So what should I talk
about today? Have you learned many things here? What did I
talk about yesterday? What explanation did I give you
yesterday? I gave you an explanation of what the new
paradigm means. And what is the new paradigm? It is to build
a new culture of heart. When I talk about a new leadership
paradigm, what am I talking about? I’m talking about what it
means to be a true Abel. The individual that stands in that
position does not just stand in a position of grace, but it
is a position of tremendous responsibility. So you have to
know very well what this responsibility is, what the meaning
of this responsibility is. Do you think that I as Moon Hyun
Jin can ever change my identity? If I do not like who I am,
can I ever change my own identity? There are so many young
people today that think they can change their identity in
this world today. Because the outside society thinks that
they can change their identity, does that mean that I can
change my identity? Everybody else seems to think so? Why
not, do we not believe in democracy? You all are privileged
to know that there is something that goes beyond the
dictates of men, and that is the Will of God. God’s will is
made up of unchangeable and immutable principles. In other
words, even if I wanted to change who I was, to deny who I
was, irregardless of what I do, the fact of the matter is I
can never, ever change who I am.
Can parents change their
position, siblings change their position, or children change
their position? Those identities and relationships are
absolute, eternal and unchanging. Therefore, the kids in the
outside world saying: "I can change my own destiny, I can
marry who I want"; thinking they can decide everything they
want. Are they smart or are they stupid? You are the ones
that are smart. You are the ones that recognize that in
order to be fulfilled men and women you need to realize what
your responsibility is and fulfill that responsibility in
front of heaven. So you have to know very well: who am I,
what am I, what is my responsibility?
There are two ways in
which you have to look at this: First, who are you? Are you
a blessed couple? You have to understand what it means to be
a blessed couple. Second, you stand here as representative
leaders of those under 40, therefore I am looking to you to
lead the Age of the second generation. So you have to know
what it means to be a true Abel. These two points are
absolutely fundamental. You have to know these two points,
what it means to be a blessed couple and a true Abel. Until
now you have realized that, through being a blessed couple,
you have been engrafted unto the true lineage. Do you
consider the True Parents to be your own parents or not? But
now you have to take it one step further. If we are truly a
blessed couple, if the true blessed family is a building
block of heaven, then the kingdom of heaven will be the
creation of a true family, that is, the collection, the
construction of all these families. Right? The next thing
that you have to understand is that I am a member of God’s
true family. Up until this point you have understood the
first two points that I mentioned, being cut off from
Satan’s lineage and that the True Parents are your parents.
But you have to realize that being blessed couples means
that you have been engrafted into a true family. When I look
at the audience today, it is mostly Asian, but I see many
different faces, like white and black. I also see many
Korean and Japanese faces. Do Koreans think: "Japanese are
my enemy", or do they think: "They are my brothers". How do
the Koreans here think about foreign nations? This is a
problem, when we look at this world, there is not a concept
of one family. When you come from Korea, you represent the
Korean perspective, when you come from Japan you represent
the Japanese perspective, and when you come from Europe you
represent the European perspective, there is no concept of
one family under God.
This concept of one global
family under God does not exist in this world. How about in
our church, does that kind of a concept exist? The concept
may exist, but how about in reality? Is the reality the same
as our concept? The fact that it is not is a real problem.
That is why father developed the international blessing. How
do you bring this type of division and separation together,
how do you resolve these divisions and separations? The only
way is through love. What is the most intimate and deepest
relationship that a man and woman can engage in? It is the
relationship between husband and wife. When receiving the
blessing, did you think: "I am a representative couple of
the world, and when I get blessed I will resolve the
conflict that exists between my respective two nations and
cultures."
Some people might have
thought this way, some people may not have thought this way.
