Politics

Hyo Jin Moon
July 15, 2007
Belvedere, 7:00 am

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 15 July 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 Yeon-Ah-nim and offer a standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

Let me start off with asking you a question. "Can you please everybody?" (No, no way, no)

Well you try to out of the goodness of your heart I guess.

But is it doable?

I want to talk about politics; the topic is politics.

People normally want to go into politics because they want to change society, so "I have to get involved in law making. I have to become a law maker!"

That's the basic reasoning, right, where people become politicians because law can change, forcefully if it has to, certain social behavior of people, and by changing certain environments and having the authority to change, at times, with authority, personal behaviors, can perhaps create an ideal world without measure.

What the heck are the Founding Fathers then? Why do you call them Founding Fathers? They all want to emulate the Founding Fathers if you want to become a politician right?

But it took several centuries to come to a point where there's an IRONY! The position of political authority is not something of a parental position, or a stature of some grandeur; it's a civil servant.

You're a civil servant. You're not the Statue of Liberty, or stuff like that. You're not a symbolism that lands on a mantel piece somewhere. Functionally speaking, you're a civil servant. That's what politicians are, right?

That's how we think, don't we? Children get taught that way in public schools about politics. So what happens to the politicians?

OK, let's talk about why we don't like politicians. (Laughter) Why. (Laughing) Why don't we like politicians? THEY'RE HYPOCRITES! We all say that they're hypocrites. They talk; they have two tongues, a forked tongue you know. They're the devil incarnate. They say one thing and they do another thing.

What is the nature of their hypocrisy? What layers of lies do they commit? Fundamentally they're politicians out there, especially these days, there's no place to hide because there are eyes everywhere, ears every where; there's no secrets.

It's becoming more and more apparent; good!

So literally speaking there are criminals out there. They're just out there to take as much as they can, steal as much as they can, using that platform.

And there are people who have lies for their agenda, and there's one who trumps that, who wants to be God.

And that's the tragedy. That's why we don't trust politicians.

How do you become God to begin with anyway? Why the heck do you want to be God?

He is the most miserable entity in the universe right? If He is supposed to be the Parent to all humankind there is more suffering than glee, right? Obviously. He is the most miserable person and you want to partake in that misery. Why the heck do you want to do that, for what reason? You know that your life is short and why do you want to do that? Why do you want to play God?

The thing is: At least God walked the walk. If you just tell people to do something and you don't walk the walk, that's not cool. You can do that just sitting in a lawn chair right? Anybody can do that. Just flipping through TV channels, or surfing the internet on your laptop, and seeing something and saying "That sounds like a good idea; I'll tell people to do that because I have the power."

Well that's not going to last. That's the problem; a lot of people play those three levels of lies, and that's the reason that we don't trust politicians, because of that kind of hypocrisy.

You will do certain things to a certain extent, but everything else is just self service. All the propaganda is just self service. That's a problem.

And there are the outright liars and thieves. That's why we don't trust that parental position on a national level. Because that's the reality. In one form or the other, they fall into that basic category, and that's sad.

Now how to you change this kind of world? It has to be REAL! It can't be spiritual OK? Otherwise God would have done it a long time ago. There's no exception.

You might have a moment of something, a reckoning, a final reckoning you might say. OK? But still in the end, it has to be done... the right way. And guess what? It has to be real. No hocus-pocus stuff!

I'm sorry, but that's the only way to do it or its not going to happen.

How are we going to change the world when we can't even bring people together that we know, for a reason, for a cause, something, anything!

It's just silly stuff. And I hate to say it but... I'm worried. (After a long pause)

Even if you have a vision, it has to be realistic. Right? Just having a vision doesn't mean anything; it has to be... it has to be implemental. Otherwise it's useless.

And what kind of influence do we have, what degree of persuasion in terms of our belief our purpose, and based on it, preparation, to deliver to the people that we're reaching out too that can be effective?

Where do we stand? We need to measure ourselves properly. If we don't know our limit, then we can't grow.

Everything has to line up. There has to be proper alignment to achieve proper growth. You have to know your limit. Especially if we're WILLING this stuff. Aw man we've got to know our limit. It better be packed, It better be perfect for what ever it's worth in the range that it exists.

Other wise you're going to grow up mutated.

I started this because of my son, dead son, nothing else, and I just got to know you, some of the faces. Now I know their names. That's about it. I'm here because I want to be here.

It's a pain it the butt! (Laughter) That's about it, nothing else, and you know that.

(Hyo-Jin-nim talks in tears)

All of you, in a way, you're politicians to take care of your children right? You make the law right? You say to your kids "AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY ROOF BLA, BLA, BLA." (Laughter)

So from that kind of ordinary innocence, something good should come out of it OK? That's about it.

The only way that can happen is y-o-u d-o-n't l-o-o-s-e t-h-a-t i-n-n-o-c-e-n-c-e. (Emphasizing each word) no matter how snakeish you have to be just to survive OK?

Because you have to be a snake to survive; right? You have to be a snake, a bigger snake than the snake so you eat the other snake; (Laughter) a lot of snakes eat snakes, you know. They have to.

It's going to take time to change the world, a long time.

But that's just survival stuff; as long as you believe in idealism and want to hold on to it, that's what you keep, something of original essence.

I don't know everything, but everything has it. That's what you hold on to as best as you can, because in the end you'll be judged.

Judge me!

