Family is Training Ground of Heart

If there is a wealthy family, then what kind of fortune should the one in the child's position receive?  They should be able to inherit the fortune of the grandparents and the parents.

Why do you think we need grandparents?

We need grandparents because they represent the living history of the past, the ancestors in history who lived before.  Everyone has at least one childhood memory of loving their grandparents, hearing their stories and spending time to get to know the history of the family lineage.

The parents represent the present and the children are symbolic of the future.

Children are also the center of the whole.  The center of grandparents, the center of parents, the center of God are all founded on true love.

Thus, when you love and respect your grandparents, it means to learn to inherit all the past.  Through loving your father you learn from the present.  Through loving children you learn about the future.

So, what does one inherit from their grandfather and grandmother, and father and mother?  You inherit true love.

Although your grandfather and grandmother are old, they united in true love.  Your mother and father are united.  You should be like them and inherit the future.

But, we cannot inherit the future unless we become a true family.

When we take a look at the three generations, it is like looking at the universe.

The love of the universe resides in the true family that represents the present and future.

The Family is a Model for the Heavenly Kingdom

When we observe the animal world, we see that male and female animals love each other.  This is a textbook from which we learn about the love of the universe.

Without a grandmother and a grandfather, we feel unstable.  It is only with them that we can move straight into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Grandparents, mother, father and children will all go to the Kingdom of Heaven.  The model and textbook for all of this is the true family that is centered on God's love.  We see that this is opposite of the current families where separation, divorce, fights, selfishness and destruction is at the very core.

Those who loved the true grandparents, the true parents, the true children, the true family, nation,world and true universe will automatically go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

We can think of the ideal family as a type of educational material that teaches us how to establish the Kingdom of heaven.

A person who loves his grandfather has a model to love all the people of his grandfather's age in the world as their own flesh and blood.  If he loves the people of his parents' age as his own, he will be able to travel freely throughout all the nations.

If he thinks of the young people of all nations as his own sons and daughters, he will be able to travel freely within the Kingdom of Heaven even though there are twelve pearly gates and directions.

A person who loves people in the world as his own family will have no boundaries even when he goes to the spirit world.

Therefore, the family is a textbook which shows us how to make a connection with the Kingdom of Heaven.

When you apply this principle to the national level, then you will become a patriot.

When you apply it to the world, you will be a saint. When you practice it in heaven and earth, you will become God's children, or holy sons and daughters.  People have such a desire.

You should become a person who can embrace all the sons and daughters of every race as well as their grandsons and granddaughters.

In this way, you should stand in the position to become the owners of the family who with true parents love, and love the people of the world with true love.

When you stand in the position to represent the family that practices true love connected to the original parents through God's love, you finally enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Family Brings Together the Love of Three Generations

The family encompasses the whole of history, the present and the future.

What is the ultimate point that God has sought for six thousand years?  It is the true family where love is interconnected and where all are united in love.

Everything that exists comes under love's dominion.

We cannot cut our relationship with this absolute source of love.

Adam and Eve's original mission was to establish such a true family.  They were not just to end up as man and woman, but instead as God dreamed of a new family where they would be united.  This is the first starting point towards establishing men and women.

Thus to be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven safely, you have to find a family and within the realm of that family in this world, enter and live in a place where you can feel satisfied in God's love.

Only then can you go beyond this world as well.

In order to form the family realm of love you have to be unconditional. 

Parents represent the past, the husband and wife represent the present while the children represent the future.

To love one's partner during your lifetime is the equivalent to God loving the world.

It is where the oneness of parents, a couple, and the children offer their love that represents heaven and earth.

With this as a foundation, they would tell their descendants to follow them.  The original homeland of the heart, the place where heavenly affection is felt will be remembered in heaven and earth.

What do you think that God would be looking for up until now?

He has not been seeking a subject partner, rather He has been looking for an ideal object partner.

He has searched for those who resemble God and possess the inner and outer aspects of the world He created.  The starting point would be the family.

The best representative of the universe is family. 

To be one with the parents is the same as the past and the present meeting.

At that point, you can love the past by loving your parents, love the present through loving your partner and love the future by loving your children.

Therefore, you can deeply experience the love of three generations within the realm of the family.

This is the placed where the three kinds of love are concentrated within the family.

