Good morning. (Good
morning)
It never ends. (Laughter)
It certainly doesn't get any easier, and
it shouldn't. Otherwise you're useless equipment, outdated.
Let's talk about masculinity and
femininity.
What is a macho man? I guess pretty much
in general throughout the cultures man does the providing right? They go out
and take the risk and do whatever that they have to do to put the food on
the table; that's what they do. And the woman raises the family, right, the
best that they can, and every detail matters when you try to raise children.
I guess that's the opposite.
It (man's responsibility) expands and it
(woman's responsibility) focuses. (Hyo-Jin-nim gestures making an expanding
and a focusing "V" shape) So basically that's what it is, I guess, that
we're supposed to do as a father and mother if you have a family. But where
does that concept come from though?
God created mankind in the image of
Himself, so that masculinity and that femininity obviously came from God,
and is manifested by the creation of humanity. And when you break down the
essence of that humanity then there is man and woman. That is the essence of
humanity. That is the essence of masculinity and femininity, and there is a
difference, it is opposite.
Opposite in what, for what reason? To
learn to come together, that is the most important factor, to learn to
unite. Because man learns from woman something that they need to learn to
become one with God. And woman too, visa-versa. Because that's what is the
essence of responsibility. You have to put something on the table; you have
to earn it. Yes, you have that potential. That's why it can be learned, but
you have to act upon it.
It is your responsibility to make the
right choices in understanding how things can best work, because you can
mess up your whole end of the thing.
When you look at the nature, it is
beautiful right? There is so much beauty, but at the same time it also has
fury. The reason that it exists in an opposite reality within the domain of
the earth itself, the nature itself is because that's how it grows and
expands. That's how it rejuvenates itself. That's how it recovers. That's
LIFE!
We have to understand that stuff. How many
times did we jump to a conclusion through our arrogance without knowing
things? That's why we make mistakes. That's why the foretelling, fortune
teller stuff, foreseeing stuff, becomes wrong. That's part of the learning
process isn't it? That's how you learn.
But, in the end, it exists to unite, to
create something, teach us something. Nature is there it is a textbook of
learning about basic stuff that makes us who we are to give us the basic
understanding of how we can relate to God, because we do have the tools
within our physical self, our consciousness and our spirit.
In terms of volume and size there and a
degree of expansion, we're the highest. There's nothing greater, not on this
planet. Maybe somewhere else flying around with flying saucers and stuff,
but that's a different story. (Laughter) I'd love to meet those
hermaphrodites. (Laughter)
Even in our practical day-to-day reality
why should the government, the political system itself in America, let's
say, why should it be adversarial? You can have two opposing stuff, but why
can't that model be of love, not an adversarial system? Why can't we just
teach each other something and try to learn and come together in union.
Because that's the model of man and woman
coming together. It is so silly. Freedom doesn't allow you to be stupid OK?
I'll start from there. And what about racial relationships? What about
everything? Anything that you want to talk about in human relationships, why
does it have to be adversarial? Because if it is like that, it is like
living in a home where the father and mother don't trust each other, and are
always doing crazy stuff to each other, and you grow up in that. That's just
nonsense! How he heck do you make an ideal family in that situation? How is
it possible?
Just because somebody does something that
does not mean that it is right. Just because America being the richest
nation on the earth. "We have ten trillion dollars in revenue, and top in
terms of taxpayers, and our government budget is three trillion dollars. We
have so much money and we are the best!" So be it. Who cares? It has nothing
to do with making your family correct.
(From this point till the end Hyo-Jin-nim
spoke in tears)
And that's what you need to question if
you're going to question anything, you have to question that. Why? You want
to be good, everybody wants to be good. People take advantage of that
goodness. People want to love stuff and throughout history a lot of
manipulative people in power have used that to put those little children to
war, because they want love, they want to become something united to
something greater, something opposite, something that they're not. And
hopefully that is greater.
Of course you propagandize it; you're
being greater because there's a relationship of subject and object. Why
because we do have a relationship between God and mankind; that's why we go
to church.
Do you expect God to come to you every
day? Who chases after God more, you or God chasing you? So who's the
subject? And there is such a thing, but in love is DOESN'T MATTER! Because
you're one, and it's a necessary one.
You need it. Who cares if I'm the first?
Why does that matter when it takes TWO to become one, and make you whole.
Why do I have to say to my self "I AM IMPORTANT; I AM THE BEST!" what about
the second that I NEED to be whole?
You have to be humble and keep your
arrogance to yourself. That's a humble man. Because you want to grow, you
want to learn, your want to love more, I want more, that stuff. That's why
you want to be humble.
How can I say that I know everything, that
I have everything? Then I'm gone. I'm a dead man walking. Might as well be
dead right? Anyway...
You have to learn to come together. We
exist for a reason. But that stuff, that opposite that's the way to family.
It might be the simplest stuff we'll experience in our human life initially,
but there is a whole lot of stuff out there beyond that stuff. That's just
the fundamental stuff.
You have to be willing to whole (?)
P-l-e-a-s-e d-o-n-'t b-e a-r-r-o-g-a-n-t (Hyo-Jin-nim punctuated each word
with a tap on the podium) It's a constant job. It never ends.
OK, take care.
(Two taps on the podium)
