For us as individuals, we know that a person walks such a course of living, a course of life, going up and coming down throughout a whole lifetime. People say it is good when they go up and bad when they come down. Our bodies themselves may be so, but all the more the mind itself can be so, and you must know that this is important.
The things a leader must furnish
Now then, the hope this mind desires must be raised high. When one holds a strong mind, the body too becomes strong. When the mind holds a great hope, the body too carries on great activity. Just as it is so with us as individuals, if God exists, would it not be the same with God? It is the same with God. It cannot be that God, being joyful, is always laughing ha-ha. Now, if human beings have become such a relationship of father and son with God that cannot be severed, then when these human beings fall, God too is bound to fall with them; and when human beings rise, God too will rise with them.
Furthermore, in your family there are beloved parents and beloved children, and when the state of the child’s spirit becomes low, the parents who behold that lowered child naturally become low as well. That is why parents wish their children to be strong and bold and full of hope. And if God exists, God too will wish that for these human beings. It is the same for Americans and America. He wishes the citizens of America to be strong and full of hope. That they wish to become such a hopeful people in the future is the same for anyone.
Now, the sovereign of this nation, if this nation is America, must keep rhythm together with such citizens. When the citizens are strong, he must supply still greater strength, and when they are hopeful, he must stand in a position of being able to be still more hopeful; it will not do for him to be weak when they are strong and for the sovereign to stand in a position of despair when there ought to be hope.
If the citizens are discouraged, a leader must be able to encourage those citizens and raise them up to a still higher place. Only then does he fulfill his responsibility as the person in charge who guides that nation.
It is the same. In the family too, when the children despair, when the parents give hope to those children and make them go forward firmly and become a central being whom those children can trust in every respect by standing in their place, that family can be said to be a complete family. Such a formula is the same in the family, in the nation, and in the kingdom of heaven.
This nation is now beginning to make a fuss about presidential elections and all. What sort of leader is the leader this nation desires? First, he must have hope. He must have a policy idea of hope. Today one must have a hope greater than the communists if the communists. Only then can one win over the communist world. Next, he must be strong. He must be strong. When facing some matter, it will not do to become a petty fellow and seek to retreat. He must be strong. Next, he must have wisdom. Wisdom—he must judge matters well.
It is the same in the family. What must our mother and father be like? They must be a mother and father full of hope, a bold mother and father, and a wise mother and father. It is the same. Then what about that God who made the universe? God too is the same. God is hopeful. He is hopeful. He is a hopeful God. Next, He is strong. He is bold. He is a bold being.
Family, church, and nation that cannot be trusted
Seen in this way, whom must we human beings, you as individuals, believe in?
Whom must you believe in? “God.” God is too far away. God is too far. You must believe in your parents. It amounts to saying that you must believe in your parents. Now, can the nation boast by setting forth your parents? Do you think you have such parents? Are your parents so? So it is discouragement.
Next, whom in the nation must one believe in? In America today, must one believe in President Carter if President Carter says “No”? Then whom, whom must one believe in? Can you believe in your teacher, your teacher? Can you believe in your elder brother? Can you believe in your elder sister? Whom can you believe in?
Now, since you cannot believe in your own close parents and cannot believe in your brothers and sisters, whom will you believe in apart from the Teacher? Whom? Whom will you believe in? So, since one cannot believe even if one tries, it is discouraging. It is despair.
Then how is your mind? How is your mind? One hopes to be happy in our house and hopes to be full of hope in our house. But as soon as one enters the house, one wants to go out. Because it is no fun.
You say that America is good, but what is good about America? Looking at it all, there is nothing but despair, despair. Looking at the church, it is despair, and looking at society, it is despair, and looking at the young people, it is despair; there is no hope whatsoever. It is all despair.
Go to a place where they do disco dancing and see whether it is hopeful. Looking these days, where is there anyone who likes America? Everyone is bound to say they dislike America. The more one looks, the more it is despair, despair, despair. It is despair. It is despair.
Now, among despair, among discouragement, among the things that cannot but bring discouragement, what is the greatest? Let us look once at this America, at America, which represents the free world.
First, the family is being broken into pieces. Now, parents of families think they educate their children with love, but what is love? What on earth is love? Mama and Papa fight, and each of them carries on in their individual way. What is there for brothers and sisters to become one about before such parents? They tear at one another. It is the same with each other. So they dislike seeing their mother and father and dislike seeing their brothers and sisters. And so these days there is nothing but going about carrying a sleeping bag.
Then is going about carrying a sleeping bag the kingdom of heaven? Is it hope? “No.” It is appalling. But our original mind cannot forget a hopeful family. It needs a resting place. That is so. One needs work in which I can lie down in comfort and sleep in comfort and rest in comfort, and in which the surroundings can be for me; one needs such a fence. So the family is in a terrible state.