Think of it this way. How do you bring about ideal
citizenship and world peace? Do you think that it can be
found in the corridors of the best universities in the
world? Or is it that you can put the best professors of the
world into a room and tell them to find the solution to
world peace? Is it to get all the greatest economists in the
world into one place and tell them to give equity to all
people in the world? How about gathering all the political
leaders in the UN and say: "You devise a solution to world
peace!" Do you think world peace will come about? I don’t
know. Many times you’ve heard Father say: "Principle is not
a concept. It is reality." To stress my point I want to give
you a story. You all know about Hoon Dok Hae conferences,
right? I’ve been involved in them from the first one. I went
to the first seven or eight conferences. In those audiences
are political, economic, and social leaders, and the one
thing they want to hear is concrete solutions to the
ever-degrading societies of their nations. They are more
demanding than you for concrete solutions. What do you think
I spoke about? I gave them a 30-minute speech which
captivated them. The theme was: the solution for world peace
is rooted in the creation of ideal families. When I talk
about an ideal family it is a family centered upon God. Why
is it that the substantial solution to the problems of the
world is rooted in the family? It is because it is in the
family that people develop their social conscience. What
does that mean? Is it not in a family that all the different
relations that one experiences in one’s life are represented
and manifested? When one talks about the intergenerational
gap, does this not come from the fact that there was no good
relationship between parents and children in the family? The
reason that we see one nation hating another and one race
hating another is that we have not resolved this between
brothers in the family. The reason that we have men and
women wanting to kill each other is that we have not
established any true husband and wife relationships. If you
follow this premise, that the relationships in the family
carry over to all other aspects in life, then you can see
how the distortions in the family can manifest themselves in
the greater society and world.
So I told them, don’t
think what I tell you is dogma, theory, concepts. It is the
substantial reality that we experience directly in the
family and the lives that extend from them. Do you think
what I am saying is right or wrong?
So going back to my
original question about blessed families. Do you think that
in the relationship that you create substantially in your
couple that you have found a solution to world peace? This
is truly great to think about. It is this knowledge that you
acquire in your relationship between husband and wife, that
if you truly love each other, you are able to go beyond all
the historical conflict that existed between your two
respective nations and create substantial solutions. That is
why I explained that those who have received international
blessings, you are the agents of world peace. If you are
able to achieve true love then you have found the
substantial solution to overcome the two different worlds.
Especially Korea and Japan, two nations that hate each other
historically. Can a child that comes from a Korean /
Japanese marriage hate either Korea or Japan? How could it?
So is it a good thing to arrange such international blessing
or not? The knowledge that you gain in your couple is more
valuable than anything a professor could write on such a
topic of world peace. This is because the Ph.D.’s knowledge
is just conceptual, but the fact that you are an
international couple means that you have found the
substantial solution to these problems.
So is your blessing
important or not? If you look at it from this perspective,
you come to realize how important international blessings
are. It is not just a man and a woman living together, but
it is a man and a woman at the forefront of creating world
peace by bridging two different cultures. Now that True
Parents do not match anymore, do the second generation like
this or not? Do you want to find your own husband/wife? If
you want to find your own wife, will you go look for your
enemy or your best friend? (Enemy) Don’t lie! True Parents’
concept is to go find the enemy. If you want to undo all
those barriers, you have to find substantial solutions. The
way to do this is in the relational context of the family.
That is why if you look at some of the married couples, they
find someone who is just a close friend and think: "How
great it will be to be with this person" Then often after
two or three years they just separate. There is a lot of
that, right? Even in the outside world, they say "opposites
attract" and talk about "complementary pairs" A couple
should be the great uniter. The further the worlds of that
couple are apart, the greater a span they will cover in
their unity. If Korea and Japan want to create a good
relationship, who will be the best ambassador to bring about
peace between Korean and Japan?: A Korean/Korean or
Japanese/Japanese couple or a Korean/Japanese couple?
How can we break down the
barriers that exist between enemy nations such as Germany
and France? Is it just by communications, and that’s it?
Don’t be so naïve. Just because you dialogue doesn’t mean
anything. Just because you talk a lot doesn’t mean that you
solve anything. Will the EU be able to solve all historical
bitter differences, rivalries and hatreds of its member
states? If you are French and your wife is German and you
develop a loving relationship, will your children be able to
say, I’m only a French or I’m only a German. The historical
divisions that have been entrenched within these cultural
and national barriers will be overcome. So what are we doing
through the international blessing? We are creating a new
world order. We are developing a world in which those who
have participated in the international blessing have the
substantial solutions to creating a world of peace. Until
now many have criticized our international blessings, right?
At the Hoon Dok Hae conferences I said: "If you truly
understand our concept, how can you be against our
international blessings?" More important than the UN summits
of the world, we are creating a grass roots movement to
substantially bridge the divisions of the past and create a
movement for true world peace. Whether you realize it or
not, the activities that we engage in with blessed families,
we are bringing about a new world order, a new kingdom which
is not just conceptual, but substantial.
