Hobbies Industry is the Future

The future world is the age of hobby life Many wonder that if this new millenium is just the beginning of a life lived for God's Will, what kind of life and world will that be? Will it be like the Jetsons, with flying cars and push-button jobs or will we return to living off the earth finding alternatives ways to use the earth's energy as a resource? However, the new world may come, everyone envisions a world of incredible development and a better economic way of living. Human beings will be able to have enough time to enjoy their leisurely pleasures and have enough wealth spread among them to do so because of technology. As a result, humankind will learn and understand about the greatness of nature. We will have more appreciation for God as we will try to overcome the differences of culture, race and national borders. Isn't that the kind of world we are enjoying at the moment among the accounts of chaos? We are at the crux of a new era as the world of evil and destruction of the world falls away. After we have gone through this process in the world, then the ideal world will come.  We will enjoy the true life, a life of loving and caring for one another. The leisure industry will be the big enterprise of the future. The technological industrial age is an age where people do not have the need to suffer the need of hard labor due to automated technology. It is even almost that way now. Just like the Jetsons, machines work once the person pushes a button.  A time will come when there will be three or four machines that can produce products day and night where before it took thousands of people to do the same labor. Then what kind of industry will flourish in that age? It would be such things as the entertainment and fashion industry which both fall under the category of the industry of leisure. We have already entered this age. It has influenced the world already in not such a great way.  If these industries were centered on God, the world could be quickly influenced by His standards. This will be the time to build an economic foundation. The leisure and tourist industry are bound to develop and flourish. We have already passed the age of the slave labor where the president of a company worked at the desk in the office. The computer age has already made it where we can work anywhere outside of the country using man-made satellites. Orders are given while the executive is fishing on a boat while on vacation.  We are getting closer to a heaven on earth step by step. The boss can run the business from a position of freedom where he can enjoy his hobbies  and get rid of stress. The coming age where more countries, races and communities will unite, will need to have a way for families to travel around the world by car. An international highway is in the works to connect the four continents around the world.  This project seems impossible like the Panama Canal in its day and age, but is a necessary link to physically unite the world. This leisure industry will help people to feel God's happiness toward creation.  Artists will be influenced by the good spirit world to uplift the beauty of God's creation in their works. There is a system in development that will bring farmers who live close to nature to unite with those who live far from nature in order to develop and educate them.  We see this happening in many established corporations. People in urban areas can support them both through the best scientific technology. This is why developing the hobby business is important in order to enjoy many hobbies around the world. God did not create the world for His children to suffer, but for them to enjoy all the luxuries of His creation. The hobby culture will be able to help in that development. A life of leisure is the kind of life God likes.  You probably didn't know that your hobbies are connected to the creation. So many different hobbies are waiting for me. I never get exhausted. By enjoying one hobby after another, I automatically come closer to God's world. This is the best life that men can hope for. The hobby industry is the shortcut leading to the world of peace We must enjoy leisurely pursuits.  God did not create the world for His children in reluctance; He made creations so that He could feel its excitement. We also must experience this same joy when we experience God's creation. We should not do hobbies because someone tells us to do so, but we should do so because we enjoy them. All of these industries - leisure time, the hobby industry and hobby research and so on - should be centered on God. Only then can those be things that belong to God and used regularly by the beloved sons and daughters of God.  Otherwise, they become Satan's possession to destroy and distort away from God's purpose. I am not doing this for the money; in fact, I am investing a lot of money in order to develop these ideas. We have a lot of preparation to do in order to enter the spirit world. At the age of sixty you should go back to the farming area of your hometown and prepare by digging the land and exert yourself with devotion. Through fulfilling your responsibility in guiding the farming areas you fulfill the purpose of the hobby industry and leisure time iself. You then become a caring, warm-hearted person who is able to live in the upper level of the spirit world and make good use of your time there. We must develop the hobby industry not leisure industry from now on.  We have normally thought of the leisure industry based on how much profit can be returned. Fishing and hunting can be pursued for profits and commercial interests. That is what makes the leisure industry different from the hobby industry.  The hobby industry can spread to the smaller cities where people can enjoy themselves in each of the four seasons. We each have our own path and different tasks in which to fulfill. There are people who work at a factory, company and such with various jobs. There can be groups from 100 to 360 that are assigned to various jobs, in this way, different groups would do this work. Then fifty percent will be returned, therefore, the entertainment business is the best. The leisure industry is for profit while the hobby industry puts the hobby itself as its purpose. People say that people without money can't enjoy a hobby, but that is not true.  You can enjoy going on vacation once or twice a year; this is what the hobby industry would be able to do in the future. I believe that being the first to make such a worldwide organization is the short-cut in leading to peace in all fields, including the world's money market and human resources. That is why I have been preparing this ocean plan for twenty years.  So along with this hobby industry, I am thinking of doing farming as a hobby.  Back a hundred years ago, people spent most of their time surviving, cultivating and finding food and such.  This day and age, the youth and people have a more free time - this can be a problem as well for the world. Now, is the time to encourage people to live off of their hobby. Our job in the Completed Testament Age is to mobilize a great number of people.  In order to create this hobby industry, a large number of people will be needed. Which industry is best for interconnecting all of the people of the world which will be able to transcend the national boundaries and go beyond our cultural differences we experience coming from around the world. We will have the need for church activities. The only industry that can connect people of different background is the hobby industry, the industry of enjoying God's creation. We must prepare for the age of the hobby industry The hobby business is a term that has recently developed in the last three decades.  