Sun Jin Moon Speaks to Chung Pyung Azalea Festival Participants

Julian Gray
May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018, Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center
[The following is from notes taken during Sun Jin Nim's interactive session with the participants of the Azalea Purification Festival at Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center earlier today. We hope to have captured some of the essence of what Sun Jin Nim said to the assembled members, but as this is not a transcript, please do not rely on it as an official record.]

Initial Note: Sun Jin nim was inaugurated as the international president of the Family Federation on March 13, 2015. In the past three years, Sun Jin nim, accompanied and supported by her husband In Sup nim, has regularly shared her heart at large gatherings of members. Typically, she will talk with hundreds of young people at a Top Gun workshop or the participants of a Chung Pyung workshop, but she has also spoken at meetings of Japanese and Filipina wives in Korea and at meetings of young people overseas. At these interactive sessions, Sun Jin nim receives candid questions (tabled in advance) and offers answers based on her personal experience, speaking from her heart.

Through the challenging course she took in her own life of faith in her younger years and her initial self-doubt when called to step into a position of global responsibility in the providence, Sun Jin nim empathizes deeply with the challenges members sometimes face in understanding True Parents and in their daily life as Family Federation members. She usually concludes her sessions with a guided meditation that seeks to reawaken members to the original core of our calling. Together, Sun Jin nim and In Sup nim have created a hopeful ministry of healing that brings us closer to God, to True Parents, and to one another. The following is a summarized account of one such session Sun Jin nim held at the Azalea Purification Festival in Korea on May 4.

Sun Jin Nim:

It is Heavenly Parent's dream that we live in joy. Here in Chung Pyung, True Parents have laid the foundation for Cheon Il Guk; here we all have one nationality -- Cheon Il Guk! -- so this is a hometown for all of us. I want to welcome all you true sons and daughters home!

We returned with True Mother from Vienna yesterday. There, Mother poured out all her love and light. Previously Mother was in the United States, which is called the New World, and then in Europe, which we sometimes call the Old World. But Mother is creating the Heavenly World! Our Heavenly Parent wants to fulfil the dream of everyone living in true love. True Mother is at Cheon Jeong Palace at this moment. Can we, as one family, pledge our victory for Vision 2020 with three cheers of "victory" to True Mother so that she can hear us from there? [Yes!]

(Participants follow Sun Jin Nim in cheers of Seungni! Seungni! Seungni!)

I want to begin with what I call "Heart to Heart."

I receive and answers your questions, connecting your heart to mine, and we learn together. These are questions about how Mother is working, and how to overcome spiritual challenges and the like.

First Question [from Reiko Tanaka, Japan, 23 years old]
Please tell me about the attitude and lifestyle towards Heaven that you have learned from watching True Mother.

Sun Jin Nim:

Very good question! It was not until after True Father ascended that I came into a closer relationship with Mother. True Parents had been very involved in their mission throughout our lives, and it is really only in the last 5 years I have been close to Mother.

I have learned from watching True Mother. Mother has lived her life in prayer with Heavenly Parent and True Father, as the true daughter of our Heavenly Parent. Mother's prayer is parental prayer expressing Heavenly Parent's heart. Her prayerful heart is absolute, complete and unchanging; it is prayer based on the culture of hyojeong, of her filial heart toward our Heavenly Parent.

For 52 years Mother indemnified Eve's position alongside Father with absolute faith love and obedience.

She has accepted absolute responsibility to achieve Heavenly Parent's dream. She is looking to the infinite future. She wants to immortalize True Parents' legacy and works for future generations and all members' legacies as well.

Speaking of True Mother's attitude and lifestyle, I can say she is one with Heavenly Parent. She has digested and completed everything in that oneness with True Father; plus, she gave birth to 14 children. Think about the millennia over which God has searched for the Messiah. For a long time, we thought of the Messianic personage as a man. Now for the first time we have the balanced and complete view of the Messiah as True Parents.

A woman grows a child inside her; only through a mother can a life come into being. Mother wants us to have life, to be liberated; Mother wants to pass down a culture of joy, love, peace and complete liberation. True Mother's heart is to free humankind from further indemnity. This is the life Mother wants to give us.

I have learned this from True Parents: we should follow in their footsteps. They are the only perfected example of true love and peace in the world.

My husband prepared a video with some photos – please see yourselves in this video standing with Mother in my place. And please cultivate the heart to attend True Parents in your own heart.

[Sun Jin Nim shows series of photographs of Mother, many of which were personal ones of her together with Sun Jin Nim, accompanied by the song Celine Dion's song "Every Mother's Prayer"]

Sun Jin Nim:

That song always make me cry – but tears of joy. Mother's prayer, even Heavenly Parent's prayer, is to bring all 7.6 billion children, the people of the world, back home.

Second question [from Jeong-joo Moon, Korea, 24 years old]
When you go through hard times, how do you overcome them? Do you ask True Mother immediately? I am not sure the answers I receive from Heavenly Parent after offering jeongseong are really from Heavenly Parent. Can't it be just my own thoughts and decisions?

Sun Jin Nim:

I often feel I don't want to burden True Parents. How can I burden them with my struggle? They carry the

weight of the universe. I don't want to add to it. So I try to think how that by observing their lives, listening to their words, and following their actions, I can overcome.

Maybe this will help with your second question: When Mother said "I need you to stand in this position" I told her I did not have the ability to serve her; that I had no confidence in my ability. I was broken-hearted over Father's death. I felt I had no love.

But Mother said, "You can do this, Don't worry. True Parents are with you. Have faith; go out and love people." So I took that as my motto. So every day I just try to go and love people with absolute faith.

I prepared a video accompanied by the song "I'm Your Angel (also by Celine Dion). When I hear this song, I think of True Mother as True Father's heavenly "angel" on this earth. We must be angels too. Heavenly Parent is present in everything. Trust Heavenly Parent is with you. Heavenly Parent is with you and is present in nature. Mother is offering jeongseong every day to connect with Heavenly Parent. When you see nature -- the plants, the animals -- we can perceive Heavenly Parent and True Father, even Hyo Jin Nim through the natural world.

[The photos in the video are joyful ones of Mother with Sun Jin Nim and other members, and in many images they are interacting with the beauty of the natural world.]

Third Question [from Masahide Basuil, Philippines, 16 years old]
As a young student, how can I help True Parents?

Sun Jin Nim:

True Mother has just inaugurated Youth and Students for Peace in Vienna….

At the Aloha workshops for second and third generation members in Hawaii, Mother said there are two things second and third generation need to learn as young people. The first thing we want all 2 and 3 generation members to inherit is? [One participant: "Gratitude."] Yes please stand up! We should have gratitude. Then there is no moment when you don't feel loved, when you don't feel Heavenly Parent loving you and caring for you.

The second thing…. Does anyone know? True love. Once you receive it, feel it, receive joy, then multiply it to others. So the second is absolute true love. That is how the youths and students can do it – cultivate a heart of true love, and then in gratitude, share that love with others.

So we need to do Hoon Dok Hae. Though that we inherit faith, love and the wisdom of the Word.

Then we take those words and put them into action – tribal messiahship and service. And through that we convey True Parents' love to the world.

Fourth Question [Atsuomi Yoshioka, Japan, 22 years old]
Now Mother is standing in the front line of the providence and leading us. Please tell us how she has been recently, and I would also like to hear about how it was after Father's ascension.

Thank you for your question. I will answer with a video called "Goodbye" Mother has experienced many Seonghwas in her life. Not just Father, but also her children, my brothers. Mother is human just like all of us. Mother feels pain, loss and sadness. She misses Father, and she misses those no longer here. We also do. But Mother wastes no time on herself, but every day she offers conditions, goes out to complete the providence, living for the sake of others.

Mother walks; she says "I need to be healthy in order to fulfill Father's mission." Mother walks and meditates every day. She is at the forefront, leading our movement, guiding us in how to achieve victory in Heavenly Tribal Messiahship and national restoration. She lives each day of her life with jeongseong and true love, wanting to leave a lasting legacy of peace and go to the spirit world without regret, without leaving anything undone. She does this so that everyone can go to heaven. Let's all enter her realm of victory.

This is Mother at 75 years old. Many are retired by that age or even way before. Mother says she must do everything for her children and must make things right. We should do the same, so let's inherit that heart, walk in True Parents' footsteps, and adopt this great tradition of being filial sons and daughters.

Through this video [accompanied by the song "Goodbye"] please inherit True Mother's heart. When we say goodbye we want to say so with no regret. Please put yourself in these pictures [in the video], inherit True Parents' heart and walk in their footsteps; and become the true filial sons and daughters True Parents can be proud of.

Recently, the day Mother arrived in Hawaii, the white coffee flowers had just bloomed. Mother said she felt True Father's love and Heavenly Parent's love through seeing them. The next morning there was a tremendous thunderstorm and so much rain, and it washed away all the flowers!

While True Parents are here, we -- like the flowers -- have the chance to bring glory to True Parents. But if we miss the chance, that moment and the blessing can be lost. Be aware that Heavenly Parent is blessing you. When you doubt it, it is not that He has withdrawn His blessing. Heaven really wants love you.

[The final questions from four other participants were addressed as a body of questions and not individually, due to the constraints of time.]

All these questions ask about the connection with truth, and the unity of mind and body. The answer is that Heavenly Parent is within you, within your mind and body. This is what True Parents have shown us. Please do not doubt this. Please keep yourself healthy. Replace doubt with love and forgiveness.

Hoon Dok Hae is good. I also used Yoga. I have been doing Yoga for 15 years. I will lead you in a meditation to strengthen your heart and mind for life's challenges. I call this the Crown of Glory meditation.

Sun Jin Nim leads the congregation in the meditation, which seeks to help all feel free of the stress and tension that weighs them down and leaves them free to feel God's presence. One aspect of the meditation was to open participants' hearts to love people we would not normally pay much attention to. "Your love has the power to change the world," said Sun Jin Nim. "You are no longer separate from others. By choosing to love, you bring everyone together."

