Special Speech
to the Leaders and Core Members of W-CARP Korea
I have already outlined
that the war which I have committed myself to fighting and
winning is a cultural one. This is a battle that I have been
fighting ever since I began my public ministry; and still I
have to fight every single day. Why have I announced that
this cultural war is a battle that we are fighting and a
battle that we must win? Within the Unification Church, as I
travel around the world and visit all of our national
churches, this reality that we need to win this cultural
battle in order to have one identity -- who we are and what
we are -- becomes more apparent to me.
God’s Original Purpose of
Creation: Creating an Ideal Family
For me to contextualize
this we have to once again ask the question: What is the
purpose of God’s providence? In other words, how did I come
to this conclusion that the cultural war is a battle that we
must fight and win? I’m not a fool. For me to come to this
conclusion there must be a reason. Where can we find that
reason? Where can we find the answer to that question? We
can find it only when we go back to God’s original purpose
in creating man. Many times we forget this. What is it that
God wanted to create in the Garden of Eden with the original
first human ancestors of Adam and Eve? This was the garden
where the ancestors of humanity existed -- a man and a
woman, the first potential parent of mankind. What did God
want to fulfill through these two agents?
The Bible tells us that
God wanted to substantiate the Three Blessings through Adam
and Eve. What were those Three Blessings? To be fruitful, to
multiply children of goodness and to have dominion over the
earth! The Principle teaches us that these represent the
ideal paradigm of the Four Position Foundation, which is the
ideal relationship of a family under God. Thus what God
wanted to create is very clear from the Principle
perspective -- it was to create an ideal family through Adam
and Eve.
This family would have
substantiated ideal positions through the natural process of
fulfilling God’s purpose and will of creating an ideal
family. What are the positions? First of all, the position
of elder brother -- in other words, the relationship between
Adam and Eve would have been that of Adam being in the
position of elder brother to Eve. Next, the position of
husband and wife -- in other words, the position of
parenthood. Then, what would happen? As the first ancestors
of humanity they would have been standing in the position of
king and queen of humanity. Therefore, the three positions
of elder-son-ship, parent-ship and kingship would have been
substantiated in that family.
Self-Centered Love as the
Root Cause of the Fall
So the original purpose of
God’s reason for creating humanity was to create the ideal
family. There would have been the seed for all of God’s
hopes and dreams for humanity in that family. Yet, in the
Garden of Eden, God’s dream of creating this ideal family
was not fulfilled. Thus humanity entered the long road of
the Providence of Restoration.
From the Principle
perspective, as True Parents articulate it, what is the root
cause of the Fall? What is it that you need to change to
bring about the restoration of humanity? It was blood
lineage, was it not? Blood lineage represents ownership,
does it not? In other words, this ownership is a type of
blood relationship that is absolute, eternal and unchanging.
From the Principle perspective, therefore, since humanity
had an absolute, eternal relationship with Satan through
blood lineage -- regardless of how much that individual or
humanity itself try to come to God, without the absolute
omission of this blood lineage and the transferring of this
blood lineage under God’s direct dominion -- humanity can
never fully stand as the absolute object of God.
The absolute relationship
of blood lineage is not conceptual. Let’s say here we have a
pretty young female. Yet she was raped by a thief, and that
union produced a child. Would that child be able to negate
that relationship with his mother or his father? Could he do
that? That is why it is absolute. That kind of relationship
is absolute. Through this blood relationship, Satan could
plant his seed of ownership and dominion over humanity,
invading God’s plan and instead creating a Four Position
Foundation centered upon humanity.
Yet what was the impulse
that pushed Satan to take away from God that which was most
precious to Him? Remember, Satan was God’s servant, God’s
helper from the very beginning. He knew God’s plan,
intention and desire to create humanity centered upon His
absolute dominion. And he knew that Adam and Eve were the
son and daughter that He cherished the most. Then, what
prompted Satan to totally undermine God’s plan and take
dominion over humanity for himself? It was self-centered
love. In other words, Satan could not go beyond his own
selfishness and align himself to God’s larger plan.