The age of urbanization will soon end and people will disperse out more widely. Men are made to live centering on hobbies. The hobby industry includes sports, hunting and fishing.  These were enjoyed at the World Culture and Sports Festival. We are opening up the tourist business worldwide. I am preparing the worldwide tourist business now. The establishment of our American bus company "Go Tour" was an essential link in the preparation for this.  From now on, the tour-leisure business will develop worldwide.  In the future, people will ride on our boats at tourist attractions around the world. We will attract tourists from any country and guide them with lots of money because we have a worldwide organization.  This is possible. Let us travel around the world while working and distributing goods. We can develop tourist areas and make a fishing ground. This area will be beautifully landscaped and kept free by making sure people do not throw cigarette butts or trash anywhere. This place will be a place free from environmental pollution. We will also make an area where people can sight see and enjoy their hobbies well.  We will create a tourist area that anyone will love instantly and wish to come and visit. By building such a heavenly place, then all the 7 billion people on earth would visit even compete to be among the first to get there. When have we as people of faith who work hard for the dispensation taken a vacation? I have made the foundation for you to have vacations in the warmer areas when it is cold, and in the colder areas when it is hot. The time has come now to do so. This is what is referred to as the hobby industry. I have climbed up to this position by receiving much persecution, but you will not be persecuted. Father Moon has prepared a foundation in South America. You can take responsibility, and take your tribe there and train them.  All fo the families in that country and their ancestors will come based on that foundation. All the families and the ancestors in spirit world can unite based on that kind of tribal foundation. I am preparing sites in Alaska and in Texas, and trying to make fishing areas and hunting grounds in 160 countries. Fishing and hunting are hobbies. They are hobbies of the upper class, of the people who live well. That is why I am promoting the hobby industry. I am going to lead it directly, by making a tourism organization. This is not just a dream, but if we are thinking of achieving God's dream of a heaven on earth, the hobby industry is the best industry to bring this to reality. We will connect these sites to the tourist industry that is already established around the world in order to create a people that can harmonize with one another. If you can influence the people, you can influence the world.  Instead of living within a small circle of relationships, you should live as champions of the diplomatic world who can relate with prominent people. All people need to have a hobby. In the future, people will no longer have global food problems.  In this future world of enjoying the creation, would you spend your time in fighting one another? Of course, when God created the world He did not envision disunity and suffering, but he had dreamed that we would all enjoy life having fun. You should be able to ride on the river on a boat with friends fishing and diving in the world of water.  Yet, majority of the world has yet to do these simple activities. This is why the hobby industry is necessary to broaden. We do not spend our time enjoying casinos, but we will organize a group and visit the casinos for two or three days. Historically, casinos are considered evil because of the crime rings that have secretly controlled them in Las Vegas. Those who have lost tens of thousands of dollars have brought ruin to their families, so if a person was to receive a lottery ticket worth 30% of that amount they can turn that misfortune around.  Those who visit the casinos should be given ideological education for a third of that time. The Messiah has turned the casinos into instruments that are able to draw on the dreams of others by centering it on the hobby industry. Those who are not turned in the right direction, they will continue to gamble even if their own fingers were cut off and even after making a determination not to gamble. Academic education represents the mind, while physical education represents the body. The hobby business was opened to lead the future direction toward the perfection of love. The world went in the wrong direction due to the wrong use of love and in the future we will enjoy our lives with fun activities. The world of the ideal family has evolved into the hobby industry. You can view everything of creation as a hobby. When you go where there are mountains, where there are rocks and trees, those are all of great interest.  For whom was all of this world created? God created so He would be able to embrace everything.  God created an environment for us that was an ideal place to live. The entire world today is a world of science, in which through the best technology, people are moving the world. For this reason, people take a serious view of the production process, calling it the hobby industry, whereas I call it the hobby life. There are several kinds of hobbies: the hobby for your eyes, for your nose, for you mouth, for your ears, to touch, for your body, for your mind, your love and so on. The ocean, land, animal preserves -  all of these will be connected to the hobby business.  Instead of killing animals in the wild, we will raise them. This foundation will become the blood, the body and bones of God's true son. As fallen men, we are like thieves robbing everything for our own blood, bones and skin.  This has to stop in this new era of living for God. The hobby business will be able to unite the original love in accordance with the highest turning point in history which is the blessing marriage of 3.6 million couples. The value of the arts continues to exist.  The hobby business is external because of this. Families should be fun as well. We are able to continue to live because of joy.  A hobby refers to certain conditions of joy. Fun is something that is possible to take root in the ideal love between a subject and an object partner. Have you ever been able to have fun all by yourself?  If you are able to do so, then you are out of your mind. There must be a subject of love.  God created everything in relationship within the realm of love. God created everything in order to be the fuel for the Subject of love.  This is why you must love all things of creation. We have come to live in an environment of pollution and contaminated food.   We need to create an environment where the individual can live with everything necessary to grow healthy. Five family members can do their own farming and eat the food you have worked to harvest. You will be able to grow your own vegetables and crops.  Otherwise the world will perish due to pollution. The time will come when the biggest issue is to develop the tourism industry. The distribution channels of the tourism industry will move quickly and circulate all the time. It will expand to stretch to include all places.  Everything is being prepared for the distant future to make all of this possible for a better world. When you think that one hundred years ago, our ancestors and forefathers were dreaming of a world where it was easier to go from either side of the the country or world and to be able to take care of themselves with better medicine. What we dream will be the norm in a hundred years as well, but we have to put in the work of recreation of this world. Unfortunately, there are not many people who have such a futuristic way of thinking. Return for Tomorrow's Post: Why Did God Create Night/Day, Seasons? This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seong Gyeon, Book 12, Chapter 2, Section 2

