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1. The words I speak are not my own. They are the words Heaven speaks through me. Hence, wherever or whenever you hear these words, your heart is stirred. That is what is different about them.
I am not alone because I speak at the point where the vertical and the horizontal meet, where the mind and body resonate with each other. When my body vibrates, my mind vibrates as well to unite with my body.
When my heart is inspired, a corresponding change takes place in my body. Each exerts a force on the other. Hence, it is not my words that I speak. The Korean word Hoon Dok Hae contains a Chinese character that means, “to sell words.”
Thus, if you keep them to yourself, you will find yourself in trouble. You need to give them out to people.
If you store up goods and let them spoil, you will be punished. So if, rather than selling them, you give the words freely to others, the outcome will be even better than if you sell things for money.
Therefore, I am telling you to share these words with others. This is the original meaning of Hoon Dok Hae. (289-296, 1998.02.01)
Hoon Dok family church and the focus of our activity
2. The Chinese character hoon (訓 ) in Hoon Dok is made up of eon (言) meaning “words” and cheon (川 ) meaning “stream.” Water is an element of all living things. Water creates green zones across the earth and clouds wander in the sky. Flowing deep or moving high, brings balance to the earth.
Water equalizes everything. The character dok (言賣) is made up of eon (言) meaning “words” and mae ( 賣 ), meaning “sell.” It means to sell – specifically, to spread – the Word.
If you do not “sell” it, or give it out, you need to gather it and use it. The word Hoon Dok has such meanings. Its power is like that of water that flows and becomes a great river, then makes a sea and gives life to this universe.
(290-155, 1998.02.18)
3. A Hoon Dok family is created through Hoon Dok Hae. Again, you can go to the kingdom of heaven when you experience rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life through the Hoon Dok church.
Your family is the base for going to the heavenly kingdom. You go to the heavenly kingdom from your family; you cannot go to heaven from anywhere else. Your family must be a place where the kingdom of heaven of peace is created. It must happen on earth. (424-119, 2003.11.04)
4. After people restore the things of creation, they are to experience love. The Old Testament Age was the age when the things of the creation were sacrificed as offerings.
The New Testament Age was the age when the children sacrificed themselves as offerings, and the Completed Testament Age was the age when the Parents sacrificed themselves as offerings.
To attend God here on the earth, the Parents have gone the way of the cross, leading their family along with them. When believers on earth pursue activities for the Home Church and offer conditions of devotion on its altar, spirits from all fields and levels of the spirit world can return and cooperate with them.
Now that Home Church has been changed to Hoon Dok church, " the age is coming when your tribe will join. In the coming age, it will not be just individuals who join but all the members of your tribe.
If your family name is Kim, all the Kims will join; if your family name is Park, all the Parks will join. After that happens, the age will arrive for registration in the nation. It will happen soon. From now on, things will happen quickly. Things will move quickly. (511-322, 2005.10.15)
5. The family is the starting point of the kingdom of heaven. When you understand its significance, you will know how crucial it is that you make a Hoon Dok church. If there is a church, it should be a family church. As a family is a church connected by heart, that family church should be developed into a Hoon Dok church.
If you sow many seeds and gather a fruitful harvest, the heavenly world and all people on earth will be able to eat. That is how you can make a new start and greet the spring.
Families who do Hoon Dok Hae will have a foundation that can endure the winter and greet the spring on a new level. Thus, they will prosper, and prosper even more. (402-261, 2003.01.16)
6. When you sow seeds in the family, and they bear fruit, the fruit can go beyond the nation and the world, all the way to the kingdom of heaven. Since that realm is the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world, people's most important endeavor is how much harvest they can collect and offer when they go there.
The place where you will live eternally in the heavenly world is determined based on the result you bring here and now. You should give and forget. Go to the lowest place, and give, and then forget what you have given. If you forget what you have given, without fail it will return to you.
Because human beings are individual embodiments of truth, when they receive something genuine, it will not simply be forgotten. When people receive a gift prepared with a heart of devotion, they want to return more than they have received.
As individual embodiments of truth, they would like to create an environment with conditions that foster more and ever greater giving and receiving in a circular motion. Hoon Dok churches are the foundation, the base, for this.
