Good Morning. How are
you feeling today? Are you happy? (Laughter) Let’s share
about joy. When do we feel joyful, happy? May I ask you
a question? When do you feel happy? Anybody want to
share their answer with us? (Several audience members
responded over the next several minutes. There were
answers from spiritual and philosophical to very
physical and a lot of laughter)
We could go on and on like this, but there
is a theme in anything that we do in life, because it’s all about lessons,
about knowing something. Knowing something gives you that joy; nothing else.
It’s up to you; you prefer a certain
perspective in a moment in time. If you try to look at the reality of a die,
that has six sides or six perspectives to it. In order to understand just
the dice reality, you have to know those six perspectives.
Let’s say there’s more, a sphere and every
perspective is the size of a pin head. Just to create a sphere the size of a
marble you will have hundreds of perspectives. When you consider a
perspective the size of a pin head, that’s reality; that’s where you start.
Knowing gives you joy. Oh I got a raise; I
got promoted. It’s that thing that gives you the recognition from others.
You don’t live alone and there is some counterpart in terms of your
relationships whether it is divine or horizontal; it doesn’t matter. That
knowing that somebody thinks I’m worth something that gives you joy. I got
more money so I can buy what ever I want; I got a position that I think I
deserve, because someone appreciates you. Joy comes from knowing that.
Joy is knowing what God intended,
religiously speaking, about your true self, because its only when you’re
true to yourself, that you can truly understand who you are, that you can
truly be joyful. You don’t need anything else. That alone will suffice. And
you can grow from there.
The way, the speed, the manner, the
quality, in which you grow is up to you. It all starts from that because it
is all about fulfilling the will of God. What is the will of God, creating
an ideal world. How big, how much, it doesn’t matter.
Father has many children. I don’t think
everyone of them wants to be elder son. I don’t think that’s proper. It
would be absolutely chaotic if that happens. I don’t think everybody wants
to be the younger son either. Even that won’t happen because you belong to
something and if you do, you do as who you are, not somebody else.
In the beginning Father was accused of all
sorts of things. People came because they wanted truth and they were getting
fire. They were getting a spiritual experience physically. During that time
the wife of the president of Korea was an American citizen, Maria Park. She
was a devout Christian that accused us of all sorts of things because a lot
of things were happening at that time. Young people from the highest
educational institutions were joining in droves.
They accused Father of doing all sorts of
crazy things like putting an electrical blanket on the floor to make people
think they felt fire. There were a lot of spiritual people joining too, all
sorts of crazy people. Some of it was legitimate. How can you know about
spirit? Do you know about spirit? You can’t really say. Some people (‘s
spiritual experiences) might be legitimate. The final test is the test of
time. There was physical stuff that was alluring; there was spiritual
stuff that was alluring, but the most important thing is that the bulk of
Father’s ministry is about intelligence.
When he goes back to finalize His own
mission, his personal mission, whether he goes through spirit world or using
his palace, of course there’s a physical ministry ... How may people (here)
come from the former Soviet Union? (Several young people raise their hands.)
I know that you guys come from that area. You need those kinds of places,
those great halls to do politics right; to play a role in society right? Not
just in this society, global society. Those kinds of things, that’s his
course.
Put that aside. Let’s talk about us.
That’s not really important to us. That’s what he has to do. What’s
important to us is how we understand, how we adapt and adjust and make our
mark in the scheme of things in this providence, in this dispensation in the
way He sees it.
Let’s pull back and talk about joy. How do
we feel joy? Let’s talk about sex. It’s about the consummation of
procreation. When that moment happens the intellect rises up to the spirit.
You feel something that is real and from that you recognize something,
because it’s real you’re knowing something; you’re recognizing something,
something that was meant to be. That gives you joy. You can translate it
cheaply into just physical pleasure, but it’s more than that because you are
more than just a body. It’s about knowing your true identity, all about your
self, everything that is about yourself.
In the end you have to know about the
intent of God. Knowing that is knowing truly how you’re designed. Without
knowing your design you can never be happy. Let’s talk about dying. To me
it’s just something natural. You don’t want to make too much fuss about it.
You came from something and you’re going back to something. You think dying
is bad? You came from something and you’re going back to something. That’s
it. If you know this dying doesn’t look that bad.
Time seems to go by so fast, but what if
it never ends? Time will fly, it will go. Time won’t exist, but it never
ends. You’re part of that. Knowing that is something. Why should we fear the
eternal time, time that never ends? You fear it because to us this life is
important. There are many ways to die, natural causes; you can die of
disease, die of accident, die of murder, and by suicide. Natural is the best
way.
You will die. That’s inevitable. You want
to live an eternal life, that you have to know about an eternal life, and if
there’s a process about which you learn about yourself dying, that that’s
the process you will inevitably, whether you like it or not, because you
will die. What’s the purpose of putting you through that kind of
process? To accept the eternal life that never ends. Time moves forward but
it never ends. Yes, there are struggles in life; those peaks and valleys but
can you handle it? That’s how we struggle practically speaking.
