anything out of this. I don’t get anything out of this other than making memories, right? Some of the faces I don’t think I can ever erase because I see you every week. (Laughter) I don’t think I can erase it out of my memory. (Laughter) I don’t whether that’s good or bad. (A lot of laughter)

It’s those things that I think that matter in changing the world. You have to think that that kind of stuff is important. Just like everybody else, not what’s just important to you. There are more people like you that there are the privileged people in the world. You have to have the right attitude.

Last week I had stayed up all night talking to someone and I was a little out of whack. I wanted to call Janine and ask her to have someone else pitch in for me, but since I was awake, I came.

Anyway, what you see is what you get.

I’m trying.

All those fantasies that I have, all those dreams that I have, I want to hold on to them. I think it’s good. I think I’m going to keep them in my memory as long as I’m here.

Sometimes you need to dream.

And everything that you see is good sometimes.

But if we’re going to win, everybody has to be real.

I have one more week. Next week I’ll be here but after that I’ll be gone for about two months.

Take care of yourself.

I’ll be here next week.

OK.

Romanticism

Hyo Jin Moon
February 4, 2007 7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nims speech Sunday 04 February 2007. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nims website is: www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: definingmoment.tv/ and definingmoment.eu/ If you would like to receive Hyo-Jin-nims speeches by E-mail please contact me at: joekiney@optonline.net
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage. He places a small notebook on the podium

What kind or romanticism do you think that our church and some people will think about?

What is romanticism?

What do you want to die for?

You want to die for love right?

Tell me; what is your romanticism?

Romance means that youll give up everything for the sake of love.

Thats what romance is all about.

It doesnt matter if romance is momentary? If it overwhelms you, it will last forever.

It has consequences, serious consequences.

What are you willing to throw the rest of your life away for; for the sake of love.

Thats pretty serious isnt it?

So, having put that aside, lets say that you only had two choices: to be a prince or to be a warrior. Which would you choose?

What is a prince?

In European culture there a lot more aristocrats. Maybe you need to hold on to something.

Dont get offended; its just a fact. Who cares?

What is a warrior? Lets talk about the nitty-gritty.

Lets just think about how were conditioned to think about changing the world.

How are you going to change the world? Who are you?

What kind of stuff do you need to change the world?

You need all the extremes. You need to learn how to be both a prince and a warrior. OK?

In what sense? To what degree?

Because things happen in moments. It doesnt happen all the time.

When changes happen it happens in moments.

When you try to understand God, youd better give your life for it and know everything about it because it will not happen otherwise.

If you want to die and live in happiness forever, then you have to pay the price. Its that simple.

Why am I here? If youre true to yourself and youre willing to die for it, thats all you can do.

I had a choice to be a warrior. What is a warrior anyway?

You have to understand this to understand Christianity.

Warriors are actually glorified.

All the rich nobility of the past with all their servants and wealth could only achieve the convenient things that anyone can have today through modern technology.

Modern technology gives you a bunch of servants, but what about becoming a warrior?

What are you fighting for? You tell me. I dont know you that well.

I know what Im fighting for. If you think that youre a warrior; then tell me what youre fighting for.

You have to start from that and you have to build on it. This is a good life a good birth a new beginning. To make things perfect, it deserves perfection. It deserves the best.

You do that for what? For yourself?

Ill keep coming here just to show you&

Hyo-Jin-nim is very emotional, weeping.

I want to tell you something; you listen.

Dont ever question me.

You can judge me all you want about what I do, but dont question me.

I dont think you people understand me.

Hyo-Jin-nim is weeping and one sister is sobbing aloud.

Life is short and it can be good.

When you have to change the world you cant look at everything (just optimistically)&

I like to look at things like the glass is half-full all the time, but it doesnt always work like that.

There are all sorts of reasons why.

Look, its (the Kingdom of Heaven that is) going to happen. Just think about dying. Thats the smartest way in my mind.

You cant wake up and see your children running around and say, "YOURE GONA DIE!" (Laughter).

Time will take care of it right.

If you are so arrogant and selfish that you can fulfill the responsibilities of your course then whose problem is that, Gods problem or your problem? Its your problem.

After all, Im the preacher here OK. Take it or leave it.

Im doing my best. Im trying to keep it simple.

I hope that Im interesting to you sometimes.

If I give you my word on it, Ill stick to it, unless powers beyond my control intervene.

I will protect my family. I will protect my kind. I will die for what I believe, absolutely.

We all die, but you still have to win. There are rules and you have to win.

We all still go by the rules that are beyond us. It is not that simple when you have to win like this. War might be easier in that sense.

It takes more to win that -- it's just a killer. Thats the truth.

It will not happen over night. It will not happen just because you believe in something. You have to make it happen.

We can do it. I know we can do it. I give every glory to my Folks.

Hyo-Jin-nim is weeping.

Thats why you come to hear me right?

Do you think I change that easily? People like me dont change that easily.

Ill change in many things, but there are things that I know that I wont change.

You have to be willing to die for what you believe and I want to prove that more than anyone else. Otherwise get out of here. I dont care what you think.

Its going to take a long time to change this world.

There are princes and princesses but it will take time to make them genuine in the eyes of God in terms of the ideals we believe in.

Thats why I think its going to take a little longer than what people are saying. I hope it can happen, but some one will suffer more that others. Guess who?

Dont kid yourself. If you want to look at the reality that is real then look at what is real and treat it as such and do something about it.