The resentment and feeling
motivated by self-centered love that he had toward Adam and
Eve -- for Adam and Eve receiving love and attention from
God -- initiated this process. Therefore, that root has been
the root of human relationship ever since the beginning of
that first family. The same way that Satan seduced and
tempted Eve, so did Eve seduce and tempt Adam, thereby
reversing the position. Adam should have been standing in
the position of elder son, but he was seduced into
submission by Eve who stood in the position of his younger
sister. In other words, it was a chain effect of
self-centered love starting from Satan to Eve to Adam. Then,
once Adam and Eve had children centered upon that love, it
also infiltrated their children, Cain and Abel. That’s why
Cain killed Abel out of jealousy, not aligning with God’s
plan for the Providence of Restoration. Isn’t that right?
So we see the seeds of
false love or self-centered love planted ever since the
beginning of human creation and we see that seeds being
compounded throughout the course of human history. That
reality exists around us, in our world around us, does it
not?
Demarcation Line of Good
and Evil
But what was God’s motive?
What was the impulse that God had when He created humanity
in the first place? Was it a self-centered motivation to
gratify His divine power and greatness? Or was it prompted
by a desire to substantiate a love partner who He could
invest and raise? God’s impulse behind the creation of
humanity was true love, sacrificial love -- love of living
for the sake of others. When Adam and Eve fell away from
God, what prompted God to start the Providence of
Restoration? What do you think that was? Once again, it was
true love -- to find His love partner.
If I have to clearly
illustrate the two different impulses that brought about
what destroyed all of God’s dream and plan versus what
motivated God to create humanity in the first place, it was
"false love" on one side and it was "true love" on the other
side. Throughout the course of history the demarcation line
of good and evil stood on those polar realms. That is why if
you look at the Core Values that I outlined, the first Core
Value is living for the greater good. This is the
demarcation line: What is the motivation?
I know especially in the
past that among the Second Generation many people thought
they wanted to go to the public mission. But, when I looked
at them, I sensed their motivation -- in other words, I knew
that they would not walk in the public course in the proper
way. They would say, "Okay, if I go and do the public
mission, what can I get out of it?"
When I first started
speaking publicly within the Unification Church --
especially, at that time there was a lot of criticism toward
True Family -- I came across the leaders and members of our
movement. They were very critical with venomous tongues
saying, "I gave 20 years of my life to this movement but
what did I get out of it?" Oftentimes, I heard this kind of
things. I remember at that moment I made a decision that
when I looked at that type of people, I would say, "If you
do not make up your mind to go to the public mission
according to the right motivation and impulse that is in
alignment with God and His providence, you have no business
worth walking the public course. In other words, you do not
walk this course because you calculate that you will get
something in return."
You have to know this very
clearly. Even today, when I look at some leaders and members
of our movement, I know what their motivation is and I find
that their motivation is not in alignment with God’s
motivation. That is why the cultural war is the battle that
we must win. What are the values of the Unification Church?
What are the values of the Second Generation? What is that
which holds us together? It has to be in alignment with God
and His providence.
Win the Cultural Battle!
Um … I’m a very strong
person. Once I make up my mind to do something, even if
there is such a big enemy in front of me, I’m not be
intimidated by that big enemy. Whenever I speak in front of
the leaders and members of our movement, you don’t know how
many times I have to fight the internal battle of why I’m
walking this course in which so many people that I see
around me disappoint me! But, do you know what motivates me
to do what I’m doing? Regardless of how many battles that I
have to fight, why do I take on this mantle of leadership
and relentlessly explain that we need to win this cultural
war? If your motivation for doing things are not correct,
you will not be the type of person that will lead the
Unification Church to be a victorious instrument to bring
about God’s will on earth. So you must win this cultural
battle, or else I don’t care what you do now.
I have to be honest with
you, especially in Korea. I don’t like coming to Korea.
There’s too much baggage here. I feel suffocated. We have to
change this culture. Especially you Second Generation kids,
STF members, Soonjeondan members and 120-day mobilization
team, if you want to become leaders, you must take that
responsibility. You must win the cultural battle! You have
to set a new standard. You must have the right motivation of
why you take on the public mission. Only then do we have a
future. However, if you just go on like now -- even if you
bow down to True Parents many times -- it will be
meaningless. It is just hollow lip service -- no substance.
