Let's talk about
Change.
Let me ask you a question; if you had one
wish for a change, what would it be?
Audience answers: "World would change to
God's ideal" and "Change myself". Someone in the front row answers
"Adam and Eve did the right thing." Hyo-Jin-nim was not expecting this kind
of answer and had a surprised expression and the room erupted in laughter
and it took a little while to settle down.
Hyo Jin Nim deadpanned: "OK what if you
had two wishes." (Even more laughter)
Let's say that I have one hundred million
dollars, that's a lot for one man. It depends on the location but on average
you can buy some one a house for a quarter million dollars. So I could buy a
house for only four hundred people and the money would be gone. Something
that means something to somebody personally, if you expand it, it's not
enough to most people. That's reality. What if you add a zero to that stuff;
you have a billion dollars. That's about it. It's gone just like that.
That's all it's worth. You add another zero; that's all it's worth.
So where does it end to individuals?
There's more than four hundred people in the world right? That's the
problem. That's why it's difficult to change. No matter how much you have
good intentions and you want to do good and you try, that's about it. It
depends on individuals. And you have to somehow unify people who have that
desire, that need, whatever. It can be basic, because it's practical,
because it's physical. You have to think about yourself in a physical way,
and you will think about yourself in an intellectual way, and hopefully if
you have that under control you have a time to be spiritual right? But
the problem is most people struggle where? You tell me. That's the problem.
I'm thinking about sending my children to
school other places, maybe back to Korea or something during a certain
period of time in their maturation... for schooling. I'm thinking about it
because it's very difficult; it's difficult to process all that unless we
have something that we can provide, some kind of security that is somewhat
guaranteed. There is no guarantee that you will not die of accident or
disease.
So how do you change? In what way do you
want to change? Let's say that you have something that is important to
you. Then what would that be as a single individual, as a family? You want
to have some kind of property right, that you want to build equity on top of
it and ultimately you want to be productive within it. And on top of it is
the same thing, intellectual property, spiritual stuff that goes in that
physical and the mind and the spirit. Those things are important to you
because it grounds you.
You can't really change unless you have
something that you're sure of. You have to have absolute to have a change.
If you don't have something absolute, change doesn't mean anything. Because
you'll always change and you'll never have anything. You'll have change that
is meaningless. And what good is that?
You have to ask: "What kind of change do I
want?" What kind of change can I do for myself before I give it to others?
If you don't question yourself in that way and answer yourself and know that
you have the answer, it doesn't mean anything, the change. You'll always
change, but it doesn't mean anything. That's the problem.
Of course you want to be self-sufficient.
I don't want to go to daddy for anything. You want to be a tough guy, macho
man. There's a reason for that kind of stuff, there's a reason for manhood
and woman hood. That's a different topic; we'll talk about it some other
time.
But let's say that you have something and
you want to create something. You want to give to something. Yes we're in a
time and place if I have money, I can build a beautiful studio everywhere
around the world, one step at a time. One place at a time. But it will be a
functional one.
To me, productivity matters. If you have
property, if you have equity, yes absolutely I want to have the best stuff
in the world, but it's going to be productive. Not just for me, for
everybody, hopefully, but there's no guarantee it can please everyone. And
it will be functional; it can be. And it doesn't have to be just for that
purpose only. It can be for the people in general. Even those… Even if you
don't do what I do; if we're connected… sure.
The thing is that ultimately in the end I
believe that multimedia is very important. I absolutely believe it's
important. If we have just two dozen blabbermouths that can think on their
feet, we can start. You have to have something because it's about getting
your message out there. That's what church is for, especially in a kind of
chaotic situation like this world of confusion.
That is very, very important, and it has
to be constant. It has to literally tick with the clock. When you even talk
about yourself and giving, talk about self-sacrifice, you kind of have to
look at it... Put yourself in a sphere first and take the concept of a
vertical axis and horizontal axis and you draw away. You still need an
audience, then you go up and if you do it right it will raise their
expectations. Of course you will suffer and that cycle happens over and over
and over and over. That's the sign of infinity right? But that's how to
expand; that's how you expand.
Not just with yourself, but with others.
Who cares if you exist alone? God doesn't care. That's why He created us
right? That's the essence of growing. You want change, that's growth. Some
things don't change, yes, because there are boundaries. You cannot have
freedom without boundaries and consequences.
The thing about unconditional love is that
it has conditions. OK? You want a change, any change, that's difficult, I'm
just here to entertain you in your mind, but I'll be here as long as you're
here. But it's difficult.
That's how it goes. That's what's normal,
because I believe that's the ideal.
Okay. I'm done.
I've got nothing else to say. (Laughter)
See you later.
(Two taps on the podium)
