Tradition of Love

Which tradition of value do you think will last for eternity?  That tradition would need to be based on love.  Do you think God needs law?

The primary purpose of law is to protect humanity.

Would the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth require the citizens to abide by a Constitution?  It will be based on the life power of love.

The most fundamental center of value is the power of love.  So, all heavenly law is designed to protect that tradition forever.  This fundamental unchanging characteristic comes from God.  He values the life power of love.

This is the foundation of the creation.  The whole universe is designed to promote these qualities.

Love is never self-centered. but is always for others.

In a sense, the purpose behind creation can be deemed as selfish because God was seeking joy through an object partner.

But essentially God's sweat and labor went into making His object perfect and comfortable within the creation.

The law says that love is for others, therefore God needed an object.  God needed an 'other' which He could exercise the power of His love.

God needs an object to fulfill His love, and man was created in that position.

He did not create man to obey God's every order, on the contrary, God created man to mature into perfection and become co-creators to the object, creation.

The whole universe was built to give joy to man. 

Have you ever felt deeply that God created the whole universe as a gift for you?

He created it for you because He wants you to be a subject of love, with the creation as your object.

Suppose you created something that you enjoy, but someone else is intrigued by what you have made and wants it?

When you see how someone feels about something you made, you have the impulse to give it to him so that he can keep loving it.

If someone loves your creation more than you do, you want to give it to him.  This means God takes after you!

This analogy of an object of love applies perfectly to this universe.  If you see a cute white mouse God created, or a furry kitten, God would tell you to take it home and enjoy it.

All creation exists to give you stimulation of love as your object.  

Everything is a masterpiece of God's.

When He sees that you love what He made more than He loves it, He will love you for that as well.  God can't help, but love you in that case.

When you love the things God custom made, He will be following behind you.  Wouldn't He want to hug you then?

You will feel a presence behind you and when you turn around, God is there to embrace you tighter and tighter.

Once He squeezes you where you plunge into His heart of love, you will feel deeper and deeper joy.

If you were to get a heavy shot of God's love, you will be completely intoxicated.  God would also be intoxicated and feel perfectly satisfied to see His child enjoying His love.

The more there is intoxication in the love of God, the more perfection will increase.

This universe should be the world of people drunk in God's love. 

This is the ultimate state where God, man and all things of creation have been looking forward to.

Now we are getting down to the very origin of good and evil.  The definition of Satan is ANY power or person which destroys the life power of love.

The line between good and evil have been blurred by today's 'do as thy will' world.

People generally know that the family and nation are good.  This is because that is the stage where love can blossom.

The virtue in the family is filial piety.  In the nation, the virtue is patriotism.  On the world level, the life of a holy man, saint is a good thing to achieve.

Even though people these days do not specifically know what is good or bad, they still have a general idea.

You came into existence through your parents' love, but your life does know on its own whether it has love.

So while you grow, you must listen to your parents with filial piety.  It is through them that you will learn what love is.

When you love your father and mother, ultimately, your love goes up higher and higher, returning to God, the origin.

The question of which came first the chicken or the egg can be answered that they are the same thing.
For everything returns.

The seed goes back to the fruit, which goes back to flowers and ultimately returns to the origin.

Why should we love our parents?

Because they are a rung on your ladder leading to God.

You are the center of the circle of love which begins with God and continues through your parents.

You can think that together you are a team.  As the center, you will learn the pattern of love through the family.  Then you create your own circle by finding your mate and having children of your own.

Love brings unity. 

Why do you love your siblings?

Through loving them, you are bringing God into your circle.

Through your experience in your family, perfect love, the family unit is your workshop of love.  Once you combine your family unite with others, you create a society, which is an even greater workshop of love.

This same principle works in the nation.  Thus, love in the family expands eventually becoming love in a nation, world, cosmos, and finally becoming one with God.

On the individual level, a heavenly man lives this virtue of the life power of love leading from the family to the world.