I’m not a politician. If I
ever decide to become a politician, I will probably become
the best politician. But I will feel really bad if my mind
works like a politician. People should live heartistically.
What your heart tells you -- not what your head tells you --
should be the way that you go. That is a language in which
God speaks and all of spirit world speaks.
This revolution of heart
should happen especially in Korea. If the Korean Second
Generation cannot fulfill this mission, then I will ask the
Japanese Second Generation. If the Japanese Second
Generation cannot do it, then I will ask the American Second
Generation. If the American Second Generation cannot do it,
then I will go to South America or Africa. In other words, I
will win this cultural battle no matter what I have to do to
fulfill it. We must win this cultural battle! Amen!
Core Values as the
Qualities of True Leadership
Then, what is the first
component of our Core Values? Living for the sake of others
or living for the greater good! You cannot go on a public
mission with a self-centered motivation. The reason why you
go on a public mission should be because you want to live
for the sake of others. What’s the second component? You
have to become an owner.
I’m sure you are thinking,
"Hyun Jin Nim is a member of the True Family, so he hasn’t
suffered any hardship." But that is not true. I have gone
through all sorts of hardships. So I know what hardship is.
Yet it is not a bad thing. The more hardships you go
through, the stronger you become because you have to
overcome it. And at the same time, God raise you through it.
In other words, if you can be victorious in your hardship,
then you will go up. That’s why you should have ownership.
Especially, when you look at a vision or a goal, then you
can’t think that that is someone else’s. You have to make it
yours, and then you have to focus 100%, 200% on that vision
or goal.
I told you about God’s
character once. God wants to live for the sake of others.
Therefore, if your motivation is living for the sake of
others, then you can say, "I have a character like God." And
God is the owner of all things. So, when things don’t work
out, God Himself rolls up His sleeves and fixes the problem
as the owner. Same thing with you guys -- if you want to
become an owner like God, you should also have that
ownership mentality. That’s why I don’t like to receive help
from someone. I always think, "No matter how difficult it
is, I have to do it myself." Now I’m 36 years old in Korean
age. I think it is only because I have this kind of
character that I have been able to accomplish this much up
until now.
In the end the Core Values
which I’m teaching you -- living for the greater good,
ownership, teamwork, and dream big -- are the qualities of
true leadership. In other words, if you want to become a
leader, then you need these qualities. Especially here in
this report, you saw the ownership. If you become an owner,
you can accomplish things that are bigger than your dreams.
Once you do that, you will have more confidence so you will
be able to expand that even further. That is the ownership.
Think about it. You didn’t
believe me when you first heard me say, "CARP is going to
grow really big and we are going to have a rally mobilizing
10,000 people here in Korea and 100,000 people in Japan."
What did CARP have at the time? CARP in Korea was
dismantled. But, three years later, how much did it change?
Why do you think I had such confidence? Because I was an
arrogant person? Because I thought I was smart enough to do
that? No! Because I had such confidence through all the
hardships I had gone through. Why am I sending you out to
STF, fundraising or witnessing? Because I want to raise you
as leaders through these kinds of training.
Importance of the
Experience-Based Education
You have to pay your dues.
And you have to pay your dues through "experience." Many
times, I outline the CARP epistemology -- the way that
people learn. The way that you take ownership over
conceptual ideas is by experiencing it, by owning it!
Although I recognize the importance of cognitive education
or traditional forms of education, more important is the
experience-based education.
When you go out witnessing
and fundraising, you have to look at that experience from
the lens of the Core Values to internalize it and to get the
lessons from it for your own personal enrichment and growth.
If you’re able to look at the experience from that
perspective and internalize the lessons from it, then you
will naturally grow. And in the process of naturally growing
you will actually start to embody the Core Values. Once you
embody them, you will be naturally a leader. In other words,
you will naturally embody the qualities of leadership.
That’s why one of things I’m doing in CARP is actually
changing the traditional forms of education.