See you next week. (Taps on the podium)

Moving Up

Hyo Jin Moon
July 8, 2007
Belvedere, 7:00 am

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 08 July 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 Yeon-Ah-nim and offer a standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

Let's talk about moving up.

America is the most powerful nation in the world I guess.

Is it? (A brother from the former Soviet Union responds "Kind of")

Kind of? Russia? (Laughter)

How many nations are there in the world? Over two hundred something, right? `

It goes up and down, but there are hundreds of nations.

And those hundreds of nations, do they follow America's ways and values in every which way? I don't think so.

They have their own way of dealing with quote-unquote democracy, the greatest gift from "white people" to mankind. (Laughter)

So there are all sorts of versions of that.

So starting with yourselves, you make your own rules, right?

You decide what is right and wrong; you make your standards and you manage your life. And with your ability that you have, that all God's children have, the ability to imagine, to create, you try to envision yourself in something that is more than what you are now. Obviously you always want to see forward. You always want to move ahead.

Because that's life, that's physics, time ticks forward. I don't think it goes backwards does it? Maybe in fiction, a time machine or something, maybe that's doable when you're dead.

As for what is real for us in this point in time, what it is -- is what it is, and what you see is what you get, and that's it. And from there, you start. You make your own laws; you make your effort; you have your standard and you manage your life. And based on that you try to do the best that you can to envision yourself in the future, and based on that imagination, you use your creativity and try to make some kind of productivity how to make your ideal real.

Unless the ideal becomes real, it doesn't exist. If you don't have some platform to stand on, you can't move up. You don't build the Empire State Building from the hundredth floor down, OK? I don't think that's doable.

It's that kind of stuff. It's just basic physical things. We have to remind ourselves how we can relate to the basic function, dealing with physical reality. The more that we are realistic to that and approach it the way we can, knowing our limitations. You have to know your limitations, if you don't know your limitations, it doesn't work.

Power doesn't mean anything if you don't know your limitations. Remember even God, the Almighty God, the Omnipotent God, He has limitations in power, CALLED YOU!

And if you don't understand that limitation, and even if let's say, you want to be helped. You want somebody to help you. You go to somebody who is powerful, if you lie to them, you compromise them too. Do you know that?

You truly have to know your limit. You have to be t-r-u-e t-o y-o-u-r s-e-l-f. (tapping the podium to emphasize each word) first. And obviously I hope that you're a good guy.

I don't think that you should shove goodness down somebody's throat; we all know what it right and wrong, basically. You should have that basic decency, basic propriety, even if you're asking for help from somebody else, because if you don't you'll destroy them too; you'll compromise them too. So what good is that?

So how do you move up? Ask your self "how can I move up?"

What do you think will last, you or a good deed that you might have done? The good deed that affects something else, something greater, that will last more than you; that's for sure.

So what is the kind of stuff that we can do to make our lives more meaningful?

Yes it is important to make laws, manage, and to create stuff. But even that, that's stuff on a physical level, stuff on the intellectual level, and stuff on the spiritual level. That stuff is there.

It doesn't matter where you're struggling in; that's irrelevant. Why, because in the end of all the things that you can do if you want, the greatest that you can possibly do is something that can last LONGER THAN YOU. Your sorry butt will die!

Because I have to remind myself every day, I have to die well. I know I'll die. It's important; that's what's important to me. And life is nothing other than proving my faith; that's about it. That's the meaning of my cause in every man or woman's life.

In that short period of time, what are you going to do?

What can you take when you're dead? The funny thing is that you can only take what you leave behind. What is meaningful in that stuff that you leave behind that you can take.

That's so funky. That's the irony isn't it? Well that's true! Pretty much that's about it. That's what faith teaches you. That's just the way it is.

What you got is what you got. More power to you! Spend it here. You aren't going to take power and money and all that stuff, you aren't going to take it with you.

What is that? To me... IT'S EDUCATION, Something in the arts and science and GOD.

Hey! Make a pill that cures cancer; be a billionaire, more power to you, but its money then right? Build a flying saucer, more power to you, be a millionaire OK. Something like that, and you want to create, OK, more power to you. Inspire people, and be rich and famous and be good.

I'm not going to tell you what to do. You know what to do if you had that stuff, right?

But it takes effort; it takes time. It takes time to take money from outside people. (Laughter)

For projects like making movies I need millions, but anyway, I'm working on it.

You have to start somewhere, and you do it for a cause; you have a purpose, and certainly it's not just for the sake of money.

People have billions of dollars. Bill Gates has enough money to buy everybody, all humanity a (McDonalds) Big Mac meal. (Laughter) He's rich, but that's it one time.

Yes he is rich but who cares? Are you going to change your life because of one Big Mac meal?

It's very difficult to persuade; it takes time; and that's why it's important.

It takes time. It takes time. If you have family, you know how it is, right? It takes time. It's just that, and you have to multiply that on a larger level, and nothing changes. Nothing changes, you might have changed, but nothing changed.

The standard did not change, that's what you literally pull yourself back into. That's why it's difficult.

You think "I've done my stuff and I'm ready to go to sleep; I'm ready to retire." But no, no, no, no, no, WAKE UP! That stuff. That's why it takes time.

Something precious doesn't cook over night.

Beliefs, what matters is something that you can change for the betterment of humanity. That's what's the greatest.

And if through your effort, through your sacrifice you can leave something behind that can help other people, other than you, that's what's important.

So what can you do? Go make some medicine; go do something; build something great; teach your friend something that they need to know.