Now, what is next? It is the church, the church. Even so, it is said that in the church there is love, and they cry out about God’s love. Because it is such a place, one thinks that if one goes to church, one will be consoled even though the family has broken and the parents have broken. But going to church, it turns out that all of this, rather than being ideal, is centered on human beings’ practical problems and comes forth entangled with money. And even so, they say they deny reality, and they understand that they will believe and go to paradise. Even so, do they have spiritual experience and the power to go there? Do they even qualify? They do not.
They cast away the nation and cast away the family and go to church, but there is nothing better than the nation or the family there. They regarded ministers and church leaders all as God, and saw them as great, but they are becoming smaller and smaller. They are worse than oneself. Furthermore, looking at church institutions, people they believed to be fine turn out, as time passes, not to be open-hearted but exceedingly narrow and in a terrible state. And the churches too are fighting while being so. They are fighting one another.
Next, it is the same with America, America. Now, when one says “America,” it is the nation said to be first in the world. You think so, do you not? You think so? “Yes.” Those weak and small nations think that when one says “America,” it is all the kingdom of heaven. Looking quietly at this America these days, where is America going now? Where will it go, this? Where is it going? Think about it. Now, do you think America is going forward, or do you think it is retreating? “Backward.” Since it is backward, is that despair, discouragement, or hope? “Despair.”
All the more, setting aside democracy, leaving it aside, the world is raising an uproar over being broken by communism. In action and in every respect, they are losing to the communists. The communists, at any rate, if they say they will conquer the world centered on communism, have the capacity to go until they conquer the world. What is America? What is democracy? What will democracy do? What will democracy do? While communism is swallowing everything up and coming in, what will it do? What will a perishing democracy do? It ought to perish. It ought to perish. Do you want a perishing democracy? “No.”
If there is a family, church, and nation God desires, there is hope
Look these days. The Carter administration is in a terrible state before the communists; ah, it is an uproar. Now, when the next president comes out, will he be able to say, “Let us raise our democratic world beyond the communists”? And even if he does so, will he be one with the ability to inject the power to understand that and to act? Seeing that, that too is disappointment. This is all despairing. Now, so this is despair, despair.
Seen in this way, if God exists—if God exists, then the family, and the church, and America, which have thus led the democratic world—why has this America, which came forth this way, and such a church become like this? Why? Why has it become like this, why? If God exists, would He have guided it so and formed such a historical relationship? Why has it become so?
Now, that is why such a conclusion can come out here. It is that the road the family walked differed from the road Heaven desired. And it is that the road the church walked differed from Heaven’s will and the road Heaven walks. Why has the nation come to this state? One cannot but conclude that all this went contrary to God’s will. If it is not so, then there is no God. Atheism is right, atheism. Throw religion away too.
If so, what we must consider here is that, if God exists, if only we seek the family God desires and the nation God desires and the church God desires and the road God desires, would God not come and be carried on our backs? At present God cannot but be discouraged seeing America, and discouraged seeing the church, and discouraged seeing the family; but if there is a family that can be so, a church that can be so, and a nation that can be so, God’s hope will explode again. Is that not so? If only that were asserted and such a standard were established; there would be hope, and new courage would arise, and there would be new development.
The mission God has laid upon the Unification Church
The first problem in America is the problem of ethics, the problem of ethics. And it is the rebuilding of the church, the rebuilding of the church. The revival of the church. And next it is the problem of victory over communism, the problem of victory over communism. Do you understand? “Yes.” Then what is the Unification Church? The Unification Church? What does the Unification Church seek to do? It seeks to build an ideal nation.
Everyone, what is Unification, the Unification Church?
Unification bears subjecthood. Is this following along from a relative position? When one says “unification,” the character “tong” (統) is the character meaning to lead. It means to lead.
Do you understand what that means?
Accordingly, “Unification Church” means making all churches into one. The church represents the family and, at the same time, represents the nation. So this itself is the same as a clan. It is within the clan realm. It is the middle position. Here all the clans representing the nation are joined.
What is the purpose for which God has made such an educational institution? Gathering all races here and giving education and training…. This is a training place, a training place. A spiritual training place, a training place for the citizens of the future and the families of the future. The church must rightly educate concerning the road the family must walk, the road the clan must walk, and the road the nation must walk. In this way, all the prophets of the past dragged along the individuals in charge of that nation, and when the sovereign did wrong, they dragged the sovereign along. They appealed and dragged them along. So God, centering on the matrix called the church, seeks to make the families of the future and the clans of the future and the people of the future world into citizens.