The Kingdom of Heaven begins in the family.  It does not unfold anywhere else.

That is all the Kingdom of Heaven is:  it is a 3-D extension of the family and not something that goes beyond the family realm.  Therefore, when you embrace your husband or wife, you should think that this is a man of the world becoming one with a woman of the world.

The place where you make a condition to love all of mankind begins in no other place but within the relationships of the family unit.

Therefore it makes sense that the world's problem began with the first family, therefore, all of the problems of society can be remedied within the family.

You should live your life this way.

Loving your parents connects history with the present and paves a road for God to come to you.

Therefore, children should love their parents to connect the human beings of history with yourself as an inhabitant of the present, that is to unite the past and the present. 

Parents love your children centering on yourself to connect the present with the future.  A philosophy that practices and sings the praise of such a love for thousands of years is Unification Thought.

The Family is the Training Ground of the Heart

We cannot live separate from the heart.

Even if you are the president of a country or have global wealth or authority, you would not be able to live if you had no place to express your heartfelt joy.

Without the expression of heart, how can you feel the deepest satisfaction from the people who are under your command, office or the people who follow you?

You must feel it in your family.

You should be able to return home after a long day and feel joy through your spouse and children.  This is a primal joy.  It is the same with God.  You should be proud of this joy in front of others.

Even if God was to snap His fingers and restore the world, He would not be able to feel any joy if there is not a family centered on love to share His love.

Even though the Western trend is to abandon the family after a certain age, we need our families after all.

Parents are meant to be the head of the family and teachers should be the head of the educational institutions which represent society.

Parents assist your physical development as you grow up as well as help you emotionally.  Then why do we need school?

It trains us for life in society.

If family is the school where we learn the true basic emotions, then school is the experimental training ground of society.

But, society is not where this training ground ends.  It ends with the national level.  Once people have experienced everything from the family to the societal level, they go on to the next level.  The president is the fruit of the third stage after the formation and growth stages.

Today, many people complain about the president, but this attitude is learned within the family with children who dishonor and complain about their own parents.

A seed divides, sends roots down and a shoot up, then through circulatory action, growth begins.

After such division comes a synthesis when flowers and fruit are produced.

Schools raise the children needed by the nation through educating them to serve the nation. Training is not real life, but a preparation stage for the life they will live.

Therefore, you should not make the wrong preparations.

How do you describe a family unit?

Family is the training ground for the heart.  It is a place where you train your heart to love.  This is why you should live with affections like brothers and sisters at school and also live affectionately like brothers and sisters in a nation.

Proper parental education is needed at school, in society and also by the nation.

Parents should pass everything in the realm of heart on to their children. 

Parents should build a foundation of heart for their children through teaching them to follow their parents' rightful footsteps in living a certain way in the family, society and in the nation.

When you look at a family, it is not necessarily a good one just because you see that they have a good house and a good environment.

On the other hand, a family might have a bad environment, or a shabby house, if it offers peace and you are connected to all things in your life to it, then it is a good family.

This home has a foundation of heart where the parents and children live for the sake of each other.

This is the original homeland where memories and the source of motivation for all living begins.  Then it becomes the base to determine how much happiness we have in life.



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This post was rewritten and derived from True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 4, Chapter three

Three Stages of Judgement

"I humbly ask you to be the poor in spirit; I ask you to be the meek, and I ask you to become those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Then we will all see the Kingdom of Heaven, and we shall all be satisfied. Now let us begin."

Christians, and Christianity itself, have a final hill to cross.


The Bible prophesize about the end of the world and that we must face judgement of fire on the great and terrible day of the Lord.  On this day, we are to see many great phenomena as the end comes near.  Jesus promised the people that he was to return at this time.

Since the day Jesus ascended into heaven, Christians have been watching for his return to earth.  To this day, Christians are becoming tired of waiting for this extraordinary event to occur.  Some have decided that this even will not happen literally as they wait for this event to possibly clear away all the problems in the world automatically.  They came to think, "This is just one of God's methods to keep us alert and faithful."

Other religions also have predicted their own version of the end of the world.  Yet, no one can clearly define what this end of the world is going to be.  Each makes their own determination based on the denomination and religion they practiced.  There should be a universal understanding of this time when the Lord will reappear and bring his fire of judgement upon the earth.


God never created this world with the intentions to destroy it for any reason, but intended for the world of goodness to last forever.  How can we profess God is an almighty God, but then say this God will bring down a judgement upon his own children and destroy those who do not follow him and the earth He created?    He definitely did not create it to be weak enough to be destroyed by an archangel.

What is meant by 'the end of the world' in the bible is the end of the evil, satanic soverenignity which satan began.  God intended for a world of goodness to be established and remain forever, not evil.  His children became creatures of evil.  This is


Beginning of Judgement by Fire

Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden. They were not at that time in a position to have a full understanding of the will of God. 

In the beginning, God created everything and after creating woman, He said it was good.  Sin did not exist at this time.

God had instructed Adam and Eve to not eat of the fruit, which symbolized the sexual organs.  The WORD has been referred to many times in the Bible as fire.  This is the fire, the word, which Jesus is to bring upon his return in our time. The judgement of fire is God's word.  Adam and Eve were confronted with two opposite words.

The first was from God.  Obedience to God's word would have brought about a good world based on Adam and Eve's good family connected directly to God's lineage without any trace of sin.The other was from Lucifer who told them to eat so their eyes will be open and they could become their own god which brought about the fallen evil world.  When Adam and Eve were confused, they made the wrong choice.   God's good world ended at that moment they connected their sexual organs without God's consent.

Our first parents sowed seeds of evil.  Adam and Eve were to grow into maturity and then be blessed directly by marriage to God, yet satan stole them before their maturity and made an evil harvest.

We must become very clear about this so we ourselves will not repeat the fall in our own lives and return in the right direction.

The last days, the sheep and the goat will be separated.  The difference between these two animals are clear.  The sheep recognize they have a master and follow while the goat do not follow the shepherd.

Today the world is divided into two major camps: the democratic world which says, "There is a God' and the communist world which says "God does not exist".  In this time there is open immorality where unchaste love runs rampant.  Satan uses love as a weapon.

One must be equipped with a greater, more righteous love in order to conquer Satan.

Satan is always trying to trick people with cheap love. But heavenly love is beautiful and constructive in its sacrificial giving. Satan's love is unreliable and will last only a short time, but heavenly love is eternally unchanging.


Father Moon main core teaching is on how the misuse of love brought about this evil world.  He speaks deeply about it:

"America is facing the last days right now and we can see two extremes of love in this country: the carnal, dirty love of free sex and the deep rooted, heavenly love now being proclaimed by righteous people. Secular love and heavenly love are confronting each other here in America. As the scope of satanic love becomes greater there will be more destruction. Families will break up; people will become corrupted; life will become
miserable, and more people will commit suicide. But as heavenly love expands, our lives become richer.

There is a line of judgement separating these two worlds of love, and you must stand on either one side or the other. You can not be in both.

The last days is the time for dividing good and evil, which are becoming steadily more confused. Even the most faithful believer in Jesus or the most righteous church on earth cannot proclaim proudly that they are absolutely separated from Satan and sin and that they are following Jesus exactly as he would have them do.

No one can say they are living in perfect love in an ideal world with no suffering and tears. No church and no Christian could say such a thing.

This means that Satan exists within the churches as everywhere else; also, there is sin there as in the rest of the world. If this is true and if what church people love and hate is no different from what the rest of the world loves and hates, then there is very little difference between the world and the church. Which would Satan find more pleasure in the church or the world?

Satan likes the sins of the church more, because based upon them he can protest to God, "Look at those people in the church -- they don't love others; they even hate others! They are not faithful, either. This must be my church."

If the churches remain this way, they will decline into nothing at the time of the last days, along with the evil, secular world. This is the way of God; He will judge such churches before the judgement of the rest of society.

What really surprised me when I first came to America was the way Americans used the names of Jesus Christ and God as an exclamation -- not to praise them, but to put them in the worst position. I wondered what people meant when they said, "Jesus Christ!" and I realized that they were describing something bad.

What led to this kind of custom? What do the best words imaginable have to do with the worst things that can happen to people?

Have you sometimes observed that certain Christians may be worse than people of the secular world? Those who claim they believe in God may actually be worse than those who don't -- they are more egotistical, less loving and giving, etc.

The American nation is founded upon Judeo-Christian principles, yet Americans have become very individualistic. Was Jesus an individualistic person?

How did Americans come to be so egotistical and individualistic when Jesus had nothing of a self-centered nature? We can come to the simple conclusion that if people really believed in Jesus they would not have become like that.

Instead of believing in Jesus for Jesus' sake and for God's sake, some people believe in him for their own benefit. In other words, they use Jesus and God for their own sake. What do you think about this?"



Then, what does the end of the world mean? 

"Just what is going to end? Evil is going to end. God will put an end to all evil. Out of God's new beginning will come a new opportunity for the human race. And the goodness God intended in His original ideal can be made real.

What will Jesus do when he comes? Will he come to wipe out the world?

The word "judgement" is frequently misunderstood to mean that God will wipe out everything in anger. Wrong.  That is not the purpose of the Messiah's coming. The whole purpose is to fulfill the ideal that was left undone in the garden of Eden, to work for individual, family, social, national and world perfection. Judgement is the constructive work of God to see the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God here on earth.

In the garden of Eden Adam and Eve fell into evil instead of developing their goodness. They was subjugated by Satan and became the children of sin.

Therefore the Bible says, "You are of your father the devil". John 8:44

If the fall had not occurred, then the true ruler would be God. But He is not today the King of this universe, because Satan is sitting upon God's throne. God has to remove all results of the human fall before He can truly reign over the world.

Now, the end of the world is the moment in history when God ends this history of evil and begins His new age. It is the crossroads of the old history of evil and the new history of good."SMM


Three Stages of Judgement

In the Principle, there are three stages of judgment: judgment of the truth, judgment of character, and judgment of heart, because the fall violated these three things.

To teach this way of restoring the world back to its original position we must first teach ourselves.  The parents should first practice and then teach first.  We should be teachers of the Principle and not be caught BY the Principle.  We must become the embodiment of the Principle teaching.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your own pleasures.

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God?  

Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?  

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”

 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,and he will flee from you.Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:3-10


In order to  go through the restoration process of going fully back to God, we each must have a face-to-face battle with satan.  If we do not make a condition of indemnity to pay back the wrongs of the past, the satan will pull and say, "it is mine".  We must establish a foundation of faith and put His words into action in order to go back to God.

Because we were born with Satan's blood, we must take out our blood and throw it away. 

Religion teaches us to fast, to hit the body, do whatever it takes to bring the body into submission. and conquer it.  Satan uses the body to do his evil while God dwells in our mind.  Jesus' body was hit for our in.  Yet, he has returned to bring the word to bring humanity to complete salvation of the body, not just the spirit.

Then what did Jesus leave for us? He gave us his blood and flesh. You must become the person who represents Jesus.

In the past, when the followers of Jesus were praying to meet Jesus, they had to make effort for at least seven years, day and night.

Without doing that, they couldn't meet Jesus. However, in these days if you make effort for seven days, you can meet the Teacher. No matter what the problem may be, if you make effort for seven days with fasting,

The road that we walk based on the teachings of the Completed Testament, we must understand how har of a road, how much blood was shed to bring this truth to the earth.  Jesus had the knowledge o f the Completed Testament, but because his disciples could not understand the time of their visitation and could not understand the teachings of Jesus, he had to return to give it to the people of our time.

We must ultimately follow God through this course of indemnity, but not centered on ourselves.  We should raise our standard by doing fasting, prayer and conditions to separate us from the temptations of satan.

Among you, those who have finished 7-day fast, raise your hands. To those who did not experience one week fasting, you do not know the feeling on the seventh day, thirty minutes before midnight.

By experiencing a fasting condition, one can become connected closer to God and experience part of his suffering on the road to bring restoration to the world.  If we truly want to believe in the cross, we must substantially walk the road of the cross and  turn God's will and words into their daily actions.

Those who do not know the heart of God must stand as the incarnation of God.




Return for Tomorrow's Post: The Age of Godism

This post was rewritten and derived from the Judgement by Words and also from the Textbook Blessing and Ideal Family section "The Indemnity Condition for Receiving the Blessing"

Conscience Part II

The previous post spoke about how when we follow the original mind or the conscience, it will open up our spiritual awareness and give more infinite power and protection.  First we must decide, preferably at a young age, in which direction we are headed and where we would like to go.  This continues the list to help us awaken our mind and follow the way.


4) You Must Move Centering on the World of Heart


Your mind can settle in the deepest part of self when you are in the state of calmness or meditation.    You should be able to release and let your mind go into that part of yourself.  When you wake up in that deep place and do not let outside thoughts deter you, you can become sensitive.  When your spirit is concentrated, everything will be opened up.

Therefore, cultivating one's mind and prayer are necessary.

Just offering your devotion once is not the true way.  You should pray and sincerely devote yourself everyday - constantly devote yourself.  Even a good knife must constantly be sharpened or what will happen?  Just as you must always keep a knife sharp, you must keep yourself sharpened when you are upset or become angry.  This is the problem.  You must be able to grab and hold this calm place in your mind.

Again, we must determine our direction and should not have aimless thinking or start frivolous relationships which can hinder our path forward.  Catch this sense of direction and centered on this, follow that direction.  There is only one direction to follow.

Thus, you should always be prepared for this eventuality and maintain yourself properly.  Create a driving force that can support your goal every day.

You will not be able to do this alone.

At the age of 18 you were able to find out who your inner man was and it is easy to become subconscious about yourself.  For this, you need the strength of friends, teacher or the power of God to make it through these revelations of yourself.


"I am also very serious when I am about to carry out a global project that goes beyond my ability. When greater ability is required in order to do something, the problem is where to get this from. If I cannot bring it, I have to retreat -- but I cannot do that.

Therefore, prayer is needed. We need God. We need the world of heart. The world of love is endless, no matter how much you may draw upon it.

The world of material will end - the worlds of knowledge and power will perish, but the world of heart continues forever. 

Therefore, you have to do things centering on the world of heart.

When you go into the center of the world of heart, the world of heart is moving up and down automatically, like someone breathing.

Did you know that the earth is also breathing?

The earth is breathing in and out so that the diameter of the earth is expanded up to almost one meter. Through that, the earth is adjusted. The spherical shape of the earth is maintained. For this reason, the world of heart moves up and down centering on an axis. It is moving.

Every existing thing therefore forms an oval shape. Do you understand? Thus, you go into the very center of the mind and heart. Infinite power is transmitted from there. So, if you make an angle of exactly 90 degrees, infinite power will flow through that right angle.

Therefore, you should go out and cultivate your spiritual aspect. By devoting yourself you will experience the deep spiritual dimension in all aspects of life. Why? Because you need a source from which to gain an infinite driving force throughout your entire life.

By offering sincere devotions, you can find the way in which you should go, as it is within your original mind.


Hone Talents and Gifts

If you have an artistic disposition, the image of objects should float before your eyes like the reflection in a mirror. Do you understand? The picture is already created in your mind. This is a talent you were born with. You should therefore follow the direction that your talents indicate. If you ignore your innate gifts, everything will fail. It's serious, isn't it?

Hyo Jin (Father Moons eldest son) says to me, "Dad? It's strange, but I am hearing music at three o'clock in the morning." He was born with such a gift. In the same way, everybody has a talent in some field. These gifts are innate. As you were born with such gifts on a good foundation, then if you use them limitlessly they will infinitely develop.

It was the same with Ye Jin (his daughter) when she was a child. During her school days she would say, "Dad, it's strange." What was strange was that when a fellow student lost something she would come and ask Ye Jin to tell her where it was. Then, Ye Jin would tell her where it was in her house, and she would go home and find it there. Can that be explained? She always knew.

Among our own children, Eun Jin also has spiritual ability. She said, "Mom? I was just about to go somewhere, but my mind kept telling me to go back. Why is this?" Someone is giving her this information, teaching her, "This person you are to meet is no good."

She receives this spiritually. Some kind of magnetic activity is occurring. You have such ability within yourself, but if you are not perceptive or sensitive to its direction problems will result.

Ye Jin, In Jin, or Eun Jin might say, "Dad? It's strange; someone's going to make a mistake." They said that they had a bad feeling. They knew it through a premonition. When they planned to go somewhere, they already knew intuitively whether it would be good or not.

When the person with whom you have made an appointment to meet seems to be bad person, you should certainly either go late or early. Before going there, you have to fight spiritually. Then, you can avoid a bad situation and control it. Therefore, a life based on the path of truth is very important. Because you have control over such things, you can evoke the self-control that can prevent and avoid bad fortune." SMM




5) The Life of the Original Mind



"I was already serious at the age of 16. Although I might have made a plan to go somewhere, sometimes I did not actually go if I felt I should not. If I were to have gone, an accident would surely have occurred. It is also the same today. For this reason, I could survive until now in this world which is full of many enemies.

Do you know how many people have been trying to kill me?

You have to think about that. The greater a person becomes the greater the difficulties become. I must discern the way to go to overcome those difficulties. If someone says, 'Teacher? Something terrible has happened'?

I already know about it. If they say, "A problem has occurred," I already know. Without such ability, you cannot be a great leader in the future. To do so, you have to think in three dimensions rather than just two. A two-dimensional plane can be projected infinitely into a three-dimensional space.

No matter how great a person may be, if he is not conscientious and comes in front of me, he will be completely overwhelmed as a result. No explanation is necessary; as his mind becomes absorbed and completely overwhelmed, he will take his proper position in front of me.

His mind already knows Reverend Moon. You don't know Reverend Moon, do you? Do you really know Reverend Moon? You may think that I am just the person who blessed your father and mother. However, Reverend Moon is not merely that person. Out of billions of people in the world, the most famous name historically speaking is none other than Reverend Moon.

Did you know that?

Of course, you need the abilities that knowledge gives you, but first of all your spirit has to grow up because both the spirit world and the world to come are worlds of truth. We have entered an era in which the computer can completely anticipate the destiny of human life. You have to surpass the computer in intuition and sensitivity.

I was a famous teacher even in Sunday school. I was already famous from that time. When I stood on the platform before Sunday school students for the first time and wept with God's heart, everyone was crying. I had already reached such a stage.

I do not like to read novels. If I decided to write a novel, it would be better than other novels. If I tell a story somewhere, such as in a prison, it will be long enough to make into a long novel. This is because I can see the content of the story spiritually as I tell it.

If the sound of a flute is heard coming from afar, as I tune my mind with the sound, my environment can be harmonized with me.

From a young age, I used to give sermons even while sleeping. Also during my Sunday school days. Sometimes, I would suddenly wake up during my sleep because of the sound of my sermon. At that time, I already knew that I would teach and lead many people on behalf of Heaven in the future.

Whenever I was passing by a church, I would have the desire to go in even if it was just to eat lunch. I wanted to go to the very top of the pulpit and eat there. It was as if my mind already anticipated the future." SMM

  
6) Your Mind is the Closest Teacher

Have you thought that for Adam there was not a teacher to teach him about his future path as the first parent?  There were only the angels of the spirit realm.  The path to return our fallen history toward the original Garden of Eden through salvation and the work of restoration, no one can skip this path.  This is the parent's position.

We are told of the fallen realm of angels whose left their original position who were to save and help Adam and Eve and their descendants.  Because of this, they are not permitted to help the Messiah and instead take advantage and do as they wish.  During this process no one can be trusted, even God cannot treat him normally before he passed certain tests.

Because human beings turned their backs on God, in order for God to believe in humankind, He must also do the same to humankind.

Don't you think that after the fall of the first humans in which he created with His spirit and had an environment to believe in freely, that he could not assume thereafter that He would find one trustworthy soul in the faithless, fallen world?

In order to reach the position where God can trust you, you have to pass through all kinds of tests. I had gone through a series of tests in order reach this position. Because I do not talk about these tests, nobody knows their content. I will not speak about those miserable tests because I do not want them to be recorded.

In order to reach a standard where God can trust you, you have to go through the valley of many kinds of tests.  The Messiah himself went through a series of tests even though he carried God's original bloodline.  These miserable tests should not be recorded or spoken about because such stories should not have existed in the Garden of Eden.

The Messiah has the heart only to pass on the good stories to the next generation that would have existed in the original world.  The bad things of the past are buried within him and digested and leave only the good things behind for the next generation.

"If possible, therefore, I try not to speak about such things as my time in prison. There would be many people who would weep loudly were I to speak about the suffering life of prison. If I spoke about my suffering in prison, people may be shocked emotionally, of course, and may make a new resolution, but that is not what I want. People must make such new determinations according to reasonable principles.

You have to make a determination based on truth rather than on hearing about a shocking situation. You should not decide according to someone else's strong demand, but by your own desire to do so. If you encounter the truth, your mind will be naturally moved."

Therefore, your closest teacher is your mind, and it is more precious than your most intimate friend, your mother, or your father. 