Otherwise its pointless; what ever you think in your head doesnt mean anything.

OK

I have to see you next week.

Thats my miserable life (Laughter.)

Outreach

Hyo Jin Moon
January 28, 2007 7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim’s speech Sunday 28 January 2007. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim’s website is: www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: definingmoment.tv/ and definingmoment.eu/
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage. He places a small notebook on the podium

Good morning.

What’s important to us is outreach, right?

Am I reaching you?

I you could make a simple slogan; I guess we could say "If it’s un-relatable it’s un-reachable.

When we think about reaching out to people, we have to have some sort of way in which we can relate to them. When you focus on the relativity issue, relatable issue, you have to do it with people’s expectations. You have to address expectations so you can relate because everybody has expectations.

It can vary, but there is basic stuff that we all know is right and that we all know is wrong. So there is a concept of right and wrong that we generally understand and accept. And based on that understanding which is pretty much the thing that governs our lives, our deeds, we have an expectation to be a higher self, to be a better person, to be a more successful person.

Before you go out and try to start doing some kind of outreach activity, you have to kind of answer that before you try because you’ll learn it the hard way. One way or another you’ll learn the life lesson, but you will learn it the hard way. So it’s better to know your self prior to actually trying something, which is normal if you’re trying to help people, to reach out to people. You have to answer the question: "What is my expectation?"

How do I define right and wrong on issues, and based on that what am I doing to try to be active in my life. What is my pursuit? How does it affect; how does it connect to the ultimate goal of actually reaching out to people so that I feel good about myself in the eyes of God because I believe in God. So what is my expectation? What do I want out of myself and the life that is ahead of me?

These days the health movement is out there right? They want to get healthier; they want to put a lot of good stuff into their body and get stronger and healthier to they can live longer. More and more people are recognizing that you have to put a lot of good stuff in your body so you can have a healthier life. If you don’t manage that properly, if you’re not vigilant about it, obviously you will suffer the consequences. There are always consequences, cause and effect, right? Especially for children this is very important, in the maturation, the growth period it is very important for them to have a proper healthy diet. It’s very important that you see in the world that so many people, not just children, but even adults, are dying of hunger. And all sorts of tragic injuries are out there. That’s real.

Let’s try to take one step at a time. It breaks your heart. You want to reach out and just help everybody and change all that (snaps finger) at the snap of a finger. That’s unrealistic. So we have to think about how we can better take care of ourselves so that ultimately we can do a lot of good things, because you have to be strong right?

So good nutrition is important for children and also for old people. You can take risks during a certain period of your life when you are a young adult. You can sometimes take in toxins and experiment because of the curiosity factor and because the world is the way it is and you have so many images out there that provoke your curiosity. Some people will dabble in it: most people will dabble in it, especially living in the, quote free unquote society.

Everybody wants to live longer. As you get older and older that becomes very important. So as much as it is important for your body to put a lot of good stuff in there, so it is for your mind and so it is for your heart. You know we’re not just here living with the body. The way we think is very important too, and it’s influenced by the stuff that we put into our heads. That’s the basic point of reference that you use to determine things.

It’s like when you expose yourself to certain unhealthy food situations, the same thing. You will have many side effects of putting a lot of garbage into your head. I think it’s more important that we have some kind of environment in which we can expose ourselves to goodness, and the good things that people can do and say to one another, mostly good deeds. Actions speak louder than words.

If you can capture that kind of stuff and expose people to it, let the people in general see that there’s that kind of stuff out there and we choose to live that way, to be exposed only to the right things that can make us healthy, we will become healthier.

When we become healthier, as a greater unit, the ability that we can project, that we can manifest in helping others, reaching and out and helping others to change for the better can also become more powerful.

How do you achieve that? That’s why I believe that systematically we have to work on that question and bring a solution. And there are models out there. Television is nothing other than a living news paper. There are columns, pages on politics, society, religion, culture, life style, entertainment, it’s just there. Pretty much that’s the way we’re living in the modern world. That’s how we consume all the information that is out there. TV is the main medium for exposure. From that medium everything gets radiated out. And based on the information, the things that are being radiated outward, they can form your thoughts. That is reality, and it works! It’s very effective.

In the future we’ll get… it’s not that difficult because more and more systems are getting cheaper, even HD (High Definition TV) stuff. If it becomes internet viable we can create a broadcasting company. It’s not a star away. It’s literally doable. All you need is a production crew and the capability to maintain and manage it in terms of livelihood. That’s all it takes. Having a big station like the old days is a kind of symbolism of the past. You really don’t need it, but you can have it because you do need some kind of centralized symbolism. It does cater to human needs to have some kind of attachment to something, like having your own house or something. Making your presence known, it’s important in relationship to other people. Other people aren’t going to change that quickly so in terms of politics it’s necessary I guess, or, to put it nicely, diplomacy.

Sure, it’s doable. If you want that we can have that. That’s not a problem. We’re working on it to make it happen so that it can independently achieve that. It’s better in terms of offering. Take less from Father and give more.

It’s doable. An annual budget of $10.000, 000 can do it no problem. It depends on where you set up shop. The cost varies. The Fatherland, geographically, it is a promising place. It’s only two hours from Japan, two hours from China and not so far from Russia because you can unite that north and south divided situation. It’s not a different country; it’s just a division.

We have you here. Father spent one third of His life here investing so He can unite all the archangel nations. We have more work to do in terms of the other two, but regionally it’s (Korea) right there. So it (multimedia operation) can be done when we can create that kind of model.

