Good morning.
Let’s talk about a little lofty topic
today. Today’s topic is "Building a world of True Love"
Everybody wants love? (Yes) True Love?
(Yes) What is love to you? Can you help me out? Let me hear your
opinion; what is love to you? (Someone answers "living for the sake of
others") Living for the sake of others, can we all agree on that?
Is that the definition of love? Life
is an offering right? Love is an offering. When you make a vow of love
and you open your hearts in matrimony you make the vow to care, to cherish,
to love "till death do us part" and beyond. Basically it’s that; it’s
the offering of each other.
If you put True on top of it that then
what changes in terms of the definition? Does anything change? Or is this
something that you add on to that offering? I think "True" is
something that is added on to the basic definition. That’s the greatest that
you possess.
That’s what your individual Truth is.
Everybody has individual Truth. You can’t just talk about universality all
the time. Before you talk about universality, you have to define yourself
clearly. You have to know how to present yourself and be yourself in the
best way possible, the greatest that you possess. That is your
individual truth and nobody can deny that fact because we are in some way…
Look. The concept of idiosyncrasy is that
little thing that makes you different; but it’s much deeper than that. Based
on the notion of what we basically understand, individual truth is the
greatest offering that we can make for the sake of others, not for the sake
of your selfish exploitation reasons.
Of course everything can turn bad.
Everything good can be turned bad. You know the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil comes from the same root. It’s the same tree but you take the fruit
and it can give you false knowledge and at the same time true knowledge.
Basically that’s where we are in the end.
That’s why responsibility is crucial. That’s why failure to do that causes
all sorts of problems and ultimately when you are faced with problems you
have to address, you have to remedy it. You have to rectify it if need be.
That’s when things get complicated. That’s the basic premise.
So when you talk about True Love, you have
to answer that question to yourself: "What is my greatest self?" Because
that’s the offering that you’re going to make, if you want to achieve True
Love with something other than yourself. Now that you have to answer: What
is your greatest offering?
I have no idea. I’m still struggling with
mine. What is my greatest offering? I have all sorts of ideas about how much
I can contribute in this and that, but I’m still struggling to find the
greatest… at my own level. I know in kind of general terms which direction
that I should go because I have a big hint, called my name. (Laughter)
That’s the first thing that I have to
before I think of anything else on my own. If you accept the concept of
subject-object relationship because it’s important because you have to
understand your boundaries right?
We have form; that’s why we have
existence. Life doesn’t exist without form. If you don’t have form you don’t
exist. What does that tell you? It tells you that there is a boundary that
you have to understand and that you have to accept. Otherwise you’re
nothing. It’s not even in the category of death. You just don’t exist.
That’s where you have to start, with the
basic stuff in search of greater truth. If you what to change the world,
pretty much that’s where you have to start…..yourself… then family, and
realistically if you try to actually create a world like that, the next
level is the local church. That’s about it.
The locality before you talk about
districts and regions and nations bla bla. No matter how you segment it, it
doesn’t matter. You have to expand based on what is expandable in reality.
How do things expand in reality? That is the key question that you always
have to address whether you like it or not. Just because you think big
constantly doesn’t guarantee that it’s going to happen in practicality.
You can talk about the importance of
having a nation and the body of it or structure of it, but that’s just a
skeleton if you don’t have what it takes to build something that is concrete
and substantial and it has to be real. Expansion has to be based on what is
fundamentally real. That’s where you actually, literally, beyond your
family, practice True Love. If you practice that stuff, it’s not something
far away, it’s right there, right in front of you, just beyond your own
individual family. That’s important.
No matter how good you are at anything,
you constantly have to practice if you want to expand, accomplish. Otherwise
your mastery is just in your head. It has nothing to do with a reality that
others can touch and feel. Without that people don’t change. People
force change. That’s why you get a confused group of people. You create
greater confusion. What has to change is something that is fundamentally
based, and fundamentally can grow in reality. From that we can make
something happen in a bigger way.
If that spreads, if that is the basic
foundation that things are focused on and things are encouraged, and things
are supported, sure! We can build our own nation. Sure! Because it’s doable.
It is real. The reality is based on substantial grounds for physical
expansion. Expansion can actually be measured and you can actually see the
change and feel the effects.
Through that kind of give-and-take,
because people are in it; they’re sensitive not just with their spirit or
subconscious mind or intellect. IT’S REAL! Even the process of trying to
teach your children to do the right thing becomes easier because you can say
"Hey! Look at that! Look at this!" It’s not arbitrary; its’ not cryptic;
it’s not abstract; it’s there. I know a thing or two about symbolism.
What good is it is it if you don’t have a substantial foundation in which
that symbolism can be the juice that makes you expand?
Yes, it can be done. You can build the
world based on true love, but it starts with the right way of approach.
Starting from the individual you have to ask basic questions, simple
questions, and when you answer it, can you take it to the next level and you
mean it as much as it was important to you to find what ever is the greatest
that you are that you’re willing to make the offering for the sake of
whatever… Even for your own good. For your goodness sake.
You don’t try to be good just because you
have so many fans right? You want to be good because it makes you feel good
most of the time. I don’t understand how people say I want to be good
because of my fans and stuff. That’s nice.
I believe that everyone has something true
to offer. True love encourages true offering because that’s what it is. I
know you want it. If you really want it, that’s what you have to do. Don’t
just talk about it. Go for it.
And if you do, others will recognize that,
and if it is true love it will be embedded in their heart. I don’t know how
long, eons, whatever. I don’t know. I’m not dead yet.
Can we build something in true love? (Yes)
and if so, it starts from…. I believe it’s important to be involved in your
local churches beyond your family; it’s just a step above. The more you do
it will be good for you and good for the church in the end. That’s what you
can do to practice what you do normally for yourself and your individual
family.
See how much you can expand, how much
you’re willing to volunteer beyond coercion. (Hyo Jin Nim laughs) Because
when you’re in true love It’s not just a coerced act, you volunteer right?
When you have a loving relationship how can it be a loving relationship when
you always have to write a contract for every give-and-take? I think
something else is more important in that kind of relationship. THINGS!
Bill Gates and this other guy have one
hundred billion dollars in their foundation. In twenty years it will
probably become a trillion dollars. There are so many things out there that
will give you high interest. At about 8% in about seven years it will double
your money.
When you have that kind of money there are
so many ways that you can squeeze money out of people that want to use your
mind. If you have a trillion dollars to spend, that’s pretty substantial in
the physical world. Sure you can do a whole lot of good just with that
money. Unless you have that bottom line you can’t even try to think like
that. Don’t. Because in the, end you’ll only get stupid. That’s about it.
Why are they chosen to be that rich? I
don’t know. Ask God. (Laughter) Know yourself. Know your intent.
Okay? And if you have desire, please check it. If you don't want
to ask questions about yourself, who’s going to? You can’t be true if
you can’t stand up for yourself in the end. To yourself and to God…
That’s the only thing that is important
when it comes to defense. Because that’s the only thing that matters, should
matter, to an individual. Otherwise if you do everything right you
don’t need to defend your self, right? Others will know.
True Love… Don’t think it’s too far. It
starts from you.
Okay?
Take care of yourselves.