If you know what is right better than your little friend, a friend that you like to be around, you have something to offer, something to share, do whether they like it or not.

And you keep on giving it to them. Why? Because it's going to take a long time to persuade. Don't give up. Nothing happens in just one shot. You want that, then walk on water.

OK, see you. (Two taps on the podium)

What Are We Dying For?

Hyo Jin Moon
July 1, 2007
Belvedere, 7:00 am

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 01 July 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 Yeon-Ah-nim and offer a standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

It never gets any easier, (Laughter) and it shouldn't.

What are we dying for?

People here, including me, are dying for faith, right?

And life is about proving the faith that we believe.

And what is faith? How much do you know about God? How much in terms of percentage? Do you know him absolutely 100% or what?

Life is a risk and we choose our path and that in itself is a risk, the choices that we make; and we have chosen to follow faith.

What is that faith? And if I ask you individually, almost like a job interview, I'm sure that everyone has a different degree of answers.

You might in general say something, "I want to know God" but there is all sorts of variation.

That is reality and how do you come to that on a conclusive basis to say "This is faith."

You like changes; that's why somebody who stands here has to live a miserable life of unchanging misery. Because its miserable, but you have to change.

What are you dying for?

Look at yourself as a… Father is always talking about us being the microcosm of the universe. And just on a social level, a societal level, yes, we are law makers. Individually speaking we are managers. We make things. We are creators.

We do make laws to ourselves, don't we? We give ourselves (laws) and say "OK this is my standard. This is my law, and I will do my best to follow it." And as you grow they can change. But at the same time, once you make the law you have to manage yourself and that's what you do.

What you see in society is just a magnification of what you actually go through in your own individual self in life. That's it. And some people do get carried away in body mechanics. That's just pure physical things. That's just body mechanics.

But what's greater? When you can make a standard and manage yourself to live up to that standard and prove yourself, then what happened afterwards?

You have to take yourself to the next level. What is that? Expansion. And where does that come from? How do you expand? You have to educate yourself right?

Education is important right? Knowing the beauty of God and all His creation; that takes a whole lot of education to understand its beauty and its purpose. It takes a whole lot of effort to make that expansion.

How much do you know about your own potential? Because education in its ideal sense provokes people about their potential, because if you don't you can't expand. And if you can't expand then how the heck can you know about God who himself is expanding in love?

Who do think you are to say that I know everything about God's love? Based on God's love, a new face that I see is pat of that plan, that realm.

How can I know you automatically? What kind of arrogance is that?

When you talk about dying for faith you really have to understand that the risks that we take, we take it for a reason. We want to grow. We want to expand. We want to ultimately understand how we can unite with God.

Many times on a physical, you know reality, sometimes it's even difficult just to get to know the next person, a friend. How sociable are you? And if you're not why aren't you that way? I'm sure that you have a whole lot of excuses and blame. And I'm sure it's justifiable to the way the world is.

In this age, if you look at secular politics, all the presentation is more important than the deed. You see so much pretentiousness and all that stuff. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, well action is worth a thousand pictures. How's that?

Putting something into action for the right reasons, for the sake of others, for the sake of stuff we believe that is good, is difficult. And you're going to do it till the day you die? Difficult.

Because is about, like I said earlier, is proving your faith.

Having said that: I want to thank you (gathered here) because you are changing my ways. I used to be detached. (Laughter) I was indifferent. I was vulgar. I lived in rage. I am grateful to you too, you are helping me to change my ways. Little by little... I've got a ways to go…

How can you change without give and take, relationships, opportunity, reality? Some things you just don't want to change if you're by yourself. You know what I'm saying?

Changes come when you reach out, when you want to reach out, for what ever reason. That's how changes are. And that's how you grow in faith.

It doesn't matter if you have to serve a purpose in a position of unchangingness, the symbolism of it. Still you need to have that give-and-take relationship so you can change too.

Because you have to expand right? And it takes time to fill so you need that unchanging stuff to balance the change then you go to the next level. Then you go to the next level. It's that kind of stuff.

But finding that gratitude in misery is difficult, but if it comes with the territory, you can't complain. Right?

Everybody suffers right? One way or the other right? (Laughter)

There is no exception.

Please, know what you're dying for and prove that ultimately you have the greatest faith.

That's a good competition slogan. (Laughter)

Take care of your self. (Two taps on the podium)

Masculinity and Femininity

Hyo Jin Moon
June 24, 2007
Belvedere, 7:00 am

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 24 June 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 Yeon-Ah-nim and offer a standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

It never ends. (Laughter)

It certainly doesn't get any easier, and it shouldn't. Otherwise you're useless equipment, outdated.

Let's talk about masculinity and femininity.

What is a macho man? I guess pretty much in general throughout the cultures man does the providing right? They go out and take the risk and do whatever that they have to do to put the food on the table; that's what they do. And the woman raises the family, right, the best that they can, and every detail matters when you try to raise children. I guess that's the opposite.

It (man's responsibility) expands and it (woman's responsibility) focuses. (Hyo-Jin-nim gestures making an expanding and a focusing "V" shape) So basically that's what it is, I guess, that we're supposed to do as a father and mother if you have a family. But where does that concept come from though?

God created mankind in the image of Himself, so that masculinity and that femininity obviously came from God, and is manifested by the creation of humanity. And when you break down the essence of that humanity then there is man and woman. That is the essence of humanity. That is the essence of masculinity and femininity, and there is a difference, it is opposite.