How Do we Experience Spirit World?

The spirit world and the present time

What stage have we come to in history?

We are living in the time where the spiritual and physical world will be linked on the global level.

Unification does not take place quietly, but rather both heaven and earth are shaken.

The world tried to stop God from achieving it in a bitter struggle, but He won.

The satanic world can no longer accuse God directly.  Satan may still accuse our ancestors in the spirit world for their wrongdoings, but not God for the situation of the world.

In addition, all the spirits in the spirit world will be mobilized to drive satanic forces from the earth.

The spirit world will guide people to believe in our way.

Jesus, and other great religious leader, and our own ancestors will come to them and push people spiritually through punishing them if they do not to do the will of God.

The spirit world will bring together everything that was divided until now.

A new movement will be initiated that binds together all the divisions of the world today through heart.  It will be a movement that brings together the world representatives based on the standard that is above racial differences to unite their hearts.

Therefore, when spirit world is united and makes contact with the physical world, a light will shine forth and a worldwide movement will begin.

Until now, the East and the West had different spirit worlds.

Then how was it possible to unite them? Through love.

I brought together people from East and West and formed races and tribes centered on God's love through the joint weddings of the Unification Church. I have laid the groundwork on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. Heaven and the spirit world are completely depending on us.

The future age

Among new members who recently joined the church, there are those who had spiritually met me and were guided by me.  Such people may become kings or presidents in the foreseeable future -- we don't know when and how. 


There are so many people like this throughout the world.

You see the number of people who talk to themselves increase in countries like the US.


The entire spirit world will swoop down upon the earth. Then, who will take supreme command?  It is my responsibility.  The time will come when you can never appear before me beating around the bush. The gate of the spirit world is completely opened up. I will be waiting in front of the gate when such a person comes and I will throw him out, asking, "Why have you come here?"

Now, we will enter the era when we can manage the world professionally.

There are many people in the world that will perform all kinds of things in my place, though God is not forcing them to do so. Some fly in the air while others walk on water. There are many people who cross infinite distances instantaneously. There will be a time for me to call them from the Himalayas and the world of Tao. 


Have you wondered if the world will ever be united into a beautiful world of peace?

God's authority spreads out and anything that is unable to respond to the ideal of love in the history of restoring the world to God will come to naught.  Then we will enter into a new world.

This is my worldview of an extrasensory era hereafter and only love can bring it into reality. 



Once you love something in the extrasensory world, you will simply try to hold onto it. You would try to go beyond your natural limitations. Therefore, we are entering a global era when that can be welcomed on a level only by God's love.

I came to know these things in my prayer. There is something you do not know. I may appear to be unaware of everything because I do not explain much to you, but in fact I know everything.



Since the fall, evil spirits have been doing their will through fallen humanity.  We now live in the era where we are to completely dominate the spirit world while we are in our physical bodies.

Since I know everything about the spirit world and possess the truth and my own body, both Satan and the angelic world must completely surrender to me. Spiritually enlightened Buddhists and Christians, therefore, must surrender to me as well.  When clairvoyants are willing to die at my command, then we accomplish the substantial realm of perfection and open the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. 

When such a world is created, what more will we have to do?

We are living in the time where people wonder "How did that happen?  Why did I do that?"

Spiritual experiences are also necessary

Go about praying tearfully.

"I cannot go back with this face.  I cannot go back as I am. I cannot go back even if I may die.  This would be more miserable than death."

If you have many spiritual experiences while you pray, then you will be resurrected.

With this heart, you can go forth and think that God will surely help you.  You should be able to feel his heart in everything that you say and teach.

His heart must come before your own words, not behind.

Therefore you must always be humble.

When you go back without a word, you will feel God's heart in front of you.

Why is that?

It will pull you forward at the time.  While you are in this position, you will be able to educate a crowd no matter how many people there are.

When you reach the state where something unknown teaches you everything and you are mystified by what comes out of your mouth, you will feel in tune with your spoken words.  In this state, any movements you make or facial expression during your speech will feel normal.

If you experience such things while you work this dispensation, only then will the movements of life take place.

To experience spirit world means to communicate with the world of the fourth dimension.  When you do this, you can connect with, communicate with or counsel sages and patriots that lived thousands of years ago.

You will feel them directly within the sphere of time in your actual life.

The course of spiritual experience

We as people of faith are set up to worship God as the center, but our own position is unclear.

Where should we look for that position?

Even though we establish God as the subject partner, we really do not feel this.

We do not clearly distinguish spiritual things clearly as we perceive things with our five physical senses; things we see.

When we consider from where we should begin approaching this problem, we understand that we do not start by looking at the subject partner.

We do not start by looking at God Himself.

We should begin looking into ourselves first to that end.  We each have a mind and body.  Although we have both a mind and body, we need to seek within ourselves for this position.  Only when we center everything on our mind, should the examination be carried out.

When we observe fallen people today, whether there are a thousand or ten thousand, will we see that their minds are the same?

Even though the root may be the same, the minds differ depending on the nature of emotions that we feel.

With heaven as the subject partner, we can stand as the object partner.  God has given us the foundation to respond to Him as His object partner, therefore, within the mind there must be a standard for the mind to link to God.

That direction surely exists.

When you look at a horizontal line, it looks like a plane, but when it is perpendicular, the standard will be different for that line.

You have to adjust to the zero point or there will be a counter action.  In a power plant there are different types of meters.

Each meter has something that is similar to the zero point which direction, power and quantity are measured.

There has to be a zero point standard.

This standard exists yet it does not or it is something that does not exist yet it does.  There is such a place.

Those who practice Zen meditation used the word ecstasy to refer to a state of mind that is similar to that. You should approach the spiritual level of this kind.