Another aspect of the meditation sought to help participants overcome a feeling of enmity toward another person:

Sun Jin Nim:

Do not let someone else's darkness extinguish God's power in you. Let goodness flow from you heart to this 'enemy.' Notice how the image of this person changes as you share deep compassion and divine love. Visualize the change in your heart as you feel able to love your enemy. How when you hug him or her, he or she hugs you back. Feel the healing and forgiveness overcome the darkness, and a golden light of love grow and warm your heart. Notice the difference one's heart can make when it chooses love over hate. Notice as you invite God's light and love into your heart, how you glow with light. Under God, and as one unified family, there is no darkness. You are victorious and we are all one. Aju!

Open your eyes and feel God and True Parents' love fill you with unlimited love. Share a hug with your neighbor!"

As a final gesture of true love, Sun Jin nim then gave out gifts of earrings or necklaces to 6 lady participants, some of whom were had completed lengthy workshops at the Chung Pyung training center. The session concluded with four very free and enthusiastic cheers of Eok Mansei!

The poem by True Father that inspired the title of Sun Jin Nim's meditation:

Crown of Glory

When I doubt people, I feel pain.
When I judge people, it is unbearable.
When I hate people, there is no value to my existence.

Yet if I believe, I am deceived.
If I love, I am betrayed.
Suffering and grieving tonight, my head in my hands
Am I wrong?

Yes, I am wrong.
Even though we are deceived, still believe.
Though we are betrayed, still forgive.
Love completely even those who hate you.

Wipe your tears away and welcome with a smile
Those who know nothing but deceit
And those who betray without regret.

Oh Master! The pain of loving!
Look at my hands.
Place your hand on my chest.
My heart is bursting, such agony!

But when I loved those who acted against me
I brought victory.
If you have done the same thing
I will give you the crown of glory.

Sun Myung Moon
Written at age 15

One family under God, our Heavenly Parent, and united together for world peace

Sun Jin Moon
April 28, 2018
Inauguration of YSP Europe and Middle East - Keynote Address
Vienna, Austria

YSP Vienna!

How are you feeling today? Good! Yeah! I hope you are all feeling awesome, excited, filled with love, joy, liberation and peace? Yes? Wow, love the energy in this room!

Good afternoon everyone!

It’s wonderful to see all of you gathered here today. Thank you for attending today’s program. It makes me absolutely delighted and hopeful for our future seeing all of you gathered as one family under God, our Heavenly Parent, and united together for world peace.

I am sure that at tomorrow’s victorious rally with our beloved True Mother, you will light up not only the auditorium, but all of Europe and the Middle East with your loving energy and bright glowing spirit!

Please give yourselves a thunderous round of applause for all your sincere hard work, True Love, absolute faith, and victory! AJU.

Being alive at this time with our True Parents is such a precious blessing, and, ideally, each and every moment should be filled with experiences of abundant joy, true love, unity, harmony, and happiness.

Who doesn’t want this for themselves and their loved ones, even for the whole world and creation, to live together in peace? Right? Yes!

Furthermore, just as much, and even more than each one of us longs for a world of lasting peace, our Heavenly Parent, too, longs for this dream of peace to become a living reality.

Sadly, however, and as I’m sure many of you have experienced, the world we see today does not measure up to this great ideal. Too often, there is conflict or struggle all around us, even within ourselves. Our planet is threatened by environmental degradation, climate change, rising sea levels, and extreme weather patterns.

Family breakdown is widespread with devastating social consequences. On a social level, differences often become barriers, with boundaries marked by race, religion, nationality, ethnicity and social status. We fail to recognize that we are one interconnected global family. Instead of experiencing the warm embrace of family, neighborly love, and community, many feel isolated and alone.

We seek peace and fulfillment, but often search for it in the wrong places, seeking wealth, prosperity, or fame without a focus on higher values and virtues.

How do we build healthy families if marriage is no longer held sacred? How do we build community when we no longer care for our neighbor, but live in competition, us vs. them, on every level.

Externally, we are now linked together closer than ever. But even as we are all linked, many have lost sight of our divine origin, that which unites us and all life as one universal family under God, our Heavenly Parent?

Any reasonable person, even a child, when observing the situation of our planet—east, west, north or south—must ask, where is the love? Where is the peace? Sometimes it seems nowhere in sight!

We cannot continue to blindly turn away from the problems that our future descendants will inherit. We must become the leaders who teach and heal the hearts, minds, and souls of humanity, guiding all people to live under Heavenly Parent’s ideal.

How many of you have thought about these things? Have any of you who are now gathered in this room encountered moments of disconnection or worry like this? Please raise your hands if you have.

Of course, most all of us will raise our hands, right?

How does that make you feel? Pretty sad, conflicted, worried, mad, dejected, or just bad right? This is not OK! We must raise the bar! We must strive higher! We must live for love, peace, and prosperity for all. This is Heavenly Parent’s dream!

We were created to experience the good in life and to give absolute joy, love, fulfillment and peace to all. So how do we get to peace?

Where does peace begin? It begins with each one of us. Peace begins with Me!

The solutions to our world’s problems begins with each and every one of you.

We must make a change within ourselves and raise our voices and live our lives courageously, spreading Heavenly Parent’s truth and healing the world with forgiveness, love and unity. We must follow in our True Parents’ footsteps; we must meditate, mobilize, and march together for peace.

True Mother is standing at the forefront, leading our global movement to bring an end to ignorance, hate, division, pollution, violence, prejudice, greed, and war. She is mobilizing the world to no longer stand by and accept the destruction, death, and degradation we see around us. She is calling out to the world’s 7.5 billion people. She is rallying God’s sons and daughters from every corner of the earth, charging each one to rise up and become the solutions and the saviors to all humankind and creation, embodying Heavenly Parent’s peaceful ideal and dream for a universal culture of True Love and Hyojeong.

Every life has a divine light and when you allow that light to shine, you brighten the world. You expand our Heavenly Parent’s light of familial love or Hyo Jeong love. In this way love may grow and thrive universally.

When young people such as yourselves tap in to this universal truth, you will help create a new Hyo Jeong culture of filial heart that will liberate Heavenly Parent’s heart and restore harmony and balance to the world.

Do not think you are too young or that you do not have the ability to change the world.

Remember that what you think becomes your reality. So, do not limit your mind, body, heart, and soul. As a son or daughter of Heavenly Parent, you share in God’s infinite purity, goodness, vitality, and unlimited life potential. Do not block your heart.

Liberate your heart! Liberate your soul! Liberate your true self!

Liberate yourself through the power of true love. Then peace will start with you.

True Father, when he was 16 years old, wrote the poem entitled “Crown of Glory.” He knew and testified to the truth that peace started within his own heart.

I want to share this poem with all of you. It will be our Hoon Dok Hae.

Crown of Glory

When I doubt people, I feel pain.
When I judge people, it is unbearable.
When I hate people, there is no value to my existence.

Yet if I believe, I am deceived.
If I love, I am betrayed.
Suffering and grieving tonight, my head in my hands,
Am I wrong?

Yes I am wrong.
Even though we are deceived, still believe.
Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely, even those who hate you.
Wipe your tears away and welcome with a smile

Those who know nothing but deceit,
And those who betray without regret.

O, Master, the pain of loving.
Look at my hands.
Place your hand on my chest.
My heart is bursting, such agony.

But when I love those who acted against me,
I brought victory.
If you have done the same things,
I will give you the Crown of Glory.

Wow. Those are powerful words right? He was just 16 when he wrote this poem, and committed himself to the path of peace, beginning in his own heart. He never failed to live according to that commitment. Together with our True Mother, they created a worldwide peace movement, doing an amazing and unprecedented array of good works all over the globe.

And, he has given us the inheritance that makes it possible for us to spread the truth, to ignite the spark of love all over the world, to build a global culture of HJ heart, and to liberate all mankind and creation from the chains of heartlessness. In this way we can transform the world into the peaceful ideal of love that our Heavenly Parent originally intended.

Can we do it? Yes!

Are there any 16 year olds or younger gathered here today? Show me your hands. WOW! Now, if you are 16 years and older, please show your hands?

Whatever age you are, young or old, can we as one universal family under Heavenly Parent and True Parents share the heart of Hyojeong and bring glory to our parent’s legacy for peace? Yes! Aju!

I know each of you share our True Parents’ heart and will be victorious! AJu!

I have absolute faith that all of you shall receive True Father’s crown of glory.

Of course, this is not a simple course to follow. It took True Father many decades to master his heart of Hyojeong True Love for Heavenly Parent, even till his last days on earth, as he lived earnestly and continuously trying to better his heart of love, grace, and wisdom to share with all humanity.

When we as youth try to follow in True Parents’ footsteps, the road ahead sometimes seems impossible and too hard, right? True Parents’ perfection is so far from where we are starting out, right?

We may psyche ourselves out before we even begin to try, right?

That is all normal. No one is born perfect. We all need to practice, right?

Over time only practice makes perfect. It is a growth process. There is formation, growth and perfection. Only with absolute FLOW—Faith, love, obedience, and wisdom of the word—can we achieve these higher levels of love and truth with ease.

One practice I have found that grounds and centers my heart no matter what goes on in the angry world at large is meditation and yoga. It has been my spiritual and physical lifeline, and I attribute all the good in my life with this practice as a foundation of mind and body unity and oneness with the divine light in all living beings and creation. It has been what has saved me countless times, allowing me to live and lead with the light shining in my heart, rather than succumbing to the darkness that surrounds us. I would like to share this practice with you, because it has brought peace into my heart, and I hope this Crown of Glory meditation will bring peace, love and light into your lives.

COG Meditation:

Brothers and sisters, I would now like to lead you in a meditation which will strengthen your mind and heart to meet life’s challenges. We are going to fill you with peaceful gentle kindness, true love, and God’s divine unconditional love and light energy. I call this the Crown of glory meditation. AJU!

Please find a comfortable seated position. Let your sit bones deeply take root into your seat. From the base of your spine feel a lengthening of the spine up towards the crown of your head. Gently close your eyes, and feel a glorious golden ray of divine light shine and illuminate your crown.

From the center of this illuminated crown feel the light lift you up higher, lengthening your spine. You are Heavenly Parent’s divine true child. Feel this loving warm light raise you up and lift you away from any tension or anything that weighs you down. Notice the body let go and release itself from things that pull it down.

Relax your shoulders away from your ears; lengthen the neck, relax the jaw; let go of tension. Feel your head become weightless and balanced at the top of the neck. From your grounded seat, feel yourself grow beautifully tall, up toward this light at the crown. Stay here for a moment to bask in this divine energy.

In this tall balanced, seated position, take a moment to notice your breath. At its natural pace, is it short, long, choppy, even fast paced, labored, light or deep? Whatever it is, just take this moment to notice your breath. Your breath is the mirror of the mind.

When we are sad, stressed, nervous or angry, it shortens and tightens. When we are happy, loving, calm and relaxed, it lengthens and deepens. When we feel hatred, our breath shortens, our life force shortens. When we love, our breath extends and our life force extends.

Breathing in, inhale life, oxygen, peace, and love. Exhale and let go of all that no longer serves your life. Inhale, welcome life, the divine gift of air and let it fuel a greater flame in your divine light. Exhale, letting go and giving gratitude for all the life force that has been given.

Let your breath bring in abundant blessings and gifts of life from the universe, and exhale joy and gratitude. In the simple act of taking notice of your breathing, you can feel eternally loved and nourished. Breathing is give and take action with the divine. Notice how in each and every moment God is serving you, filling your lungs, giving you blessings and this precious life; in return we offer gratitude, joy, and love.

Breathing at your natural pace think of a loved one. Imagine this loved one, being or thing. Visualize it. How does this being make you feel? What are the things it does that bring you joy? Replay those joyful loving moments in your mind. Take the time to notice how they make you feel in your heart.

Hold that image and feeling; let it deeply nourish your heart. Feel that loving energy fill your being. Feel your heart open and bask in this love. As you share love, feel it grow and multiply even greater. Feel that deep heartistic connection, that loving union, that complete freedom, happiness, and harmony in the embrace of loved ones.

Feel the complete give and take of boundless love, forever filling you with abundant joy. Stay here for a moment and let this loving vision deeply take root in your heart and mind. Feel the completeness and total oneness, harmony and joy of this union. This is CIG. When we are one.

Now think of someone or thing that is neutral to you. It might be the mailman, or a person serving you coffee; just anyone in your daily life who you may pass by casually and have no deep connection with. Focus on that neutral person and imagine that same loving feeling for this person as you would have for your loved one.

Visualize sending or treating this neutral person with the same openness and loving joy that you share with your loved one. Imagine smiling, saying kind words, offering a helping hand, a handshake or a big hug. Notice the change in that neutral person as you love them. Visualize their response, as they respond in kind, smiling back, saying thank you or some kind words, connecting on a higher level of love, and hugging you back.

Take the time to notice how this divine love in you can elevate any relationship. Notice a confidence and a joyful return that comes with opening your heart and loving all your neighbors. Your love has the power to change the world. You are no longer separate from others. By choosing to love, you bring all beings together in God’s divine love. You are Cheon Il Guk. We are all one.

Now imagine someone or something you don’t like, that may have caused you pain, suffering, heartache, loss, betrayal, fear, anger, hate, or who you do not respect. If you have no one or nothing that comes to mind, we all know the archangel. So try to visualize your archangel whoever or whatever it is.

You may notice around this difficult being, your heart feels like its shrinking away or clenching into a fist. You may notice your breath shorten or tighten or you may labor to breathe. Remember your breath is the mirror of the mind.

So, I want you now to imagine this enemy as a loved one. Do not let someone’s darkness extinguish or diminish the light of God’s love in you. Use the power of the divine breath of life in you. You choose to breath in deeply and allow life and love to flourish, and let go of all fears and things that no longer serve you. Allow your mind to focus on those feelings for your loved one.

Feel the deep love, openness, eternal divine light and goodness flow from your heart to this enemy. Notice how the image of this enemy changes, as you share deep compassion, care, kindness, higher consciousness and divine love. Visualize the shift in your heart as it opens and loves your enemy as your loved one.

Notice how this difficult person you hug, hugs you back. Feel your heart open freely in this embrace. Feel the healing and forgiveness, replace all loss and darkness. And see a golden light of love at both of your heart centers grow and warm each other in this embrace.

Notice the difference one heart, your heart, can make when it chooses love over hate. Notice your breath and your being glow even brighter and deeper as you invite God’s light and love completely into your heart and you share it with the world. You are Cheon Il Guk. We are all one.

Take a moment to feel this loving victory. Feel the divine light energy that is in your heart carry and give life to each living being and the whole of creation. When we all live as one united family under God, there can be no darkness. Notice the ray of light at the crown of your head illuminate brighter and flow all over your being in a blanket of love, joy, fulfillment and everlasting peace. You are the Crown of glory. What you focus on becomes your reality. CIG is alive in you. You are victorious! We are all one. AJU.

Gently opening the eyes. Feel God’s love and True Parents love fill your heart with unconditional love and infinite peace. Turn to your neighbor and share a glorious hug with each other and offer a deep Kamsahamnida. Salanghamnida. Namaste.

Beloved brothers and sisters. It has been a true honor to be with all of you today. I sincerely hope that all your dreams come true and I know that you will become great leaders for peace that will work to transform this world back to HP dream.

Wishing that you will nurture and cherish your divine light of truth, goodness, love, joy and peace and please never forget that peace does start with you. I look forward to seeing this bright amazing energy and love you will bring tomorrow when we will hear the precious message from True Mother at the “peace starts with me” rally.

Are you ready for true peace! Yes! Do you feel the peace in your mind body and soul? Yes! This is how HPs meant for us to live! Aju!

Namaste!

When we wholeheartedly believe in True Parents, God blesses us with miracles!

Sun Jin Moon
February 23, 2018
2018 Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly Opening Address
Chung Pyung Training Center

Respected Cheon Il Guk Leaders from 7 Regional Groups and from more than 120 nations. Beloved brothers and sisters!

Welcome to this Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly 2018!

Happy Heavenly Parent's Day! And Happy Lunar New Year…. the glorious Year of the Golden Dog!

According to the lunar calendar, 2018 is "무술년 (Moo-Sul-Nyeon)" which means "the year of the Golden Dog". "Moo" (무) means Yellow/Golden Earth, "Sul (술) means dog, and "Nyeon (년) means year. This "Moo-Sul Nyeon", the year of Golden Dog, comes every 60 years.

The Golden Dog (Moo (무)-Sul (술) symbolizes good harvest and fertility; in other words, 2018 is a year that brings affluence.

People say that throughout history the fortune of the nation rose in the years of "Moo (무)". For example, the Silla Kingdom unified the nation in the Three Kingdoms period in the year of "Moo-Jin Nyeon".

The Bohai Nation was established in the year of "Moo-In Nyeon".

The Goryo Nation was established in the year of "Moo-Shin Nyeon.”

Also, the establishment of the Republic of Korea occurred in the year of "Moo-Ja Nyeon". The 1988 Seoul Olympic Games were held in the year of "Moo-Jin Nyeon". Thirty years later, the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games are being held in the year of "Moo-Sul Nyeon".

Dogs have especially strong Yang energy. That's why they have dynamic and active characters. And the color gold indicates wealth and abundance.

With this in mind, I believe we can expect that the year of 2018 will be a year filled with prosperity and abundance.

Therefore, I wish you and your family, tribe, and nation a year of glory, heavenly wealth and victory!! Namaste.

When you spell DOG backwards you get the year of GOD! I know that this will be the year of victory for all filial sons and daughters around the world. You will all be victorious for GOD! You will all be Shining Rays of Hope Around the World with a Filial Heart for Heaven!

If we remain loyal and true to our Heavenly Parent and True Parents, we will naturally receive abundant joy, success, and blessings. We will achieve heavenly national victory and realize Cheon Il Guk, One Family Under God!

When we wholeheartedly believe in True Parents, God blesses us with miracles! We have witnessed this reality throughout 2017, with so many accomplishments and positive developments.

Looking back on 2017, I am reminded of True Mother's victorious rallies in the USA, in Korea, in Asia and 4 amazing ones in Japan. These victories have provided heavenly momentum for our worldwide movement as we go forward in 2018. We have seen the result already in Senegal, with the World Summit Africa!

Our True Parents are the Alpha and the Omega. They are the only begotten son and the only begotten daughter of Heavenly Parent. Together, they have laid the foundation for bringing an end to human suffering and conflict, uniting all people with True Love, and ushering in an era of peace and mutual prosperity.

As I mentioned in my speech for True Parents Birthday, the seeds our True Parents planted over many decades are bearing fruit today. Increasingly we see distinguished heads of state, religious leaders, parliamentarians, great leaders from all fields, who represent every religion, nationality, race, gender, age, and creed, welcoming and accepting our True Parents Divine truth.

Wasn't the interfaith prayer that began the main program wonderful. I felt that all religions were paying their respects and honoring our True Parents.

We are living in the midst of a Hyojeong revolution. We are experiencing the amazing power that emerges when we unite together as one global family, as victorious true sons and daughters of True Parents and Heavenly Parents!

Thank you Brothers and sisters for your sincere true love, pure devotion, absolute faith, and filial heart. Thank you for making Heavenly Parent's dream of Vision 2020 and Cheon Il Guk a reality! From the bottom of my heart Salanghamnida and Kamsahamnida.

Each year we gather together at this time to honor our True Parents. It is like a homecoming. As such, let me joyfully welcome you all back home! Welcome back to True Parents homeland of Korea and Chung Pyung where True Mother is investing her whole heart and every ounce of her energy to fulfill Heavenly Parent's dream of Cheon Il Guk for all humankind and for the entire creation, past, present, future, infinity, and beyond.

This is a holy land blessed by God. I sincerely hope that while you are here for this Cheon Il Guk Leaders' Assembly you can feel True Parents' deep eternal love for you and be nourished, healed, rejuvenated, and revived as you move forward from here in your respective missions, bearing the fruit of countless great achievements and miracles for heaven.

We also see that the entire world has come together in Korea, for the Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang. It was hard to imagine, some months ago, that the Olympics would even occur, given the rising tensions on this peninsula. Some worried that it might be cancelled.