Into what sort of citizens does He seek to make them?
He seeks to make them citizens of the nation of God's ideals. He seeks to make families of God’s ideal nation and, through clans of the ideal nation, to make citizens of the ideal nation. You must know that God’s ideal citizen is not any citizen of the past and not a citizen of the present but a citizen who can exist in the future.
Now, because countless families have failed, and countless churches have failed, and countless nations have all failed, to gather this together and make all the failed children into one is the mission God has laid upon the Unification Church.
You may say, “Since Reverend Moon made the Unification Church, he speaks that way to boast of himself,” but it is not so. Moonie, Moonie—can that be believed? How does one know whether it is a lie? Whether it is a lie or a fact, one does not know, but is the road by which I, as an individual, can go to an ideal family connected? We must test that. And next, is there a road by which that family can go to an ideal clan? The clan to the national level, the nation to the worldwide level, the world to God…. Can God follow along? Now, even when I am an individual, God follows me about, and even when I am a family, God follows me about, and even when I am a clan, God follows me about, and even when I am a nation, God follows at my heels.
Now, if God made an ideal nation of the world, would that be worse than globalism, or better? “Better.” A God in which blacks live only among blacks — that is a black God, not the God of the whole world. A God in which whites like only whites—that is a white God, not the God of the world. Jewish believers centering only on Jewish believers….
What God does our Unification Church have?
“The God of the universe.” It is the Unification Church of God. (Laughter) Is it not so originally? Is that not what Unification is? Do you think so? “Yes.” The eyes of the Unification Church God are different. He does not hate blacks and does not love whites separately but will look at them together—that is the Unification Church God. He is not a God who says that even in eating He will eat only among whites. Not a God who, being a God on the side of whites, says He will eat only with whites, but a God who says He will eat together; and next, a God who says that even in living He will live together.
And centering on the white race, the yellow race, and the black race, how does God think? He thinks, “Let us make these three brothers; let us make them three brothers.” That is the Unification Church God. I do not know the God of other churches. I do not know about other churches, but the God I know is the best. (Applause) I think it is different.
Though opposed, let us go in one direction only
So what does the Unification Church do?
It marries anew, marrying as has not been in history, and keeps house as has not been in history, and fights as has not been in history, and raises issues that have not been in history. We thought Westerners sat only on chairs, but they know how to sit like this too. Those people who ate only cheese and butter have learned to eat red pepper paste and soybean paste too.
Furthermore, they do not sleep only in beds but know how to sleep sitting up, and sleep lying face down, and sleep anywhere at all. It is worldwide. Their housekeeping too is worldwide. Moreover, even sitting and sleeping next to where a puppy sleeps, they do not complain. Ah, they say it is good to sleep holding it.
Everyone, if I had made a cat and were together with it, how lovely that would be! When one thinks that one made it oneself. Think how splendid it would be if I had made it. Even going next to cow dung in a stall, how good it is. One thinks that way. It is different; it is different. Are you so? “Yes.” “Though others curse, I like it. Though the world curses, I will like it—how splendid that is, how splendid! Such a thing does not perish but develops. It develops. It is different. The Unification Church is different. Even in seeing, in the old days one looked with the eyes like this, but now one looks like this. Even the seeing is different.
Ah, when night comes, in the old days one thought people slept at ten o’clock, but even at two o’clock there is clanging and clattering. Breakfast is not eaten at seven or eight in the morning; one eats breakfast at seven or eight in the evening, and that is that. Who made it so? So what does this Unification Church lot seek to do?
Now, what is this little thing?
And yet it goes its road. Even while being thoroughly beaten and shedding streams of tears, even while weeping. An ordinary person would say, “Ah, I am dying,” but this one says it will go even so. That is what is different. Moonies go even while weeping. Now, between a person who sits and weeps and a person who goes while weeping, which is hopeful? The Unification Church lot is such a lot. Even while eating Curses, they pretend not to hear and are busy going.
Now, Reverend Moon goes even though Congress opposes and though the whole State Department of America opposes, going even while being opposed. Even if he goes to prison, he goes. He goes. He goes in his heart. Do you understand that?
Even if the family opposes, if one succeeds in the clan, the family comes seeking. Then later they will come and say, “Ah, you came first.” And next, even if the clan opposes, one will go to the nation and set things up at the national standard.
Now, though the democratic world opposes and the communist world opposes, we go and sit down in one unified ideal world and wait. (Laughter) How splendid that is! (Applause) Further, if God opposes, we set God aside and go and wait in God’s inner room of love, in the inner room called "love." (Laughter) How splendid that is!
