The Path We All Must Take

The body is far from eternal life

The earth breathes and moves just as our bodies do.

Your cells breathe as well.

Would you rather live eternally on earth, or would you rather live eternally in a place where you are a full entity of love?

In our physical body, we cannot see God when He wants to reveal Himself.  This is why our spirit self is needed.

God is in the center of the spirit.

As God's counterparts, He wants to bequeath to us everything from the eternal realm.


How the majority of people live

We are all headed toward a destination whether we know it or not.

The nation, the world and even heaven and earth are headed there as well.  This is an undeniable fact.  You are driven by this destiny.

Where are you headed after this life ends?

Religions arose to deal with this issue.

Where are our minds and hearts trying to go?  Also, our wishes and hopes.  Where are they trying to go?

Even though humanity has not truly resolved these issues, we are still destined to go in any case.

On the day that this body is buried in the ground, will our mind, our heart and hopes be buried together along with the body?

We should look at this with solutions and a purposeful perspective.

Every saint and sage and founders of religions stopped on their normal paths of life to ask the questions of their minds and their hearts.

They wondered where they were headed and they struggled to resolve these issues.

Even though numerous saints gave their life to answer these questions, there still has not been anybody who could confidently claim that their body, their heart and mind went to such an ideal place.

Religious and conscientious people all desire for the end of this fallen world which originated from private desires.

Over a millennia, religions have awaited a public world -  a single, unified world of peace without borders or conflicts.

How should religious people live?

They should shorten the path to restore historical mistakes and link this path to the world and cosmos.

A family that lives walking this path is far more interesting.  This is a liberated family that becomes a true family.

“Walking the streets of Myungdong in Seoul, one sees young couples being affectionate. For whom are they doing that? They say they do that to enjoy their youth, which they have but once.

“That's fine, but who is the owner of enjoyment? This is a serious question. How long can you enjoy life? You do so from your twenties, but it will not last after you pass your sixties, seventies, and eighties.

“Yet the way of the Unification Church is different. For what purpose do we eat? For the sake of the world and to abolish this evil world. We see in order to clean up this evil world -- not to become a part of the evil side but to defeat it. How we hear, think, walk and act is different from the secular world.”

God created us as precious beings whom He cherishes eternally.

God derives joy from us as His object partners.  Since God is eternal, we must also be eternal beings.

Many people live centered on such thinking that they will live until they are eighty and think that when they die that is it.  Throughout history, the question of immortality has been pondered and people wonder if they can live for eternity on earth and never die.

Then they ask, what is the meaning of life?

They wonder what is the point in just being born and pass away.  They just conclude that life is just suffering and that we just come and go like the grass of the fields.

The more people held on to this ideal, the more they thought and asked themselves, "What's the meaning of life? Why are people born and then go away like travelers?" and

Death is inevitable

One day we will go to the spirit world.

Even if people visit Korea at Gimpo Airport, it does not mean they traveled in Korea.  Where do we go afterward?

We go to a county.  From there a township, then a village.  From there we must go to a neighborhood.  This is not an easy task.

If we cannot determine a dwelling place, then there is no value in having a successful social life.

“If God orders me to come, even tomorrow night, no matter how great I may be today, I have no choice but to go.

“However loudly I might protest, I would have to go. I will go while protesting loudly, but only after speaking the right words. I must present the way that the nation and the world must go. It will be my death if I fail to do so.”

God is the owner of life

“Who is the origin of life? Not I.”

The origin and purpose of life must transcend me.  Actually, our life did not originate from our parents, society or a nation, but from God.

Only when you link your origin to the cause, the purpose of life, and deny your fallen self, then you make a leap and transcend.

You must link your life to the transcendent motive; it does not begin with yourself.

It began with the absolute God.

If you link yourself in this way, then when you die, you will be within the transcendent process because of God's Will.

People do not live for a millennia or for centuries.  They die within a century or so.

Among the numerous ancestors who have died throughout history, if any of them live with a public mindedness that met the standards of the universe, they would have left a legacy that lasted a millennum.

Instead, our ancestors lived selfishly and perished.  They brought everything to ruin.

This kind of selfish lifestyle causes problems.

The bigger problem is how can we replace the way of looking at everything from an ego system with one that serves a higher purpose.