How often have you felt lonely? What is the cure-all for loneliness?

Love!!!

(Laughing) Love stuff, right?

There are many ways to show that kind of stuff. You can literally showcase. You don’t need a great person to show that. You can even see it in starving children. To showcase that kind of loving humanity regardless of where you come from, what region, what kind of situation, regardless of age, If we are constantly exposed to those kinds of things, how can we be evil? How can you raise your children evil?

It’s out there! I just need the crew to go out and get it so we can show it to you. Then it can be done. Then we can start the change. We can reach out to people. People will be reachable. Some people are just stubborn; they don’t want to change. They force them selves away from change. There are some knuckleheads that live that way.

The polar ice cap is melting, so people can melt. (Laughter) Maybe there is more water to drink. Billions of people are drinking everyday. Billions of gallons are being consumed right? We need more water.

It can be done. We can do that. We can change people. We can reach… The more you have those (good multimedia content) the better that you can reach out to people because you have something to make that connection.

As you get older, you’re going to get interested in that kind of stuff because you know you will die, absolutely; and you want to know as much as you can about what love is if you didn’t know what that is. And some people are willing to give it (information) to you, show it to you and move you. Because love will move mountains, right? And they will change.

It will take time, but you will change; you have no choice. God will win, right?

That’s doable. It’s Absolutely Doable. That’s how people change. I know this. That’s how I change. If I can change, people can change. So we just have to make that happen.

That’s it. It’s That Simple!

And it’s doable. We’re working on it.

You’ll be the first ones to know.

You’ll be the first ones to see...that stuff.

Because it’s for all, right?

Not for me alone, right?

OK

Take care.

Birthday

Hyo Jin Moon
January 21, 2007
7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim’s speech Sunday 14 January 2007. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim’s website is: http://www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: http://definingmoment.tv/ and http://definingmoment.eu/

Joe Kinney

(Today is Hyo-Jin-nim’s birthday by lunar calendar. Also Hyo-Jin-nim’s wife gave birth to a son Shin-Jin-nim last Friday 19 Jan evening. Two cakes were prepared on a table next to the stage.

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage. He places a small notebook on the podium; Hyo-Jin-nim cuts the cakes and receives flowers and a present from National Interfaith Leadership Training Program, whose members attend every Sunday, and a card signed by most of those attending before he speaks. We all sang Happy Birthday twice.

Thank you.

Please sit down.

Thank you for the cake and the present and for the flowers.

This was unexpected. He came out a month early. I guess he wanted to come out.

He’ll be coming home today. He is healthy and my wife is OK.

So thank you.

So today ... I see some faces that I haven’t seen for a while. (One of Hyo-Jin-nim’s former band members and their family attended the speech today.)

Living in New York City is rather interesting.

Do you like big cities? When you see the people living in big cities they kind of have an attitude don’t they? I guess could say that it is kind of confident or to get right to the point, they’re a little cocky. This attitude is almost a prerequisite for survival in a dog-eat-dog world. You have to be arrogant; you have to have that kind of presence; you have to have that kind of pride and also project a strong sense of self importance just to get recognized.

It’s almost like the big city environment provokes you whether you want it or not to have and present that kind of attitude and personification. You have to ask yourself if that is healthy. What happens to people when they actually live in that kind of mode? What kind of transformation will happen because you will be transformed based on what you are, what you think, what you want to think, what you want to be whether you like it or not. You will process the growth and you will change into that whether you like it or not. So you have to ask your self: Is that good? If that’s not good, if that’s the only way I guess you can’t stop and we have to live with the consequences. But if it is not good then how do you stop it? That’s the question. If we don’t address that kind of question and focus on the solution that we can all agree on, it’s very difficult.

The challenge in ourselves in challenges that lie ahead in what we need to do, in our mission, dealing with those areas and that kind of arrogance will be a problem area and it’s growing faster than any other time in history. Every big city will have that problem. It will start itself with some idealism, but it will change because of the nature of what you have to be to survive in that competitive setting.

It will change you. That modern big city life will change you. The problem, especially in China, is that the big cities are growing up, popping out, every few years. It will become the number one import and exporting country in the world in a few years. Germany is number one; America is second and China is third right now and it will overtake America and Germany.

That’s the problem, and how do we address even the problems that we have now. Think about it.

To me, arrogance is stupidity. Stupid people are people who are in a state of stupor, right? Their senses are dulled. They feel numb to all sorts of stuff. You live in today’s world and are sensitized with things in life. Sometimes you have to question whether that is right or wrong. Many times when you start to think morally and ethically you question pretty much everything that is stimulating your senses, that is titillating out there. That’s what you’re bombarded with on a daily basis. It is overwhelming and you are getting desensitized to that reality.

We’re being stupefied every single way with things that are supposed to educate you, and stimulate you, to be a better person, but it’s actually doing the opposite. Why? The great excuse is that Corporations have to make money. This is the land of the free and the land of capitalism. In this society you have the right to pursue opportunity. Opportunity means wealth and whatever, personal gratification.

When that aspect, especially personal gratification, is not defined properly it becomes very dangerous. We do have a problem with religion in itself because the values that religion should uphold as sacred and absolute... Regardless of what religion it is, there has to be some absolutes that are equal to the primary absolutes, the laws of God PHYSICS! But even that is unstable. There is no clarification in some religions. That’s the problem.

There are many issues that need to be solved. We still have the basic problem. And how do you go about changing that when the world is becoming more stupefied?