What’s the point? Why do you have to face
dying? Think about a situation. What will be the thing that you would feel
Okay about dying? When you think you know something. Think about that.
Little kids become soldiers that defend their country. What kind of knowing
keeps them going out knowing that they might not come back from their
mission each day? They keep doing it because it is their duty. How does that
work? What is that knowing? Do you have that kind of knowing as if you are a
kid going into war? That kid might not be as dumb as you. He might be
smarter than you, but he’s willing to do that. What does he know that I
don’t know?
What do you know? What do you know about
dying? If you want to be truly happy you have to know. Know what? What you
are dying for. Dying is the ultimate way to discover why you were born. Only
you know why. People die for all sorts of reasons, even patriotic. They do
it because they know what birth is all about. That’s how they think. That’s
who they are. They connect themselves from birth to death. That gives them
that kind of defining answer, that knowing, that they feel who is me.
Nothing else matters.
What is that? Only you know who the best
you is. Only you know the true nature of your spirit, your mind, and your
body. Yes there can be some kind of standard, but it doesn’t matter if you
have a standard of measurement. In the end its how you think that matters.
What good is a law if no one is willing to accept it, if you have a
government where you make laws superficially but everything else is corrupt?
That country will pay for that. What good is a law when we the citizens
don’t understand the true meaning of it?
It’s of no use. It will not work. When one
man dies, like Father dies, everything will crumble. There is no guarantee.
The only guarantee is what we’re willing to die for. If we have more of that
we can change the world, because we know clearly who we’re dealing with.
Knowing is joy. Knowing increases our vulnerability and therefore increases
our survivability.
Let us survive as a unit then we’d better
know that we’re dying for. I hope everybody in the picture feels the
same way. Other wise we’re not different than anybody else as an
organization. You have to get some basic things right or otherwise we’re no
different.
What can we show that we’re better at? We
know how to squeeze money out of people, especially the Japanese. I don’t
think that’s something we can be so proud of in comparison with other
religions. I know they are guilt ridden because they did a lot of bad
things, but that is in the past. We want to move forward Okay. The only
people that seem to like me are Japanese. (Laughter)
There a lot of things that we can
appreciate, that can give us joy. It doesn’t always have to be big. It can
also be the opposite. Find the meaning in life. Tweak yourself. Find what
makes you feel joy in as truthful way as possible. Don’t put stupid thoughts
in your head that it always has to be big. If small things give you that
sense (of joy), that’s the stuff that is tailor made for you. That’s what’s
necessary for you in the moment in time. That’s what you need to focus on.
Always try to think in (terms of) duality.
That will give you some sense of stability. It’s very important when you try
to go forward to have that sense of stability that you’re going in the right
direction for you that might be the way. There are myriads of ways. Just
look at it as a spectrum, night and day, that kind of spectrum, big and
small, high and low, whatever. Max it out! Put it into the context of
extreme.
Wherever you understand the sense of joy,
that’s where it should start. Discover yourself. I’m not asking you to
do crazy stupid things. Don’t take my words as an excuse to do all sorts of
crazy stuff, okay?
As a church we need to give more
information out. We can easily access knowledge, not just about what Father
is doing. I don’t always need to know exactly what Father is doing, because
I know that he will do his course. Individually we should try to make
a difference. If you’re not doing that, shame on you. There is no other way.
Otherwise what is right and what is wrong?
It’s difficult to admit that you’re wrong.
It’s difficult to be punished. My joy will be to know that Shin-Gil has
found his place and that he is okay and moving forward. That will give me
joy, personally speaking. I could care less about the rest. Why? Because I’m
a human being and I need to grow. I need joy. I need to know.
Did you see the "Extreme Makeover" on TV?
ABC realized that the cable channels home improvement stuff is gaining
momentum so they have "Extreme Home Makeover." People see their house and
get excited. I suppose that’s joy too. Some people cry their eyeballs out
when they win the lottery. That knowing right; ah, I got a nice house; I got
a big bank account. Knowing it gives you joy.
What do you want to know? That’s the
question. You should ask yourself that everyday. I wake up every morning and
ask "What am I dying for?" It’s important. If you don’t do it nobody is
going to do it for you. Certain things you just have to do for yourself. You
sit on the toilet you clean your own butt. Some things you just have to take
care of yourself.
Something that is that important you
consider it like cleaning your butt after you go to the bathroom. You can’t
ask someone to clean it for you. How ever you chop it up between body,
mind and spirit you have to measure it according to yourself. Make sure that
you have the standard "When I go to the toilet I clean my own butt."
Like cleaning my own butt, only I am
responsible for knowing exactly what I’m doing. I’m not going to blame
anybody. If you see somebody with a dirty butt, that’s their problem, nobody
else has to clean it up for them. "It’s your problem. It’s nobody
else’s problem… and then you die." (Laughter) It’s not that bad. You’re
going to a place where you will actually feel the time, but it never ends.
One more point. In this life time nothing
is forever is automatic. There is manual labor involved okay? So you have to
find the joy. I don’t know your name. I don’t know your idiosyncratic stuff.
You’ve got to find it.
Okay? Take care.
See you next week.
