Good morning!
(Hyo Jin Nim
pauses to survey the audience. He smiles and says)
There are too many
young people here. Okay.
Whether you like
it or not, one of these days you are going to become
a role model. When we talk about the reality
of how society is, we're always looking for somebody
to blame or someone to glorify.
Why? Because it's
Important whether people in general understand the
concept, it starts from individual to family, and
that family extension gets larger and larger and
larger until society as we know it and to the nation
and ultimately to the world. The vision on a
worldwide scale happens because of a kind of
individuality that can exist even within a family,
that idiosyncratic dominance or preference. That's
why you draw borders and that's what we see as a
result in the ultimate thing.
Whether you're in
a certain race frame work it doesn't matter; somehow
it's going to be divided, and I don't think that is
the intent of God because every religion fails to
describe God in the ideal way as that kind of being,
entity. However we're mystified by the reality,
however lacking in terms of true knowledge, the
bottom line is that God does represent the ideal and
many times a conflict arises even among religions
that believe in a lot of these things because they
don't know the true nature of the ideal. There is a
disparity somewhere. That's why it creates conflict.
So, having said
that, what is the nature of the idealism of God?
According to what we believe God cannot achieve the
end result, the manifestation of the will of God,
True Love without the presence of mankind. So if God
represents the ideal, then man represents something
else. The individual man that we start to create,
humanity starts to become something important in the
whole process of ultimately realizing the will of
God.
When you put God
as a representation, that individuality is humanity,
because God is the representation of the ideal
whether you like it or not. That's why we have
religion. And we want to describe it (the nature of
God) better than the other guy. That's the
competitive factor within religion pursuing one God;
who in the end is more persuasive, who can prove it
better.
The fall occurred
in the Garden of Eden, and because of the fall, all
this chaos and conflict arose from that initial act.
In order to restore that which is so crucial to the
fulfillment of that ideal somebody has to be the
true testimony of what blessing is. Because, as the
objects to God, as far as we're concerned, the whole
creation process is a blessing. Unless you can
restore that blessing, that act of blessing, how do
bless somebody?
Unless you can
bring that back into humanity, and allow humanity to
understand that and, on their own free will, to
learn religion, manifest it to each other and to
God, restoration is just a thought. It is not
tangible; it is not substantial.
If we are
competing with other people to proclaim and give a
testimony a living testimony and be the bearer of
the responsibility of rebuilding the ideal world,
then ultimately that blessing factor has to be
brought back through our efforts into the realm of
humanity. In other words, in the end we have to be
blessed by humanity. Otherwise it's not complete. It
might be directional if you give to people to try to
educate people as to how you can go about achieving
it.
In the general
setting of Christian thinking you have seven
virtues, four cardinal, and three theoretical:
justice, temperance, fortitude, prudence, faith,
hope and charity. We have the basic kind of
direction as to how we are going to represent that
aspect of what God is. In terms of creating the
ideal, we basically have a way in which we can try
to live up to that standard as a basic guideline.
There has to be
something beyond that. There has to be more than
that. So when you talk about being a role model
sometimes, even on a personal level, even when you
have a family, it's a daunting task if you're just
pushed into it. Some people might have been longing
for that kind of opportunity but sometimes it can be
shocking to the system.
How do you go
about achieving the ultimate end of trying to
represent something that is very serious because
many times the importance is lost? When you try to
do anything that doesn't come from the heart it is a
meaningless quest. It is a meaningless task.
That is the difficult thing is trying to understand
the importance of that individual thing, when we
look at the idealism of God and God's
representation. We are an individual to God and God
and humanity has to become one. That aspect of
achieving that important relationship, the value in
that; it takes a lifetime to learn.
How often do you
when you're old and think about something and you
think about your potential and many times you want
to show off and practice that basic virtue stuff,
self restraint. All that little stuff that's
important to practice, to understand, the ultimate
value that we have and must understand in relation
to God.
It's difficult.
It's very difficult when you have to think about
dying, because when you talk about value that is
forever and everlasting and has to do with a
relationship with God, it doesn't really matter what
others think while you're breathing. The value as we
know it in the secular realm can't go with you after
death. Valuable things that we believe, as we try to
idealize ourselves, and knowing what God's ideal is
all about therefore I want to make that relationship
workout and know God better; 'I don't know how much
I know now but it has to be more than this. I need
to know more. It has to be greater than this.
As you push
yourself in the end the answer is very simple: The
values that you can take, there not many out there.
There's not many here. You really don't see it.
Things that are going to last; you really don't see
it. It might be easier if money exchanged between
hands and stuff and back and forth, but it's not
like that.
It's about
something that is of love, and try to describe love.
How do you love your children? Pretty much that's
the basic standard. God loves you right? God loves
His children. In what way? How do you love your
children?
Can you take that
and put it in to someone that you don't know? That's
difficult, but it can be done. That's the trial in
fact. That's what we try to accomplish ultimately in
the end. And how is that going to happen? I can't
give you that answer. It's on a one-to-one basis.
You can try to
simplify it but you can be over simplifying things
if you're not careful. You have to know who you are.
If you have to oversimplify something it got to be
sort of an extreme circumstance, and yet you have to
ask your self 'Why do I want to oversimplify this?
What am I getting? What am I looking for? What am I
trying to get out of this stuff? In what way?
Because unless its
war, oversimplification always is not ideal. Why
because I don't know you, and I don't know you
(pointing to audience members) and I can't say that
you and you are identical. That's the problem.
That is the
problem of dealing with people in developed nations.
The level of expectation and self value, of course
it varies, but it's very, very different in a
developed nation. That's the problem. But that's not
un-ideal. Everybody wants that kind of special
attention right?
You can't fault
you guys for that kind of desire. That's why it
takes commitment. You have to realize what's right
and what's wrong and it takes time and it takes time
for us to figure that out even as we swim through
this confusion of all these variations and
differences and all sorts of separate existence.
It takes time. And
it will take a life time for some people. And it
will take a life time to the next generation until
that is realized. It's not going to happen
overnight. That's the reality and accepting it is a
big step. You asked for it and you're going to get
it. There is no exception to that rule.
I question myself
some times. How far can I go along this path? There
are many separate ways I could get off. I've figured
that out. How far am I going to stay on this path?
It's up to you. You can't force somebody to do that.
I guess to have to
have that desire for what is of true value to me. I
must ask that and answer that to myself. That's the
only way I'm going to be a role model to my
children. One way, good or bad they're going to use
me as an excuse. Right?
So how far? I
don't know. What is my highest or what is my
greatest? I don't know. How far can I go? I
don't know. Do I want to get there? Do I want
to win? I guess so. Something like that.
That's all I can say sometimes, most of the time.
It's better than
you having all the answers on that day. Then you
should go to sleep & because you're no good when
you're awake. (Laughter) Anyway, take care of
yourselves, Okay?
I'll see you soon.
I'll miss you a
little bit.
(Hyo Jin Nim is
going to Korea for True Parent's Birthday and then
will tour with his band in Japan. He will be gone
for over a month.)