I don’t really believe in
classroom lectures. I went to all the best universities in
the world, but I still don’t like classroom lectures. It’s
not effective. Even when I’m training outside people, I’m
finding out that it’s actually more effective to give them
an experience to teach them about values than to give them a
course on values. In my consultation with many consulting
groups that deal with Human Resource Development (HRD) and
education, they all cite to the studies that are done in
educating adults. The studies show that adults do not learn
through didactic forms of education -- the type of
traditional education that we have today; actually, the most
effective way to teach adults is the experience-based
education. Now, did I come to this conclusion of the CARP
epistemology five years ago because I studied human behavior
and organizational behavior in a classroom or because I
learned it through my own experience and observation?
If you actually think
about the mechanics of education, God had already instilled
the mechanics of education within the original family. How
do you learn about love? Can you know what love is by
reading a book written by a Ph. D.? You have to experience
it. You know that it exists because you experienced it. So
the original way that people should have learned things that
are broad in scope and deep in depth, things that affect our
inner compass, such as values, love, etc., was through
experience -- that is, direct give-and-take action.
If that is the case, how
important then is "culture" in part of the education
process? Think about it. Why is it that people in our
movement are actually not living for the sake of others but
are self-centered, although we advocate the values, such as
living for the sake of others, sacrificing and forgetting,
etc.? Why is it that in reality, our people covet position,
power and money, although we talk about not coveting
position, power and money? Why does that reality exist? I
don’t know. I would venture to say that this is a classical
example of the cognition-based education taking precedence
over the experience-based education. Even though the values
are what you’re taught, if they are not being experienced
within your community, you will pick up whatever negative
culture exists within that community. In other words, your
values will become empty words.
Set the Right Culture
within the Unification Movement First
Think about it. When you
witness to outside students teaching the Divine Principle,
what will they learn if you yourselves don’t live the
Principle within the center? In other words, their only
understanding of the Principle will be through how you
within the center embody the Principle, will it not? If you
embody a wrong culture, that is the first thing they will
pick up on. So it doesn’t necessarily matter what you say,
but what is more important is what you are and what you
represent. Does that sound right or wrong?
Now then, think about it
again. Why do I say, "We need to win the cultural war
first."? If I speak honestly, do you think there’s a right
culture within our movement? I really don’t know. Yet, when
I look at our leadership, I don’t feel we have the right
culture within our movement. People I hate the most are
politicians who have no strong conviction and values and
that have no sense of righteousness. They are fallen in the
heart, flip-flop like the wind. I hate those kinds of
people. But I sometimes find myself surrounded by such
people.
So, do I think that
there’s the right culture within our movement, or not? If
there’s going to be hope for the Second Generation, if
there’s going to be anything that I can see to commit my
life to, it will be this: "to set the right culture in the
Unification Movement." If the culture is right, then in
terms of moving the rest of the world, the Cain-type world,
no problem! What you have to do is you have to align your
word and deed. Then, when we go to the outside world, the
outside world will recognize the value that we bring. No
doubt about it in my mind. We cannot just say thing that
sounds good if we cannot substantiate it. It has to be
substantiated. That is why, focused on the Core Values
initiative, I am waging this cultural war. Amen!
Can you become the owners
of the Core Values? [Yes!] I’m gaining more and more energy
now. Actually I wasn’t quite inspired to give a speech today
because I knew that I would speak about the same thing
again. How many times have I given the speech about the Core
Values? Yet, why is it still so important? If you really
want to find a nation, everything has to be focused on that
point. If the Unification Church is going to be the agent in
which we find the nation, then that house has to be in order
first -- where word and deed comes into alignment. If
there’s any inconsistency, that is the place Satan will
attack. It’s kind of like a star athlete trying to prepare
for a game internally and externally -- everything has to be
in alignment and in focus.
If we’re able to
substantiate this culture in CARP first and show the rest of
the Unification Movement what CARP can do, then they will
change quickly. Once our movement changes completely and
word and deed are in absolute alignment, then there will be
no stopping what we can do. It’s like all the cells in your
body -- although millions and billions of cells, they are
all individual cells, they’re all striving for one singular
purpose in total, absolute alignment to maintain your life.
Now, think about the potential power that can be generated
if an organization is able to embody this culture. There is
nothing that you cannot do. Of course, the spirit world also
acknowledges you.