Opposite in what, for what reason? To learn to come together, that is the most important factor, to learn to unite. Because man learns from woman something that they need to learn to become one with God. And woman too, visa-versa. Because that's what is the essence of responsibility. You have to put something on the table; you have to earn it. Yes, you have that potential. That's why it can be learned, but you have to act upon it.

It is your responsibility to make the right choices in understanding how things can best work, because you can mess up your whole end of the thing.

When you look at the nature, it is beautiful right? There is so much beauty, but at the same time it also has fury. The reason that it exists in an opposite reality within the domain of the earth itself, the nature itself is because that's how it grows and expands. That's how it rejuvenates itself. That's how it recovers. That's LIFE!

We have to understand that stuff. How many times did we jump to a conclusion through our arrogance without knowing things? That's why we make mistakes. That's why the foretelling, fortune teller stuff, foreseeing stuff, becomes wrong. That's part of the learning process isn't it? That's how you learn.

But, in the end, it exists to unite, to create something, teach us something. Nature is there it is a textbook of learning about basic stuff that makes us who we are to give us the basic understanding of how we can relate to God, because we do have the tools within our physical self, our consciousness and our spirit.

In terms of volume and size there and a degree of expansion, we're the highest. There's nothing greater, not on this planet. Maybe somewhere else flying around with flying saucers and stuff, but that's a different story. (Laughter) I'd love to meet those hermaphrodites. (Laughter)

Even in our practical day-to-day reality why should the government, the political system itself in America, let's say, why should it be adversarial? You can have two opposing stuff, but why can't that model be of love, not an adversarial system? Why can't we just teach each other something and try to learn and come together in union.

Because that's the model of man and woman coming together. It is so silly. Freedom doesn't allow you to be stupid OK? I'll start from there. And what about racial relationships? What about everything? Anything that you want to talk about in human relationships, why does it have to be adversarial? Because if it is like that, it is like living in a home where the father and mother don't trust each other, and are always doing crazy stuff to each other, and you grow up in that. That's just nonsense! How he heck do you make an ideal family in that situation? How is it possible?

Just because somebody does something that does not mean that it is right. Just because America being the richest nation on the earth. "We have ten trillion dollars in revenue, and top in terms of taxpayers, and our government budget is three trillion dollars. We have so much money and we are the best!" So be it. Who cares? It has nothing to do with making your family correct.

(From this point till the end Hyo-Jin-nim spoke in tears)

And that's what you need to question if you're going to question anything, you have to question that. Why? You want to be good, everybody wants to be good. People take advantage of that goodness. People want to love stuff and throughout history a lot of manipulative people in power have used that to put those little children to war, because they want love, they want to become something united to something greater, something opposite, something that they're not. And hopefully that is greater.

Of course you propagandize it; you're being greater because there's a relationship of subject and object. Why because we do have a relationship between God and mankind; that's why we go to church.

Do you expect God to come to you every day? Who chases after God more, you or God chasing you? So who's the subject? And there is such a thing, but in love is DOESN'T MATTER! Because you're one, and it's a necessary one.

You need it. Who cares if I'm the first? Why does that matter when it takes TWO to become one, and make you whole. Why do I have to say to my self "I AM IMPORTANT; I AM THE BEST!" what about the second that I NEED to be whole?

You have to be humble and keep your arrogance to yourself. That's a humble man. Because you want to grow, you want to learn, your want to love more, I want more, that stuff. That's why you want to be humble.

How can I say that I know everything, that I have everything? Then I'm gone. I'm a dead man walking. Might as well be dead right? Anyway...

You have to learn to come together. We exist for a reason. But that stuff, that opposite that's the way to family. It might be the simplest stuff we'll experience in our human life initially, but there is a whole lot of stuff out there beyond that stuff. That's just the fundamental stuff.

You have to be willing to whole (?) P-l-e-a-s-e d-o-n-'t b-e a-r-r-o-g-a-n-t (Hyo-Jin-nim punctuated each word with a tap on the podium)

It's a constant job. It never ends. (Hyo-Jin-nim taps the podium twice as he has done at the close of his past several talks)

OK, take care.

Do You Like to Fight?

Hyo Jin Moon
June 17, 2007
Belvedere, 7:00 am

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 17 June 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 standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

Do you like to fight? (No.)

Why do we fight? (To win, to dream)

To dream? Wow, that's cosmic!

There's a lot of fighting going on. Right?

It's sad and I'm sure that in your own ways, I don't know you individually, but I'm sure that you have to struggle and you have to fight. So, for life in general, dealing with people because you can't live alone. If you want to live alone, go live in a mountain and become a "hunter and gatherer." (Laughter) You're more than that so you fight.

That's one way to avoid fighting, just cut off all the world, and just find some, if there is a piece of land left over, where you can actually live that cave-man-like life. You can do that.

OK Having said that; why do we fight? What do we normally fight for?

Let's talk about physical things. Let's talk about possessions. What do you in physical things, within the limitations of physical things and possessions, the concept of possession, what do we fight for? (something better, home,. truth)

We're just talking about physical stuff here. I mean literally possession stuff. (control)

Authority, control, power, money, fame: They're just pure physical stuff.

What do you fight for on the next level, on an intellectual level? We fight an imbalance called what's fair, what's righteous and all that stuff, all that goody-goody stuff.

And what about the spirit?