Once you can reach that standard, you will find something that would surely enable your horizontal standard to respond to that same level.

We have a gate in our mind called the mind's gate which does not open in one direction.  Since our minds rotate, the gate moves as well.  If we do not go through such a gate, we will not be able to establish a true relationship with God or heaven.

When you pray, you get a different feeling depending on the time of your prayer.  When you pray at one o'clock it is different from prayer at thee o'clock.  You will understand this fully when you experience it yourself.

When you pray deeply and in a mysterious state, you will know that your prayers are different depending on when you pray.

What you feel in the morning, at noon, in the early evening, and at night are all different.

The level of our feelings within our state of mind differs in the same way as our physical senses respond to the changes of the four seasons.

This is how it is in the real of our mind.

You should know when is the best time to pray for you, because that time will be the degree of your response to God is the greatest.  When you delve into that sphere, you will then find the gate.

When the gate of God and the gate of mind become perfectly one and revolve around a certain standard, you will find the path to fully experience what God is feeling.

How will you reach this state?

You will cultivate your mind to do so.

Some religions expanded to align their standards with God's providence and others are in step with Satan.

Since religions are intermixed, it is extremely difficult to tell the good from the bad, the false from the true.  This is the same for the realm of the mind.  There are good minds and at the same time there are evil minds.

There are good minds and at the same time there are evil minds.

Your mind may think that you are good, but that thought in itself is not good.  We are formed as a result of the Fall.

There are some whose minds are influenced more by the evil realm of Satan and others by goodness, but we are all born from the Fall, nonetheless.

Then what is of utmost importance?  How you set the gate to your mind is the most important matter in your life of faith.  Therefore, always be alert to those times when the gate of the mind opens and how to tune to God's gate when you walk this path.

Always be prepared to do this.

You need to always have the mindset to seek and adjust your mind to God at any given time in your daily life.

Always be aware of the depth of your mind and try to open the gate of your mind.

Then try to adjust to where the gate of heaven is located.

This is the most precious thing to do in your life of faith.  When you come to stand as a true object, you will experience three-dimensional feelings you have never felt before.

You may have only felt a wintry sensation, but when you reach unity with God's gate, you will also feel autumn, summer and spring as well.

This is because the universe rotates and is in our mind.  Our mind rotates just like the planets which cause the four seasons.

The realm of the mind in motion will naturally allow us to feel the changing degrees of sensitivity.

There are four seasons in a year, however, a day is a year in miniature.

There are four seasons in a day: the morning corresponds to spring, the noon to summer, the early evening to fall and the night to morning which corresponds to spring.

Also, in the morning you can experience, spring, summer, autumn and winter kind of feelings just during the morning.

Our mind is like this.

In other words, the feelings that our mind creates are not fixed.

You should, therefore, you should know how to discern what the present time corresponds to by having a variety of experiences through an abundant life of prayer.

You can understand lessons from a bird that flies away from a beautiful house when you reach such a state of unity with God's mind.

Such phenomena will start to take place in your daily life regularly and the number of these suggestive conditions will increase.

You will derive insight into something as you happen to overhear conversations.  Such experiences will increase.

We may have thought of these as signs or warnings coming by chance, but this is coming from spirit world.

Once you have passed this stage, you will experience revelations in your dreams, and not just during your sleep.

Saint Paul experienced the third heaven when he was have awake or what is deemed as REM.

Compile and analyze the data scientifically to see what the message is these experiences and don't let them pass you by inadvertently.

These revelations that you can hardly forget will turn out true 100 percent in reality.

You will have such experiences.

When you connect to people or things during your half-awake and sleep state, you will see in reality.  This means that your mind has entered a realm where it resonates with the spirit realm like a tuning fork.  When you have such experiences, regard them as precious.

What happens next?  As God exists, where will he appear?  He will appear through your mind.

You haven't experienced this because your mind is not firmly established and you are people who are being dragged around by your body's fallen desires instead of by your good mind.

Once you establish your mind it will form a higher dimension of character that declares it to be another subject.

When you reach this higher level through prayer, you will start talking with your mind.

You state of resonance or tuning fork will be at a higher level and you will physically hear what you are saying in your mind.

During the first stage a hint or suggestion in your daily life will be given.

As believers we should collect these amounts of facts.




Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Crossing the Border to Victory


This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Five Chapter Three Sect 1. 

Role Sports Play Bringing World Peace

Who would have thought that sports could play in developing skills and bringing about world peace.  Who has ever given thought to this ideal?  When we look at sports in a different view point, it can become clear.

What type of sports is ideal to bring people from all different cultures and backgrounds together?  Basketball, golf, hockey, Rugby?  What type of sports and team activities could have such a range that all people would come together and enjoy activities together just to experience the game?

Reverend Sun Myung Moon thought of many activities that seemed non-related to religion in hopes of bringing about a peaceful world.  Using the sport and excitement of soccer became a major cataclysm for bringing people from every age, country and religion through the common love of the high-spirited sport.

The following speech he gave before an enthusiastic crowd:


"In particular, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to those leaders participating in the 17th World Cup co-hosted by Korea and Japan, who are honoring this rally with their presence in spite of their busy schedules.

Today, the twelfth of June, is the thirteenth day of the World Cup. Soccer fever is heating up around the world. Each day, we see the drama of competition played out in the midst of upset and upheaval, joy and disappointment. In the midst of this, a celebration of friendship and excitement is unfolding that transcends race, ideology and national boundaries.

As we gather here today, we must think deeply about how to work through sports to bring peace to all humanity.


The Bible says, "Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God." 

Matthew 5:9 


Throughout my life, I have attended God in the context of religion, academia, media, culture, the arts, sports and other fields by putting these words of the Bible into practice in accordance with the will of Heaven.

My life of more than eighty years has been a continuous offering of sincerity and dedication for the establishment of God's will and His ideals of freedom and happiness and the realization of a world of peace.

As you are well aware, through its long history the world has tried to bring about peace by every possible means. But it is not a problem that can be solved by the political, economic or military power of any one country.

The fact is that there needs to be a fundamental truth, an ideology of peace, that can be applied to families, clans, peoples, nations, the world and even the cosmos.

The world of true ideals, true love, true life, true lineage and true peace is God's ideal of creation and is also the long-cherished desire of humankind. But when we speak of ideals, happiness, love and peace, we must begin by inquiring as to the origin of these.

Here, the fundamental truth is to be found in a life of serving, sacrificing, and living for the sake of one single reciprocal partner. The fundamental principle of the orderly existence of the universe, is that, like God, each and every being exists for the sake of other beings.

The omniscient God is the king of wisdom. By His wisdom, He created worlds of beings in such a way that subject and object partners have to live for one another in order to bring about true love, true happiness and true peace.

All beings are interconnected and possess dual purposes. At the center of each entity, there are dual purposes. There is the purpose relating to its internal character (sung sang) that seeks the good of the larger whole, and there is the purpose relating to its external form (hyung sang) that seeks the entity's own preservation and comfort.

 Exemplifying the internal purpose, the action of protons and electrons make it possible for an atom to exist. Atoms, as positively and negatively charged ions, form molecules. Nutrients composed of such molecules make it possible for plants to grow. As plants multiply, they provide food for animals.

Also, oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between animals and plants. Bees and flowers coexist with each other. If we observe the heavenly bodies, we see that the sun and its planets engage in a give and take action that allows the planets to revolve around the sun at a precise distance while maintaining their own rotation.

Early in my life, I realized that there is a fundamental truth of the universe: all beings exist for the sake of others.

This truth applies everywhere, so when applied to the parent-child relationship, true parents come to be and true sons and daughters come to be.

It is an undeniable truth that the state in which parents and children can achieve happiness comes about only when the family members live for the sake of each other. Existing for the sake of others is a fundamental principle of the universe. Only when we stand on this principle can we complete all happiness, all peace, all ideals and all love.

If we expand the principle of living for the sake of others, we can transcend nations and ethnicity and bring about a world of peoples who live for the sake of others. Without a doubt, such a world would be the world of perfect true love, true ideals, true peace and true happiness that humanity has long hoped to achieve.

If we hold onto the principle of living for the sake of others, we can go anywhere." SMM


When you practice a life of true love and live for the sake of others while on earth, you will receive God's blessings for eternity.  You will discover then that there is no happiness greater than this.  This is because God is the central being to heaven and earth.

We must understand the importance that by living for the sake of another person, we take on the central position of that environment.  Then because it is central, that being has the capability to develop a unified environment and a world of peace.

Today, there are many religions with many different scriptural texts. But their core teachings all boil down to the words, "live for the sake of others."

What are the characteristics of a true religion, a religion of love, a religion of ideals and happiness that can lead people to peace?

You already know the answer: the religion that says it will sacrifice itself for the sake of the individual, for the sake of the family, for the sake of the clan, for the sake of the people, for the sake of the nation, for the sake of the world, for the sake of heaven and earth and for the sake of God is a true religion, an ideal religion, a religion that can lead the world's people to peace and happiness.

The terms peace and happiness can only arise in the context of a reciprocal relationship.  No one can experience true happiness alone?  Isn't this true?  Would anyone wish to spend their whole birthday or anniversary alone in their room all day without even one warm word?

Knowing this, the conclusion is that the happiness of the entire universe begins when each individual's makes an effort to unify.  This point is where peace and ideals begin and are connected.

We see the evidence that humans working on their own has not been able to create peaceful ties between a people and nations.  Why is this so?  Because fallen individuals only seek out concerning their own benefit.  They use each other for their own purposes and advancement.  Every person chases after his or her own interests and then accumulates as much material good as possible.  Isn't this true to some extent among you and the people in your lives?

Even scholarly and successful members of the government, those highly-respected in their communities and people in leadership positions scramble to increase their own power and interests.  This has been the basis of everyone's lives.  In this kind of environment where each individual lives only for their own sake, conflict will never cease.

We can look at how living for one self goes against the basic principles just by observing our own body.  Did the eye come into existence so that it could live for itself?  What about the mouth?  No, each was created in order to have a reciprocal partner.  The ear came into being so that it could hear for the sake of the whole body.

What about the nose or our hands?  In fact, men's and women's sexual organs were not created for the man and woman themselves.  Instead, the husband's sexual organ was created for the sake of his wife and the wife's sexual organ is for her husband.


This is where peace begins:

The point where each person lives for the sake of another.  A mother's very body is structured so that is serves others and not her own purpose.  Her breasts are for the nourishment of her children.  Her body is for the sake of her husband and children.

Reverend Moon continues his speech about the importance of linking sports to peace:

"Throughout our lives, my wife and I have worked together in many different areas to bring about one peaceful world, a world in which people live for the sake of others.

Representative examples of this are the interreligious, international, inter-NGO activities and education of both ruling party and opposition party that we are conducting in order to bring down the barriers of race, religion, national boundaries and language.

Another is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, which promotes the true family movement and pure love movement.

In the academic field, efforts in the higher education and practice of the philosophy of peace are being made at the University of Bridgeport in the United States and Sun Moon University in Korea.

In the media field, The Washington Times in the USA, The Segye Times of Korea and Sekkai Nippo in Japan, and other media organs throughout North and South America, have created a network.

This soon will expand to 185 countries and contribute greatly toward bringing the world's people together.

This is a rally of leaders in the world of soccer. Soccer fever is sweeping Korea and Japan and the entire world has come together in a festive atmosphere.

Ultimately, though, the proper way for world of sports is that the Olympics and the World Cup should guide the world's people along the way of reconciliation and peace. Occasionally, there is cause for concern over money and power combining to contaminate the pure spirit of athleticism.

It is necessary to examine carefully whether salaries offered top players are excessive and whether wealthy parties are engaging in unethical speculative or monopolistic practices.

In an effort to contribute toward world peace through sports, I have invested in the development of soccer in Korea by founding the Il Hwa professional soccer team some time ago and more recently, I had Sun Moon University begin a soccer team. In Brazil as well, we are managing the CENE and Sorocaba professional soccer teams.

My interest in the management of soccer teams goes beyond business pursuits. My first priority is to teach sportsmanship to young people of the university soccer teams, so that they can be trained to join professional teams and contribute to world peace through sports.

It is well known that soccer began in England. It was developed at Eton College, a school for the sons of aristocrats, where, in addition to knowledge, physical fitness was considered an important quality for leaders.

Because of the importance of teamwork in soccer, however, it did not take long for soccer's popularity to grow beyond the aristocracy and encompass the larger society.


Soccer Follows the Principle

Even if one player is exceptionally skillful, it is still difficult for a team to win unless the other members can back up this individual. The ball is round and can roll this way or that, but the ball is honest and it rolls where a player kicks it. There is a principle of purposeful community underlying the game of soccer.

In this game, there is no way for established powers to use trickery to preserve their own position. Neither is there an order according to which teams are allowed to score goals. In soccer, it does not matter whether a country is large or small, strong or weak. Goals are scored honestly, bringing joy and happiness to everyone.

In soccer, there is only the energetic communal harmony that comes from team play.

Soccer and other sports, as well as the entirety of leisure culture, have developed over a long period of time. Sports were originally created in order to create strong bodies and maintain safe societies. Today, they have developed globally and bring enjoyment and enrichment to the lives of billions of people.

So, it is important that we seek ways by which sports can contribute to the achievement of peace for all the world's people.

The world stands at the dawn of a new millennium. Astonishing developments in information technology are bringing the ideal of one world family into reality. On the other hand, it is also true that the world faces a moral crisis with the danger that spiritual values will be destroyed.

We must look to sports for constructive proposals on how to overcome hedonism and self-centered values among young people.

Sports employ rules to insure fair competition. Thus defined, competition differs from conflict; the two exist on different levels. Conflict appears in the savage and bloodthirsty law of the jungle by which animals live.

Here, one side uses physical and military strength to negate the other side's existence and annihilate him. Competition in sports is different from this. Rules are established, the winner is decided in accordance with these rules, and each side acknowledges the other.

A gentlemanly spirit governs sports. As large numbers of people watch, the athletes demonstrate the attitude of fair play and sportsmanship as they compete based on their talents, abilities and strength.

They follow the laws and rules that have been agreed upon, and they submit themselves to fair judgment by the referees.

Fair play is considered the most important aspect of the game. It requires obeying laws and following the rules. Breaking the rules and committing fouls result in the loss of points, expulsion from the game and the eventual loss of the privilege of participation.

The offending players are punished. Athletes pour out all their energy, sincerity and courage for the sake of the victory and glory of the individual and his or her country. The victorious players receive a crown of laurels, a gold medal and a bouquet of flowers.

They are congratulated with thunderous applause and their national anthem is played as their country's flag is raised. Such a ceremony brings the height of emotion, the ultimate glory and a celebration for us all.

The virtue of sports is when the loser does not dwell on his own disappointment, but applauds the accomplishment of the winner.

In sports, there is the beautiful fragrance of friendship and love among like-minded people. The beauty of the players appears when they demonstrate sportsmanship. They must work hard, shed sweat and tears and achieve incredible standards of skill. They must be trained in the virtues of fairness, proper order and etiquette.

The realm of sports has made large contributions to modern society. It has contributed to our physical and mental health and has provided excitement through skillful play. The love of sports can transcend religious dogma and political ideology.

All people can become one through sports, so sports can spread a banquet of reconciliation and peace, where the hearts of all the world's people can come together as one.

Though the Cold War has ended, the world is yet unable to throw off its common yoke of suffering. As the September 11 tragedy demonstrated, the world is in agony over conflict and strife between religious and ethnic groups.

In addition, the world's natural environment is being destroyed. Young people who are to be responsible for the future are becoming cynical, fascinated with materialism and hedonism, falling prey to drugs and abandoning civil norms.

In order to solve these problems, we need to graft the authentic spirit of sports onto a foundation of the truth that teaches us to live, like God, for the sake of others, and we need to put this spirit and truth into practice. In this way, we will be able to build a world of harmony, peace and unification.

For this reason, I am happy to announce the establishment of the Sun Moon Peace Cup. The Sun Moon Peace Cup is the Cup of the Sun and the Moon, the Cup of the Parents of Heaven and Earth and the Cup of Peace. May it shine forever with the light of pure love.

The Sun Moon Peace Cup is different from existing trophies, for they exclude God, emphasize entertainment and idolize celebrity. We must know God and the spirit world thoroughly. We must walk the path of truth.

The Sun Moon Peace Cup will be a festival. It will bring together efforts toward the original world of God's ideal in the fields of religion, science, politics, economics and sports, including the unique contributions of women and youth.

In it, people will express their desire for humanity to come together as one large family. It will serve as a particularly important starting point for our progress toward the ideal of true peace centering on God's true love, transcending barriers between races, countries, ethnic groups, religions and ideologies.

The Sun Moon Peace Cup will not only celebrate a healthy spirit of humanity. As our spiritual nature continues to develop, it will become a festival of internal and external reconciliation and harmony within the world community.

It will be a place where people unite in one mind, as one family, and in one heart, to open the way toward God's ideal of creation, a world of peace, freedom and happiness. I want to inform you that Pele has already promised to work with me for this great cause.

I would like to ask FIFA, Pele Promotion and everyone here to take a leading role and contribute significantly toward the development of the Sun Moon Peace Cup. I pray that God's love and blessing will flow abundantly upon you and your families. Thank you."


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Seven Principles for Loving Relationships


This text was rewritten and taken from the speech: The Role of Sports in Creating World Peace give n by
Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon
June 12, 2002
in Seoul, Korea

Harmony Arises in The Presence of Love

"It is nice just to think about love, to see it and to taste it. That is how love is.  Love is the coming together of East and West, of North and South. It is the coming together of heaven and earth." 

Love takes the form of a sphere.  True love is at the center of the vertical and the horizontal connecting the two.  How enraptured would a person's lips look when they smile as they give into the power of true love?

How beautiful would the five senses be when they are enraptured in true love and harmony as they move toward God?  God doesn't become joyful through beauty by Himself.

God can only experience beauty through another whom He relates.  This is why He created human beings.  God wanted to travel the world of the human heart more than He desired to create the heavens and earth.

Even God breathes.  He breathes true love. 

God keeps up with the eternal universe centering on true love.  Only when you reach this level of love can you enter the realm of God's breath and live forever.

The universe, the sun and the earth are all round.  What do all round-shaped things center upon?  Do they become round on their own?  They only become round based on a relationship with another object.  The world is a living, existing entity.  A substantial entity that continues based on the realm of circular relationships.

Then, what is the origin that forms this circular relationship?

The motion of love is the original source of this harmony.  When you pull only one hair on someone's head, the whole body moves toward that pulling force.  Love is the same way.  When you pull on love, the universe pulls toward the force.

Love is like a nerve. 

When you move love, the whole universe moves in accordance with it.  We as humans were created to be enraptured with something outside of ourselves.  When one is enraptured by another, they are truly happy.

Artists are taken by art, literary artists by the books they write or by reading great masterpieces they have read.  Such people can be said to be happy people.

This is the same with our Heavenly Father.  We should be enraptured by the multi-dimensional ideal love of God and follow only Him.

What is the most precious thing sought after by man and woman?

It is love.

Love is something that people like forever, and God does too. Love is what the whole universe likes most of all, and forever. 

Although it is invisible, love is the most precious treasure on earth. 

Love is the most valued because of its unchanging nature.  Gold is precious because of its unchanging color, a diamond is precious because of its unchanging hardness, and a pearl is precious because of the unchanging harmony of its colors.

However, these precious treasures do not have life in them. True love, on the other hand, is a treasure that has life, and is therefore more precious than all of them.

There are two types of love.  There is the false, self-centered love and there is true love that originated from God's being.  We are only speaking about this true love as false love is opposite, not everlasting, centered on circumstances and does not include God.

Everyone likes love. Ultimately, through love we come to love more and more. 

Love flows into the hearts of individuals, into the heart of a family, into the heart of a people. It flows everywhere. And wherever it flows, everyone welcomes it. There is no way to block love. Everyone wants something higher, don't they? 

God created people to relate with one another through the power of love.

For a person who moves and breathes with the universe while connected through the ties of love does not need formalities when they arrive at the palace of God.  This person can come and go to the inner sanctuary where God resides and call on him.  God will answer, "Oh, my child, you are here!".

God dreams of this day.

But what is the problem of the human world that prevents all of humanity from enjoying this day?  It is love.  Whether love shines and burns brightly.  For love to burn bright, that light must burn internally and externally.

Then what should cause love to burn?

Simple.  It burns from the desire to love.  When we look at our purpose of life, then we realize that when we deal with mundane affairs in our life that its just a stopping point upon our journey to reach a higher place than our situation now.

Where is God? 

If God is omnipresent, this means that He is not in one location.  He is wherever true love is.  Then, based on this love He becomes omnipresent.

Did you know you and I can become omnipresent when we make love our central focus?  We can enjoy this privilege when we possess love.  The word equality does not have meaning without love being present.  Genuine equality is only possible when people live for the sake of others centering on love.

Through love, a man and a woman can be on equal footing and a mother can be on equal footing with her son even if he is the nation's president. We must realize this. 

Through love, man and woman can stand on equal footing and a mother can be equal to her son even if he is the president of the nation.  We must realize this fact.  God created humankind to be the center of all things of creation.

Then, what is at the center of human beings?

True love.

God's love produces a vertical line.  For heaven and earth to be set up, man and woman also need to create lines of love;the woman's goes to the man and the man's goes to the woman.

All things that possess love can have equal status. 

This is how the principle of the universe works:

The lines of love create a circle which rotates.  When a man and a woman appear with true love, it is perfected love with a negative charge.  When this perfected and true negatively charged love is formed, God's positively charged vertical love automatically is present.

You can only form a reciprocal relationship with the universe when you practice love.  Without love, this reciprocity cannot exist.  Love can be abundantly and fully put in motion without resistance because it is gentle and humble.

Anything that is gentle, humble and sacrificial it can relate with anything and anyone and can go anywhere without resistance.

The key to work without resistance is by living for the sake of others, sacrificing for others and serving others.  Why must we do this?   We do this in order to prepare and perfect our spiritual body's respiratory organs which we use to breathe love in the second life of the spirit world.