That is why those blessed
couples that are able to overcome all those difficulties and
have truly loving relationships are those ambassadors who
can overcome national boundaries. It is difficult enough to
understand the world of the other sex. How much more
difficult is it to do that when at the same time you must
overcome national differences? I’ve gotten kind of
sidetracked, but your families have this kind of value in
being agents for world peace, because you carry the
substantial solutions to creating world peace. How great is
that!
So this comes back to the
question of how one learns. Why do I keep on mentioning
substantial, why do I keep on focusing on that versus just
concept? Who knows the theory of epistemology? (Mike Balcomb
explains: Epistemology is the study of how one learns. The
two schools are one the one hand that one learns through
study and understanding, on the other that one learns
through direct experience.) This debate has been going on
for centuries. Why do I, as a religious leader, go into this
kind of philosophical questions? As Mike explained, one is
that one learns through understanding, and the other is that
one learns through direct experience. I’ll make it very
simple. You need both types of learning. However, what do
you think stands in the subject role, and what stands in the
object role? Have you ever thought about this? How is it
that I as an individual really learn something?
Let’s say that I want to
know about motherhood. Rather, let’s say a woman wants to
know about motherhood. That woman may get married and have
12 children. And lets say another woman also wants to know
about motherhood, and she goes to the university and gets 20
Ph.D.s on the subject. Who do you think knows more about the
subject? Let’s say that she was totally uneducated, and she
was not even pretty. But this other girl at the university
was pretty and read every book that there is about
motherhood? So which one is it? (The mother of 12.) So you
have created a verdict then.
You are saying that it is
experiential knowledge, something that you have direct
ownership over, that should stand in the subject position.
Scientist also believe that knowledge is only certain when
we can experience it in reality; everything else is
relegated to the area of theory. This theory of knowledge is
very important in defining our value systems of where our
greatest value is derived. Lets go back to that example of
international blessed couples. Thinking about the husband,
through his marriage to someone from an enemy nation, do you
not think that he will have more knowledge about overcoming
substantially the difficulties than any ambassador ever
could? Why am I badgering this point?
How do you know that love
exists? Through experience. If love were relegated to
theory, then it would not be real. Because men were meant to
be the object of love, is it not through experience that man
really learns? If you were just in a container cut off from
the rest of the world, could you learn experiential
knowledge? Why? Because it is through having give and take
that you learn something. This is what the Christians did
not know; they thought that the highest love was so called
agape love. You must realize that true learning comes from
experiential learning. How does a child know not to touch
fire? Do you explain the process of combustion to this
child, or does it touch the fire and realize: "Ouch that
hurts, I better not touch that again." That is why
understanding what is in the subject role in the theory of
epistemology is so important to our mission. If theory is so
important, then it means that the individual is
overemphasized, and that reason, intellect, the brain
becomes the highest form of humanity.
That is why to make a long
story short; the true learning process is experienced based
and abstraction is in the object position. It is not
institution of higher learning that one truly learns, but in
the family and through experience.
Because of that the family
is so important. That is why all of restorational providence
was to restore the ideal family, where the Three Great
Kingships and the Four Great Realms of heart are
represented. In the course of one hour, we have found the
solution that philosophers have been searching for many
millennia! First we outlined or mapped two philosophical
schools, then we established what their proper relationship
should be, and then we established how man learns. So we
learn through experience. Therefore what I want to emphasize
to you is that the message that Father gives is not
something theoretical but is something that was gained from
substantial experience.
What implication does this
have for the new leadership paradigm? What is the settlement
age? It is the time when God’s substantial kingdom is
established on earth. God’s substantial kingdom is built on
the earth. That is why you have to realize more so than ever
before how important your blessed family is as a building
block for this kingdom. The blessed family is the building
block for the kingdom of heaven. It is within the family
that you, your husband and wife, parents and children, will
have the substantial knowledge to unlock all the
relationships that you face in the greater world around you.
Yesterday I talked about
expectation. We do not define our role or our purpose in
life, but we have to rise up to the expectation that God has
of each and every one of us. Didn’t I start off today by
explaining just that? What in our life did we truly choose?