That thought: how splendid the ideal of our Unification Church is! It is that I will control God. If one has only love, one can control God. So if it is a love that can do that with the five-colored races, can one not control the five-colored races with God’s love?
One can control the five-colored races. On the day one catches that disease of love, one is without fail subjected to control that says, “Do this and do that.” That is what is called brainwashing. Does a person intoxicated with love think of anything else? He is wholly intoxicated by it.
That is why that love has only one directionality. It is not multi-directional but has only one directionality. It has an absolute direction, a unique direction, an unchanging direction. That is the ideal, the ideal. So however much one turns it, if one turns it this way, it is bound to go this way and does not go elsewhere. So is the mind in pain? All under heaven goes in and out in the mind, in the mind.
In any position, do not be discouraged, but conquer God’s love
When one breathes in air, the air of the world goes in and out of my belly for my sake, all of it. The citizens of America too have the feeling of receiving and eating the air that went into my nose, all of them. (He laughed.) If I say such words, they will say, “Ah, that feels unpleasant.” They say, “Ah, look at Reverend Moon saying such a thing.”
Now, Reverend Moon is smaller than you, a small person, but the universe is together with him. You of the Unification Church too seek to match with the Teacher, but all the spirit people in the spirit world too seek to match. They seek to match. How splendid that is! Only so, when the son of God proceeds, does the universe keep step. Only then is he a son of God; would it do for a son of God to be like a cur? It is not laughing he-he-he over one piece of bread; even without bread one must be able to laugh ha-ha and be able to laugh ha-ha even without eating. It means that even being naked one is not ashamed. Even being clothed, there is nothing to boast of. Is that splendid or not splendid? “Splendid.” Ah, is that what a Moonie is? “Yes.”
Our morning service is the first in the world, is it not? It ought to be held earliest at dawn. Is that not so? That is our boast. Others eat their fill and belch, but we hold service without eating and while hungry. That is splendid. Now, sitting like this, your backsides hurt, do they not? How splendid that is! Hereafter, you must all hold service standing, standing. Then how much more splendid would that be? And if ropes were attached and everyone hung from them while holding service, how good that would be! (Laughter) That would be more splendid. We can, while doing so, widen the scope as much as we please and do anything, and if we would narrow it, we can narrow anything, and if we would make it good, we can make it as good as we please.
Now, at times one can hold service lying down spread-eagled. At such a time one says, “God, I become a little child and hold service.” Doesn't a little child receive the mother’s love even while lying down and soiling itself? It is the same. Does the mother not protect the child because it soiled itself? (Laughter) If that is love, if it is love for God, it all passes. Love that is for God all passes. That means freedom and liberation.
In the morning you sprawl out and breathe a sigh of “whew,” do you not? It feels good, does it not? It is the same. Human beings have depth. Ah, in the human world, one can do everything others cannot do and can do everything others do. So, ah! This much of a human life is enough.
Now then, is Reverend Moon a happy person or a pitiable person? “Happy.” What, happy? What is happy, what? How much he suffers! Do you know how much I suffer? If I tell you, you…. I am a pitiable person. I am the most pitiable person, the most. I have not one friend. What is a friend? I have no teacher, and no parents, nothing at all. Wherever I go…. Do you think it was like these days with you, cooking lunch and cooking dinner and making good things and baking good bread because our Teacher is coming and wearing good clothes? Who even thought of such things? I earned it with my hands. I did it all with my blood and sweat. Even so, I am not a person who hoped for people’s sympathy. I am a person who thought about how God sees me.
Then if God blessed that Reverend Moon worldwide, if He blessed everyone in the same position, anyone would take the good positions. So, on the contrary, He expels. Now, to what extent does God expel? If those who followed at first were ten million, next it becomes a million, and next a hundred thousand, and next a thousand, and five hundred, and ten, and next five, and then they fall away again, and in the end there is only one, one. At that time God…. (Laughter) Even Satan runs away. Even Satan runs away. (Laughter) And so God follows along.
That is why you are told to pass through your family, and pass through the clan, and pass through the people, and pass through the nation, and pass through the world. The whole world opposes Reverend Moon, but eventually they die and all perish. You, too, will retreat, but there is no help for it. Seeing the Principle, it seemed plausible, so unavoidably you simply waited and watched; did you not all say the Teacher was talking nonsense? And so you remained, in that way.
Reverend Moon, historically persecuted by the whole world
There is no one but me who has received such persecution in a lifetime as a religious leader. The whole world raises an uproar of “boo, boo.” Do you acknowledge that? Do you acknowledge it? “Yes.”