And yet, just a few days ago, we witnessed the emergence of an opening for dialogue between North and South Korea. Kim Jong Eun's sister came to South Korea as a gesture of peace and diplomacy. Even the little angels performed in the opening ceremony.

I believe this sudden shift came as a result of True Mother's global tour 2017 and the Africa Summit, demonstrating her unwavering HyoJeong commitment to ending the era of suffering and indemnity for all humankind and creating a world of lasting peace. I believe our True Mother has laid the foundation for the pendulum of history to swing in the favor of heavenly fortune and peace.

I truly believe that Heavenly Parent and True Father are working with True Mother to help bring peace to this peninsula. However, if true peace is to be achieved it will require that both South Korea and North Korea connect to our Heavenly Parent and center on the vision and values taught by True parents.

I long for the day when President Moon Jae In and President Kim Jong Eun sit down with our beloved True Mother, just as President Macky Sall did in Senegal.

I long for the day when True Mother can offer her prayer of liberation in North Korea and return to their hometowns of Anju and Jung Ju. True Father said global harmony will come when peace is realized on the Korean peninsula.

Now more than ever we need peace on the peninsula to be the fulcrum of peace in Asia and the world. I pray for this, and I know with True Mother we will make True Father's dream come true.

With heavenly Korea heeding the call to have major breakthroughs in the fatherland, I believe this year of the golden dog and the super blue blood moon will open this sacred land to heavenly fortune! AJU!

Let us also not forget the importance of the spiritual world.

I believe that the great works being carried out here in Chung Pyung are having their own powerful impact on the providence. By educating, purifying, reviving, restoring and recording all blessed central family members, and anchoring them to Heavenly Parent and True Parents, a true road-map to peace has opened up. We can now move forward, directed by our true conscience and the compass of HyoJeong.

In January True Mother asked me and Insup to lead an educational program in Las Vegas for the youth of our movement in America. It was, for me, a deep and inspiring experience.

When I asked True Mother what points she wanted me to focus on, she said that we needed to teach our youth about Heavenly Parent, True Parents HyoJeong culture of heart and True Love. She said she wants to end the era of indemnity and she wants the lives of our future generations to be filled with True Love, grace, joy, HyoJeong, and life for the sake of others.

She said that all the suffering must end through Tribal Messiah victories; people must "know", not "no," who True Parents truly are and fulfill HP's dream. Only then can the era of Cheon Il Guk be realized. She said I should teach the young people that they must fulfill their portion of responsibility and have victory for Vision 2020.

With this direction and great message of hope from True Mother, I prepared to go to America. I also prayed to True Father to guide me with his truth and wisdom. That night he answered me in my dream, which woke me up at 2am. In the dream, Father uttered the words "E plurbis unum", a Latin term meaning "out of many, one." Father also spoke the word "fulcrum", which is a pivot point that gives leverage, making it possible to apply greater power with less effort.

With True Mother's guidance and with these words from True Father, I prepared for the event in Las Vegas.

We had a wonderful event, thanks to our youth ministry leaders and thanks to all the amazing young people who participated from all different nationalities and states. We were united as one family under God and shared the HyoJeong heart. We became a fulcrum and pivot of true love for the sake of bringing about true change in America, and we made ONE family out of MANY families…. e pluribus unum.

True Father's words reminded me that our Blessed children are the world's hope, and teaching them about True Love, True life and True Lineage is the key to restoring this world.

Anywhere I go in the world where I meet blessed families, I get inspired. I can see very vividly that if we truly practice the love of being a true family, living as filial son and daughter of True Parents, we are able to transcend all barriers and divisions and achieve peace and joy.

When I returned from America we caught the super flu, not the Forgive, Love, Unite True Parents Flu, but the record breaking flu that many Americans suffered from this year. Many people even passed away from the flu this year.

We felt so ill, almost for three weeks, with terrible chills and fever and, at the same time, praying every day for True Mother's health and victory in Africa.

During this time, I had a dream of True Mother and of a portrait of the little mermaid and a super moon that hangs on the wall in her living room. This image, from my dream, of this beautiful joyful portrait brought so much healing to my heart, and I was reminded of so many warm and precious memories in Hawaii with our beloved True Mother.

By some coincidence, I had this dream just two days before the Super blue blood moon. I felt it was a loving and guiding sign from True Father to remind us that True Parents are always with us no matter what we are suffering through and that True Parents will show us the divine truth and the way to Heavenly Parent's light.

Did anyone catch the Super blue blood moon? It moved my heart and I saw it had a powerful message of hope. So I would like to share it with all of you.

Video 1 and 2 of moon (explain off script)

"Jan. 31, 2018 Super Blue Moon and Lunar Eclipse" (1'00)

"Super Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse" (3'45) (no-narration video)

This once in a lifetime celestial event called a lunar trifecta is visible only every 150 years. For it to

happen right after all the global victories of 2017, and right before God's day, True Parents birthday and foundation day, made me feel that True Father also giving us the message of how important Tribal Messiaship is and how True Father from the heavens is speaking to the world through this auspicious event in the cosmos. It is only by restoring the true blood lineage through True Parents blessing and by understanding their divine truth that the world can be reborn and achieve true peace.

When I saw this eclipse overshadowing the glorious light of the moon, it was eerie; it consumed all the light and left the word in darkness. This sad, dark, and empty feeling must have been like Heavenly Parent's breaking heart due to the Fall.

When the eclipse gradually opened it cast an amber fire-like glow, like orange embers in a warm fireplace in the dead of winter. As it continued to turn deeper and deeper amber and eventually turned red, I saw this as Heavenly Parent's heart still keeping the light of love open for the world. Inch by inch the embers were struggling to light the torch of hope as the moon opened full circle.

The reddish hue heating the moon to cast its blood moon glow made me feel that this symbolized Heavenly Parent's eternal unconditional love for all his lost children. Even the name of this event, Super blue blood moon, made me think of the pure blood lineage.

Witnessing this event, I felt Heavenly Parent's eternal heart of True Love and his hope that we must restore the blood lineage of fallen mankind through Tribal Messiahship.

As the moon grew larger, turning into the super moon, it seemed to shine as bright as sunlight, illuminating the night sky. I felt True Father's presence. I felt that he is always with us and sending his love and sharing his hopes to realize Heavenly Parent's dream.

True Parent's message spoke to me directly through this natural wonder, reminding me that the only way for darkness to be lifted and for humanity to be reborn, with its fallen nature removed, is to inherit the HyoJeong heart of True Parents and receive True Parents Blessing.

This entire experience was for me a celestial sign indicating that this would be a year of victories and heavenly fortune! What is even more auspicious was when I finally saw True Mother and explained this event, I saw that it was already hanging on her dining room wall.

Picture of mother's blood moon (explanation)

If that is not miraculous I do not know what is? This is the power of absolute FLOW with True Parents, when you believe or call them into your heart they always answer. They are always with each one of us, giving true love and divine truth.

This was only the beginning of 2018!

What did you think of the celebration of True Parents' Birthday? Wow! Wasn't that magnificent? Aju?

Isn't our True Mother amazing? True Mother looks so radiant and beautiful, and the entire day of celebration was inspiring and uplifting, the musical, the various performances, the spectacular Sleeping Beauty performance. Even the special lunch box was prepared with True Mother's love.

What a whirlwind of activity True Mother is inspiring and generating. These two weeks are packed with programs. There are well over 20 separate programs taking place between True Parents' Birthday and Foundation Day.

I know that UPF convened ILC 2018 at the Lotte Hotel, including IAPP and IAPD programs. The IAPP program was held at the National Assembly. It is very encouraging to see that parliamentarians and religious leaders and other high officials from all over the world are working together collaboratively. UPF is creating a new model of leadership and good governance, centered on True Parents vision.

I also understand that there's a very, very high level group of VIPs from Africa who are having their own special educational program running concurrently with our Leaders Assembly, and including visits to Sun Moon University, Yong Pyeong resort, and a tour of the Cheonwon Complex. They are special guests of True Mother.

There is also an ICUS conference going on at this same time, in Seoul. This morning True Mother spoke to the conference.

The list goes on and on.

And, this is all in addition to this Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly, which is surely among the most important. For this is the gathering of our worldwide movement's highest level leaders from every sphere.

We have this precious time together to hear reports, receive our True Mother's direct guidance and direction, and network together as we prepare to return to our respective areas of responsibility.

Our entire movement is represented here, including FFWPU, UPF, WFWP, CARP, and many other providential organizations, businesses and initiatives founded by our True Parents.

True Mother is leading us forward with remarkable vision and clarity.

She wastes no time in moving forward.

She launched the IAPP only two years ago, and it has been growing and expanding ever since. Now, more than 4000 members of parliament have participated, and chapters launched in more than 75 nations. Just a few days ago, UPF Korea organized an IAPP program at the National Assembly.

In addition, just two months ago, in November at the UPF's ILC, True Mother launched the Interreligious Association for Peace and Development (IAPD). IAPP and IAPD are working together so that both the international governmental sphere and the interreligious sphere are collaborating for the sake of peace, just as True Parents taught when they spoke about the “Abel UN.”

True Mother has also been guiding the expansion of Tribal Messiah victors, and she has been promoting the development of educational curricula for young people, through Youth and Students for Peace.

As we have observed, the Africa Summit 2018, convened in Senegal in January, exceeded all expectations and established a new paradigm for victory. True Mother declared the beginning of "Heavenly Africa."

The liberation ceremony at Goree Island represented the liberation of the heart of all Africans. The current head of state, President Macky Sall, treated our True Mother with utmost respect and reverence, welcoming her like a visiting head of state, and offering all manner of hospitality and gracious care.

I want to express my deep gratitude to our beautiful, hard-working African brothers and sisters. Heaven is filled with joy and hope as it observes this historic moment of transformation and victory for all of Africa. The Africa Summit marks a new beginning not only for Africa, but for the entire world.

True Mother is now encouraging our other Regional Groups to prepare their own Summits. I understand that in Latin America our leaders are preparing programs in Brazil and Paraguay, and our brothers and sisters in the Asia Pacific Region are preparing their Summit in Fiji and Nepal.

