How
are you doing? Another day of judgment. (laughs)
I want to share with you about something which is basic,
teamwork.
People think about
teamwork in all sorts of different ways I guess. Even I heard that
it’s a sign of the changing times that young people get together and they
become day traders (on the stock market) and come together and share
information with each other.
Some people gather
together at church after Sunday service and get a little rally going and
that’s how they get their allowance. It’s a different kind of world.
To every one of them teamwork has a different meaning. We can have
team work on the physical level, intellectual level or people like us. If
anything matters it has to be spiritual.
Because everything else
is underneath it right? So that’s the priority, of course it’s important in
terms of reality. However on the bigger scheme of things, what’s important
is the hereafter, and dying well is another way to put it. The dying
well concept is the ultimate control, controlling your life, controlling
your living well for the inevitable … death (laughs).
So, it’s controlled
living. So that’s what we’re trying to accomplish on a daily basis.
Everything that we’re curious about and therefore we gather information is
all about controlled living in the end, the best way that you know how.
Some things are so tremendous because they are so expansive and difficult
that you can’t do them alone. You need a community, your extension to a
greater family.
Everybody belongs to
some family. If you look at a single unit of family it’s like looking at
certain people, if there’s a standard test, some people do well; some
people don’t. Some families need some special help. Right? That kind of
stuff. That’s why you need a kind of support.
In teamwork the most
important thing is having that support base, something that you can depend
on. Because it’s the opposite of independence, Right? Of course you want to
teach your children to be independent and at the same time to be a team
player. Because you want them to go out into the world and be successful
somehow.
But having said that,
before we talk about independence and idiosyncratic individuality, let’s
just focus on teamwork stuff. Why do we need that stuff? Because certain
things are very difficult to achieve alone. That’s why it’s not just for the
sake of taking care of your menial self or your livelyhood, not because of
your faith, because you believe in something greater and basically the life
that you accept in this physical world at present is all about preparing you
for that spiritual and final stage.
And you need that kind
of support. You need people who understand that stuff who can think in
communion with you, and that can take care of you like family and that you
can depend on. Having that kind of stuff is important because without it, it
doesn’t work. Even on a physical level it doesn’t work without that
understanding.
You can’t try to become
a team player with the ulterior motive of being selfish. In the Garden of
Eden and prior to the fall there was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
If you believe in that stuff so be it! Still prior to the fall, the falling
itself existed after that what actually is you HAVE to deal with your
selfishness and selflessness and stuff, individualism, independence, and
dependence.
It always exists whether
you like it or not. It doesn’t matter if everything is good that restoration
is all about. That stuff starts all over again. The fall of Man is just the
aftermath of being selfish. That’s about it! THAT IS THE
ABSOLUTE TRUTH!
So how do you go about
changing that; how do you go about dealing with that issue? When you
look around the world it’s still selfish. How do you open up hell if
you don’t control (contain) hell? Hell is nothing other than our
selfishness gone awry out of control. Still even if symbolically every
thing was done, so be it. Then we would still have to go backwards. We still
have to contain selfishness intellectually, that selfishness physically.
It takes time it doesn’t
happen just because of commitment. That is the absolute. If you don’t
understand that you shouldn’t be here; I shouldn’t be talking to you because
that is the basic principle that I understand. How do we go about
changing that reality? Where do we start?
Look at you; look at
yourself; what can you do if that is the basic simple question that we have
to answer. Where do you stand? What kind of community can we make
ultimately to achieve that goal, the task at hand, somebody has to do it!
Where do you stand? I don’t know you that well and you don’t know me.
So start from someplace
where you can create that kind of community with some kind of passion. Find
the people that you can relate well with and create a community. I don’t
care if you focus on spiritual or intellectual or physical things. I really
don’t care; that’s not important. Find somebody and create a community. I
think that’s very healthy as long as we clearly understand why we’re here.