Did we choose our parents, our brothers or sisters? If you
look at the things that were the most defining in your life,
which of them did you have any choice in? The reason why we
have free will is that we must choose to align ourselves to
the universal law and to what Heaven’s expectation of us is.
There is not much that we choose in who and what we are. But
the question is: how do I choose to live my life according
to God’s will and purpose, to universal law? That is why I
have been talking about this yesterday and today, as you
have to understand this in order to fulfill your
responsibility as a blessed couple.
In our movement, when I
see the second generation growing up in America, Korea,
Japan, just as the other people in that nation, with the
same cultural and historical traits and bitterness then I
think: "Oh, our blessed couples did not get the point." Even
though these international blessed couples were meant to
bridge these gaps, their kids have just inherited these
differences directly from their parents. I take the
education of the second generation very seriously, but I
realize that it is not jut a matter of educating the
children, but also the parents. Somewhere along the way that
message was lost. How then can we build a substantial
kingdom of God, a substantial true global family? We need to
take that principle which our True Parents have taught us
and substantiate it in our families. There has to be
consistency in your thinking and your actions. Do you think
that as a leader you need to know this or not? If I talk
about what it means to be a true blessed family it has
implications for what it means to be a true leader.
As a leader you have to
put God, True Parents and the members before yourself, that
is the standard by which you should judge yourself. You have
to live first for others. Why? Can you have a loving
relationship if you just want the love to come to you or do
you have to sacrifice? The only way that a love relationship
can be established is by constantly investing and eventually
that will be reciprocated. As a leader, representing God and
True Parents, you need to invest in your members in the same
way that you learned in your family. If you had really
become a true couple, you would have felt this. If you truly
understood this, do you think that position, money, power,
and so on would have been on the criteria of things that we
want to accomplish or acquire? These things are secondary.
The most important would be: how do I fulfill my
responsibility in front of God, True Parents, True Family,
the members, and my own family.
Therefore I told you
yesterday, I hate position, because I know the
responsibility that comes with it, and the sacrifice that
comes with it. So I asked you in my speech at the beginning
of this workshop: "Now that I became YFWP president, do you
think that I have more responsibility, or that it is the
same?" You said more but I told you that it is the same.
True Parents have already asked me to take responsibility
for the whole movement. This was the weakest point, our
youth, coming into the settlement age, and therefore I had
to focus first on CARP. Before I came here I talked to the
Continental Directors about the importance of building up
the youth movement of our movement.
I’ve heard many people say
that when I was just vice president of the movement I seemed
to care for the whole movement, but now that I became CARP
president, I just care about CARP. Do you understand how
God’s providence is moving? Two years ago, as these
Continental Directors will testify, Father said that even if
we have to sacrifice the Unification Church we need to
resurrect CARP, the young people movement. Why? Because now
is the time of the second generation. Why did Father say
this? All his life Father lived first for God’s Will and
sacrificed his family over and over again. Do you think he
would say this just because his son is now responsible for
CARP?
What is the greatest
challenge to God’s kingdom on earth and to the establishment
of ideal families? If the blessed couple is the building
block of the kingdom of heaven, what stands in the way of
the building of such ideal families? What is it in this
world that stands in the way as an impediment to the
creation of ideal families? What led to the erosion and the
degradation of the families and societies and nations in the
Christian realm? Was it not all the seeds planted during the
counter cultural revolution by the Christian second
generation after World War II? Was it not the acceptance of
free sex, homosexuality, atheism, materialism, drugs,
feminism, etc? Who brought this forward? You reap what you
sow. Is not what was sown the satanic culture, the
antithesis of God’s culture, that is brining about such
decadence today? In Nations that have previously been
considered the bastion of Christianity. What is the greatest
impediment then to the creation of God’s kingdom? It is the
new satanic culture that was spread to the world after World
War II by the Christian second generation. That is the irony
of it all. That is why this is a time and an age now that
we’ve entered the period of renewal, the period of
perfection, that we bring about a new world culture, a
counter-counter revolution, to build God’s substantial
kingdom centered on blessed families. You need to have that
kind of conviction! This is a period and time that we have
to right all of the wrongs that were done during the last 40
years. We have to bring about the fulfillment of what was
not achieved during the last 40 years. We have to start
planting the seeds that will bring a total revolution. This
is a task that we are about to undertake. Do you want to
undertake this task? Yes or no? (Yes!)