I also understand that Europe is preparing to receive our True Mother in Vienna in April with a special rally and the launch of the IAPD for Europe and the Middle East. I am sure there are many other plans in other regions as well.

It has been more than five years since True Father's Seonghwa, and we are moving forward like never before. We are moving more rapidly, and with greater wisdom and understanding, toward the fulfillment of vision 2020 and Cheon Il Guk. We are all indebted to True Father and his glorious legacy as the Messiah!

Equally it is because our True Mother is the only beloved daughter of our Heavenly Parent and because True Parents holy wedding and complete victory has opened the gates of liberation that the providence is now soaring towards victory.

As our True Father shines from the heavens and cosmos, our True Mother is our guiding light, the beacon of hope and victory that shows us the way to Cheon Il Guk.

I believe this is why we are witnessing so many miracles from Heaven. Don't you agree! YES!

These amazing victories, however, would not happen without the sacrificial work that each of you as her filial son and daughter are doing, all over the world. You are the spiritual pillars of the providence as it builds upward into a new era of victory.

Based on True Mother's guidance and direction, our worldwide movement has three areas of focus: Witnessing and Tribal Messiahship, centering on FFWPU

Preparing the Environment for Witnessing, centering on UPF and other providential organizations

Preparing and raising up future generations through UPA, YSP, CARP, etc.

These form the foundation of our road map for National Restoration. I know during this leaders' assembly you will hear more about these three essential components of our global strategy.

Conclusion

When we unite with True Mother miracles happen. When we unite with True Mother, True Father supports us with all his heart from heaven.

True Mother is not thinking only about today or the rest of this year, or even just about 2020. Her thoughts go far into the future and out into the cosmos. Just like the picture of the blood moon, True Parents are in unison with Heavenly Parents frequency and antenna.

True Father in heaven lives and breathes in unison with True Mother as she carries out her daily work to fulfill his dreams. She is kept awake at night thinking about how she can make this world better for future generations, how she can overcome all obstacles and change this world for the better.

She said this past Christmas that she wants to end all indemnity forever. True Mother is taking on all the burden and clearing a path of complete peace, love and joy. Is that not the dream we wish to realize? Therefore, we must be absolutely one with True Parents, with absolute faith love and obedience and in oneness with their word. We must go with the absolute heavenly FLOW of fortune.

Let us go forward in 2018 with a heart of HyoJeong, restoring the true blood lineage of all mankind, ushering in a victorious reign of lasting peace. Aju?

For all the great leaders from around the globe I want to share True Mother's lunar New Year blessing.

This lunar New Year True Mother invited a select group of elder leaders to a God's day breakfast where she nourished us with tuk mandoo guk and the traditional Korean delicacies families share at this time of year. She harmonized our hearts with songs from brothers and sisters and bought us together as One Family Under God leading us in joyful song.

In closing she said "be healthy and be victorious," words of a true mother who knows the burdens you carry are great. She lovingly reminded us to have balance in our lives and to take care of ourselves and others.

So go out this glorious year of the DOG with GOD and with heavenly fortune completely at your side, knowing that True Parents' love, care and guidance are with you always.

May you all be victorious in your region or field, unifying this globe into one family under God!

Can we do it? Yes! Aju!

Thank you brothers and sisters. You have my sincere love, deep appreciation and eternal respect.

May Heavenly Parent always bless you and your precious families! AJU!

Salnghamnida kamsahamnida, namaste.

International President Sun Jin Moon - Special Gathering

Cheong Pyeong Training Centre, February 20, 2018

On February 20, 2018, during the 2018 HyoJeong Cheongpyeong Great Works Commemorating True Parents’ Birthday and the 5th Anniversary of Foundation Day, FFWPU International President Sun Jin Moon spoke to more than 5,000 members at a special meeting in the main hall of the CheongPyeong training center and answered their questions with a loving heart.

Hoon dok material, from True Father’s autobiography, read by International President:
Global Harmony Starts on the Korean Peninsula
(As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, p.276-p.281)

I miss my hometown so much that I visit it often in my dreams. My hometown is far beyond Seoul, in Jeongju, North Korea. It is an area that has both mountains and the sea. Wherever I am and whatever time it may be, my heart is always reaching out to that place where there is love and life.

All of us are born into our parents’ lineage, and as we grow up we are nourished by our parents’ love. We cannot forget our hometowns because that is where the ground is soaked with our parents’ love. That is why the older we get, the more we miss our hometowns. It is where our roots are and where we must return. It is difficult for people to cut themselves off from things that are fundamentally important to them. In 2004, I ended my activities in the United States after thirty-four years and returned to the Korean peninsula, where heavenly fortune resides.

We are not aware of the exact time when morning becomes noon. Neither are we aware of the exact time when evening becomes night. In the same way, human beings have no way of knowing the moment when Heaven does its work. That is how it is with our lives as well. Our moments of success and failure all pass us by without our being fully aware of exactly when they began to unfold. The same is true with nations. We cannot know the moment when good or ill fortune comes to a nation. Heavenly fortune is a force that moves the world; it is a principle that makes the universe go around. Though we may not know it, there is clearly something called heavenly fortune, which the One who created this world uses to conduct His providence.

The universe moves in perfect accordance with its own order. All beings in the world bear within them a certain principle that is put there even before they exist. When a baby is born, no one has to teach it how to breathe or to open its eyes. The baby does these things without being compelled. Things that happen on their own hold within them important keys to the secrets of the universe.

Many natural phenomena seem to just happen on their own. In reality, though, they don’t happen in this way. Hidden within natural phenomena in the universe is a directional force that we are not aware of and do not understand. This is the same with the forces of fortune in the universe, or heavenly fortune.

As the universe turns, it is certain that there will be a period of powerful fortune. If we understand the principle of the universe whereby spring follows winter and is then followed by summer, then we can foresee a bright future for Korea after a long winter of misfortune.

Those who are wise will align themselves with the laws and rhythms of the universe. When I was in America I would often fish in the Hudson River near my home. I have been a very skilled fisherman since I was a young boy, but there were days on the Hudson when I could not catch so much as a tiny minnow and had to return home disheartened. Fish have paths that they travel and certain times when they pass along those paths. If we don’t know where these paths are and what times they are on these paths, we won’t catch any fish. Just because there is water, it does not mean that there will always be fish passing by. A person who doesn’t understand this could keep his line in the water all day and all night, and it won’t do him any good. The same is true with heavenly fortune. If we don’t have an eye to see the future, we will not see heavenly fortune, even if it is staring us in the face. That is why it is important to have a keen understanding of heavenly fortune and an ability to sense its movements.

Human civilization has developed throughout history in a westerly direction. Egypt’s continental civilization gave way to the peninsular civilizations of Greece and Rome and then developed to the island civilization of Britain before moving on to another continental civilization, this time in America. Civilization continued its westerly move, crossing the Pacific Ocean to Japan. The movement of civilization didn’t stop there. The force that raised Japan up to such a great position is now moving to the Korean peninsula. Civilization is about to come to its fruition on the Korean peninsula.

For Japan’s island civilization to link up with the continent, it must pass through a peninsula. Asia, of course, has other peninsulas, but only Korea possesses sufficient foundation to inherit contemporary civilization. The Korean peninsula is in a most exquisite geopolitical position. It faces Japan and the United States across the Pacific Ocean. It also is connected to the continents of Asia and Europe and shares common borders with China and Russia. This is the reason that Korea has been a focal point in the power struggles among the world’s great powers and has suffered a great deal as a result.

During the Cold War, we fought for our very existence in a war against communism. Even now, the concerns and interests of the world’s great powers continue to involve the Korean peninsula, so Korea remains a divided country unable to be completely at peace. The time has come when the Korean peninsula, where the interests of the great powers collide, will take on an important role in preventing conflict between these countries. As a result it will be in a position to lead the rest of the world into prosperity and peace.

Heavenly fortune comes with tremendous responsibility. Now that the Korean peninsula has come into its heavenly fortune, it must play a role similar to a ball bearing, making sure that these countries not only do not collide with each other but instead cooperate closely for the sake of the prosperity and peace of the world. The functions of a ball bearing are to hold the axle of a machine in place while also allowing the axle to rotate freely. Korea needs to maintain smooth relationships with the great powers and thus become a ball bearing that allows peace to rotate freely throughout the world.

For a long time I have been making intensive preparations for Korea to play this role. I supported the glasnost policies of President Gorbachev and pushed the goal of improving relations with the Soviet Union. I also supported the reform and openness policies of Deng Xiaoping in China, starting in the late 1980s. I began my work in China by supporting Yanbian University to establish a college of engineering. Even after the Tiananmen Square incident, when foreign capital was leaving China, we remained in China and invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Huizhou, in Kwangtung Province.

I did not do this just for economic reasons. I am a religious person, not a businessman. A religious person is someone who sees into the future and prepares for it. Russia, China, Japan, and the United States must learn to cooperate with each other while using the spiritual bearings of the Korean peninsula. The Korean peninsula is destined to become the axis for world peace.

When I began working to improve relations between Korea and the Soviet Union and China, I discovered that Korea did not even have something as basic as a Russian or Chinese dictionary. Very little was going to get done as long as we could not understand each other’s languages. When I heard that there were groups of academics who had the foresight to begin work on a Chinese–Korean dictionary and a Russian– Korean dictionary, I supported these two projects.

The Chinese–Korean Dictionary Project was led by Professor Il Seok Hong of the Korea University’s Institute of Korean Culture, and several professors in the university’s Russian Studies department were behind the effort to publish a Russian–Korean dictionary. These dictionaries are playing crucial roles in the exchanges between the two Koreas and China and Russia.

When a rock sits atop the highest mountain peak, once it begins to fall it will fall all the way to the deepest part of the valley. This describes the changing fortunes of Western civilization. It is common knowledge that the West achieved incredible development through the use of science, but now moral decay is sending it down to the depths of the valley floor. That valley floor is the East, which has been developing a spiritual culture for thousands of years.