We have to go to the very essence of who we are, starting as a child, we want to learn. We have to bring that back. And how do you go about doing that? It’s extremely challenging and it's extremely difficult. You have to really create a creative environment that is so overwhelmingly rich, productive, creative that it provokes you enough that you’re enraptured by it to the point where you want to learn; you want to start to learn again.

Other wise it will never change. It will only decay further. How do you provoke the arrogant culture into wanting to learn again? How do you restart the need for growth? How do you stimulate that? That’s the question that we need to ask. We must find the solution there.

You can’t force people to change. You can’t force people to learn something when they don’t want to learn. How do you go about doing that? Can you create some kind of art or entertainment that is so rich, so high in standard and quality, that you know that people will change just by being part of it, just by being in the presence of it? Can that be done? I will be extremely challenging.

Can you find a truth where it is so evident just by hearing it that you can clarify many, many things that you might be questioning about life itself, and the purpose you are in terms of your existence?

If we can find something like that it would be very provocative, wouldn’t it? Even in the minds of arrogant people I’ve seen it all. I’ve been there. I’ve done that, jaded to the hilt. I’m sure that you can open the door again of wanting to learn more. Because once…

No matter how arrogant you are. No matter how confident you are to put it nicely, if you can see a greater quality. If something is presented to you and you can see the quality. This is something. The quality of it is better than what I’ve got. That’s a stimulation, no matter how arrogant you are.

Being able to present that case, that moment of one who is arrogant making that change is difficult because you need to present it. It has to be real to that person. It has to tough them in a real way physically, mentally. I don’t know if that person will understand spirit yet, but at least that is a challenge. We must do that and it will take a collective effort, not just one man’s genius, because everything in the world stands on the shoulder of something, ultimately God, right?

How can you be arrogant to begin with because you can never be satisfied if you live a creative life, even a religious life, because contentment is a killer? Even in the world of art you are only as good as the last one that you did and you have to keep it coming. You can never be content. You can never be satisfied because it is suicide. It is a suicide position. It is a suicide action actually if that is the chosen path that you are taking. You can’t survive. You can’t compete. You’re dead by your own self admission.

You can never be satisfied. You have to want more, more, more. That’s reality. Why, because God is like that. Don’t you want to emulate him? Do you want to imitate Him or do you want to emulate Him? I don’t know. (Laughter) Or do you want to be Him? Oh Boy! I don’t know about that. (Laughter)

And when Father says up to twelve, up to 35 years, you have to symbolically rebuild creation. The number six he owns and the number seven. The other five days. He does think numerically five times seven is thirty five years. Maybe perhaps then you’ll reestablish his name around the world substantially, not symbolically. I believe it will take ten generations or more. It can’t happen that…

Look. People come. A lot of people come and they put their hands out for all sorts of reasons. You can’t trust politicians, period. Right? How can you trust those guys? Some religious people, I question them. It is very difficult. I know that a lot of people come, especially when you present it in a certain way, they do come expecting something. That’s not good. That’s not how you transform people. That’s not how you change the world.

It might have some symbolic sense. It might have some temporary applicational effect to galvanize people to do something more. But eventually what is that? Members fundraise and you spend it on what?

Having that kind of leverage that we need for a twenty-first century church, because multimedia is the way of twenty-first century ecumenism, its going to take time to develop that stuff.

More importantly we need to develop our own people. You can’t just use hired guns. It will never work. It will never work in any case, in any situation, in any organization. In any system it will not work. Money is never a solution, nor power, never.

The only way to motivate people, like I said last week, is either you do it with money or sacrifice. That’s the only way. Money is always a temporary measure. The long-term thing is always sacrifice. I’ll sacrifice more than you. That’s the only way. I’ll do better than you. I’ll show you a greater product. That’s the only way to motivate. If you motivate the person that way it lasts MUCH longer than money! Trust me, that’s the only way to do it.

We need our people who... There are so many ways in which you can become valuable, if you’re good at research or even art or whatever. Even if you don’t have an outgoing personality there are many, many ways that you can be invaluable in that system, because we need to compete that way to survive. That’s the only way. I sincerely believe this.

I’ve been saying it for a long time and I believe it with all my heart and this is how I’m going to go out. There is no other way.

Please if you want to put anything into stupor, put your arrogance into it.

Take care of your self.

I’ll see you next week.

Keeping Yourself Motivated

Hyo Jin Moon
January 14, 2007

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim’s speech Sunday 14 January 2007. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim’s website is: http://www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: http://definingmoment.tv/ and http://definingmoment.eu/
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

(Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage.)

How are you all doing? Happy New Year!

Is it easy to keep yourself motivated?

It’s very difficult isn’t it?

How do you keep people motivated? How do you keep yourself motivated?

Before you talk about how you can affect others, how do you keep your self motivated?

First of all you have to have some kind of purpose in life. Right?

And you have to have some kind of belief in your self that you can achieve what I am seeking out to achieve because the purpose that I seek has a certain value to me. It is such that, one way or the other, I have to see the end of that course that I’ve chosen for my self because I believe in my self. And it’s important to me that it happens, that I achieve that in my lifetime.

So, having said that, how do you keep yourself motivated? Sometimes you will face the ups and downs of life. It’s very difficult. It’s impossible to think that it’s just going to be a smooth ride all the way through, that you’re going to sail through without any kind of problem whatsoever reaching your end. There will always be obstacles. Why? Just because you think that you can do it doesn’t mean that you understand the process, because you will face the process for the first time. And you will face the challenge of growth after growth and all the variables that happen.

