Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Since your body resembles what the mind thinks, it is the origin of your body. The mind stands in the place of your mother and father, teacher and masters.
The original mind that does not have any trace of the Fall, it does not need a teacher. It is your second god.
“Do not try to follow a teacher or me; instead, try to serve your mind. What about the mind? You wake up at daybreak, all alone, and it is so quiet that you can hear even the squeak of a mouse or the buzz of a fly, and you think to yourself, ‘Well, I should like such and such a thing. I should try to do a good deed.’ Your original mind will then tell you, ‘Good! Good! Do it now!’ On the other hand, if you harbor only evil thoughts in your mind, it will chide you with words like ‘No! No! You fool!’”
Wouldn’t your own mind know what you are thinking? Of course it know. It know only too well.
Have you ever thought what the value is of your original mind? How much more valuable it is than all of your attributes? Whenever your body is headed in the wrong direction, the mind always advises for it not to do so. It will try to block it from doing the wrong thing. However, our fallen body ignore and treads on the mind and does as it pleases.
Have you ever thought how much the mind inside your body sacrifices again and again in order to fulfill its duties even amidst persecution. It is your comrade and teacher until death.
Our true master is our conscience.
Our true master is our conscience.
If humanity had never fallen and matured to be one with their conscience, then religion and the need for a Messiah would never have come about.
Do you notice how your conscience advises you whenever you have evil thoughts? It sort of resembles the cartoons that visualized an angel and a devil on either shoulder of the character.
Your conscience tries to protect you in the form of the true master. It worries about how you lead over the hill of life and cross the river. It untiringly recalls you to the right path of living.
However, the mind has it is own internal enemy. The treacherous body treats this teacher with contempt even though it is the only honorable teacher sent to you by God and the universe.
Our fallen, sinful body tramples upon the conscience.
Our conscience was sent to connect our body and the mind with original love.
The problem is that people have come to love the body which is the enemy of the mind.
We have passed the time for us to listen to someone else's words. It is more preferable to listen to the words of your original mind than to the words of the most brilliant teacher that is thousands of times greater than you are.
Listen to your godly mind more than any other truth in the world.
No matter how much you hear from your mind, return repeatedly to listen to more.
Once you master this, you will receive something in infinite magnitude, something unimaginable, which will reveal the greatest secrets of the creation.
Can you fathom how much the conscience has sacrificed itself for the sake of the fallen body? Do you understand how the mind has been trampled upon throughout its entire life?
Your original mind is always tired because it has to manage you night and day.
Yet, your mind does not tire from protecting you from committing wrongful acts.
Your mind tells your body, “You've done enough damage, shouldn't you listen to me now?”
Your mind stands in the place of God, your parents, and teachers.
Your mind does not need to be educated on the right path way to go.
On the other hand, the body needs to be educated. When you look at the current situation of your mind and body, you can see how pitiful your original mind is. The mind represents, Gods' stead, all of your ancestors. It represents the teacher as well as the ruler.
Your good mind has been disrespected and treated with contempt for a long time.
It stands in the position of true parents, true masters and the one Subject with true love.
Your mind sacrifices is self over and over to save you from walking the wrong path while you live on earth. Can you deny this?
Even though your mind is dragged and treated with contempt, it does not complain even once. It does so to the extent that one would presume that it was dead.
Whenever you harbor an evil thought or attempt to do an evil deed, your mind will come to advise you away from doing so. It will reawake you to your senses by saying, “Hey, you, Devil!”
When a wrong deed is done, there is no need to hold a trial in the world of the mind. You yourselves know better than anyone else what you have done. Then, there is no need for third party witnesses.
No one knew that within oneself is a great teacher.
Your original mind can counsel you in the stead of the great mother and father.
You should learn to obey such a mind. In order to have a orderly life, a life requires a moral standard as its original reference of how to live.
Do not torment your mind. There is no teacher alive that can teach the mind.
People go on about throughout their lives without realizing that there is a most important teacher of all within them.
Therefore, they mistreated, abuse, and trample on it. This teacher is your very own conscience. Even though you do not realize it, your mind speaks to you in effort to help you connect to true love.
Your mind is like your parents whom you think nag you often. It encourages us to become good and unselfish, and guides us to act according to God's will.
Unfortunately, there is a rebel that resides in each one of us that goes against the words of the conscience.
This rebel that rejects the good mind's advise is your fallen, sinful body.
"Before desiring to dominate the universe, first achieve dominion over the self!" This was the motto at the time when we were pioneering the path of truth. I told everyone, "Before desiring to dominate the universe, before establishing a connection with everything in this world, first dominate the self!"
The original mind has three great personas. Heavenly fortune finally comes and resides within you when the body finds that it is lacking in its service towards the mind.
The mind wishes to serve the body, but the body does not serve the mind.
The problem resides within the satanic self, not society.
Society is made of individuals who have a conflict of mind and body within them. Your original mind always tries to protect you in the form of the true master.
Your mind is the only honorable teacher sent to you from the universe. However, your fallen body treats this teacher with contempt.
Your body tramples upon the conscience. It is sent in the place of parents to connect the body to the mind of the original love.
Have you come to love this body that is the enemy of your mind. You shouldn't? You will find many people have accepted this bad behavior of their sinful body without realizing that it causes conflict within themselves.
If you do not resolve this conflict between the mind and body, then the Kingdom of Heaven can never be established. There was not a saint that could think of this.
Yin and yang, internal external form, and the positive and negative are all complementary. They cannot have any conflicts. However, within our fallen society., your mind's voice as well as your body's voice can be heard of what they want you to do. Thus, they have not been united.
How did this separation of mind and body within every man who were created to resemble God come about?
Since God is absolute, therefore, the basic human attributes of the mind and body should also be absolutely united.
The mind and body should act as the center of the world God created. However, they came to be separated.
So, how did this separation come about? If the mind and body that lives within each of us was meant to be separated from each other, then there would be no God.
In such a conflicted being, there is no basis for such things as unity, peace or happiness. These can never be found in such a place.
God is not far away from us, but within us.
If you attempt to carry out an evil deed in the middle of the night, then your mind will stand in front of you and tell you not to go in that direction.
Your mind will appear wherever you are. As your master, it guides you as your mother or teacher would. Hence your body is your ultimate enemy.
What do you think God is like?
He has both masculine and feminine characteristics, just like human beings. You can not see your mind. This is true for God. From the spiritual standpoint, we understand that God does not have a body. Adam and Eve were to become perfectly united with God and they would have been the physical representation of Him.
In this sense, after the Fall of humanity, we see that God has been dispossessed a body.
Nothing can be achieved unless mind and body are united.
If there is something that ways on your mind when you go to pray, you should repent of it.
When you repent, you should not do it alone. The four directions of north, south, east and west should be arranged first.
You should speak aloud in front of those that are closest to you such as your parents or your teacher.
After you do so, then you need to make what you have done wrong public in front of your children and students. You can ask thereafter if they think you can be forgiven.
By following this way, those closest to you will support you with one heart. Do you understand?
When can your mind and body unify? This is a very serious matter. Who thinks after the mind and body have been engaged in such a long fight that it can easily be stopped?
This is an universal problem which your father, mother, king or your teacher even the saints cannot stop. Which master can stop it? This master is true love.
Your original mind is your watchman; it protects you day and night.
It gives you advise by telling you over and over again to do good deeds.
When we think of this in the context of our daily lives we can see how exhausted our minds must be. From the day that you are born, from the day which you can analyze every situation you encounter the conscience follows you around until death and tells you what do forever.
This is something that even your own teacher, mother, or father can do. Your mind will constantly remind you to take after God, the saints, and the children of filial piety. It will order you to resemble them all the time and keep saying to the body to take after its goodness.
Mind-body unity can be brought about only through true love.
Therefore, your mind sacrifices itself for the sake of the body and forgets it has done so, just as God repeatedly.
The original mind is your center. It is a dispatched by God on His behalf.
Your mind is the vertical you.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Our Original GodlyMind
This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Ten, Chapter one section 4.
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