Ok before we get to the spirit, let's just talk, let's dwell on this stuff for a little while. When you break down the physical self what are you actually trying to possess? Because it's about possession, what do you what to possess beyond the generalities that I said earlier about power and money? What does that give you? Why do you think that people pursue that stuff? Because they want comfort; they want pleasure; they want control; they want stuff like that.

They need to feel that kind of adoration. Adoration is very physical. You know what I'm saying? Why do you want to be adored? Why do you want people to like you? It's a physical thing. Unless you have a reason for it. If you do have a reason for it that is of the Divine it doesn't matter. Adoration doesn't become that physical in that temporal sense. It really doesn't matter. And you get fixated to that stuff.

How do you think any kind of addiction begins, whether you're addicted to what stuff ever here or there, sex, drugs whatever. How do you think it begins? It's because you're fixated to that stuff. That's it. All those things are very physical. The thing is that physical and spiritual have some kind of reflective quality, a reflection quality.

Physical stuff is very individual. Spiritual stuff, all those things, you can feel it with God. What you see when you look at yourself in the mirror is you, your reflection in opposite, however you should see God in it, not just you.

Stuff in the middle, that's the problem maker. That's why we fight, because we don't know how to control that reality. We don't even know how to see that reality in the order, in propriety, as God wants us to be. That's the difficult path, very difficult.

(Hyo-Jin-nim becomes very emotional with tears from this point to the end of the talk.)

You will struggle to the end of your days. Anybody who tells you otherwise... I won't see it. My children won't see it. My grand children won't see it; my great-grandchildren won't see it. It will take at least ten more generations. But you do certain things because you believe that you can do something about what you don't like, what you want to change because you think it's wrong. It's going to take time.

If anybody tells you otherwise, let them do it give them everything you've got. Let them have every thing that you have because it won't happen. I swear to God it won't happen.

But we believe in something right? We can make it right. Nobody's perfect right? At best we have representation, the best we can have right? Hallelujah! (Laughter)

We need to move on, trying to better ourselves in making that understanding real. Think about it. You know God has a right to love everybody right? You want things to change?

Change is love. What the heck is love? God just loves me, just you? No. Everybody, right? You have to allow that to happen. You have to create that kind of environment. That's what's important.

And I said what you fight about on the physical was possessions and intellectual was imbalance. Spiritual is arrogance. You can't be arrogant. You can't just say that "Oh your love is mine, all mine!" You can't do that stuff.

If you truly love somebody, you want to love everything that you have in front of you, right? Do you select your kids "I just want to love this kid and kill the other ones?" You can't do that. It's wrong. I don't think that anybody teaches that to be true love.

It has got to order more and more, deeper, broader and broader, higher and higher, in all sorts of ways in three dimensions and beyond. If we can achieve it, let's just think what we can do in physical terms. That's what we need to focus on. That's the kind of church that we need to be. Otherwise just...

I want to live up to my expectation that this name puts me under, this slavery. I'll do it. I'll do it. As long as you... If you're here, I'll be here.

No problem. Stuff happens… every day. It's not that bad. You always have to move on and hopefully you can make progress, Quality! Quantity! Speed!

That's all you can do… and you'll die. (Laughter)

Isn't that the absolute truth? Anyway...

We'll try right?

Let's not fight OK?

Loving is difficult enough I don't want to fight, OK.

Take care.

Change

Hyo Jin Moon
June 10, 2007
7:00 am Belvedere, NY

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 10 June 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.

Dr. Yang is in attendance and comes to the stage. Dr. Yang says that of course we want to welcome Hyo-Jin-nim, but especially we want to welcome Yeon-Ah-nim after her victorious speaking tour.

All welcome Hyo-Jin-nim and Yeon-Ah-nim and offer a standing bow.

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

That was unexpected. (Laughter)

Let's talk about Change.

Let me ask you a question; if you had one wish for a change, what would it be?

Audience answers: World would change to God's ideal, Change myself,
Someone in the front row answers "Adam and Eve did the right thing" and Hyo-Jin-nim was not expecting this kind of answer and had a surprised expression, the room erupted in laughter and it took a little while to settle down.

Hyo-Jin-nim deadpanned: "OK what if you had two wishes." (Even more laughter)

Let's say that I have one hundred million dollars, that's a lot for one man. It depends on the location but on average you can buy some one a house for a quarter million dollars. So I could buy a house for only four hundred people and the money would be gone. Something that means something to somebody personally, if you expand it, it's not enough to most people. That's reality. What if you add a zero to that stuff; you have a billion dollars. That's about it. It's gone just like that. That's all it's worth. You add another zero; that's all it's worth.

So where does it end to individuals? There's more than four hundred people in the world right? That's the problem. That's why it's difficult to change. No matter how much you have good intentions and you want to do good and you try, that's about it. It depends on individuals. And you have to somehow unify people who have that desire, that need, whatever. It can be basic, because it's practical, because it's physical. You have to think about yourself in a physical way, and you will think about yourself in an intellectual way, and hopefully if you have that under control you have a time to be spiritual right?

But the problem is most people struggle where? You tell me. That's the problem.

I'm thinking about sending my children to school other places, maybe back to Korea or something during a certain period of time in their maturation... for schooling. I'm thinking about it because it's very difficult; it's difficult to process all that unless we have something that we can provide, some kind of security that is somewhat guaranteed.

There is no guarantee that you will not die of accident or disease.

So how do you change? In what way do you want to change?