Then you will learn as you travel through the journey that you have chosen for your self. All the challenges that you will face one way or the other, you will somehow remedy. Whether you have some guide book from someone that has prior experience that was capable of assisting you or helping you in the proper manner in which you can ease that ride, ease that wave that can sometimes be overwhelming because it seems like a tidal wave at times but those are the steep hills and valleys that you have to cross.

But every step of the way is a learning process and you have to first accept that challenge because that is inevitable. You will not have all the answers as you move forward. I know that you don’t want to stagnate. I know that you want to move forward. Moving forward in itself is difficult because the nature of growth itself is so challenging. Just facing a new (thing / experience) is so challenging that it is difficult to keep yourself motivated. Just that in itself.

So, having said that, that’s your individual challenge. That’s what you have to face, everyone, what ever goals that you have. I don’t know… There are a lot of young people here -- you go to school because you want to learn something -- a trade or what. You will face challenges just in learning, but going to school is just the preparation stage. After you come out of school that’s when everything begins in terms of work because you have to weave it into society. You can’t just be at an experimental stage as in a laboratory setting. It has to be real. How do you connect something that you have understood basically in theory and practiced in a laboratory setting to a more tangible reality that actually affects the social fiber or society in general?

You have to first answer that question; how can I keep my self motivated? What do I need? What do you look for when you’re looking for motivation? The simple point: If you look at society in general they use two things, a reward system and a sacrificial system. If you’re the central figure and you see a very talented person, you can’t really use the reward system because we don’t have so much money, so you take them out to dinner or whatever. What you have to do is that you literally have to do it with your physical effort. Do it with what you have. "I’ll sleep less than that guy; I’ll work harder than that guy. I’ll do what ever it takes to provide more creativity, more productivity. I’ll do something, something by sacrificing myself to motivate that guy, to inspire that guy, to hold him." If you do this you can hold that person for a while as long as you keep on doing that stuff that he can recognize. That’s the only way.

When you try to reach something, what you have to you is you have to sacrifice more. Let’s say you’re on equal terms with another person in terms of what you have physically so you say "I’ll take less and I’ll give that guy more than I have." That sacrificial act alone, a very simple sacrificial act, becomes a point of an inspiration to the recipient. And that is a motivating factor.

To keep people motivated you either reward them, like, by giving them money or you inspire them by your sacrifice. The business world is becoming more specialized and you need a specific target to begin with and based on that you have to be purpose driven. Stop making noise and start getting name recognition and based on that your product is getting known out there. You start making money and you have to spread that wealth around and take care of the guys that are specialists by giving them a lot of financial incentives to keep them motivated, to hold them in dedication to the job. Other wise they will go to your competitor who is offering a greater financial incentive.

Either you do it (motivate) with stuff (money) or you do it with the stuff here (your sacrifice). The stuff that comes from here (sacrifice) is more long term. Trust me. You remember that longer. The other one (money) is a short cut and it still works, but you have to keep it coming. They’re always looking "where is my bonus and that kind of stuff. How come it’s not as big as last year? What’s going on?" That kind of stuff…

That sacrificial stuff still works, and since you don’t live that long, if you just keep it up for several decades you can establish something. Pretty much that’s how it’s done. If you’re trying to change the world, what is the better model? What would be the better way to motivate people?

Sometimes you consider your self a Crusader right? To me a crusader is a person who forces himself to be an optimist. Otherwise you see the glass half empty. That sucks. You think "I don’t think we’re going to make it." You’ve got the wrong attitude for the job. You have to look at things differently than other people would, and you have to do that on your own.

It would be nice if you always had people that you can depend on, that would encourage you and each other. But sometimes you might be alone. What if you got locked up somewhere? What if you have no where to go, no one to rely on or depend on to kind of (pat you on) your shoulder and find solace. You have to try and find something that you can (use to) motivate (yourself) on your own. That is the key. For me, motivating ones self is the most important thing. How do you do it? How do you motivate yourself?

Like I said, it’s up to you to like being a crusader. For that you have to look at things a little bit differently. Then you can find value in it. It doesn’t take much, just a thought sometimes, that’s all it takes. You don’t need to ask somebody’s permission; you don’t need someone else’s validation if you can find through that just a small thought alone that you can give to yourself that even for the moment that you see that light, that you see that little moment of OK.

It doesn’t matter if it’s just a jolt, or like a caffeine high. It doesn’t matter if it is just a little jolt if you can find usage for it. That’s something because that’s all it takes to make something great. That’s how you started. You were just an invisible little tadpole (in the womb) and became you.

Life begins not just from humongous things that come in the size of a King Kong or something. The beginning can be very small too. It’s easy to see something that’s big. You get more something I guess, confidence maybe if it comes in a humongous size. It’s not always like that.

If you are always ready for that kind of moment when you are alone and find that small thought, with just that little thing. Because that kind of moment will happen more than the moment when you feel just tremendously confidant because and for what ever reason it is so obvious to see.

You can find it in all sorts of different things. It depends on personality types too. Some things that little girls might find fancy, I have no idea where they’re coming from. It happens in that way. If you can value those moments for that reason then it’s just like the crusader. It’s in your head.

Just because you formulize something and someone gives you a badge and goes through the ritual of knighting you or whatever. That might represent some symbolism, but the person that becomes that starts with that kind of thinking.