It seems like everything I
get involved in somehow turns out okay. Do you think so? Why
does this happen? What I’m teaching you now is the guiding
principles that I have followed to come this far. In other
words, everything that I was able to do up until this point,
I guided myself based upon these principles. Alignment is
key. In other words, the reason why I’m able to speak with
such confidence is because I know we are moving the
direction of history, God’s providence. Therefore,
regardless of how much opposition I faced, I’m able to hold
on to that confidence.
Let’s Become the Owners of
the Core Values!
If you really embody the
Core Values, you can become a leader. You have to make the
Core Values yours. No matter how often I teach you the Core
Values, if you don’t want to make them yours, then there’s
no meaning. It all depends on you. Do you want to become the
owners of the Core Values? Yes or no? [Yes!] Wow, then, we
can change this nation of Korea.
I’m sure that when your
parents see you, they will say, "Wow, my kid has changed so
much through the STF program." Then they will think, "Well,
I thought CARP or Hyun Jin Nim has been saying some strange
words, but he is actually teaching good things to the kids."
Then they are going to wonder, "What is he teaching?" My
speech book which includes my public speeches of the past
five years is coming out now and, if your parents are
curious to know what I have been teaching, tell them to buy
the book and to read it. Then you can change your parents.
So, instead of thinking that we have to change the leaders
of the Unification Church, change your parents first, change
your family first. Can you do that?
We have the STF program in
America too, right? I changed everything there -- kids are
now going out on the frontline, doing fundraising and
witnessing. In the beginning all the parents opposed, "Why
does Hyun Jin Nim send our kids out fundraising? It’s so
dangerous." But the kids wanted to go out! By the way, when
the first class finished and the kids went back to see their
parents, the parents were completely shocked at the
transformation of their kids. So now the best supporters of
the STF program in America are the parents. They are coming
up to me to say, "Thank you for initiating this new STF
program for my kids." When they come, I scold severely, "You
thought that I would create this program to destroy your
kids, did you not? You didn’t trust me. I don’t even want to
see you!"
You may feel bad if I talk
about your parents like this, right? But, from the Principle
perspective, your parents are my younger brothers and
sisters. Then, what is your relationship to me? You are my
nieces and nephews. The elder brother scolds and punishes
his younger brothers and sisters, does he not? That’s the
Korean tradition.
The reason why I created
this STF program is for you. I know that I have to invest in
people in order to raise them. And also it’s not good to let
them walk an easy path. I ask myself, "What’s the most
valuable thing that I can give to my children?" What would
that be? Giving money? Giving my company? Giving positions?
No! I think the most valuable thing that I can give to my
children is to raise them as value creators -- in other
words, for them to become leaders who have that kind of
ability. That’s why becoming a leader does not necessarily
mean just getting a position. You have to earn it.
When I look at you, the
young people and the Second Generation of our movement,
what’s the most important thing that I can give you? It’s
the same thing. If you are the children of my younger
brothers and sisters, then you are like my own children. So
what’s the most important? That is to raise you and make you
leaders. That’s why I created this STF program. Is it a good
initiative or not? I’m sure in the future all the great
leaders of our movement -- just like the person who Kyunghyo
just reported of -- will come from STF. Not Kyunghyo, but
the center leader. No, I’m just kidding. Kyunghyo, you are
great too. How many years of missionary work did you do,
Kyunghyo? [Five years] He also has a good story. That’s why
I like him. What was your mission country, Kyunghyo?
[Ukraine] When he was there, True Mother was doing a
speaking tour. At that time, his first child went to the
spirit world. Yet, because he had to fulfill his public
responsibility, he stayed and prepared for the event, not
being able to attend his child’s Seunghwa Ceremony. When I
look at people like that, my heart is naturally drawn to
them. That’s why he is also great.
Now, I have to leave,
although I want to stay with you more -- you are so cute and
lovely in my eyes. You have to know this clearly: "I have to
become the owners of the Core Values." So, STF, 120-day
mobilization team and Soonjeondan, no matter what kind of
program you do, do it in the Core Values perspective! And
even if this program is over, continue to work in this Core
Values perspective! Then you can become a true owner and a
great leader. Amen!