So what is it for? What is it for? It is to conquer God’s love, that love of God which no one could give throughout history until now. God’s love—so Reverend Moon envies nothing. I am a person who already knows where I will go when I die. Things like a Cadillac here, things like a Lincoln car—I have the means to buy not ten but a hundred such cars. And I could buy a hundred houses like East Garden. Yet because I live with one of them, this and that….
I am a person who does not envy the president of America and envies no one.
They envy me; is that not so? The five-colored races can do anything whatsoever if Reverend Moon only commands. They can carry on any business. Are you confident of carrying out whatever the Teacher commands? “Yes.” Let those who can do so raise their hands. Thank you. (Applause)
You suffer hardship such as is not in the world! Your ancestors—there are all manner of surnames, Smith or Mike or whatever—suffer hardship such as has not been in the past and will not be in the present in the history of that surname, hardship. Why? Because then your ancestors, your clans, will wish to uphold you. And so, centering on God’s love, you become kings toward that clan. Centering on love, you become kings of the clan.
Then when you go to the spirit world and it is a festival day of that heavenly kingdom and you go before God, you raise the flag, the flag of such-and-such a surname, of Smith if Smith, and you quickly follow along. I think such thoughts. Reverend Moon thinks such thoughts. It is to make it all so. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.” Some may say, “It is frightening just to hear it, and since the Teacher says such a thing, it will certainly be so. Ah, let us run away quickly.” If you would run away, run away. There are some new fellows over there; those fellows with long beards like hippies—run away quickly!
But love is absolutely equal. Love is absolutely equal. Look. Those who commune with the spirit world all support what the Teacher says. Can that be believed? “Yes.” Go anywhere and ask. Ask whether Reverend Moon is so or not. If one told a lie, it would be found out. There is no one but Reverend Moon who can say such words. Could the president of America, could Carter do so, and even if Kennedy had become president, could Kennedy do so? “No.” Does that pass through? Does the president of America pass through? “No.” Then does the cursed Reverend Moon, the head of the Unification Church, pass through? “Yes.” Is that a fact? “Yes.”
Now, then, why has the spirit world become so?
Did it become so while the Teacher sat still, or did Reverend Moon make it so? He made it become so. Everyone, how much do you know about the Teacher? You know about as much as your level, do you not? You say, “Our Teacher is simply such a teacher.” There is no end of education to be received, yet you say, “Ah, it is too hard; I cannot go. Teacher, goodbye.” Do you understand what that means? “Yes.”
A person who has cultivated the Way for decades, a person who is the chairman of a Buddhist believers’ association, when I went to Korea this time, knew through the spirit world at what hour the Teacher would come and at what hour he would board the airplane, and when I arrived, he said, “Please come in at any time,” wishing to see me. (Applause) Do you do as much as that person? Even Confucius or Shakyamuni or Jesus or even the present founders of religions, when it comes to Reverend Moon…. Do you understand what I mean? This is the first time you have seen a person who says such things, is it not? If you had met such a person, how much would you boast? How much?
Now, how splendid is the fact that one receives commands through that person and works! How splendid it is! That is why you feel good just seeing the Teacher, do you not? “Yes.” Whether white or black or darky, all of them like it. Now, if young men and women were gathered here in crowds, and if one told them to close their eyes and take the first partner, they are bound to say “yes.” (Laughter) That is why they say we have been brainwashed. (Laughter)
Let us become a self that is dignified anywhere
Now, the time is up. Do not laugh from the morning in excitement. All your energy drains away.
Throughout America, looking at the family it is discouragement, and looking at the church it is discouragement. Ah, the Carter administration too is discouragement, and the communist world is all discouragement, but coming to the Unification Church, is it discouragement? “No.” Now, look at our family. As a citizen of America, think quietly about it. Looking at yourself, who has come into the Unification Church and says you will live, living cleanly and living honestly and keeping your integrity without filth, are you ashamed before the citizens of America or dignified? “Dignified.” Think about it. Wherever one goes, one is dignified.
In the old days, when you did free sex and dated and played at all manner of filthy things, how filthy were those lips? That backside, that conduct, that breast—how appallingly filthy! To say to just anyone, “Let us kiss”—how filthy that was in the past! And speaking of women, they wished anyone at all to touch their breasts…. That will not do. How splendid this is! This was made for the Son of God.
Think about it. A prince of God—how splendid! How splendid it is! That is why, because one is such a person, one cannot treat oneself carelessly. Is it so with the men too? “Yes.” It is preparation for attending a princess of the heavenly kingdom. Is that not so? Is it a fact? “Yes.” Your hearts must follow that straight up. Will your hearts not change? “Yes.”
Now, though Reverend Moon has done nothing, was making you so well done or badly done? How good a thing that is! It cannot be exchanged even for the free world. It cannot be exchanged even for the world. You must know that. I am not ashamed. Before God or before human beings…. Is that enough? “Yes.” So even when I go to the family, I am not ashamed to receive that family’s wife or to receive children. It is always daytime, daytime. There is no shadow. Such a husband, such a wife—how splendid that is!
Now, there is an apple as big as America but with a wormhole in it; will you eat this, or will you eat this one whose fruit is small now but beautiful? Which will you eat? “Small.” Now it is small, but when this grows large, it will not be exchanged even for the world! It will fill heaven and earth! The Teacher alone has grown this much. How much more will it grow, or will it not grow? “Grow.” That will grow even if one tells it not to grow. I have the wisdom to know that. Reverend Moon has wisdom. For this he is valiant. He has hope, hope.
One must become a center for the families of the world
Now, what is interesting about the Unification Church is that when I enter a family, I am the parent in the family, and in the church too they call me parent. The Teacher is mother and father even when he goes home and mother and father in the church too, and it is arranged to keep growing hereafter. Even when the world becomes one, he becomes the mother and father of the world. It is the closest. It is the closest.
What sort of being is God?
What sort of being is He? Is He the God of the family? “No.” He is the God of the church. And next, the God of the nation. He is the God of the world. Now then, is it better for your father to become president or for your uncle to become president? “Father.” (Laughter) Who is that God? God is the Father in our church and in our house, and the Father in our nation and the Father in our world, a Father who cannot live without me. So how splendid that is!
This is the family, and this is the clan, and this is the nation, and this is the world. What is the center? “Father.” It is the same. The Father of the family, the Father of the clan, the Father of the nation, the Father of the world—this is God. Do you understand? So as for the Father, the conclusion emerges that He is the God representing the world, the God representing the nation, the God representing the clan, and the God representing the family.
Now then, since that God is Father and I am His son, since I resemble the Father, I am a worldwide son, a national son, a clan-level son, a family-level son. It is the same. Is that right? “Yes.”
That is why, if Reverend Moon is the teacher who educates the sons, what education must Reverend Moon give? He must educate himself on this. Now, so the departure is from here, from the individual, and until one stands in God’s position, the individual must become a center for the family. Become a center for the families of the world—that is what is said. And next the clan must center on the world. Your nation is the central nation of the world. When one says "globalism," until now they have cast away the family too, and cast away the clan too, and cast away the people too, and thrown away the nation too. But the globalism of the Unification Church has the family too, and has the clan too, and has the nation too, and has the world too; how splendid that is! This.
This is bound to be splendid for anyone—any people of Africa, any nation, any clan, any individual. He will treat one’s filial devotion to one’s own father and mother as if it were done to God and will treat one’s filial devotion for one’s own clan altogether as if it were for the clans of the world. Do you understand what that means? “Yes.”
That is why the road the individual walks is connected at right angles to the family, and the road the family walks is connected at right angles to the clan, and the clan to the people, the people to the nation, and the nation to the world, all of it, and even to God, all connected straight at right angles. The first grade is for the second grade, and the second grade for the third grade, and the third grade is for the fourth grade, and the fourth grade is for the fifth grade, and the fifth grade is entirely for the sixth grade. It goes up.
But looking at the world, it is all divided up like this. It is all cut into pieces, and each does as it pleases, as it pleases, as it pleases. It is all despair, discouragement, nothing at all.
Do not go by compulsion but go voluntarily
Now, one must go to the gate of heavenly nature, but how does one find the way there? How does one find the way?
So it is despair; it is discouragement. Whenever and wherever, if one is told to go, one must go? One must go. Even though it has all been made like this, do you dislike going? Will you go weeping or go laughing? “We will go laughing.” Will you go discouraged or go full of hope? Which is it? “We will go full of hope.” Will you go because there is no help for it? Will you go by compulsion or go voluntarily? “We will go voluntarily.” You answer well! To go there, one must have courage. Ah, you want to sleep late in the morning, but they say, “Let us eat breakfast,” and you ought to sleep eight hours but slept four, so you say, “Ah, I am dying,” do you not? “No.” One must be revolutionized fundamentally. My eyes have all been revolutionized, and my nose, and my ears, and my mind, and my body—everything is so. And so one is not a petty fellow. One is a great man who gains all under heaven. Do you clearly understand? “Yes.”
So, having entered the Unification Church, if told to throw away even Harvard University, one throws it all away and throws away one’s property too. In the old days one said, “Ah, without that woman I will die,” but these days instantly one spits it away. That is good, is it not?
What is a prince of God? What is a princess of God?
A tag is attached to my tail—where is it bound for? Everyone goes where the tag attached says, “bound for New York” or “bound for Chicago.” Then what is the tag attached to my tail? Bound for the kingdom of heaven—that is what is needed. What is a husband? Is he a husband bound for hell or a husband bound for the kingdom of heaven? “A husband bound for the kingdom of heaven.” It is different; it is different. If a husband bound for the kingdom of heaven were attached to my tail, how good that would be. To my tale—if a family bound for the kingdom of heaven is attached to that couple, and a clan bound for the kingdom of heaven is attached to that family, and a nation bound for the kingdom of heaven is attached to that clan, and a world bound for the kingdom of heaven is attached to that nation—how splendid that is!
One tumbles about any old way, and the tumbling is the same, and the beginning is the same, but the place one goes is different. Even setting out together, the place one goes differs. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.” So is it attached to your tail or not? “It is attached.”
Though the present be difficult, do not be discouraged, for tomorrow
Everyone, you have told the Teacher many lies. You kept saying you would, and what did you all do? (Laughter) But let us not be discouraged. But let us not be discouraged! (Applause) Today we could not do it, but tomorrow we will, and there is strength and courage to do it tomorrow. If we cannot do it this year, we will do it next year! There is strength and courage and hope. Is that so? “Yes.” Everyone, if I die, will you not all go back? “No.” Where will you go? Because the Teacher goes, that direction cannot change.
But everyone, on Sunday morning, when you come here, many come if you know the Teacher is coming, and you do not come if you know the Teacher is not coming; why is that? Can that be trusted? What is that? What I wish is that fewer come when I do it and more come when someone else does it. So does that not mean that if the Teacher is gone, it will naturally disappear? “No.” What is “no”? In reality, it is so. Let those who think so raise their hands, honestly. Let those who think they want to come even if the Teacher is not there raise their hands. Let those who will come even if the Teacher is not there raise their hands.
Look. You must know that even though the Teacher dies, he comes and is there several times over spiritually. Between a person who does well when the Teacher is there and a person who does better when the Teacher is not there, which is the finer? Whom would God think of more? Coming quickly only when the Teacher is there, coming only when there is something delicious, dropping out when there is work, saying they dislike it…. God wishes for that, and the Teacher wishes for that. Do you understand what I mean? Until now you did so because you did not know, did you not? “Yes.” From next time you will not do so, will you? “Yes.”
Now, if you said you would do home church well when the Teacher led you around and told you to do it, if you were told to do it alone without the Teacher, would you still do it well? “Yes.” That “yes” sounds like a forced answer. “No.” That is what I mean. At this very hour, do not be discouraged. Because there is another hour to come.
Now, I have many roads to walk. There are many places to go. Exceedingly many. But to go this way, ah, how tedious it is. Ah, would one not like to leap at once like this? Even if one fails here and cannot do it all, if one succeeds here, everything is accomplished. All the worldwide work is accomplished. It all enters even into the world.
In athletics, even if one comes last in the hundred meters or the thousand meters, it is enough if one wins the marathon. Now, one must do such work. Though I could not fulfill family responsibility like this, in the nation and the world I become a champion. Is that so? For me to stand at the head and go abroad and work—working abroad is more valuable than working in America. Going to the communist world and working is more valuable than working in the democratic world. (Applause)
So do not be discouraged in the present. Do not be discouraged, but for a greater hope, for a greater hope…. At times one rests, but one must rest for the world rather than for oneself. One must cross over that. Even if one enters a valley, let us rise higher than this valley. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.” The conclusion emerges that when you are discouraged, you must not be discouraged because of present matters but must have courage for the future.
Again, do not be discouraged. Why must one not be discouraged?
There is such a principle, and next, though you may cast away, Heaven absolutely does not cast away. So one is told not to be discouraged. Therefore, the method of returning to Heaven is that, if one has discouraged Heaven until now, and if one says one will do a greater work than the work by which one discouraged Heaven, God always receives one. Do you understand what that means? “Yes.”
I could not witness it individually, but I will carry on the activity for the masses! I could not do fundraising individually, but I will make a company and now prepare great funds for this humankind! Then one is told to hold fast to that hope and not let go and attack with the resolve of death. Each time one does so, one will discover that one has no strength of one’s own. There are such times. That is why prayer is necessary. One must pray a desperate, desperate prayer: “I am small, but Heaven, I need great strength.” One must pray with a sense of urgency greater than the earnestness of wanting to eat when I am hungry. Anything must be earnest. Have you prayed such a prayer? That one will without fail become one….