There will be no boundaries or resistance to hinder on who is running this way to the love of God.

Once you acquire this heavenly quality within you, you are able to make yourself at home wherever you go on earth for your God is the God of every nation.

The very life power of love will thrust you all the way to the top.

You already have life power within you, but love must strike a spark within you to spur you on further.

Love power is like the electricity which turns the motor.  

When it starts to turn in the power of love, all kinds of love and beauty are created in our universe through the harmony of many things turning in many directions.

You have not seen this hypothesis in action, but hearing it makes you feel good, doesn't it?  You will still try it because you have never heard anything better than this.

If you knew it was a proven truth, would you bet your life on it?

Many national church leaders attended this speech.  They would naturally tell members that everything should be done through the national leader, but the real question is, are those leaders becoming powerful in love?

If you are powerful without love, you are only a tyrant. 

But if a person of love is on top, he can dig all the way down to the bottom.

That person has total freedom.  Nothing will stop him.  So, he can go all the way up and down with absolute liberty.

Even if he goes all the way to the bottom of hell, everyone there will love him.

He will be able to get out of hell and go all the way up to the throne of God.  He will be perfectly acceptable there.

Maybe a leader thinks that he can do whatever he wants and believes the members should obey him.

Energy and power are fine, but if they are exercised without love, you create nothing but hell. 

Maybe those national leaders believe that they are infallible and their power is sacred.  But this is not good behavior.

They should be totally obedient to higher authority.  Only then do they have the authority to guide their members.


The Divine Principle and God are trying to lead the Unification Church to a certain goal, but even within the Church there are influences trying to lead people in the other direction. A national leader should be like a sacrificial parent who works harder and suffers more than the children.


When you become the personification of the love of God, then even though you go down, people will lift you up high and the universe will also lift you up.

Always shed tears of love. 

There are two kinds of tears: tears of sadness shed in tragedy, and tears of love and joy.

If you are really crying out in the joy of love, so loud that you wake up the world, then this is good tears.

If you are centered on love, then even if you hit or bite a person this is love.  You become controversial, it will be a dramatic heroic thing, not an evil thing.

We have been talking about tradition.  In many ways, people today follow only external traditions that have lost their internal meanings and have been almost forgotten.  Young people aren't very attracted to them.

If young people heard about tradition of love and conscience this morning, however, they would want to follow it.

In religious history, there has been emphasis on service and sacrifice.  These are the methods of living a tradition of love.

The church also has additional external traditions, such as fundraising and witnessing.

Do you like the internal traditions, but not the external ones?

How do you show that you have the internal tradition if you do not have a diploma to prove it?  To get a doctorate, you have to begin from elementary school level and get good grades all along the way.

Would anyone need to see your elementary school certificate once you get your Ph.D?

In the same way, you must be certified.  You need a fundraising certificate which testifies that you have loved all things of creation.

Your witnessing certificate will testify that you have loved people.  You should become a Ph.D in loving men and all things of creation.

With such a certificate, you are eligible to have your mate.  No one would want to marry you until then!

Would there be any woman who would want to marry a man without any qualifications?

In your own home is where you actually practice love of all things and of people.  If you don't already have experience in that area, then you will not know how to build a real family.

When you fund raise, you work with unselfish dedication for others.

While you fundraise, you will have many experiences with people, and receive persecution from some while you also learn how to love all types of people.

When it is your turn to create your family, you will do things for the family, clan and nation.  Fundraising is basic training for this kind of foundation.  For that same spirit is extended in loving your society, nation and world.  Then this tradition will be built in society.

Fundraising teams are the best place to practice this, so all members must go fundraising.

You do not love things for your own sake, but for others.

This is the beautiful tradition you must learn.

Fundraising has this deeper context than just collecting money. You bring money from the secular world and offer it to God.

Then that money is spent to save people in the fallen, sinful world, thus that money is actually going back to those who gave it creating a circle that will get bigger and bigger.