The question is how do we shift from emphasizing self-centeredness to benefiting the greater good.

We must reverse the way of living individualistic lives.

This requires action.

If you only had one pair of clothing, you would fight for your life to keep others from taking it off of your body.

If you had a change of clothing for every season, when it is spring and you see people dressed in winter clothes, you show them your spring clothing and tell them they wear winter clothes and take them off.  If it is summer and people wear spring clothing tell them to change according to the weather.

But those people do not see the need to change.  They were unaware that something of greater value existed.

The same goes for those who are living in a lifestyle centered only on their own self-interest.  Until someone shows them the truth, they may not see the value of living a life for others.

On the earth we have parents, teachers and relatives. We have ways to establish such relationships on the earth, but not in the spirit world.

Everyone practices God-centered public-spiritedness.

The position one holds is differentiated.  Those above cannot descend below, and those below do not easily ascend.

It was God's original idea that we would not pass on to the spirit world until we achieved perfection on earth.

Adam and Eve to were to perfect their love to God before the blessing of marriage, live, and die in perfect oneness with Him therefore, naturally going to Heaven after living on Heaven on Earth.

It is an absolute that we will each die.

This life course is short compared to eternity.

Even if a person lived a life span of eighty years, it is equivalent to less than eight hours in spirit world time.

When we look at our time here on earth, it is even less than that amount of time in eternity.

This means the power of true love is great.  The speed of true love is so great that is beyond our understanding.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook Cheon Seong Gyeong, book Five, Chapter Two – Section 1

We Enter Heaven as a Family Unit

Have you ever been able to describe what heaven may look like?  What about heaven on earth?  What kind of world would that be?

Many people of faith speak about heaven and paradise, but they should know that it is not a place which we enter alone.

Heaven is a place that we enter with our parents and siblings.

What is the secret to entering heaven and going beyond paradise?

We should know that heaven is not a place that is filled with individuals, but rather it is meant for family units.  Not only that, but your tribe must be there with you.

You are blessed if you have a big tribe for God on earth.

If we see that a family has many sons and daughters and they have great wealth, don't we consider them blessed?

If you also want to be blessed and enter heaven, you do not do it alone, but as a family.

No one can enter heaven individually.

As I found out, heaven is not such a chimerical place as believed by Christians. Originally, heaven is a place you are supposed to enter as a family unit. Families are meant to go there.  The place parents and children enter and live together with God as the center is the ideal world. 


It is hard for conventional faiths to understand this.

Think about this, would you be happy in heaven if you were together with your mother and younger sister, while you see your father and elder sister go to hell?

Just as in the movie, What Dreams May Come, the whole family went to heaven, but the mother went to hell because of her sadness of her children and husband dying.

Her husband rejected heaven and searched for her to help her come out of her sadness like he did when she tried to commit suicide on earth.

Other than the reincarnation and the family members living separately in heaven, this was a pretty accurate movie from what many spiritualists who have peered into the spirit world realm have relayed.

Therefore, only families go to heaven.

This family will have had a holy wedding on earth wrapped in God's bosom of love where people have not fallen or have reversed the sinful past.

A family of children which God can rejoice with as His grandchildren and received His love enter together.

Would it be heaven if you entered heaven while your child failed to get there?  Who could enjoy heaven without their loves?

That place is Paradise where parents, spouse and children enter separately, no matter how close and affectionate they might have been while on earth.

Paradise is for the individual, it has nothing to do with the family.  Could Paradise be Heaven?

Jesus spoke at the cross to the thief, that he would enjoy paradise with him, not heaven.

Why do we not make this distinction clear?

Heaven is a world where the entire family follows their parents to interact with God as the center.

Would it be good if the parents are living happily in heaven while the son is screaming out desperately in agony while in hell?  Could that place be heaven?

From God's point of view of the ideal He had for creation, could such a place where everyone entered separately be heaven?  Would this be the highest realm to achieve?

No.  Heaven is such a place that where if the father enters it, so will the mother and if the parents enter it, so will the children.  Therefore they stay there together as mom and dads.

Originally, heaven, in accordance with the principles of creation, is a place entered by families. 

You would only be happy to go to such a place if you entire clan entered it.