In particular, the Korean peninsula is the place where Eastern and Western cultures meet, as well as the place where continental and oceanic civilizations meet. The historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler put forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations that took a dim view of democracy and described it as the type of government that is leading Western civilization into decline. He argued that democracy is driven by money and that democracy’s corrupting power and its signs of moral decline include the rise of materialism and cults of science.

Looking at today’s Western culture, it appears that some of his thoughts were prophetic. The Atlantic civilization that has prospered until now is clearly facing a new era, the era of a pan-Pacific civilization that is on the rise. Asia, with Korea poised to take a central role, is becoming the lead actor in a new world history. Two-thirds of the world’s population lives in Asia. All the world’s major religions began in Asia. It has long served as humanity’s spiritual root.

It is inevitable that the Western and Eastern civilizations come together in harmony on the Korean peninsula. As the world rapidly changes, heavenly fortune is moving in Korea’s direction at an everincreasing speed. However, if the Korean peninsula is to properly perform its important role in leading the world to harmony and peace during an era of chaos, then it must prepare itself well. It must do away with a past marked with prejudice and selfishness and greet the new age with clear eyes and a new heart.

True Parents Were Born On the Same Day In Accordance With Heaven's Will

Sun Jin Moon
February 20, 2018
True Parents Birthday Welcoming Remarks
Cheongshim Peace World Center

Excellencies! Distinguished delegates from around the world, gathered for the International Leadership Conference sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation. Ladies and Gentlemen! Cheon Il Guk leaders and Brothers and Sisters from around the world!

It is my special privilege and honor to share a few words with you today on this historic and special occasion as we gather to celebrate the birthday of our beloved True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, I first wish to thank Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Furthermore, as the daughter of True Parents, I would like to congratulate my parents, the source of my existence, on their birthday.

True Parents were born on the same day on January 6 not by coincidence but in accordance with Heaven's Will. On this day, not only in the Cheongshim World Center, but in all 194 nations of the world, countless people have joined us to celebrate True Parents' birthday. As a member of the True Family, I would like to thank everyone in attendance.

Beloved leaders, brothers and sisters,

My parents never lived their lives for individualistic or private purposes. As their child, I have witness how my parents lived each and every day in service to God, our Heavenly Parent, and in service to humanity, guided by a single vision of building one universal human family under God. Their lives have always been defined by public purposes. Before I could truly understand the tremendous difficulty of leading such a life, there were so many instances when, as a child, I yearned for my parents' love. However, it is because True Parents established a tradition of public life that we have a reference point, an anchor that makes it possible for us to live a life of filial piety toward Heavenly Parent. This is why we say this birthday celebrations is for the sake of the public purpose.

Respected dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen!

My parents consistently led lives of sacrifice characterized by true love for our vertical and eternal True Parent, the Heavenly Parent, as well as for humanity, always seeking to realize Heavenly Parent's ideal of creation, one cosmic family.

Contrary to Heavenly Parent's ideal, today's world is filled with conflict and confusion, discord and pain. To realize the ideal world originally intended by our Heavenly Parent, True Parents have planted seeds of peace in every corner of this planet.

The recent World Summit in Africa 2018, convened in Dakar, Senegal, drew together more than 1200 of the highest level leaders from throughout Africa, including heads of state, speakers of parliament, government ministers, traditional rulers and religions leaders all centering on True Parents' vision of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universal values.

The dignitaries who gathered for this program resolved to build an African continent that attends Heavenly Parent, the "Heavenly Africa." The Africa Summit was an astounding and overwhelming success, and is an example of the abundance of fruit being harvested from the seeds of peace that have been sowed by my parents.

Today, the seeds of peace my parents planted not only in Africa but throughout the world are being manifested as Cheon Il Guk, the realization of the ideal world of peace, that reaches to every continent, 194 nations, and all areas of society including government, religion, education, academia, publishing, media, the arts, sports, and business.

My Father was a truly remarkable man. Larger than life. A man of history. Generous, charismatic, driven by a passion for goodness and a love for God. His vision had no limitation. He was a man who I believe moved and transformed history.

Since my Father's ascension I have come to recognize that my beloved Mother is equally remarkable. Larger than life and a true shaper of history. Since her birth in 1943, she has lived her life entirely in service to heaven's will, as the true daughter of God. She married my Father, in 1960, and together they took on the position, and the responsibility of the True Parents.

She has led our movement over the past five years with unwavering conviction and clarity of vision and purpose. Each and every day, we see the results of her steady, wise and innovative leadership. She is taking our entire worldwide movement to a new level, just as she pledged she would.

To my beautiful mother, my True Mother, you are the embodiment of unconditional true love, my eternal role model and my hero! I love you, salanghamnida!

On this day we sincerely offer True Father and True Mother our eternal gratitude and love, for the gift of their vision, their example, and their guidance.

True Mother we love you forever! Together Omoni Salanghamnida!

True Father we love you forever! Together Abogi Salanghammida!

Together Chambumonim kamsahamnida!

Chambumonim Songtan Chukhadelimnida!

Happy True Parents' Birthday.

Sun Jin Nim at the Heart to Heart Session in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, USA, January 12 – 14, 2018

During the YAYAM Leadership Retreat Winter 2018 (January 12-14) Sun Jin Nim, accompanied by her husband In Sup Nim, guided young people in a Heart-to-Heart session at IPEC in Las Vegas on January 13, 2018. She read from True Father’s autobiography and then lovingly answered questions from the audience. Late in the program she guided them in a meditation for the revival of their spirits, and concluded by giving special gifts to some lucky members of the audience.

As with previous occasions, Sun Jin Nim sought to connect very personally with each audience member’s heart and to help them understand True Mother’s work for the global providence and her love for the members worldwide.

A true life is a life in which we abandon our private desires and live for the public good. This is a truth taught by all major religious leaders past and present, East and West, whether it be Jesus, Buddha, or the Prophet Mohammed. It is a truth that is so widely known that, sadly, it seems to have been devalued. The passage of time or changes in the world cannot diminish the value of this truth. This is because the essence of human life never changes, even in the midst of rapid change all around the world.

The teacher with whom we have the closest relationship is our heart. Our heart is more precious to us than our closest friends and even more precious than our parents. So, as we live our lives, we need periodically to ask our hearts, “Am I living a good life now?” Anyone can hear his heart speaking to him. If he comes to the realization that his heart is his master, he “polishes” his heart and maintains a close relationship with his heart throughout his life. If a person hears the sound of his heart tearfully sobbing, then he needs to stop immediately whatever he is doing. Anything that makes the heart suffer will ruin him. Anything that makes the heart sad will eventually make the person fall into sadness.

For a person to polish his heart to the point that it becomes as clear as crystal, he absolutely must spend time in direct conversation with his heart in an environment where he is away from the world and alone with his heart. It will be a time of intense loneliness, but the moment that we become close to our hearts is the time of prayer and meditation.

It is a time when we can take ownership over our hearts. When we isolate ourselves from the noise around us and allow our thoughts to settle, we can see into the deepest parts of our hearts. It will take a lot of time and effort to go all the way down to where the heart has settled. It will not happen in a day. Just as love is not for our own sake, so happiness and peace are not for ourselves. Just as love can never exist without a partner, happiness and peace cannot exist without a partner. All these can exist only in the context of a relationship with a partner.

Nothing can be accomplished if we love alone. We cannot be happy alone or speak of peace alone. Since a partner is what enables us to have happiness and peace, the partner is more important than we are.

Think about a mother carrying a baby on her back, sitting at an entrance to the subway, selling homemade snacks to the people passing by. To be at that spot in time for the morning rush hour, she will have spent the whole night preparing the snacks and put her fussing child on her back to come to the station.

People passing by might say, “Oh, you could get along well if only you didn’t have that child to care for,” but it is for the sake of the child that the mother lives her life. The child on her back is the mother’s lifeline.

Today people can expect to live about eighty years. Eighty years of joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and all the other emotions mixed together may seem like a long time. But if we take away the private time that a person spends sleeping, working, and eating, and then the time we spend talking, laughing, and having fun with family members and friends, attending weddings and funerals, and time spent lying sick in bed, only about seven years will remain. A person may live eighty years but only spend about seven years living for the public good. Life is like a rubber band. The same seven years, given to two different people, can either be spent as seven years or as seventy.

Time, by itself, is empty. We need to put things in it. The same is true about a person’s life. Everyone wants to live his life with a comfortable place to sleep and good things to eat. Eating and sleeping, however, are simply ways of letting time slip by.

In the moment that a person has lived out his life and his body is laid to rest in the ground, all wealth and glory become nothing more than a bubble and disappear at once. Only the seven years that he lived for the public good will remain and be remembered by posterity. Those seven years are the trace that is left in the world of a life that lasted eighty years.

We do not come into this world, or depart from it, of our own accord. We have no ability to make choices with regard to our fate. We are born, though we did not choose to be born. We live, though we did not choose to live. We die, though we do not choose to die. We have no authority over these aspects of our lives, so how can we boast that we are somehow better than others? We cannot be born by our own wish, possess things that will forever be our own, or avoid death.

So any boasting on our part would only be pathetic. Even if we rise to a position higher than others, the honor is only temporary. Even if we gather more possessions than others, we must leave them all behind at the gates of death. Money, honor, and knowledge all low away from us in time, and all disappear with the passing years. No matter how noble and great a person might be, his is nothing more than a pitiable life that will end the moment he loses hold of his lifeline.

Human beings have always struggled to understand who we are and why we must live. We must realize that, just as we were not born of our own accord, so also we are not meant to live our lives for our own sakes. So the answer to the question of how we should live our lives is simple.

We were born of love, so we must live by traveling the path of love. Our lives were created by receiving the boundless love of our parents, so we must live our entire lives repaying that love. In the course of our lives, this is the only value we can choose on our own. The success or failure of our lives depends on how much love we are able to pack into those eighty years that are given to us.

At some point, everyone will shed his physical body like old clothing and die. In Korean, “to return” is a common expression for dying. To return means to go back to where we came from, that is, to go back toour fundamental roots. Everything in the universe moves in cycles. The white snow that collects on the mountains will melt and flow down the slopes, first forming streams and then a river, and eventually go into the ocean.