Let's say that you have something that is important to you. Then what would that be as a single individual, as a family? You want to have some kind of property right, that you want to build equity on top of it and ultimately you want to be productive within it. And on top of it is the same thing, intellectual property, spiritual stuff that goes in that physical and the mind and the spirit. Those things are important to you because it grounds you.

You can't really change unless you have something that you're sure of. You have to have absolute to have a change. If you don't have something absolute, change doesn't mean anything. Because you'll always change and you'll never have anything. You'll have change that is meaningless. And what good is that?

You have to ask: "What kind of change do I want?" What kind of change can I do for myself before I give it to others? If you don't question yourself in that way and answer yourself and know that you have the answer, it doesn't mean anything, the change. You'll always change, but it doesn't mean anything. That's the problem.

Of course you want to be self-sufficient. I don't want to go to daddy for anything. You want to be a tough guy, macho man. There's a reason for that kind of stuff, there's a reason for manhood and woman hood. That's a different topic; we'll talk about it some other time.

But let's say that you have something and you want to create something. You want to give to something. Yes we're in a time and place if I have money, I can build a beautiful studio everywhere around the world, one step at a time. One place at a time. But it will be a functional one.

To me, productivity matters. If you have property, if you have equity, yes absolutely I want to have the best stuff in the world, but it's going to be productive. Not just for me, for everybody, hopefully, but there's no guarantee it can please everyone. And it will be functional; it can be. And it doesn't have to be just for that purpose only. It can be for the people in general. Even those… Even if you don't do what I do; if we're connected… sure.

The thing is that ultimately in the end I believe that multimedia is very important. I absolutely believe it's important. If we have just two dozen blabbermouths that can think on their feet, we can start. You have to have something because it's about getting your message out there. That's what church is for, especially in a kind of chaotic situation like this world of confusion.

That is very, very important, and it has to be constant. It has to literally tick with the clock. When you even talk about yourself and giving, talk about self-sacrifice, you kind of have to look at it... Put yourself in a sphere first and take the concept of a vertical axis and horizontal axis and you draw away. You still need an audience, then you go up and if you do it right it will raise their expectations. Of course you will suffer and that cycle happens over and over and over and over. That's the sign of infinity right? But that's how to expand; that's how you expand.

Not just with yourself, but with others. Who cares if you exist alone? God doesn't care. That's why He created us right? That's the essence of growing. You want change, that's growth. Some things don't change, yes, because there are boundaries. You cannot have freedom without boundaries and consequences.

The thing about unconditional love is that it has conditions. OK? You want a change, any change, that's difficult, I'm just here to entertain you in your mind, but I'll be here as long as you're here. But it's difficult.

That's how it goes. That's what's normal, because I believe that's the ideal.

OK

I'm done.

I've got nothing else to say. (Laughter)

See you later.

Maturation

Hyo Jin Moon
June 3, 2007
7:00 am Belvedere, NY

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 03 June 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 standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

Let's talk about maturation.

How do you want your children to grow up to be? Before you talk about yourself.

There are a lot of kids here but…

Before you talk about what's right and wrong, what's good and bad to children I think that you first have to understand what kind of reality they have to face, their reality, because they'll be in it, not you.

For instance, I could send my children to the nursery here where they glorify Father and they could be in that kind of environment, but once they start to go to public school there is no such a thing.

The Glorification is somewhere else. That's a problem. And they're living in it, not you. So if you think about that reality, because the reality is what you have to deal with to make growth.

You have to learn something from it, know how to control it, manage it, and ultimately transcend to the next level, because there are many levels in which you need to overcome; you need to understand first and overcome so that you can finally say bye-bye to this world and prepare yourself for the next one.

And many times the language is a barrier. The language the parents use to speak to a child who lives in that kind of environment is foreign. You expect them to rise up to your level, but there are times when you need to step down. You need to understand their reality. You have to understand their reality, what they're going through within their reality.

Before you talk about good and bad. To them what's cool and un-cool, what's smart and stupid is more important.

In the end you want to teach your children something and to give them something, but they have to be in a position to receive it, otherwise they'll never get (understand) you.

First, in the beginning time... It comes in cycles (stages) kind of decade stuff. You start with individual self stuff. You're experimenting with yourself; you're trying to learn your boundaries and your limitations. You want to know how much excitement, how much boredom I can take. That's what happens in a child's mind and in a child's reality. That's the only thing that is important to them.

Once they start to go to school and they reach the next decade; they start to go into teenage-hood and cool and un-cool and that kind of stuff, more social rather than individual is important. Why, because they're growing up. They're just beginning to realize how it works in society.

So the fundamental thing that they will learn is try to understand that relationship, but based on the reality that they're living in. So even the language that you choose, the concepts that you use to try to teach them what is right ultimately has to relate to them, not you.

You're still growing too. I know that when you get to father's age you are only going to speak about spirit world. Trust me. (Laughter)

Then comes when they grow up beyond teens and they go to college. They become college students and they start to become more socially active right? They become idealist, a lot of them. If you can become an idealist, that's the time that you're going to turn into one.

Your getting to a greater society, greater relationship. The next decade is going to be more. You are literally going to try to find yourself and define yourself in a certain kind of situation.

What ever profession that you have chosen, that's all that you're going to think about and that's all that every ounce of your energy will be focused on, trying to master that and trying to make a difference and to compete and win.

A lot of times the jargon (of your profession) is important, but the next decade it's not important any more. When you turn forty all those things are not important any more. What's more important is finding a more universal, something that is more universal. Even if it has to be earthly, you want to find something more universal, and you want to expand that social base, connect to more people, not just to your whatever.

