How have you been
doing? (Hyo Jin Nim last spoke at Belvedere Feb
18th. He has just returned from performing in Korea
and Japan.)
Is everybody OK?
Let’s talk about
self.
You know there are
so many self-help books out there. Improve yourself
this way or that way… What is the first step?
If you read any books that is the kind of guidance
that you want. Normally if they have a proper
perspective it has to focus on you. You have
the answer. What is your best? What can you do best?
That is the first answer you need. You have to
question yourself and give the answer. You
have to do that. What can I do best?
For the time being
just put aside the idea that "I want to be the best,
the greatest." Just what can I do best?
Knowing your limits and because everything has its
time and place. Time ticks forward so
you have to think in the present before you think
about the future.
And when you think
about the present and knowing the limit means that’s
how you lived and you think about history. That’s
when you think about the past. Finding your
best if you have to make that conclusion, you can
only find it today. Tomorrow might be
different. Hopefully that’s how you’re going to get
better.
So you have to ask
yourself: "what can I do today, what is my best?"
And if you have that insight then you can think
about what is my greatest. And even when you
have that answer of being the greatest that you can
be, then comes the greater responsibility.
If you do, and I
believe we do, as we live with God, in relation with
God, a relationship with God, you have to think
about a greater responsibility. Obviously
you’re not just doing this for yourself, right? So
why do I have my greatest? What is it for? You have
to answer that question too.
That means that
you give, and that’s very inevitable. That’s the
next point; that’s the next phase. The final
phase would be that living that life, you have to
expand because you can always do more. And more is
in tomorrow, never in today or yesterday.
So from there you
find your direction and you invest your life, your
short life. (Laughter) You have to think that
even the greatest is relative. Right? Not everybody
can be number one, the champion.
It sounds nice but
it doesn’t work that way when you try to cram
everyone into a time frame especially in the
present. Do you understand what I’m saying? It
doesn’t work. So what are you chasing? What kind of
understanding do you have toward what is greatest?
It has to be real
to you. You can’t just live a fantasy for the rest
of your life, because if you do your life will take
all sorts of unwanted directions. Why, because
you’re living a lie. You can say it’s a dream,
a fantasy, but if it is not real it can be a fantasy
or a nightmare.
You really have to
know how to pace yourself. First you ask yourself
what is my best. Figure it out! You know yourself.
Nobody else does better than you. Figure it out.
Is it going to take care of me? Will this be able to
take care of me being my best, give me my
self-sufficiency? And from there give me the room or
the possibility to do my will to my nation and to
God?
You have to answer
that question. You have to find that best. Because
it’s a different kind of time. Father, his
best is being the king right? (Laughter) There is
only one Father. Right? There is only one
Messiah. That’s it. That’s what He’s best at.
But that’s not me. I have to find my best. I have to
find my greatest. And I have to struggle to make
that offering. And I have to struggle again to
expand.
That’s my choice.
That’s the choice that I have to make. And that’s
the life that I have to live if I want to receive
what I want to receive. Because I believe in
something, that’s the price that I pay to receive
what I believe. It’s just as simple as that.
And as you live
life the one thing that is important, that I realize
is that you have to forget what you did, especially
when you think that you did something good.
Why? Because it just became yesterday.
You don’t live in
yesterdays. You don’t live in memories; that’s
stupid. People lock them up, you know what I mean?
It’s better to always focus on tomorrow. You have to
think about tomorrow. That’s when you find yourself
expansion. You want to be bigger right? You
want to be greater right? It’s always in tomorrow,
never in yesterday or today.
All you can do
best is recognize that and remind yourself of that
again. You should get out of your -- and say "Hey!
Calm down! Be cool! Forget it! Hold on! The better
is in tomorrow." Because if you don’t do that,
then nobody will. Why? Because in the end, you only
listen to yourself. (Laughter) So just get rid of
all the nonsense and go right to the chase.
Listen to someone
that you will listen to in the end. If you kind of
remind yourself of that you can make it a habit, a
good habit, because no one is going to take care of
you better than yourself. Okay? If we don’t
know how to take care of ourselves, that’s something
else, then we need. Something like -- well anyway.
(Laughter)
When you talk
about yourself, what do you really, really think
about yourself? Pray about it. Soul
search it. Squeeze your brain until it blows
up. (Laughter) What can I do or what is my
best? From there, move on. Okay?
Build from there.
Taking it from
there you think about practicality and what you want
to do for the sake of a greater purpose. You
need to balance. There are some things that
will change and you should make it keep on changing.
At the same time there is some thing that should be
unchanging, absolutely. You need to live a
balanced life.
Because if you
don’t it will skew and it will tilt. You don’t
live that long properly. There’s always better
stuff tomorrow. Always in tomorrow.
Believe it. Because that’s true. That’s
why I want to change. That’s why I want to expand.
That’s why I WILL expand and I WILL change.
There is something
that won’t change, that understanding, knowing that
it works that way. Okay?
It was good to see
you again.
See you next week.