The water that flows into the ocean will absorb the heat of the sun’s rays, become water vapor, go back up into the sky, and prepare to become either snowflakes or drops of rain. To return to our original place in this way is what we call death. Then, where do we human beings return to when we die? Body and heart come together to bring about human life, and death is the act of shedding the body. So we go to the place from which the heart came.

We cannot talk about life without also talking about death. We must accurately understand what death is, even if we do so only to understand the purpose of life. The type of life that has true value can be understood only by the person who finds himself in a difficult situation when death appears imminent and he cries out to Heaven in desperation, pleading to be allowed to live even just one more day. If our days are as precious as this, how should we live them? What are the things we must accomplish before we cross over the boundary line of death?

The most important is not to commit sin and live a life that is without shadows. There is much religious and philosophical debate over what constitutes sin, but what is clear is that we should not engage in acts that give pause to our conscience. When we do things that give us a guilty conscience, it always leaves a shadow in our heart.

The next most important thing is to resolve to do significantly more work than others have done. All of our lives are limited, whether that limit is sixty years, seventy years, or some other time period. Depending on how we use that time, we can live a life that is two or three times more abundant than others. If you cut your time into segments and then live each segment in a meaningful way, your life will be truly precious.

Live your life with an attitude of devotion and diligence, telling yourself, for example, that you will plant two or three trees in the time it takes others to plant one. Do not live for yourself. You must live not for yourself but for others; not for your family but for your neighbors; not for your own country but for the world. All sin in the world comes about when the individual is put first. Individual desires and ambitions harm a person’s neighbors and ruin the society at large.

Everything in the world will eventually pass. The parents we love, the husband or wife we love, and the children we love will all pass away. All that remains with us at the end of our lives is death. When a person dies, only his legacy remains. Please consider for a moment what you can do to show that you lived a life of value. The possessions and social position you have accumulated during your life will pass away from you. Once you cross the river of death, such things will have no meaning.

Because we were born in love and lived our lives in love, love is also the only thing that remains with us when we are in our graves. We receive our lives in love, live by sharing love, and return into the midst of love. It is important that we live our lives in a way that we can leave a legacy of love behind us.”.

I Got a Lot Questions from this Ministry Group, the Youth Ministry

Sun Jin Moon
January 13, 2018
To 85 leaders at the International Peace Education Center (IPEC) in Las Vegas, NV

Good morning, everybody, I'm so happy to be here. All of you make me so happy. Thank you for welcoming us here to Las Vegas…. I got a lot questions from this ministry group, the youth ministry, and I hear that you're all amazing brothers and sisters, taking care of the younger generation while you yourselves as young people are finding and following your faith and bringing victory with sincere hearts, wanting to create victory for True Parents. I want to say thank you and I'm deeply honored to meet you.

I would like to start…. So many tough questions you guys have for me! [She laughs] You can imagine -- I was like, Oh, my gosh! How do I answer all these questions?

Go to the source

Whenever a question is in my heart or when I get a question that I have to figure out for somebody else, I always turn to Heavenly Parent and to True Parents' words because all the answers are in here. With any question, anything you're grappling with, the truth is all written down already so you have the gift at your fingertips at all times. Utilize this as a tool, whatever you're struggling with, even when you pray, you could open up to a page of Hoon Dok Hae and it might be answered. That is how powerful this resource is. So, to answer these questions, I found a Hoon Dok Hae passage, which I think is relevant to answering as best I can those questions. If it doesn't answer a question, we'll have a heart-to-heart session after Hoon Dok Hae where you guys can ask questions and we can grow together because we're all…. Is there anybody in this room that's perfect? Raise your hand. No, right? I'm not raising my hand. The only people who have perfected their true beings are True Parents. True Father and True Mother are the first examples of perfected man and woman and through them, we can learn. This is why it is so important to go to the source. The best master is True Parents in the physical world and beyond that, it's God, Heavenly Parent. They inherited everything from Heavenly Parent. So, to start, I am going to read; we are going to do Hoon Dok Hae. We love Hoon Dok Hae. We're going to read "Leaving Behind a Legacy of Love."

The teacher with whom we have the closest relationship is our heart. Our heart is more precious to us than our closest friends are and even more precious than our parents. So, as we live our lives, we need periodically to ask our hearts, "Am I living a good life now?" Anyone can hear his heart speaking to him. If he comes to the realization that his heart is his master, he "polishes" his heart and maintains a close relationship with his heart throughout his life.

"Today people can expect to live about eighty years. Eighty years of joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and all the other emotions mixed together may seem like a long time. But if we take away the private time that a person spends sleeping, working, and eating, and then the time we spend talking, laughing, and having fun with family members and friends, attending weddings and funerals, and time spent lying sick in bed, only about seven years will remain. A person may live eighty years but only spend about seven years living for the public good."

Resumption

You asked many questions about all the difficulties in life all the things that are going on and how to forgive and how to heal hurts and even in Father's chapter he says the most important thing is to polish our relationship with the heart. I know you guys have been studying hyo jeong, understanding a filial heart. This is the start of it all….

At this stage, how can we cultivate more love in our hearts, have a more loving heart and create more joy in our churches and in our experience with each other in our daily lives? That was the intention of all creation, right?...

I'll try to tackle these questions that you guys gave me. These are ten very difficult homework questions. [She laughs].... I'll try to get through these questions in twenty minutes and then open the floor for anybody who has a question. You can think about it as we answer these questions.

Restoring trust and love

How can we reach people who are disconnected or who have been hurt by our movement? That question got the most votes as a major question that you guys are tackling in the field, where people are hurt by the movement or by certain families. How do we help people feel reconnected or gain that sense again? How do we open our hearts once we've been hurt?

The answer to that is, number one, the heart. We have to stop. We have to go back to love. It is the hardest thing to do when you're hurt. When someone hurts you, the last thing you want to do is open your heart. It is just a natural response. You either fight or flee, or you close yourself off, you separate yourself or distance yourself. You do not want to go anymore to that painful place. But then, what happens in your life? Your heart shrinks and your world gets darker. When you're disconnected or hurt, to open your heart and to love is the hardest act, but that's the only way you are going to heal.

Many people think, I'm hurt and if I hold on to this hurt, somehow justice can come. It doesn't come. You are just holding on to anger and your heart darkens, your life darkens, but when you love, when you forgive love and unite -- this is what Father teaches and this is why it works -- you let go of whatever someone else did to you. You choose; you choose to love. You choose to invite in forgiveness or unity, and by doing that, you transcend that darkness. You are growing the light in you. You don't lose anything if you're hurt but still love and forgive. You gain.… This is what Father teaches; love your enemy. This is how we save the world. This is how we surpass all divisions. Even seeing racism in America, religious discrimination -- everything we see in the world is based on people being hurt by people or groups, holding on to hate from past experiences and living that out. That just divides people, separates people. That's the opposite of God's heart. God is here to unite us.

Hurt members are only the start

You're the Unification Church. We're supposed to embrace and bring back everybody and love them. There is always going to be hurt because we still live in an imperfect world. This is not the garden of Eden fully perfected until we reach the 7.6 billion people that Mother is trying to save -- until that day happens, which is going to be 2020 national restoration, until Cheon Il Guk is realized, there will always be an element of hurt. We need to polish our hearts to be able to love beyond that. That's our choice. Only we can do that. When you do that, you'll find that you're free from all that pain, misery and suffering. You might find that when you reconcile or when you forgive, you have greater love and joy. When you overcome a difficulty, when you overcome a hurtful relationship and can forgive a person and reconnect, sometimes that relationship becomes deeper.

As you grew up, you may have fought with your siblings, but did you never talk to them again? You worked it out. Sometimes you fight with your parents but do you disown them or do they disown you? No. We work it out. If we look at the whole human family as our family in the same way we don't quit on family but keep loving them unconditionally–this practice is the only thing that is going to unite us, and the world. So if you have people disconnected and hurt, find their heart of love. Help them polish their hearts to love and forgive, because Satan's tactic is to separate and divide, so bad things happen. People get cut off, separated, divided. They leave -- estrangement. What good does that do? It gets us into more trouble in the world. We have seen that. So, to not let that happen, to proactively make the choice to love is powerful. I hope you choose that and can try that in your lives….

Substance abuse

[She reads] "Alcohol seems to be a topic with many opinions among those in our generation. How should we approach alcohol when addressing those who are younger and peers?" I guess you are all youth ministers and are taking care of young kids now. [Sotto voce] Scary!

I can't imagine being a young person now with social media and all this influence all around you all the time. But… A simple thing is that alcohol is a controlled substance. They're controlled substances because why? Dangerous, right? People when they drink are not responsible. They can hurt themselves or others. First of all, how do we address it? Number one: it's a controlled substance by law. Even "outside law," not spiritual law or church law, says you cannot drink until you are twenty-one. You shouldn't because it's a crime. Just as Father's teachings say, anything that pricks your conscience or could put you in jail, don't do it. Just say No. Don't go to jail. You are so young. You have so many great things to do. You don't want a DUI [driving under the influence of alcohol] on your record.

Sexual practices

The next question is, "How can we approach homosexuality with a loving heart and maintain a righteous perspective?" I guess that's an issue in the modern day with young people. So these kinds of questions I would say, number one, follow the law. Don't disrespect persons if they are of whatever choosing in their lives. We do not hurt people; we don't want to attack people for their choices because that doesn't make us good. By attacking someone doing bad, we just double the bad. Instead of judging them, condemning or attacking them, if we are going to love our community and help our young people get past this, we need to give them practical tools to do that.

Number one, follow the law and then ask, Why would you want to do this to yourself when you could potentially hurt others? Do you want to go down this road? Usually, you will find that people turn to alcoholism, drugs or even homosexuality because they are missing something. They are filling it with these things. They are missing love, true love. Without true love, how are you going to find the will or the heart to live a joyful life? The lack of love in your life is numbing.

If you're counseling young people and they are having issues with this, go to the source of why. What starts the addiction? What starts the want for that? What are you missing in your life? Where is that hole in your heart that needs to be filled with more joy and more love. That is what we should be fortifying. In our communities or in raising children, we want to enhance the joy so that they do not even turn to those things.

I want to sing in a band or I want to swim in the ocean, enjoy nature or play sports, whatever their joy is is what we should be focusing on. Instead of focusing on what not to do, I hope we can learn as a community to focus on what to do. Find better ways for young people to spend their time. Maybe they are bored. How can you make it more enjoyable to be excited about life in these eighty years? You want to milk those seven years of greatness for the sake of the world. If you're speaking to a five year old, it's easy to say, Don't drink. Don't smoke. Don't have sex until you're married or blessed. Being gay is bad. This is bad. That is bad, but beyond that, if you are going to witness to young people and to outside people, just telling people them these things are bad is not going to get your foot in the door to witness to them….

Instead of hating it, look for compassion, empathy and think of ways to love the person more. How can I help this person find the truth, find a happier place, find the blessing, find God and True Parents? That should be your intention. You are all smart young people. Don't start getting on a track, saying, Don't do this, don't do that. They are past kindergarten age. Think of what we should be doing and how we can make an environment in which no one wants to waste time doing those things….

Guidance for Youth Ministers and Young Leaders - Part 1

Sun Jin Moon
January 13, 2018
Excerpt
YAYAM Leadership Retreat Winter 2018
International Peace Education Center (IPEC) in Las Vegas, Nevada

Question: What helps you to have clarity and strength to do what you do?

That's simple; we just did it today. We did Hoon Dok Hae. This is the route to Heavenly Parent and True Parents. I am no greater than anybody else in this room. Everything good in my life has been gotten from Hoon Dok Hae, prayer and meditation. Anybody can do this. Don't miss the chance to bring this into your life every day as a daily practice, just as you brush your teeth and comb your hair -- Hoon Dok Hae, meditation and yoga are what I do. I think I sent the yoga principles to you guys. Did you have a chance to look them over? It is interesting, right? Good. I can get into that, because when I was growing up in the movement, we didn't have the completion stage yet. It was still the indemnity phase. Mother was still indemnifying Eve. Everything wasn't completed and liberated. A lot of what we were taught was what not to do. The culture we grew up in was scary -- fighting all the time. Satan's attacking you! You always had to be on the defensive. You were constantly in a state of fight or flight. It was like cortisol [a hormone similar to adrenaline]. Crazy! It is not good for you.

True Mother said True Parents have completed everything. The indemnity phase is completed. We are now in completion and liberated from indemnity. This is the stage where we should be creating a culture of heart. What is that? One where we live with joy and love, and peace is our mission.

Transformation at a price

I went into my first yoga training when True Father passed away. I was asking Father after he had passed away to guide me. Guide me! I have to help Mother and I have no clue what to do. I am so unworthy. I need guidance. Then, I prayed and of course cried all night and the next morning I got an email about a yoga teaching opportunity exactly at a time I had free before Mother was going to come to Hawaii after Father passed away. I thought, Maybe this is a sign. When you pray or have a dream or something, God is talking to you; when you have these moments, take them.

I took it. I enrolled myself in two weeks of yoga, two hundred hours of yoga in two weeks; that's over ten hours a day. From the break of dawn, about 5:00, until 10 pm we were doing yoga, meditation, teaching, postures and other things for two weeks straight. I completely turned vegetarian because they wanted you to detox and spiritually center yourself and be committed to the course. It was a shock to the body. We grew up in a meat eating, McDonald's family. [She laughs] Imagine not eating meat and detoxifying. It was an amazing experience. Those crazy things that are hard to do transform your life. When you can get out of a way that wasn't working for you, to find a way that is working for you, do it. Do it. Embrace it. Share it with other people; share ways that you find helpful. This is one of the principles. The first thing you learn in yoga -- before you do all of the funny poses that you all know from watching TV or reading fitness magazines -- is that the most important thing is centering the mind and the intention. These ten principles are the yamas and niyamas [in Sanskrit, the liturgical language of Hinduism]. They help you focus on individual perfection -- how you can unify mind and body to be at peace and centered with God at all times. That is the first step. When I started learning these, I realized that they connect in many ways with True Parents' teachings. This was an "Aha" moment.

Graciousness

The first one is "ahimsa." Does anybody know what that means? "Non-harming." What can we relate that to in Divine Principle? [The third blessing] Yes. Non-harming means loving everything, because it means not to harm anything or energy -- whatever. You need to have absolute unconditional love for all things in creation and for yourself. Not to harm anything is like loving everything -- loving everything with that kind of energy and heart. That's the first principle. Ahimsa is non-violence and non-harming. Because what is the opposite of love? Hate; when you hate, you harm. The opposite is non-harming, loving everything.

Honesty and fairness

The next one is "satya," "truthfulness." This is important. I think everybody has to be true to her heart. Like Father says, only you can polish your heart, but you need to think about it with the first principle: How can you be true to yourselves without harming anyone else? This means, [as came up in one of your questions] how can I be a true, principled person to someone who is homosexual? Be truthful in your belief and your cause, but in being truthful, do not harm. Do it in a loving way. These are simple ways to guide you to balance your mind, your thinking, to always stay on the path of love and not omitting, being truthful, keeping that consciousness balanced in love. You might want to be truthful to your parent that has hurt you or someone in the movement that has hurt you or some leader but in a way that you do not do it as an act of hate or aggression but as some way to love or heal. These are ways, tools with which to think, to help you navigate whatever comes your way.

The third one is "asteya," which means "non-stealing." This doesn't just mean monetary stealing. Of course, Father says stealing public money is the worst thing you can do, but you could steal someone's heart. You could steal someone's time, energy, space -- all these things. So how can I be conscious of others at all times and not take more than what is given to me or what I have earned? That's a good thing to do; it's a fair practice.

Self-control

The next one is brahmacharya. In the yoga tradition, the only people who did yoga were male Buddhist monks. Women weren't allowed to do yoga because they weren't clean, but now that era is transcended! [She laughs] …because Mother is opening the door to a balanced world. "Brahmacharya" is in the same line as when Father says "absolute sex." Why, for all those in the first generation, was everything -- Don't drink, don't smoke, don't do this or that? We have to be absolutely clean, pure and free from all sensory things that bother our ability to connect with a higher consciousness.

Anything that takes your energy away from God's conscious energy is a disturbance. You want to moderate that. Have you ever listened to loud, angry music? What kind of head-space does that put you in? Everything affects you. Can anyone think of another sensory [input]? Smart phones! Our attachment to interconnected devices… You could be on one all day and not be focusing on your children, your pets, your school, your congregation. Does anybody play video games here? How much time does that take from you? It's a full-body experience. Nothing can remove you from the game. Video games aren't bad. iPhones aren't bad. Devices aren't bad. Chocolate cake isn't bad in itself. A loving relationship with your blessed partner is not evil or bad. It's how you use it, how that energy is balanced to do good.

Has anybody ever been on a diet? If I tell you, Don't eat chocolate cake. Don't eat sugar. Don't drink coffee: What are you going to do? Exactly! You're going to crave those things. Instead of that say, Have a good relationship with all foods. If you eat food with fear, it doesn't help digestion. You are not getting the nutrients, physiologically. You are harming yourself.

Live within limits

All these things are interconnected. Don't harm yourself. Have balance. Be truthful and stay in the nongrasping, non-stealing area. The fifth one also goes into that. "Aparigraha" means "non-grasping." To

want things in life is natural. Everybody wants something. Has anyone ever gone shopping, wanted something badly, bought it and about two weeks later, you don't even notice it's there? You bought an iPhone you really wanted and then a new one comes out and you cannot even like your own phone any more, you just want the new one. It is dissatisfaction 24/7. How can you practice non-grasping? If you're not attached to it like that, it can't traumatize you. [Laughs] It's true. How do I let stuff go? Do I really need this stuff in my life? Would I rather spend that money saving dogs in Korea from dog meat farms and donate it to the ASPCA [American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]? Think about it. You could be doing a lot of good. It's a mind-shift. When you start becoming conscious of these practices, you will notice your mind starting to change and wanting to do better things. In yoga, we call it good karma, doing positive good acts.

Pure water

The next is "purity;" it's called "saucha." This is like we have in the Principle. We want to purify. When Mother says all those in the second generation are pure water; many acts of indemnity and restoration had to go into our being able to be here today. In that same way, we want to purify and maintain and thank and appreciate that previous generation that helped get us to this point. From this point, we want to broaden and build more joy, more purity a better world a more peaceful world.

The next one is "santosha," which means "contentment" -- finding joy in just being. Has anybody ever felt like that? You're just complete in your being. You're grateful in your being. You're just OK. When I get to that place is usually when I welcome God into my heart and everything is complete.

This one goes with the next one, "tapas," "the right effort." It means doing the work. Doing the good karma in your life, because none of these things is automatic, as Father said. Everything has to be done by doing good. So when we're to plant one tree, we are going to invest extra effort to plant two or three trees. We want to have this heart. "Svadhyaya" is "self-study," so you are not going to learn anything or you are not going to have transformation and change unless you do the work, you put in the practice. This is where you do it -- in the Hoon Dok Hae, in the workshops in your daily life, in your daily practices.

The last one is "ishvara pranidhana." That is the big one. It is the tenth principle but it's actually the biggest principle -- "surrendering to God." That might be a hard, when you think about it, surrendering your entire being to God. The reason that is the tenth principle is because when you practice all the nine others you are slowly starting to understand walking in the ways of God. You realize that through all these conscious steps of how to live your life -- with love, with goodness, with right effort and right speech for everybody -- you are walking in the way of God, creating peace, creating love and creating joy. When you realize that you have the ability to do this and act on it and create it every day, this last principle becomes true. Because you are Heavenly Parent. You are the divine representation of Heavenly Parent on earth. You choose to express him or her, Heavenly Parent, in your life. That is the important principle. Many people think that God is separate, somewhere beyond, like there, True Parents in a picture. It's in you. When you surrender to the God in you, Heavenly Parent in you, the divine light in you, you realize you have all the power, like a super hero. [She laughs] It's true; you can do anything. You can overcome anything. You can love anyone. I hope that that was helpful. These are practical ways to figure out how to love people. We hear all the time that we should love people but no one gives us practical A-B-C, ten steps, how to do it.