If we undertake this task
with the level of sincerity with which you said yes, then
truly we can bring about substantial change. Purposefully, I
have avoided any comments about my substantial vision on how
to bring this about. Why have I avoided this, why haven’t I
explained that to you yet? Even though I do not explain it,
do you think that I am not thinking about it now? If I
explain the concrete vision then you will all get up and
start working right away because you will realize that
eventually we will win. The workshop is about understanding
the new leadership paradigm, about the new culture of heart,
the heart of a leader and the heart of Abel, so you need to
understand this background first in order to be able to
unite with the external vision later on. Otherwise you may
interpret the external vision in many different ways. So I
wanted to see whether or not you will be able to follow my
direction absolutely first. (Yes, we will follow!) We will
have to see whether you will be able to do this.
So the onus is up to you.
What you make of this workshop is really up to you. You have
no one to blame but yourself. Do not think that the tests
have been in this workshop alone. The real test will be what
kind of leader you will be from now on. Remember that it is
the internal base, or foundation, that is the most
important. Each and every one of you has to be a person that
I can trust intimately with my life. Only if you can be that
kind of a person can you have the right to stand as a leader
in the time of the second generation. Don’t think that once
this workshop is over, everything is done, and therefore you
can resort back to your old self again. You need to make a
break from your old self and from this point forward lead a
totally new life based upon the standard of the new
leadership paradigm. If you can do that, please raise your
hand.
All of the people gathered
here hold a lot of responsibility in our movement. I was
told that in Asian nations, if you are a president, you can
never hold a position beneath that for the rest of your
life. Is that right or wrong? (Koreans answer right.) That’s
true right? That’s a totally new concept for me. A totally
new concept for me. Is that the case also in Japan? (Answer
not clear.) My first question is: who made this stupid rule
up? Who made it? What is True Father’s way? If someone is in
the highest place, he also needs to be able to come down to
the lowest point. Is that true from a Divine Principle point
of view?
Lets say that you become
president at the age of 36. But because naturally you have
not developed to the full extent of your abilities yet, you
would still need to learn many things. But because of this
stupid rule, from then on you stop growing. That means you
stop developing yourself at the age of 36.
Where did I come from
before I got to UTS? Harvard Business School is the hardest
school to get into in Harvard University. I met some people
at that school. Top politicians, top business people, people
who ran not for profit organizations, generally just the
most successful people in the world. Do you not think that
they ask you questions like what made you so successful?
What did they all say? Do you think that those people would
have been that successful, that capable, if they followed
this stupid rule based upon positions? They had different
positions in a company, and sometimes they went down and
then back up again, so from the age of 36 to 46, they became
even more capable then they were when they started. I really
love Korea, and especially the Korean familial model, but
when I look at Korean companies they are a laughing stock.
This is because you do not develop your people. The only way
to do that is to constantly challenge them. Once you master
one thing you go do something else. So you constantly grow
and develop your ability. So with this stupid rule, there is
no recognition of the need to develop. I had a few Korean
friends at Harvard Business School. None of them wanted to
go work for a Korean company. Not one person. You want to
talk about creating change? This is where it starts. You
have to change the culture of leadership. Who made this
stupid rule?
When I came to UVG, Ken
Bates was the president. But because he was used to working
a certain way, he just didn’t get it when I was talking so I
constantly demoted him to learn more and more about the
company. But eventually I sent him to Columbia Business
School and now look at him. When I started he probably could
not have gotten a job in the outside world at all but now he
can get any job that he wants.
I do not believe in that
stupid rule. With that rule you cannot make a person like
Ken. The first generation may have acted like this, but how
about the second generation? You cannot develop under that
structure. You cannot learn under that structure. A true
leader has a certain level of humility. He can assess what
level he is at.
Mike Balcomb, what did I
first say when I came to CARP? You would not listen to what
I had to say, and you just gave me the same reports that I
had already heard before. Your attitude was: I don’t need
your help. But did you ever think that the CARP organization
could be like this? You used to be the president of World
CARP, but where are you know? (Mike answers: I am the
General Secretary and it is much better this way.) My
philosophy is not based upon right now; it is based upon
what could be. When I came to UVG, who had heard of UVG 8
years ago? Nobody. It was a small insignificant group of
companies. But I did not mind that. Because I knew that it
would change in the future. Just wait and see where UVG is
going the next 10 years. You should not be so concerned
about where you are right now but where you could be.
I don’t put any emphasis
on position; it means nothing to me. Do you think that when
I meet someone with a Ph.D., that I am necessarily so
impressed? I’m 32, but I’m not moved by whatever credentials
that politicians have. I’ll tell you one thing right now.
Someone with a position now who is not willing to learn will
be surpassed by someone with no position now but who is
willing to learn, and that within 10 years. When I look at
young people I look at their potential development over
time. In our movement we seem to think that we can turn a
person into a leader within one or two years. That’s total
BS. It takes at least 7 years. From now on we should have
the tradition that my own desire to have a certain position
is not the most important thing. The most important thing is
that I learn and develop so that in future I can become a
great leader. The best leaders are those that are the most
rounded. That means that you need to have many different
kinds of experiences and knowledge. Do you think I’m right
about this or not? I’m sure that there are people who do not
believe amongst you, but just wait and see. Watch those who
follow my direction and see in 5 or 10 years. I wanted to
make this workshop far more rigorous originally, so that 50%
of the class would not graduate, so that I could pick the
best ones, so that in 5, 10 years they would be able to do
greater things. Do you understand what I’m saying?
Do you know what is the
most important? It is a person’s conviction and
determination. Only that one individual can decide that what
kind of conviction he has. That is your 5% of
responsibility. You have to realize that your coming here is
a tremendous grace, the fact that you are able to
participate in this workshop. To come within my radar
screen. You have to know how precious that is. It is from
this workshop that I was thinking to choose the future
leaders for the settlement age. What have you done to be in
this kind of position? That is why I created the condition
that you rid yourself of your past life before you came to
this workshop, you throw that past slate away, and that you
re-determine what kind of a person you become.
When it comes to your
responsibility in this movement, think about how you can
grow and develop the most in this movement. Especially this
stupid rule, throw that out the freaking window. Do you
Koreans understand this? It goes for all of our movement,
unfortunately that kind of thinking has existed within our
western movement as well. We have to know and find humility.
Let me tell you my honest feeling and observation. For me it
is easier to work with outside people than with members. Did
you know that? Remember what I told you, we have to have
humility and be honest with ourselves. In the outside world,
people take you at face value, and so they know where they
are at. You don’t even need to talk about all of these other
issues. Our members do not accept it when we tell them that
we make mistakes. It is more difficult to accept criticism
from your family than from members outside your family. In
the outside world, do you think that a person will listen to
his president or not? If he doesn’t he will be fired! But
what about between brothers? The brother will answer to
criticism that there is nothing that he’s doing wrong,
because it is someone from within the family that is
criticizing him. That kind of criticism is more difficult to
accept. Why am I giving you this example? Because you are
like this. That is the advantage that outside people have.
If one of the siblings is
much more qualified than the others, will his brothers and
sisters follow him or be jealous of him? In the same way, if
we set up capable people as leaders and they expand the
total foundation of our church, is that good or bad? Through
the brother that can do great work, benefit comes to the
whole family. Why is it that America is still at the
forefront of everyone else amongst nations, looking at the
United States as a large family. What kind of a system do
they have in the development of their people that allows
them to excel economically? Do you think that it was good
that Microsoft developed software or not? What happened as a
result? The economy grew at a tremendous rate, bringing
benefit to all Americans and also beyond that to Asia and
Europe. Why is it that America constantly produces these
kinds of people like Bill Gates? Or Intel and the microchip.
Why? Without America, would that come from Japan? Because
America recognized that by allowing people with ability to
take responsibility that the whole pie would be enlarged. Is
it not ironic that a nation that celebrates equality also
values individual achievement?
That is one of the reasons
why I have always told leaders: they are always concerned
about what piece of the pie that they are going to get. They
are thinking: how can they get a bigger piece? People, money
etc. All that is, is just a reallocation of resources. I’ve
never cared about this, because that is not the point. The
point is not how you reallocate the pie; the point is how to
make it bigger. Right now there is an emphasis on witnessing
in our movement. This follows a period where there was an
emphasis on Blessing up until 1998? Why is this? Mike, did
you even think about witnessing? (No Hyun Jin Nim, hardly at
all.) I can tell you what World CARP was back then, which
was just PLA and STF. So what did I explain? The process of
the CARP organization just focusing on second generation
education will lead to the eventual decline of the whole
organization.