That is goes to the next level and you're just going to take it to the next level. You literally want to start to actually see the value in people, and difference, not all the bad, only the good, because that's important to you. Why, because you're preparing yourself for the final departure, because that is the completion of maturation.

More and more it's going to become more and more important to you, that thing, knowing that stuff; nothing else matters. That's how we grow.

Please, when you deal with children, just speak in their language. Once they start to disregard certain things they will rail against our language one way or the other.

When I was young, I was taught certain things, and when you go to school it was completely opposite. You can only take so much, but when it starts to become more and more, and more and more overwhelming you start to disregard it regardless, why, because it's human nature; its self preservation. "I have to take care of myself. That ain't good; there's nothing good here."

You start to react. The thing is unfortunately when that happens; you just might go down the wrong path. That it will take you a long time to recover from. You're pretty much on your own then.

How difficult was it for you to find God? Did you grow up in a religious environment? What if you didn't? It pretty much will be like that. You pretty much have destroyed whatever you had in your mind and you have to build it back up. That's the problem.

So if you can... Success is just one little thing. Even in competition winning is measured in milliseconds right; that determines the first place or the second guy, right? It's that kind of stuff. It's that little effort, a little more that makes a difference. And it's difficult to do that sometimes and if you have to do that all the time obviously it's going to take stuff out of you. You will pay for it. If you have chosen that path then that's your call isn't it?

And how long can I stick to this? I don't know. "How long can you tough it out?" I don't know. The thing is that everybody regardless of whether they're a little kid or people that are preparing to go to spirit world, to the end they have to face that one question. And YOU have to answer it. No one else can do that for you when it comes to you.

Try to understand that God is in zero right? God is in the middle. That's why He's in zero. Father talks about horizontal and vertical and God is in here.

(Hyo-Jin-nim draws the vertical and horizontal lines in the air and points at the intersection point)

How far do you want to expand? That is your life goal; you determine how far you expand. When you expand horizontally you have to match it vertically too. What you deliver based on your horizontal expansion is up to you, because you want perfection right? Aw that's tough. Boy it's tough!

Am I doing this stuff that I expand horizontally for myself or something greater? That's tough. Let's say that you can do that, expand to the level that the world will recognize. But to be perfect you have to match it up vertically right? We understand that because that's the language, the jargon that we use in the church right?

But when it comes to kids, try to understand you have to sink down; you have to go down. You can't expect them to always rise up to your level. Even grown-ups can't. You can't expect them to always do that stuff. How do you expect children to do that stuff all the time? That's crazy!

So you have to have that kind of understanding that sets the standard. It needs to be. YES! Hey it's your child! And it's your life right? And we will grow to the end; it's up to you.

OK.

What do You Want to Inherit

Hyo Jin Moon
May 27, 2007
7:00 am Belvedere, NY

Here are my notes from Hyo-Jin-nim's speech Sunday 27 May 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 standing bow.

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

Good morning. (Good morning)

What do you want to inherit? (From Audience: True Parents tradition)

What else? Everything is in there right?

Do you have any particular things? (Blood lineage)

Blood lineage… Come on help us out here! (True Love)

True Love. Out of the things that you've said what is the first thing that you can actually handle?

What can you actually handle? True love, love and lineage, True Parents Tradition, what can you actually handle? Or do we have to be more particular?

Well then, let's be honest. If you're going to find an answer you have to make the question relatable to you. It has to be rational to you based on your understanding or reason, your ability to reason. It has to be plausible initially Possibilities will grow in it and hopefully you can develop into it; and ultimately, in the end, you can find what you're looking for.

But even the question itself has to be relatable to you, otherwise it's irrelevant and you'd might as well just watch talk shows (on TV). Talk shows seem like they're relevant, but in the end they become entertainment. You get hooked on that entertainment and they drag it on to increase the production value, and it becomes more and more frivolous.

That's the nature of the way things exist in the multimedia realm. It can start off with some serious stuff but the whole purpose of it in the end is production value.

So how many times do you need to regurgitate the basic stuff? And if you tried to even find an interesting point of view, perspective, it becomes more and more difficult and you're just pressed for time and cut corners.

Once people start settling in on certain things, a lot of times unless you're always "feel the heat" so to speak, you'll settle down. Settling down means nothing other than just trying to find the easiest way to maximize whatever gain that you're looking for. That's about it.

So when you talk about inheritance, what do you want to inherit? Why do you go to church? Why do you want to believe in God?

Before you talk about inheritance, let's talk about the reality of what people do with an inheritance. You see a lot of struggles right? Especially when folks die or whatever, they fight over what ever has value, in terms of what, monetary value.

Survival, if you're a cave man a long time ago prior to us being a little more intellectual, living out there was a struggle. Sometimes it was very violent. You had to deal with the environment; it was harsh, was brutal and goes in cycles regardless of your needs. You have to go out and gather and hunt or whatever, so you can survive.

And many times it's just like what you see on the National Geographic Channel, when they showcase the animal kingdom. It's brutal; it's very violent. Civilization teaches us that, OK, and however stupid it might be to some people, violence can exist as a last resort. We accept that premise. Some people might vehemently disagree, but that's in the minority. The majority agree, accept, and embrace that concept. And unfortunately that's reality.

So when you talk about inheritance, what is important, what is of value to you, is there anything that you really want to be violent to inherit? And what causes violence when it comes to the core of inheritance? What triggers that thought of violence? You say "I have to act upon it somehow, as my last resort. I have to claim my stake." What is so worth committing violence for?