Obvious we’re trying to do this not because of glory and stuff. If it comes so be it. There are a lot of people who do things because of winning awards and accolades, but there are people who do it because they want to do it.

People want things for all sorts of different reasons, but we must find that means well for what you want to be, what you have chosen to be. Because, in the end, that’s how you will be judged by God. That is the most important judgment in my mind. Anything else, oh so what. Judge me as much as you want because that is not the final judgment. I can tell my self that I practice being judged. Judge me more! But that’s not the judgment that I’m looking for. It doesn’t matter to me.

So if you have something that you want to achieve because you have chosen a life of faith then make sure that you get good at motivating other people. I know that you don’t have a lot of money so what else can you do then? The other (leading by sacrificial example).

Those things can happen after 2012 because it’s going to start all over again from the bottom up. It’s a tall order to find a nation by that time. If it doesn’t ... I know that’s going to happen. But it’s a different time. We’re going to do it the right way the twenty first century way, doing twenty first century ecumenical work. There is a way to do it. We won’t have to knock on doors. We’ll already be in the living room. (through multimedia)

There is a lot of talent necessary to keep that movement working, moving forward 24/7/365. (24 hours a day, 7 day a week 365 day a year) If they can do it, we can do it too. I’ll try to do my best to support the way it is. At the same time we have to prepare for the next phase.

It’s difficult to find the way. We have problems fundraising, witnessing and maintaining. Five years? Are you kidding me? I know Father needs ... In my mind it will take about ten generations, but he’s going to do what he’s going to do. OK my hat is off to you old man!

What can I do? Father will do what he has to do. By that time he will be 92. Maybe he will postpone it eight more years until He is 100 years old.

We will keep on going right. It’s crazy, but in five years I will be fifty years old. And you guys will be WHAT??? (laughter)

Another year.

God Bless you this year!

Happiness

Hyo Jin Moon
December 24, 2006
7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 24 December 2006. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim's website is: http://www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: http://definingmoment.tv/ and http://definingmoment.eu/
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

(Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage. He places a small notebook on the podium.)

Good morning.

This is the holiday season. Is it supposed to be a happy occasion?

The topic is happiness.

When do we feel happy?

Help me out here. (Asking for responses from the audience)

(When our desire is fulfilled, when we are with people we love, when our kids are with us)

That's true, all those things.

Happiness begins with life itself, right?

When you see children just feeling life as they start to walk and run and see the open field and they want to run. They have a clear blue sky and it makes them happy like a little colt.

All those things, just life, in life itself you can start to find out what basic happiness is all about; then comes the phases of growth, and finding the meaning of life. Understanding the meaning of life becomes more important than the actual physical give and take. That is very necessary for us, however the meaning of life and that understanding, finding the meaning of life becomes more relevant as we inspire. Because life itself is about growth. It's perpetual growth. It's constant growth.

We have to learn, we will learn whether we like it or not, one way or another about the greater meaning of God and the will of God, the love of God. Because understanding the essence of God's love is a life-long journey, and I don't think that it ends there. That's what we're taught that we will forever eternally have a relationship with God and in the Divine relationship there is something called True love that we offer each other, because the meaning of love to me is offering.

When we truly offer our selves, our greatest, of course the meaning of love, the definition of love, will constantly expand because it should. You're growing; you have to expand.

Of course after finding the meaning of life you come to the point where it has some way or another that it has to be manifest; it has to be substantiated. So the fulfillment of life will give us happiness.

So the stages of growth formation, growth, and completion/perfection as we understand the process as we go through it and as we deliver the expectation, therefore complete the course. That's when you understand what greater happiness means.

When you're young just learning something new or something exciting it might give you that kind of feeling, stimulation, but it becomes more when you complete something when you find fulfillment. So the fulfillment of life will also give you that happiness that you seek.

Of course the final phase will be the legacy phase of your life. You will die. We will die. I believe that the greater problem is that the period of growth where you're trying to seek out understanding, new understanding, greater understanding, about the meaning of life. Sometime it can be confusing.

You can say that true happiness comes from having the ability of being able to see happiness in the eyes of others. It sounds nice, but I'm not talking about a bank robber's happiness. He'd say "I scored big and I'm very happy" I'm not talking about that kind of happiness. There are certain boundaries there. Understand that boundary; it takes time because we have to find the meaning in the end.

Obviously to a bank robber money is meaningful. That's why he robs banks! I guess he is unable to make it properly. So happiness itself can be defined in many different ways. You can say that in the process of growth we try to understand happiness based on individual, idiosyncratic ways first. What ever your preferences are you can say that we define happiness based on our idiosyncrasies or preferences. When we get something that we prefer over the other and we have it or possess it, it gives us happiness.

The process of growth becomes difficult because you have to evaluate all those things; you have to make proper analysis for judgment ultimately in the end because you'll be judged, and prior to that, you have to make that analysis. What is truly happy for me? What will bring me true happiness?

That is the period in which you struggle. Sometimes the happiness that we seek perhaps might infringe upon somebody else's existence. In the late '80s and early '90s my little brothers were becoming company heads and Father was putting them in charge of businesses and stuff and there were a lot of complaints. I used to tell them as long as I don't have it, don't complain too much. And bringing that order, for me, is happiness. Because that's what you have achieved.

It's not really what that I possess that brings me happiness; sometimes it's the opposite. Understanding that kind of stuff through life, and understanding how you connect, you make the connection, and what is does, the kind of things that you're trying to achieve, the things that your are building in growth. Once you start to figure out the meaning behind it, the meaning always has to be something greater.

