Good morning. (Good
morning)
Let me start off with asking you a
question. "Can you please everybody?" (No, no way, no) Well you try to
out of the goodness of your heart I guess. But is it doable?
I want to talk about politics; the topic
is politics. People normally want to go into politics because they
want to change society, so "I have to get involved in law making. I have to
become a law maker!"
That's the basic reasoning, right, where
people become politicians because law can change, forcefully if it has to,
certain social behavior of people, and by changing certain environments and
having the authority to change, at times, with authority, personal
behaviors, can perhaps create an ideal world without measure.
What the heck are the Founding Fathers
then? Why do you call them Founding Fathers? They all want to emulate the
Founding Fathers if you want to become a politician right? But it took
several centuries to come to a point where there's an IRONY! The position of
political authority is not something of a parental position, or a stature of
some grandeur; it's a civil servant.
You're a civil servant. You're not the
Statue of Liberty, or stuff like that. You're not a symbolism that lands on
a mantel piece somewhere. Functionally speaking, you're a civil servant.
That's what politicians are, right? That's how we think, don't we?
Children get taught that way in public schools about politics. So what
happens to the politicians?
OK, let's talk about why we don't like
politicians. (Laughter) Why. (Laughing) Why don't we like politicians?
THEY'RE HYPOCRITES! We all say that they're hypocrites. They talk; they have
two tongues, a forked tongue you know. They're the devil incarnate. They say
one thing and they do another thing.
What is the nature of their hypocrisy?
What layers of lies do they commit? Fundamentally they're politicians out
there, especially these days, there's no place to hide because there are
eyes everywhere, ears every where; there's no secrets. It's becoming
more and more transparent; good!
So literally speaking there are criminals
out there. They're just out there to take as much as they can, steal as much
as they can, using that platform. And there are people who have lies
for their agenda, and there's one who trumps that, who wants to be God.
And that's the tragedy. That's why we don't trust politicians. How do
you become God to begin with anyway? Why the heck do you want to be God?
He is the most miserable entity in the
universe right? If He is supposed to be the Parent to all humankind there is
more suffering than glee, right? Obviously. He is the most miserable person
and you want to partake in that misery. Why the heck do you want to do that,
for what reason? You know that your life is short and why do you want to do
that? Why do you want to play God?
The thing is: At least God walked the
walk. If you just tell people to do something and you don't walk the walk,
that's not cool. You can do that just sitting in a lawn chair right? Anybody
can do that. Just flipping through TV channels, or surfing the internet on
your laptop, and seeing something and saying "That sounds like a good idea;
I'll tell people to do that because I have the power."
Well that's not going to last. That's the
problem; a lot of people play those three levels of lies, and that's the
reason that we don't trust politicians, because of that kind of hypocrisy.
You will do certain things to a certain extent, but everything else is just
self service. All the propaganda is just self service. That's a problem.
And there are the outright liars and
thieves. That's why we don't trust that parental position on a national
level. Because that's the reality. In one form or the other, they fall into
that basic category, and that's sad. Now how to you change this kind
of world? It has to be REAL! It can't be spiritual OK? Otherwise God would
have done it a long time ago. There's no exception.
You might have a moment of something, a
reckoning, a final reckoning you might say. OK? But still in the end, it has
to be done... the right way. And guess what? It has to be real. No
hocus-pocus stuff! I'm sorry, but that's the only way to do it or its
not going to happen.
How are we going to change the world when
we can't even bring people together that we know, for a reason, for a cause,
something, anything! It's just silly stuff. And I hate to say it
but... I'm worried. (After a long pause)
Even if you have a vision, it has to be
realistic. Right? Just having a vision doesn't mean anything; it has to
be... it has to be implemental. Otherwise it's useless.
And what kind of influence do we have,
what degree of persuasion in terms of our belief our purpose, and based on
it, preparation, to deliver to the people that we're reaching out too that
can be effective? Where do we stand? We need to measure ourselves
properly. If we don't know our limit, then we can't grow.
Everything has to line up. There has to be
proper alignment to achieve proper growth. You have to know your limit.
Especially if we're WILLING this stuff. Aw man we've got to know our limit.
It better be packed, It better be perfect for what ever it's worth in the
range that it exists. Other wise you're going to grow up mutated.
I started this because of my son, dead
son, nothing else, and I just got to know you, some of the faces. Now I know
their names. That's about it. I'm here because I want to be here. It's
a pain it the butt! (Laughter) That's about it, nothing else, and you know
that.
(Hyo Jin Nim talks in tears)
All of you, in a way, you're politicians
to take care of your children right? You make the law right? You say to your
kids "AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY ROOF BLA, BLA, BLA." (Laughter)
So from that kind of ordinary innocence,
something good should come out of it OK? That's about it. The only way
that can happen is y-o-u d-o-n't l-o-o-s-e t-h-a-t i-n-n-o-c-e-n-c-e.
(Emphasizing each word) no matter how snakeish you have to be just to
survive OK?
Because you have to be a snake to survive;
right? You have to be a snake, a bigger snake than the snake so you eat the
other snake; (Laughter) a lot of snakes eat snakes, you know. They have to.
It's going to take time to change the world, a long time.
But that's just survival stuff; as long as
you believe in idealism and want to hold on to it, that's what you keep,
something of original essence. I don't know everything, but everything
has it. That's what you hold on to as best as you can, because in the end
you'll be judged.
Judge me!
See you next week.
(Taps on the podium )