If parents went to hell while the children went to heaven, what kind of heaven would that be?

Therefore, as we pave the way for going to heaven in the future, we must attain the family level of restoration.

Otherwise, we will not be able to go to heaven, but to Paradise.

Through the family, we must be able to escape any accusations which Satan can accuse us.  We must escape from the historical level of accusation of sins and the contemporary level of accusation.

God did not have plans for the husbands to go to heaven while the wives went to hell.

At the time of creation, God intended that the heroes who obtain the ideal, namely the fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, would form a tribe, people and nation  Shouldn't it be this way?

Yet because of the Fall, humanity created a hell corresponding to the wicked way they lived on earth. God did not create hell, our sins did.

The Heavenly Way People Should Go In The Family

Of course we know that we should love our neighbors' parents, grandparents and children just as they have loved their own children.

Only through these kinds of relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back can they fully arise creating a balance.  Only then will the standard of heart be established and the heavenly way emerge.

Hence, they should practice the correct standard of relating to one another while they are on earth.  Therefore, they will build ideal families.  We are crossing from the family level over into the tribal realm, and from there into the national realm.

Thus, as you are able to build a heavenly foundation through witnessing, more and more people through you and the standard of value of character advance toward God.

So, what must we do with this heavenly, vertical standard?



I am saying that we should manifest it horizontally.


The family progresses on the day the mother and father unite.

The day the children and parents unite, the family progresses to a higher dimension.  Then what will happen on the day when the family and the tribe unite?

Then a new spirit for the race will emerge.

When we are prompted to reach to a higher level as a family, then everything is integrated at the national level.  We will then be able to live as the kindred of loyal subjects.

Now, even I will become a grandfather before long. This is the same for you, when you get old you will become grandfathers and grandmothers. We are born as a son or daughter, get married to become a father or mother, and then become a grandfather or grandmother; that is the course of our life. 


Since the formula course of life is grandparents, parents, spouses and children, failure to love them runs opposite to the heavenly way.  If the three generations are not able to bond together, then there will be no way to bring the world into order.

In comparison to Eastern culture of respect, grandmothers and grandfathers of the West are pitiful.  They long for the Oriental customs.  They are saying, "Oh, the Oriental thought reveres grandparents like God!  Sons over there consult their aged parents even if they are in their 70s and eighties.  How wonderful it must be!"

Therefore, those who do not know how to show love to their grandparents cannot love God.

Who do you think the oldest grandfather is?

He is God.

God is older than all of the grandfathers and younger than all babies.  If you are unable to love people as a whole, you cannot love Him.

If you say that God is old and He is the oldest person, and you say that God is the young of the future, he is a youth more than anyone else.

We want to love God, thus, we have to love people in between.

Since people of the past in the spirit world always have hope and live within that realm, we must love them as well.

It is logical that after this we will then be able to go the way of truly following and loving God.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: How to Prepare to Go to Heaven


This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook Cheon Seon Gyeon Book Four, Chapter Eleven, Section 5 and 7

Blessing of Ideal HOLY Marriage

Why do movies and women fantasize about getting married and walking down the aisle so much even with the odds against a perfect match? 

Back in the 1960s, romance always ended "Happily Ever After" or was left to the imagination headed toward such an end.  Growing up, it made lots of little girls play dress up in their pretend wedding gowns, and pretend they were walking down the aisle.  Now, I do not know what little girls dream of for their future other than being famous, or the next Teen Mom.  That was insensitive.  But true.

What about that famous, famous line "You complete me?" uttered by Tom Cruise? Who could watch the ending without their heart skipping a beat?  A husband gets the biggest victory in his life after losing his job, respect and girlfriend in 24 hours and the one person who he knew the news mattered most was his wife.  Only they were on their way to an divorce.

This movie hit the dream button on every level.  Single women, divorcee, rich successful guy and regular girl, older women, those waiting for love, all could have their fantasies realized through these two characters.  I am sure after Tom Cruise and his cast's unsuccessful relations, they wish they could have the relationship of Jerry McGuire.  His heart longed for his wife to experience the greatest joy with him.  He finally learned how to love and trust, and a divorced couple were able to get back together sending "Jerry McGuire" into movie legend history for the most memorable line.