The money you earn during fundraising will return to the nation, the world and God.  Each time, the material will serve a greater purpose.  In witnessing, you are loving people instead of material.

Many of you will fear being persecuted or rejected when you fundraise, but the countryman who opposes you is still better for you than the foreigner who welcomes you.

Even if your own people were to oppose you, at least here you have complete freedom where other countries have many obstacles.

You are able to speak and talk to them in the same language.

You have the same customs and background, so you can be grateful to be working with your own countrymen.

In the witnessing process, you are becoming a seasoned expert in love difficulties.

Then, when you become a family man, you automatically know how to overcome family difficulties and you won't give up.

Compared to what you experienced, your family will look like heaven!


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Man Became Less Valuable Than Materials


This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Two Worlds of Good and Evil

Why God Made Men/Women Opposites

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.  He is heavy into sports, is a doer and doesn't like to talk about feelings and women are - well majority are just the opposite.  Yet, God built these two entities to forever live together within love.

Can you see the ideal love that God wished for in the beginning with your eyes?  Do you look at a well-built man and think that he has the ideal love God has been wanting?  We naturally say no, but don't we women naturally see a handsome and attractive man and think that he possesses a greater love to give to someone else just based upon his looks? 

What about an attractive woman, does she possess more love than an unattractive woman?  God is fair and does not give all qualities to one person.  An attractive person has a flat love while others have a round type of love.  Chances are an attractive woman has considerably less love to give than a woman who is not beautiful.  A less attractive woman more likely has more pure and true love to give than a beautiful woman.

If opposites attract, how ideal is it when two people with similar qualities marry?  The best match in marriage is between two people with different qualities.  This couple will encompass the qualities of different varieties of people and when they unite in oneness, they will be able to relate to more people. 

For instance, if two musicians marry, this is a flat relationship compared to a musician and a scientist marrying who can relate to more fields of people by learning and gaining qualities from one another.  We all desire to see and be a part of an ideal couple.  What about a tall attractive man and a short round plain woman, how can such people have to harmonize centered on one quality.  Would this be wealth and fame?  The only element that can unify two opposites is True Love.

There are much more important qualities of a woman to which a man can pay attention than her eyes, nose, hip or hair.  What kind of of mate does everyone prefer?  Everyone wants the most attractive and successful.  God is ideal and He rather see a beautiful woman marry an ugly man. 
 

"Actually, if a woman marries a very handsome man, she will probably have to endure a lot of worries! She might wonder, "Will some other woman be chasing after him?" and she will not be able to relax!"

Women in the secular world pursue the most handsome men and will do anything to get their love. When a woman marries a handsome man, she will constantly worry when he is late coming home that he might not be faithful.

A handsome who marries a beautiful woman can have the same worries, especially if she spends much time preparing her make-up, clothes and hair.  He might wonder, "Who is she trying to impress?". And he will worry more when she goes out without him looking fancy.  Men and women are more attracted to a person who takes care of their looks especially men who are more physically oriented, therefore, the world is full of dangers for the beautiful woman and man.

The man with a beautiful wife may start out with a lot of affection for her, but his worries will increase the longer they are married.  However, the spouse who marries an average looking person are free from such worries.  If their homely-looking spouse leaves for two or three days, they will not worry so much and think there is a reason for their absence.

On the other hand, the man with an average-looking wife may only have to worry in the beginning about how he will learn to love her. But then, as they continue their life together that worry diminishes to nothing.

An attractive woman will worry her husband over the little things.  Every move she makes will be a source for his suspicion and he will wrestle with these thoughts endlessly.  Even if she buys a new pack of pens, he will wonder what her ulterior motive was for buying that many pens. 

The smallest difference in any action such as beginning to polish her toenails or spending an extra five minutes in front of mirror before leaving for work.  A nagging fear will build inside of him, "She never used to spend so much time in the mirror.  What made her change?"

Here is the lesson:

"We must be able to distinguish true value within a person regardless of what that person looks like...  Certainly, we are striving for ideal families but what is the definition of that ideal? Is the marriage of a white man with a white woman necessarily the most ideal way? Actually, the most ideal way would be for a beautiful white American to go to Africa and find his or her spouse there. Such a bringing together of contrasts would be closest to the ideal." SMM

We stand on earth looking up to the highest ideals of Heaven which is the ideal husband and wife.  A woman shouldn't look down on a man and a man shouldn't look down on a woman because a woman is an absolute necessity for a man to reach perfection.  What do we see as the world trend as men and women go opposite of this natural law and challenging it. Men try to legally marry other men, isn't this true?

Why did God make it where men need women?

It is the way men and women grow and the way we were created;it is beyond your choice.  Women were created with certain indentations, while men have certain protrusions. 

What is marriage?  It is where these two differing shapes and characters of man and woman come together within unity under God's direction.  We see this in nature without exception and this is the way God created the world no matter how much man tries to change this direction.

As said before, God is fair in the attributions He gives His creation.  The man protrudes in one place and the woman protrudes in another.  The man's shoulder are broader up high while the woman's hips are broader beneath.  This balance in nature is attractive.  This harmony which God originated is displayed throughout the entire universe.

The waves on the ocean do not follow a straight line but rather a curved one. However, the wind blows in a straight, simple direction. People enjoy seeing the leaves on a tree swaying in the wind; when a tree is stark still, it is not as stimulating to look at.

Air density varies in different places. When a sparse area of air hits a dense area, it is pushed up or down. It is natural that there be a certain amount of wind on the earth; when the air is perfectly still, it doesn't feel natural or comfortable.

When we ask whether you prefer to live in a high, lofty place or a deep low place the women would answer "deep" and the men would answer "high". 

Simply, how are men and women different?  One side is "protruded" and the other is "indented".  Who is the one who is truly determined that man is the subject and the woman is object in relation to one another?  God is the one who decided that man is the subject.

Why did God position woman as the object?  She is in the position to receive like a "receptacle".  If a woman is not in that position, babies cannot grow inside of her.  The rain falls and the earth receives it- the sky in the high position does not receive the rain, it gives it. 

This is why woman represents earth and man the sky and heaven.  The most natural position for a loving man and woman is for the man to be above the woman and the woman naturally receives from the man.   

Since we are all part of the created universe, we need to begin to understand the laws of the universe and begin to follow and align to it.  The man naturally gives to the woman, however, the woman should always think about the man's welfare in order to harmonize with the universe.  Without a man, the woman cannot achieve that harmony.

What makes a mountain more famous to climb than an average mountain? 

First, famous mountains tend to be very high, then it would be well that it has a variety of slopes making it a challenge for even the most seasoned climbers to tackle.  Which man do women prefer most? 

A man who is fun and versatile, or a simple man who is predictable?  Women are naturally attracted to variety.  Men naturally prefer a woman of simplicity.  It is important that a woman be simplistic, yet has various qualities.  This simplicity in a woman is her best virtue.  A woman should be deep, but be uncomplicated.

"Why is the Unification Church a good and high religion? If you compared it with our description of a famous mountain, you could say the same-it has lots of variety. To go through the way of faith of the Unification Church is a difficult thing. You may sit here listening to me for several hours but once you stand up, you have to run back to your mission. There is no in-between."

When you come in contact with a Moonie, or Unification Church member founded by Rev. Moon, you will see that similar characteristics whether you meet a member in Bangkok or America. 

This Eastern concept may be looked down upon by many in America who fight for their individuality and leaders would say, "I have my own style so I don't need anyone else's."  Americans may look down upon the Oriental way of life as inferior to the American one.  Yet, the Western way of individuality can not be embraced by the whole world, only the Eastern way must be incorporated together with it.  Then the whole world will be covered.


Return for Tomorrow's Post: Men/Women Misuse Love Root of All Evil

This text was rewritten based on the Speech: Ideal Family and Ideal World given by Dr. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.