All beings that have the ability to reproduce come together in twos in order to multiply.  Love is the ingredient that brings about harmony in the process of reproduction.  This principle is true for the multiplication of all living things in the natural world.

Even when we think about water there is a female water and a male water.  Fish do well in areas where these two waters mix;many fish live well where cold and warm water mix.  This is ideal.  There must be harmony in this ideal.

The birds living in the north fly south to raise their young, and the birds living in the south fly north to raise theirs; this migrating back and forth follows a rhythm. Since they were born there, the birds return to the place of their birth to have their young. 

Fish living in cold water lay their eggs in warm water and fish living in warm water can only lay their eggs in cold water. A harmonious unity of yin and yang must be established. That is why they migrate. 

Love can only be achieved with a relationship with a partner.  Even God who is love, has no way to experience love by Himself.

Love cannot be realized without finding a partner.

During the creation process, it was an effort to place an absolute object partner that could qualify to reciprocate love to the absolute Creator God.  What is God's absolute object partner in love?

You and me?  We are the masterpieces of creation fashioned so that even God can find love in which He longs for.  

When you catch the intoxication of the love of God, you would never become bored by His creation even if you were to intimately stare at a grain of sand or flower for thousands of years.


We we realize that we were born in a universe of love we can become infinitely happy.

Yet when we look at the situation today, we do not find much happiness.  We lost the ideal which God originated since the beginning of creation.  We have walked away from the principles to become true object partners in front of God.

True love is not something that can be forced; it is willingly expressed. 

When you are actively loving someone, do not do so with the intention to receive.  Ideal love is only realized through the action of giving and receiving.

Love is something that even if it is not there, it feels as if it is, and even when it is, it feels as if it is not. Love operates like a mysterious mirage in all shapes and forms, which are good when you think they are bad and bad when you think they are good.

If love was visible and could be touched, pictured and its form could be realized by anyone, you would be bored with love in less than a day.

True love perfects the ideal of unity in the universe. 

Even if you were to gaze upon a great masterpiece, if you can't find love within it, you will spit it out.  This same principle is true between husband and wife.

Why do humans like love the most?  Because love is the subject that unites everything and makes it our own.  People cannot fathom how good love is.

Bees concentrate so intently on getting the nectar in the flowers. Their heads are thrust into the flower and their abdomens stick up in the air. You cannot pull them out even with a pair of tweezers. 

Love brings things into oneness, so just like parents love their children, the more one loves the more love increases.  A person who is one with God through love will never be separated from the love of God.  What the purest form of love this is!

Have you ever observed a bee going from one flower to the next?  The bee concentrates so intently on getting nectar from each flower.  Their heads enter the flower and their abdomens are exposed to the air.  You cannot pull the bee away from the flower.

If you tried to pull them apart you would have to pull so hard that their abdomen comes off.  The bees will not come out of the bud because the nectar in the flower tastes so intoxicating.  If nectar tastes this good, what about the taste of true love?

Which is more intense, the taste of love or the taste of honey?  As a part of God's creation, honey tastes purely sweet but love is even greater.

Love Unifies

Words alone will not unite two different people into one.

If these two people are united around material goods, as soon as the material good disappear they will quickly separate.  Then what is needed to unite them?  Even if a third person appears and unites them, when this person disappears they will separate.  Then what is necessary to join two people together as one eternally?

Without love, unity cannot be attained.  There must be love.

Love has the power to unite even our five senses.  For example, an old man may smell bad to everyone else, but to his wife his smell is sweet and pleasant.  If the old man's hands and face are skin and bones or sagging, his wife will like his face and hands.  Love makes it so.

When the wind of love blows, the whole world seems beautiful. Everyone becomes a poet or a romantic when he or she falls deeply in love. 

The Schizandra berry is sour and bitter to taste, but is really a blend of five different taste.  It may taste strange at first, but after you swallow it you want more.  The taste of love is similar to that of the Schizandra berry.

"A flowing love that embraces the spring and has still more to give in reserve, a love that melts the snow and thaws the ice in a cold winter -- infinite love, immeasurable in height or width -- should form a bond with us and never leave us. It should take its place in the core of our being." SMM

Without love, we cannot find anything of value in the world. 

When you feel such a love pumping inside of us, you can even compete with the universe.  If one has absolute love in the center of his heart which is love that is the same from beginning to the end, he or she can compete with the massive universe even though he is merely one individual.

Even when we look at a piece of grass we must do so from this standpoint. When we look at a flower we should relate with it while embodying the heart of God.  When we look at insects, birds and all kinds of animal creatures we should connect our inner feelings and the heart of God.

If you live with the love of God inside of your heart, you are the son and daughter of God.  The central figures of the universe are such as this who are able to govern heaven and earth.  Love is the main element that enables people to attain this position.

Did you know that your mind can expand larger through the heart more than through infinite knowledge?

A heart of love is so big that it can even embrace the universe.  Once we develop this original and mighty domain, even God would want to settle and take naps here.  Since we are not able to embrace God through our knowledge, we should see how great a heart of love is.

Love transcends the five different races of humankind and draws no distinction between black, white or yellow races.  

Love transcends all national borders, for God's love knows no boundaries.

That is why the love of God is great. 

When love flows despite the environment where it flows from, the environment adapts to this flow and will develop.

What can please God the best?

God will only be pleased when we adopt this perspective to make this a reality in our lives.  This is why we must walk this path of love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Nature of Love

This text was rewritten from the textbook: Cheon Seong Gyeong 

Book Three - True Love
Chapter One - What Is True Love?