So, until this day I try to keep that kind of concept and life that way. That's better especially because of what I… There was a time when I was struggling too on a personal level, kind of personal faith challenges. But all-in-all in the end, if you have to think about it, you are not just who you are a connection to something greater. There is an historical presence. You are that, a by product of, according to Father, the providence.

So, that's a challenge to understand it and trying to manifest it, and if you do, if you do succeed in your mind, it starts from somewhere; it starts somewhere, it starts with you. And other can recognize. Obviously that will define happiness for you. It will substantiate the happiness to you because of your action, not just to your self, but to others.

That kind of stuff, as it accumulates, it becomes something greater, and pretty much that's what you're going to fulfill in the end. Fulfillment is all those feelings that happen, all those things that others recognize, and ultimately that will be your legacy. When you're dead and gone that's all they will remember.

That will become, not just your own happiness, because you have completed something, because you have perfected your self. It's beyond that. It becomes something to someone else, even after you're gone. It can count as something that can make other people happy after you're dead.

Happiness is not that far away from you; it starts from one's self and how much you're willing to listen to what you're inner self, your true self, is saying. Finding that is going to take your life time. You're not always sensitive. You have good days and you have bad days. You feel like an idiot on some days; you don't always feel sharp and smart. It's a life-long journey just to listen to that inner self because what makes everybody... What is true happiness, it's the kind of happiness through which we can rejoice with God, exchange with God, relate with God.

It has to be something that all of us can feel. True happiness is universal. Universal in what way? The Creators own. You have to understand to recognize that; It takes time to recognize that. One day you try to talk about your inner self, your inner truth, your inner happiness to a little kid; I don't think they'll understand what you're talking about.

There are always steps. There's always formation, growth and perfection of something just to get to a certain phase; and there will be many phases. How can you be happy with just completing one thing? Every body says that something better is coming tomorrow. Right? Because, if you have everything today, then there is no concept of better, right?

That's why we live. We try to find happiness just in life it self, just because we're given the opportunity to have life until the state of greater things. People that have faith, at least try to have some kind of pure heart, humble heart. I don't want you to.. If you ask all the people that say they believe in that, if you ask them to define it, they'll come up with all sorts of definitions.

The thing is, it takes time. It takes time to be humble. It takes time to be pure. Because it's never ending. You wash one time and you don't wash anymore until you die? (Laughter) Who'd do that for hygienic reasons? It's something like that. Keeping purity takes a lot of effort.

Any way, you know that I don't like to talk too long. (Laughter)

I guess today is the last day. (Last speech of this year) I'll be gone a few days.

It was meaningful for me personally.

I feel I've made… it heals to forgive his mother to care about her and in the end to take care of the family.

That's what I feel. I think its fine.

At the same time this has been a journey for me. It was challenging in the beginning because I hadn't done it for such a long time. (Speaking at Belvedere).

It means something to me. It meant something to me.

I learned a lot.

I hope that I have shared something that helped you in some ways.

I hope you guys will have a merry Christmas and a great New Year.

And I'll see you next year.

I'll see you the second Sunday.

OK?

All right, take care.

(Much applause to congratulate Hyo-Jin-nim for speaking for one year)

(Dr. Chan Shik Yang attended Hyo-Jin-nim's speech and after Hyo-Jin-nim left, he spoke to us for about 30 minutes.)

Inspiration

Hyo Jin Moon
December 10, 2006
7:00 am
Belvedere

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim’s speech Sunday 10 December 2006. My ability to convey what was actually said is limited. These, at most, convey some sense of what Hyo-Jin-nim said and are not a verbatim record. Hyo-Jin-nim’s website is: http://www.canaanstation.com/ To see two of the projects that Hyo-Jin-nim is working on log on to: http://definingmoment.tv/ and http://definingmoment.eu/
Joe Kinney

Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and offer a bow.

(Hyo-Jin-nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage. He places a small notebook on the podium.)

Good morning.

Let’s talk about a little lofty topic today. Today’s topic is "Building a world of True Love"

Everybody wants love? (Yes) True Love? (Yes)

What is love to you? Can you help me out?

Let me hear your opinion; what is love to you?

(Someone answers "living for the sake of others")

Living for the sake of others, can we all agree on that?

Is that the definition of love?

Life is an offering right? Love is an offering.

When you make a vow of love and you open your hearts in matrimony you make the vow to care, to cherish, to love "till death do us part" and beyond.

Basically it’s that; it’s the offering of each other.

If you put True on top of it that then what changes in terms of the definition? Does anything change? Or is this something that you add on to that offering?

I think "True" is something that is added on to the basic definition. That’s the greatest that you possess.

That’s what your individual Truth is. Everybody has individual Truth. You can’t just talk about universality all the time. Before you talk about universality, you have to define your self clearly. You have to know how to present your self and be yourself in the best way possible, the greatest that you possess.

That is your individual truth and nobody can deny that fact because we are in some way…

Look. The concept of idiosyncrasy is that little thing that makes you different; but it’s much deeper than that. Based on the notion of what we basically understand, individual truth is the greatest offering that we can make for the sake of others, not for the sake of your selfish exploitation reasons.

Of course everything can turn bad. Everything good can be turned bad. You know the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil comes from the same root. It’s the same tree but you take the fruit and it can give you false knowledge and at the same time true knowledge.