Romantic love movies were made famous by Audrey Hepburn and possibly by the epic "Gone With the Wind".

Why do our hearts move at the completion of these stories?  Why do we follow stories that we feel will never come true in real life?  Even on the movie and television screen, movies have moved from the happily ever after to a more reality based plot lines and endings.

These movies, no matter how simple, fulfills every person's wish fulfillment, to have a successful union that lasts an eternity.  Fade Out.  Every part of creation, even a blade of grass, is in pursuit of true love.  One hundred years from now, whatever the medium will be, love stories will resemble the same effect -  an example of how life should be with a spouse.

There should be someone whom you want to embrace for ten thousand years without getting bored. That kind of object should exist there. Only the power of True Love can create that environment and atmosphere.

Nothing else.

Since the universal law seeks that union and protects that union, if anyone in your family, tribe or nation should oppose that process, they will eventually be destroyed. The unifying process between husband and wife should ideally be supported by the entire universe which consists of your own family as well. In this case, whenever a couple would be out walking hand in hand, they would be welcomed and invited by everyone. This kind of joyful and peaceful world would be the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in Heaven.

If this couple's children truly come to understand why their father feels the home is empty when their mother is not there, then they will feel joy, the joy of knowing how much their father loves their mother.

Also, your parents and grandparents will be so filled with happiness if you come home and find your new wife not home and accidentally say, "No one is at home", even though the rest of the family is there. They will truly know you live for your wife and your wife lives for you.

Then your parents and grandparents will smile at you. They feel so happy because when it comes to the husband and wife relationship there is such oneness where the convex and concave join into one. No one else is able to interfere in that process, not your brothers and sisters, not your parents, and not your grandparents. In the position of grandparents, you must help your children and grandchildren to find their spouse so that they can fulfill their destiny to form a oneness between concave and convex.

Once absolute oneness occurs between husband and wife your value is as great as God Himself. This is the very key which God is seeking. There is true equality there. Don't you think that your parents or grandchildren lived the life of total oneness between husband and wife? Also, your own children will seek that life. This is an eternal process. No matter how rich and knowledgeable you may become, if there is no total oneness in existence between husband and wife in ideal terms, there can be no peace, no happiness, no unification and no ideal family.

Once you grab your ideal spouse centering upon True Love, should you ever let him or her go? (No.) Should you stick with your spouse throughout eternity? (Yes.)

Why?

Because this is the way of eternal True Love. After a true couple join together in sexual intercourse they can never separate. Together with their love partner they belong to a limitless world of True Love. You desire then to dwell in the bosom of your True Love partner? (Yes.) Those who claim not to agree with this idea, are in the position of leaves that will fall to the ground and disappear. They will never become branches of the trunk.

How then are you going to live? Since the first love given you by God is so precious, you must grab onto it and never let it go. No matter how much you may pursue free sex you will never experience the degree of excitement and joy that you will experience from your God-given first love spouse. In American society now, we cannot see those people who cherish and value their first love. Therefore such a nation is doomed to perish.

Neither Adam nor Eve were the origin. The True Love point where they could become one was the point of origin. Once they became totally one they could never become separated. That is the place where True Love dwells. Then they become an ideal couple centered upon True Love. Where is the origin of True Love?

What is your answer?

The place of union of the ideal man and woman in True Love is the origin. Unless you become connected through your sexual organs, there is no way for the love of husband and wife to be eternally bonded. Do you understand just how precious and valuable are the sexual organs of man and woman? Nothing can replace their value. Only the partnership of True Love can control that place forever. Therefore, the ideal marriage between man and woman and their first night of sexual love is the most precious thing in the entire universe.

Centering upon today's topic, where do you want to live your life? In the bosom of your spouse or America? (Bosom of spouse.)

Is that true? (Yes.) How do you want to live your life? Do any parents or grandparents exist that want to see the breakup of their grandchildren and their spouses? (No.) There are no families, nations or world that desire the breakup of the couple. Rather they desire to protect the family. Is there anyone who opposes the ideal total oneness between husband and wife which is the ideal form of couple? Since you understand Father's message, you are qualified to follow the path leading to the Kingdom of God.


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Speech titled "Where and How Do You Want to Live Your Life?" was given in 1996 as the Belvedere Training Center in New York by Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon.