We Need Brothers and Sisters

Everyone wants to be loved.  The ideal manifestation of that love is parents.

Orphans do not have a relationship with their original parents.  We can say that a person who neither receives parental love from his parents even though he wants to, he is very miserable.

Suppose someone is much less attractive than someone who did not grow up with their parents.  Even still, just as long as that person can serve and devote himself to his parents, he can feel very fortunate by comparison.

He might think that someone is handsome, but if he or she does not even have parents, what does that benefit?  He might think, "I may be ugly and disabled,  but at least I am fortunate to have a mother and father."

Parents are the Origin of Love

What are parents?

Why is it that even the most strongest and intelligent son could never ignore their parents even if they were a burden?  Why can he not control them with one finger?  Since he has such credentials, he could challenge them with his wit, but he wouldn't want to do that.

Where does love come from?

Does it come from yourself?  No.  Love comes from parents.

This is because the origin of love is not you, but your parents.

There can be no result without a cause.  

When it comes to love, you are not the owner of it.  When you come before your parents, you should say, "Yes, Mother and Father, you are right."

Your parents may say that no matter how established, wealthy or intelligent you are, you cannot deviate from your duty to your mother and father.  Then you can reply as above.

You do this because of love.  Parents are the subject partners, and children are the object partners.  The subject partner serves the object partner, and the object partner follows the subject partner.

This is the principle of Heaven.

When this principle is breached, that house will collapse and end up worthless.  Because a person is born in accordance with heavenly nature, however uneducated he is, he knows the Principle of Heaven.  Therefore, even the strongest champion has to bow his head to his parents.

Humankind continues to be plagued by conflicts based on power or knowledge.  When the end of the world comes, the power of the fist and the power of knowledge will pass away.  Don't you realize that we are living in such times?

We are currently living in the war of love.

That is why religious leaders say that their time is coming. In the end, only the power of love will remain.

These are the Last Days, the final age of worldly supremacy.

Can a strong elder brother come home and become the boss of the house with his parents there?  No matter how strong a world champion he is in the ring, he cannot be the boss at home.  Even if the elder brother has hundreds of doctorates, when he returns home, he cannot be boss because his parents are there.

The Reason We Need Brothers and Sisters

Why do we need brothers and sisters?

Because boys can watch their younger brothers and sisters and learn how their mothers grew up.  Girls can watch their naughty elder brothers and see how their father grew up.

This is called the love of brothers and sisters.

Therefore, you should love your siblings.  Also, you should learn to love your siblings as you love your father and mother.

You cannot love our brothers and sister of the world if you do not learn how to within the family.  So, therefore, through observing your siblings you can learn how our parents grew up and come to love them as your parents do.

In this way, you will be able to love your mother and father when you go to the next world.

You need your brothers and sisters in order to be an owner of love without shame. 

Would it be better for siblings to love each other more than they love their parents, or less than their parents?

It is better if they love each other more.  Why is this so?

Because watching and loving your brothers and sisters is the same as watching and loving your father and mother when they were growing up.  When you do this, it fulfills the condition of loving  your parents from their birth to their death.

Thus, brothers and sisters are connected to each other through such love.  That's why we think this way.  In the case of the parents, the more children they have, the more they can learn about their spouses.

For example, the wife might see her son act in a certain way and she can think, "Oh, this is probably how my husband was growing up."

So, loving the children is the same as loving the spouse the way he or she was before they met.

The husband can watch and learn from the daughter and say, 'Oh, she is showing me how my wife would have been when she was young."

Through loving the children, the husband fulfills the condition of loving every aspect of the wife.  The mother and father do not say, "Love only the boys, not the girls."

Loving parents love their sons and daughters equally, without discrimination.

So by having sons and daughters, a beautiful circle of love in the family is formed. 

Parents will treat the children equally.  All parents are like this.

The first rule in family education: hating your brother or sister is a greater sin than hating your mother.

Suppose after you have a fight with your brothers or sisters you leave the house.  The least you can do when  you return is to hold a party so that you can make them happy again.

Ask them for forgiveness and tell them that you should love one another as you love your parents.

Brothers and sisters represent your father and mother.

If they were poor, then help them and serve them as you would serve your mother.  There would be nothing more beautiful than this. This is where the Kingdom of Heaven begins.

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