Basically that’s where we are in the end. That’s why responsibility is crucial. That’s why failure to do that causes all sorts of problems and ultimately when you are faced with problems you have to address, you have to remedy it. You have to rectify it if need be.

That’s when things get complicated. That’s the basic premise.

So when you talk about True Love, you have to answer that question to your self: "What is my greatest self?" Because that’s the offering that you’re going to make, if you want to achieve True Love with something other than your self. Now that you have to answer: What is your greatest offering?

I have no idea. I’m still struggling with mine. What is my greatest offering? I have all sorts of ideas about how much I can contribute in this and that, but I’m still struggling to find the greatest… at my own level. I know in kind of general terms which direction that I should go because I have a big hint, called my name. (Laughter)

That’s the first thing that I have to before I think of anything else on my own. If you accept the concept of subject-object relation ship because it’s important because you have to understand your boundaries right?

We have form; that’s why we have existence. Life doesn’t exist without form. If you don’t have form you don’t exist. What does that tell you? It tells you that there is a boundary that you have to understand and that you have to accept. Otherwise you’re nothing. It’s not even in the category of death. You just don’t exist.

That’s where you have to start, with the basic stuff in search of greater truth. If you what to change the world, pretty much that’s where you have to start…..yourself… then family, and realistically if you try to actually create a world like that, the next level is the local church. That’s about it.

The locality before you talk about districts and regions and nations bla bla. No matter how you segment it, it doesn’t matter. You have to expand based on what is expandable in reality. How do things expand in reality? That is the key question that you always have to address whether you like it or not. Just because you think big constantly doesn’t guarantee that it’s going to happen in practicality.

You can talk about the importance of having a nation and the body of it or structure of it, but that’s just a skeleton if you don’t have what it takes to build something that is concrete and substantial and it has to be real. Expansion has to be based on what is fundamentally real.

That’s where you actually, literally, beyond your family, practice True Love. If you practice that stuff, it’s not something far away, it’s right there, right in front of you, just beyond your own individual family. That’s important.

No matter how good you are at anything, you constantly have to practice if you want to expand, accomplish. Otherwise your mastery is just in your head. It has nothing to do with a reality that others can touch and feel. Without that people don’t change.

People force change. That’s why you get a confused group of people. You create greater confusion. What has to change is something that is fundamentally based, and fundamentally can grow in reality. From that we can make something happen in a bigger way.

If that spreads, if that is the basic foundation that things are focused on and things are encouraged, and things are supported, sure! We can build our own nation. Sure! Because it’s doable. It is real. The reality is based on substantial grounds for physical expansion. Expansion can actually be measured and you can actually see the change and feel the effects.

Through that kind of give-and-take, because people are in it; they’re sensitive not just with their spirit or subconscious mind or intellect. IT’S REAL! Even the process of trying to teach your children to do the right thing becomes easier because you can say "Hey! Look at that! Look at this!" It’s not arbitrary; its’ not cryptic; it’s not abstract; it’s there.

I know a thing or two about symbolism. What good is it is it if you don’t have a substantial foundation in which that symbolism can be the juice that makes you expand?

Yes, it can be done. You can build the world based on true Love, but it starts with the right way of approach. Starting from the individual you have to ask basic questions, simple questions, and when you answer it, can you take it to the next level and you mean it as much as it was important to you to find what ever is the greatest that you are that you’re willing to make the offering for the sake of whatever… Even for your own good. For your goodness sake.

You don’t try to be good just because you have so many fans right? You want to be good because it makes you feel good most of the time. I don’t understand how people say I want to be good because of my fans and stuff. That’s nice.

I believe that everyone has something true to offer. True Love encourages true offering because that’s what it is. I know you want it. If you really want it, that’s what you have to do. Don’t just talk about it. Go for it.

And if you do, others will recognize that, and if it is True Love it will be embedded in their heart. I don’t know how long, eons, whatever. I don’t know. I’m not dead yet.

Can we build something in True Love? (Yes) and if so, it starts from…. I believe it’s important to be involved in your local churches beyond your family; it’s just a step above. The more you do it will be good for you and good for the church in the end. That’s what you can do to practice what you do normally for your self and your individual family.

See how much you can expand, how much you’re willing to volunteer beyond coercion. (Hyo-Jin-nim laughs) Because when you’re in True Love It’s not just a coerced act, you volunteer right? When you have a loving relationship how can it be a loving relationship when you always have to write a contract for every give-and-take?

I think something else is more important in that kind of relationship. THINGS!

Bill Gates and this other guy have one hundred billion dollars in their foundation. In twenty years it will probably become a trillion dollars. There are so many things out there that will give you high interest. At about 8% in about seven years it will double your money.

When you have that kind of money there are so many ways that you can squeeze money out of people that want to use your mind. If you have a trillion dollars to spend, that’s pretty substantial in the physical world. Sure you can do a whole lot of good just with that money. Unless you have that bottom line you can’t even try to think like that. Don’t. Because in the, end you’ll only get stupid. That’s about it.

Why are they chosen to be that rich? I don’t know. Ask God. (Laughter)

Know yourself.

Know your intent.

OK?

And if you have desire, please check it.

If you want to ask questions about your self, who’s going to?

You can’t be true if you can’t stand up for yourself in the end.

To yourself and to god…

That’s the only thing that is important when it comes to defense. Because that’s the only thing that matters, should matter, to an individual.

Otherwise if you do everything right you don’t need to defend your self, right? Others will know.

True Love… Don’t think it’s too far. It starts from you.

OK?

Take care of yourselves.