A thousand more of
these and twenty years will pass, right? (Laughter)
How are you doing? (OK) Sometimes I want to say
something, but there are too many young people here so I
have to kind of hold it back.
If you have a wish list, what is it?
Do you have a wish list? If you do have a wish list obviously you're
going to have some kind of practical anchor or something. You've thought of
some kind of practical anchor, something that is based on reality, because
not every reality is our wish. Even a drunkard can say "I wish for
world peace." Is that world peace? That is not world peace.
There is a wish list, so what is your wish
list? And what is your practical reality that you're trying to anchor
yourself into? Because unless that is clear you're just going to be floating
around, and get lost at times.
That has to be the kind of fundamental
thing that you always question yourself, because if you don't others will do
it for you. In the end you are responsible. People will say "Hey you have to
be responsible for your consequences; that is the nature of responsibility."
You can talk about responsibility in
religious terms, social terms, but there's consequences and it can be severe
at times. No body likes to go to jail right? Do you want to go to
jail? (No) Have you been to jail? (One member responds "yes.") OK good for
you. (Laughter) Because it's a great experience. Now don't.. don't...
I shouldn't talk like this to you. (Laughter)
So what is your wish list? How many people
over here in this room have a father, have parents that who are considered
by many in the world to be billionaires, have a lot of material wealth, how
many people? Would you be here if your parents were like that?
And what if that so-called
materialistically well off person is a religious leader, and a misunderstood
one at that, still to this day. Because I know for a fact that there is a
different law for you if you're a Moonie, especially if your Father's
children; (Hyo-Jin-nim laughs) and that's reality.
So what good is all that stuff, and what
does that represent? Who is Father to you? Who is father to me? Let me ask
myself that question. I don't like to talk about "I" because it is
inappropriate, not at this platform. Why, because every give and take has a
subject and object relationship and it should not be about me.
That's why I don't talk about myself too
much. Can I talk about myself? Oh heck yeah! But it's inappropriate; it's
not right; it doesn't serve the greater purpose, because that's what you're
trying to do.
I'm here as a human being trying to give
and take with another human being and this platform calls for you being the
subject, not me. That's about it. There is appropriation for every little
thing in the world, even just look at your body, if it is not appropriated
properly you are going to be retarded, mentally disturbed, sick or
something.
That's reality. You can have your wish
list out the kazoo, but there are certain things that you just can't do
because of your practicality, of your reality. If you do not understand
where you stand, you will never have your wish list, because your wishes
will come true based on where you stand, ok, knowing where you stand.
What the heck is your wish anyway?
What do you want? To me this life is jail to me. I just want it to go
away. But you have to let it follow the natural course, in other
words, what God has planned out for you, and do the best you can to make it
work, and make is prosper, make it better if you can, but that's very
difficult.
Everybody wants to be somebody, but how
many people actually become somebody, even if you have talent? So let's talk
about practical stuff about you. "What can I do as a parent?" You,
practically speaking, there are a lot of young people, you're going to be
parents. You do stuff; you get educated, so you can have a profession, you
can make a living.
Having said that, all that is good. Why do
you do that? So you can have a family and hopefully that you can give
something more than what you had to your children, and you will die.
So what do you want your children to be? I
think that practically speaking, we lack in practical reality in this
church. I think that we should teach our children to become healers,
literally just get indo some kind of medical whatever, something practically
speaking, something to do with healing, something to do with making life
better for mankind stuff, something to do with inspiring mankind stuff, and
most miserably educating mankind. That's what we need. We need that
kind of encouragement. We need that kind of reality. Otherwise there is no
future for us.
How long did it take you to get to know
Father? And how long did it take him to get to... I saw him in the beginning
time, because I'm a little older than most of my little brothers. It was a
miserable life. All day long, all day long, every day, it never ends. The
less that you have for yourself the better. That's how you impress people.
That's how this church was built, His church.
There's only one Messiah. My mother is not
a messiah; she is the Messiah's wife. None of my brothers and sisters can be
the Messiah; they're his children. And if there's am exception to the
rule about what I explained earlier about using this platform to say "I",
only one person has that distinction. I guess that's the prerogative of the
Messiah, no one else; no one else.
(Hyo-Jin-nim speaks in tears.)
Do you think that when my Father is dead
and gone I can tell little kids to go suffer for ME? I don't think so.
What your learning is a tradition, if you're going to keep on keeping on,
you have to d-o t-h-e b-a-s-i-c t-h-i-n-g-s c-o-r-r-e-c-t-l-y, (emphasizing
each word with a tap on the podium) no exception to the rule. That's why
it's going to be a miserable life.
Do you want that? OK. I mean that is the
greatest gamble that you can do with your life, and why not? If you make it,
it can be the greatest thing. The more that you get involved you're going to
get more miserable. Trust me.
So what is your wish list? What is your
reality? What is your practical reality? You have to answer that stuff,
nobody else. You! Why, because I've seen so many people betray Father,
and say "I'm the Father!" (Weeping) I hope that you make the right
decision.
Take care of your self, Okay?
(Taps the podium twice)