But all that, in the
end, should come together if you understand that rule of thumb and that
should be absolute, knock yourself out! Why? Some people can’t do it alone.
Even the greatest man, even father can’t do it alone. That’s why He needs
you. Don’t feel shame; don’t feel bad. Sometimes you need to reach
out.
The important thing
about finding the people and knowing how that teamwork stuff works, is
knowing what lessons are being taught through the teamwork process.
What’s being taught it that you have to set the team goal, process, and
realistic time duration expectation collectively. It teaches you how to
shape ideas. Then you need to understand your boundaries, In other words
know how to set your limits based on your capability, collectively, because
we’re talking about teamwork here.
And of course, like I
said earlier, it’s important to have a support group because that gives you
something, and it teaches you how to share ideas and keep the check and
balance stuff. For me team work is important because it keeps me
humble. I have to keep myself humble to be with the body of people that I’m
with. Why? Because anything that has worth, anything that is meaningful
should last forever. Why? Because love is eternal.
What is the purpose of
coming together? Its not for me. Its so we can all grow up together. It
keeps me honest. Why because I have to live with those guys. And you’ve got
to have that transparency. It is like a helmet that protects me.
It is some security from falling, hurting myself, doing stupid things; like
I am known for doing.
I react of course, and
sometimes you shouldn’t do that. Hey I’m not perfect. Did I ever say
that I was perfect? (No) Perfection lasts for ever. Do you know that?
It is a pure theoretical concept. That pretty much how you have to see
that stuff and that’s how we have to approach it. Why? Because
ultimately we have to deal with the real world.
Three people that are
difficult to forgive are my ex in-laws and one guy. He’s got a good
job, he works in New York in some advertising somewhere. That’s my reality.
How do you change that? If that’s difficult to change, then how do we change
the world? Do you think it’s going to happen automatically?
Because you believe?
Believe in what? Believe in yourself, do you think that you are holy? Why do
you think that? Why would you think that you are holy? What does that mean?
Do you have lots of holes like a sponge? Maybe then I’ll believe you.
How do you help somebody with that kind of attitude, even if you were?
You can take the fall
for somebody; you can take the blame, you can even go to jail for somebody,
but how do you change the world? The important thing is: “why do I
need teamwork?” I need people to help keep me humble. It keep me honest to
my heart. That is my helmet; that is my security. That’s why it will take an
army of people like this like a tribe to start the change.
(Hyo Jin Nim is becoming
very emotional)
If things are going to
change, you have to reach out, and how do you reach out if everything
ultimately involves power, spiral down physicality in terms of manifestation
we have to communicate. That’s what’s important, that media somehow must be
contained and controlled. We have to have that capacity, otherwise it can
never be done.
How can you do it? How
can it be done? It’s never too late. Something that never goes away, it’s
inevitable; it’s never too late. You just have to remind yourself of that
stuff. Once again, that’s about it. You know, somebody needs to talk
about this kind of stuff. And you have to remind yourself that even when
somebody talks you have to understand how society is changed.
You know that! What the
hell are we doing? Its very very difficult controlling those media because
they pick up all the smart people and they spend a lot of money and spend a
lot of time to get there and even they fail sometimes. There’s no
guarantee, but what’s necessary has to be done one way or the other. Can’t
quit!
If we think that we
can’t do it do we quit believing, you have to be kidding! How are you going
to win with that kind of loser’s attitude? If you really want to
change the world you have to finish. How can I believe it will happen
if I don’t see the stuff to make it happen? I’m not just talking about
physical stuff. We don’t just need intelligence we need SPIRIT!
It’s going to take a
long time. If you think it’s going to happen in your life time you’re crazy.
(Hyo Jin Nim is now in
tears)
I see so many power
mongering politicians in our movement. Any way I believe we can do it
and I’ll do everything that I can. I’ll be a team player too, to do
what ever it takes to (accomplish God’s will) to change the world.
Some things you just can’t do alone.
Okay.
I’ll see you next week.