Was our church continually
doing witnessing or not? Just look at the age gap in our
members, and you can see that we have not been doing that.
We had no concept as leaders on how to enlarge the pie, how
to spread parents movement as a movement around the world,
but we just focused on the institutions that we were in
charge of. So especially when I visited Europe, in Hungary,
you can see at which point the witnessing stopped, because
the age of the members just capped off. I can tell you by
the age of the members when the witnessing stopped. If you
look at the Unification Church as an institution, as leaders
you will be fighting for every single crumb of the pie.
However, if you look at the Unification Church as a vehicle
with which we will bring about substantial change, then you
will be positioning yourself to contribute towards that
change in the future. That is what changed in CARP, and that
is what is going to change in YFWP.
I took an organization
that was focused totally inward and turned it around to look
outward within one year. I look at CARP as my frontline
soldiers to conquer the whole world. They are the ones that
should take our message to young people on the campuses and
young people around the world, so that in 10 years time they
can bring about substantial change in this world. I created
two goals for CARP last year. The first was to create A-type
members who can inherit the tradition. The second was to
create a mass movement that will create political, economic,
and social change in the world. Our leaders have been
struggling with these two very goals because they saw them
as contradictions. How do you make a mass movement to follow
the strict standard that we expect of Unification Church
members? It seemed like a contradiction. I said it is not
because you do not understand what I’m talking about. That
is why I created this thing called different membership
categories that will give us the numbers as well as the
people that will be able to inherit our True Parents
traditions. When I think of outreach I do not see it just in
terms of video centers. We need to develop specific programs
for specific targeted groups. First because we recognize
that we have niche markets, not everyone is the same. In the
past we used to just copy our models all over the world. It
is very difficult to implement such a thing because people
from different parts of the world are different. So we need
to recognize that there are different markets and that we
will develop programs to cater to each of them in time. We
will use CARP as an evangelizing organization, you just wait
and see. There are different types of people; just as in the
family all brothers and sisters are different from one
another.
So we are developing
several different programs that will connect with these
different types of groups. All of these are new ideas that
will transform the CARP organization. These are all things
that were done in one year. Another thing is the CARP
convention and conference. We need to have the educational
material as close to the frontline work as possible. Many of
you don’t realize this, but I am a very practical person. I
can make practical solutions. The problem with the
educational systems we have until now is that they are too
far removed from the frontline work. So, the whole idea of
the CARP educational system is to make the education as
close to the frontline activity as possible. Once again,
this goes back to the fundamental principle that education
should be the support system of our activities in order to
make our leaders more efficient and productive. For this
continuous education in CARP I created the 3 pillars of
education based on the model of a tree. The three are first
of all the root, which is the Divine Principle and
Settlement Age Hoon Dok Hae. Secondly the trunk, which is
existing materials, programs, and best-practices that can be
adopted within our movement. Thirdly, the branches and the
buds, which is existing programs and technology from the
outside that we can develop.
That is why when I look at
all the different organizations in our movement, wait and
see, not only because of the providential viewpoint, but
from a substantial, practical viewpoint, for what CARP will
be. In one sense when I look at CARP, although there are a
lot of things that I don’t like, for example I think that
the leadership of CARP in Korea is still young and
inexperienced, I know that the seeds that are being planted
now will all go in the right direction. I know that for a
fact. Because all the conditions have been set until now.
All of this was accomplished in less than one year.
Remember, when I first took responsibility over World CARP,
it was just America CARP, not World CARP. Now there is a
worldwide structure. In other words an organization exists.
Just wait and see. Especially all of you that gathered here,
some of you will receive a new mission, some will continue
their previous mission. But irregardless I want to you to
have the mindset that whatever you’re doing you are learning
to do more in the future. Remember position doesn’t matter,
what matters is what type of person and what type of leader
you become. Those of you who willingly want to participate
in this new culture of heart, raise your hands.
Let’s have three cheers of
Mansei.