You should be able to consult with your mind where God dwells.  You should be able to reach the point where you are able to listen to the sound of your mind.  Buddha said, ;There is only one person on earth and in heaven.'  Buddhism speaks about reaching self-enlightenment.  If you ask yourself, you can know that God exists within you.  Then there is nothing you cannot accomplish that 'you put your mind to it'.

Your mind is better than a teacher, therefore you should enlighten your mind.  Your mind is your eternal lord.  Therefore, your mind should not be self-centered or selfish, but one that is centered on a public position.



7) A Lifestyle that Resembles the Heart

A person who has a true heart of love, their heart strives endlessly to sacrifice and yield.  It is a heart that tries to give and give again.  A person with such a heart, even if they had 100 million dollars to give out to everyone on the street, they would not be satisfied with giving so little.  They would feel sorry that they could not help all the people of the world.  The heart of love is endless.

Thus, we could never measure the amount of God's heart.  How huge and deep His heart is!  Therefore, people should not be proud of themselves no matter how much they have accomplished.  If you ask your mind it would say, "You should have done more".

People of the secular world seek for recognition and praise.  The mind on the other hand is not like that.  When people yearn to be recognized, then the moment they are recognized everything ends.  Their goal is finished, so when they try to go to the next level, they will face many obstacles.

Why are there so many obstacles?  Because if you are often seeking praise outside yourself, you will come to like this position.  The mind seeks the path of the cross, of suffering.  If you become accustomed to being respected you will have no desire to bear a painful cross.  However, in order to go to the second stage, you must bear the cross.  To bear the cross is a difficult path and our bodies do not want to go in this way opposite of comfort.

Up until the age of thirty, therefore, I always felt hungry. I felt hungry every day. Though I sympathized with hungry people, however, I had to praise that time of hunger. That was a serious time. It was not because of a lack of rice. I went such a difficult way intentionally.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon continues to speak about such suffering he endured with his own cross as the Messiah:

"People who have not fulfilled their responsibility yet cannot take a spoon and eat as they wish. I did not sleep freely before I completed everything, which had to be prepared. In such a miserable situation I could not find room to enjoy time comfortably, because my mind pushed me to do more.

People like myself cannot take a daytime nap. No matter how tired I feel, I cannot take a nap. True Mother told me to sleep more because of my exhaustion, but I could only sleep one or two hours last night.

My mind does not permit me to sleep well. You could say that I am old now and the time has come to take a rest, but I cannot rest. Even though I am growing old, I have to do more than young people do. Because the problems become bigger and bigger, I have to do more and more.

I cannot hand my work over to anybody else.

I will give instructions about everything. I do not give instructions for the sake of it; there is always a spiritual basis to my instructions. Do you understand?

As I proceed with my work, my heart likewise teaches me, through myself, the way to go. My heart already knows it. I might just glance at somebody, but I already know what kind of person he is.

The closest teacher is therefore the heart. So do not let your heart be disturbed.

Do not become troubled. If you trouble your heart, it will make God and me sad. Your heart is the lord in your life. Thus, to make the heart sorrowful is similar to making the lord of your life sorrowful. You should go the way that can make your heart joyful.

When I attended middle school, I cleaned the entire area of the school by myself. Because I wanted to love my school more than any other student, I cleaned the school with the mind to clean on behalf of all the students. In this situation, I didn't want to get other people's help. I wanted to do it alone. I wanted to do it properly.

I therefore sometimes happened to clean somewhere that had already been done. Because I continued to clean all areas, my friends handed over everything to me. My friends said, 'We'd like to do it this way, but because you always do it that way, why don't you do it yourself?' Therefore, in the end, I naturally came to the point of doing it all.

Cleaning time is a good time to enjoy the company of one's mind. To secular people it seems a solitary situation, but it is time to become friends with your mind. After you have done that, sit down and try to meditate; enter the realm of deep prayer and of great depth that others do not know.

When you go to a theater, you may say that the theater is good when it is the theater building that looks good. No matter how good the building is, however, if the play is not interesting you cannot say that the theater is good. The important thing is how much everyone becomes one centering on the play. The depth of a person's character depends on that. The question is to what extent you are leading a life that resembles the heart and is expanding its scope."


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Textbook: The Way For a True Child from Chapter, The Way of the Original Mind