You can teach people to hate, even religion can do that. And they can justify it simply because the cultures and how they interpret the relationship between God and human beings, humanity, in such ways that sometimes, as a last resort, you can commit horrendous stuff in the name of God until you defeat your enemy however long it takes. Because, they too, want to inherit something. They want to inherit the divine eternal life centered on God, in His blessing, in His glory, and eternally be peaceful, live in joy and happiness forever for the mere sacrifices however it is done. Most likely in violence because you think that you can inherit all that stuff.

And you teach people. There are people who teach people that that is how you inherit God's eternal love.

What is important to Capitalism? What is the definition of a capitalist? Let's say that we're agnostic or atheist. What's the definition of inheritance? (Money) I guess so. It's all about stuff isn't it? Either you inherit it, or if you don't do the best that you can to gain it. Quote, unquote, earn it. You will do everything under the sun short of going to jail to get what you want. Nobody wants to go to jail; jail sucks. But that's reality. They say "If I can get it in an orderly way, then I'm going to get it one way or the other. And I'll inherit from this earth. I might not believe in God but I'll take as much as I can for its here"

We are supposedly civilized because; we are inheriting our knowledge through history, from history, standing on the shoulders of others right? That's one way of inheriting. A lot of people devote their whole life to intellectualism. It's all about that, inheriting from their knowledge. You just want to put something more on the table. That's about it, isn't it?

But what does religion try to teach you? Inheriting something from God. How do you measure that? How do you measure inheriting something from God? It starts from your attitude, knowing what is valuable, in faith as God will see it. And that is the belief that you are willing to give your life for. Because even in measured stuff, if you believe in a certain concept, to prove it, most people dedicate their life for it in science and medicine, in the intellectual world.

The thing is: I want more than just my intellect. I want to have a relationship greater. I believe in a greater being. That's a leap of faith. That's why you believe in religion. Anybody who says that they believe in God, whether they fully understand the meaning of leap of faith, making that challenge to them self, they're making that decision.

They're taking a giant leap from what they know in body, physicality and intellectualism into something that is absolutely... mysterious in certain ways. Why? There are so many things that we don't know even about this planet. We have only observed about four or five percent of the ocean and bla, bla, bla. We haven't named all the creatures and plants in the forest where it rains constantly.

What gives us the right to make that decision unless we become humble to ourselves and are willing to die for it?

(From now until the end of the speech Hyo-Jin-nim is deeply emotional and tears fall down his cheeks)

That is the greatest price that you pay to learn about something. You're willing to pay the price to gain a greater knowledge. Whether you like it, you have to do that physically, intellectually, spiritually, of course, but it has to be your life and you have to mean it.

Yes you can screw up and make mistakes, but never loose sight of it. You try. You try. If people succeed in the first shot then you're lucky. We can ALL be successful if we understand how we can come about reaching that end. And that is with dedication, with our lives. That's the only way that I can grow too.

I'm doing this (speaking every Sunday) because I'm getting attached to certain things, physically, intellectually, certain faces, but to make this into a duty that I want to carry on, now that's the next step. I might have done it because of extra-ordinary circumstances. I forced… willed myself to do this stuff. But in the process I changed. I know because at least I had some experience in the past, I wanted to do this kind of stuff; and I wanted to go back and find what I lost. That's about it.

Because I know what's right; you know what is right. You're finding something that is right and that is important. There is no exception. You can't be free without boundaries and consequences right? That's right.

And I want it back. That's why you try.

And what do you want to inherit?

Personally speaking, if I want to inherit something, I want to inherit how my Father built this church. That's all. That's enough, because that's what's important. I know that He spent every waking moment, every breathing moment to build something from nothing to what he has now. I know that He valued every single one of those people who came in the beginning. And that's what made Unification Church what it is, if it means anything to anybody.

Now THAT'S important. That is the most important value, truth value, that I want to inherit.

I could care less about... If I want stuff, I do stuff. And I'll do a whole lot of stuff.

What's important will last forever, truth value, that I want to inherit. That's enough.

I could care less about anything else. I can get everything else on my own. I don't need anyone's help. I'll get it in my own way.

It's not about external. Even if I do become successful, what I'm trying to put on to the table, I'm trying to put it on to the table because I feel it's necessary for the betterment of all for what we stand for, for the stuff we can't erase.

I fear God; I fear my children; I fear History. That's about it. I don't fear anything else. You will die of disease; you will die of accident; somebody can kill you; you will die of natural causes. Suicide is out of the question, but it can be done.

Life is short and I want to put something on the table. I've got to earn my way, earn my keep.

That's love isn't it?

You can't just take right? You've got to give! (Whispering) and everybody knows that.

Why do we stray from that sometimes? Because we get lost in stupidity and our values change.

However primitive my value had been, it hasn't changed yet, no matter what, and I'm trying. I think that's...

Look I'm trying to be responsible, OK, for myself and to my expectations. This is all I can do.

What you see is what you get.

Well, hopefully, it can expand. It can grow.

I'll do my best to make it happen.

I will not... I won't stop trying.

People like me, I don't think I can. (Whispering) I'll find a way somehow.

What do you want to inherit? You want to inherit true love. Start from the thing that you know, what makes love turn around. Try to give. Try.

Even people like me try. I'll keep on trying.

I'll be here as long as you're here. (Laughter)

See you.