It is the same with the Teacher. The Teacher does not cast you away. It is always so. The Teacher’s history too was so. I came out of prison and visited and sought even the people who cast me away. Do you understand what I mean? When God does not cast away and the Teacher does not cast away, can you cast away? That is why the ideal of the Unification Church is the Four Position Foundation. It is the ideal of the Four-Position Foundation. This is the ideal of three generations, the ideal of three generations. God, the Teacher, you—these are three generations. Do you understand? You are not other people. You are I within the realm of three generations. Though I am a person with no merit at all, seen by such a principled standard of the ideal of creation, and though you are nothing whatsoever, you have stood in an astonishing position where you can enter the realm of three generations.
The Teacher has carried out the responsibility of the second generation toward humankind. God is the first generation, the Teacher is the second generation, and you are the third generation. Now, since God is not visible, one is told to center on the True Parents and inherit the tradition by which those True Parents have moved until now. Then it is enough. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.” That is the family law Heaven has established, the family law. It is tradition. Do you understand? Be for humankind like the Teacher and be for humankind like God. It is the same.
Now, then, is God discouraged? Is the Teacher discouraged? When neither of the two is discouraged, why are you discouraged? Heaven can respond at any time, and Heaven can cooperate at any time. You understand what I mean, do you not? “Yes.” That is why today’s title is “Do Not Be Discouraged.”
Do not be discouraged but have more hope. Have courage, courage. I have courage. I have courage. I have the wisdom to master that. So you too must not be ashamed before your husband and must not be ashamed before your wife and must not be a wife who is admonished by her husband and must not be a husband who is admonished by his wife.
Let us uphold the will of God and the True Parents
Then what is praise?
What is there for the husband to praise, and what is there for the woman to praise? That lies in upholding the will of God and the True Parents. There is nothing but that. And so one must not be ashamed before one's sons and daughters. For that, one must become such a father as is for the world and for God’s will. Otherwise, one becomes ashamed. What is that? It is not the Unification Church’s work but your work. You must know that it is your work. It is to become a dignified husband as a husband, dignified parents as parents, a dignified clan as a clan, and dignified people as a people. Then what do the Teacher and God seek to do? They are helpers who make it possible for you to do so, helpers.
Now, what is the conclusion? For whom, for whom does one work?
It is not for the nation and for the world; it is all because of me. It is because of me. When one does it for oneself, to whom does one complain? To whom? That is foolish. One does it not for others but for oneself, and yet one would not work and would play truant. And one blames all that on a third party, on the church, on the Teacher, on the person in charge…. And who is the person in charge? It is because of oneself…. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.”
One cannot be discouraged. That the Teacher commands so strongly…. Even if the Teacher were to die now, he has done all there is to do, done it all. There is no need to nag anymore. There is no need to appear here on Sunday and say, "Do this and do that.
When professors stand at the podium and teach, it is not for the professor himself. It is for the students. They give homework…. Is giving homework good or bad? “Good.” Do you like homework? “No.” But must one do it or not? “One must do it.” Must one take the examination or not? “One must take it.” Why does one do that? Why? Even the teacher dislikes doing it. Is it easy for the teacher to mark? The teacher dislikes it too, and the students dislike it too, but otherwise they do not study, so there is no help for it. Do you understand?
It is the same, the same. It is the same with you. Why do I make you do what you dislike? Because it will not do to not do it. By doing as one is told, one’s own result becomes better. In about ten years you will know. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.” That is not because of me. What does Reverend Moon do it for? He does it to teach. He does it to teach God.
For the sake of the greater, one must transcend the smaller
Now, because I ate curses and received opposition here in America, I received a blessing that is not in America, so it paid off. Since I endured and did it this way while being persecuted, I ought to receive compensation. So there are no enemies. When one enters the position of glory, there are no enemies. There is no one lying in wait. There is no road but that road for going to Heaven. That is why Reverend Moon also cannot help but head down that road. You, too, are told to do so. Do you dislike it? “No.” If you do not, without fail, follow what Reverend Moon teaches and fail, then cut off my head. If one did as Reverend Moon said and failed, then there is no God. Reverend Moon becomes a liar. Reverend Moon becomes the king of swindlers. Do you understand what I mean? “Yes.”
Do not despair. Do not despair. Even though I have no strength, do not despair. Tomorrow is calling me, tomorrow. At the Washington rally, the Teacher declared a Moscow rally. He is preparing it now.
That too is working for America, yet they do not work and only run away; they are busy not working and running away. What work is it? They are busy running away. Is that not so? (Laughter) Would God say, “You could not witness here, you rascal”? He would not. The truants who dislike working here go there and carry on that business.
For the sake of the greater, for a greater purpose, one must transcend the things of the present small scope. Only then can one pass through. If you are confident about any matter, it is all right not to work. If you can do it in one stroke, after ten years more than someone who does it over fifteen years, having waited ten years, I will wait ten years for you.