(402-261, 2003.01.16)
7. You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven simply because you were given recognition by the Unification Church. You have to go through proper protocols that equip you to live as a citizen of that kingdom.
This even includes taxes. The Unification Church will disappear, religions will disappear and politics will cease. Even nation-states will disappear. The world will become a huge, unified family nation, a single nation whose culture is the world of heart.
It will be realized using a thorough education through Hoon Dok Hae about the life I lived, especially about the aspects of my heart. Therefore, we have Hoon Dok churches and Hoon Dok families. We must find the church in the family.
(426-151, 2003.11.21)
8. You need to understand that Hoon Dok Hae is doing the work of Cheon II Guk, which goes beyond the standard of religion and the nation. Hoon Dok Hae is attended by your ancestors and their descendants who were the most filial of filial children and the most loyal of loyal patriots in the heavenly realm.
By reading the Word and learning together in the presence of heaven and earth united, we establish the foundation for the ideal family as individuals who are being substantially re-created and perfected.
Then we can move into a new age of education, an age of universal education, to lay such a foundation in front of Heaven. (437-010, 2004.02.08)
9. You should create a Hoon Dok church, focusing on your tribe. This is to build a global human family. Because national barriers will disappear, regardless of where people go in this world, those who attend a Hoon Dok church can call that place home. Your culture and your religion will recede into the background, and the time when you talk about those things will come to an end. (526-246, 2006.05.20)
10. Be crazy about the Word, and work so hard you even forget about eating. Then all your physical ailments will flee. When I was young, I had a lung disease, and everyone said I would die. But I thought, “If I am meant to die, I shall die.
But if I find something so interesting that I keep myself busier than the activity of the disease in my lungs, then even the germs causing my disease will flee.” We have to go now into the midst of the democratic world and the communist world and fulfill our responsibility to revolutionize and harmonize them.
We must fulfill that responsibility of the Mother and Father. When you hold Hoon Dok Hae throughout the nation, a place where Mother and Father can stand will appear. (402-252, 2003.01.16)
11. Hoon Dok Hae will connect you with another dimension. When you hold Hoon Dok Hae, heaven and earth become one, and the entire spirit world descends and cooperates with you. Unless you do so, your life path will not open up, and you will be unable to fulfill your goals.
This is the reason you need a Hoon Dok church, which is a family church. No families have been able to enter the heavenly kingdom. Even God did not have a family. Since no families have been able to go to heaven, I am saying there are no citizens of the kingdom of heaven. We must reorganize all this.
(493-188, 2005.04.22)
Home Church activities and community breakthrough
12. Restoration is to return. To where we should return? Regardless of my position, no matter how high I, Rev. Moon, reach under the sun, I need to return to the base of the cycle, and that base is the family.
This is why I am talking about tong ban gyeokpa, meaning “community breakthrough.” Community breakthrough activities can reverse everything related to origin, lineage, culture, and lifestyle that have invaded the families in Satan's world. That is how the word “breakthrough” came to be used.
(204-118, 1990.07.01)
13. As part of your community breakthrough activities, you should hold revival meetings. They will enable you to set up a vertical foundation. In every family, when the children can shout out to the heavens that their mothers and fathers are true mothers and true fathers, and when their parents can do the same, saying their sons and daughters are true sons and true daughters, then Satan's realm in this earthly world will come to an end.
The problem started in the family, and the problem must be resolved in the family. Community breakthrough activities will turn around Satan's families in the world. They will recover the families from his lineage and enable them to reverse their entire way of thinking. (208-344, 1990.11.21)
14. We must make a breakthrough in our community. We need to do that because it fulfills the desire of God throughout history. What went wrong starting from the family must be reversed beginning with the family.
The heavenly kingdom emerges with a nation. However, to make this happen, we have to start with a true man and a true woman. First, there should be a family that opposes Satan's world. This is why so many terms in the Unification Church are the opposite of something.
Even the term “True Parents” is the opposite of something. What about all the parents who have existed up to the present? Since they are the opposite of True Parents, we can say the parents who gave birth to you are false parents. From God's perspective, this is correct. It is also correct from Satan's perspective.
Therefore, if we emphasize True Parents, then Satan retreats. Because God regards them as important, Satan retreats. That is how Satan can be turned upside down. (210-094, 1990.12.01)
15. Why do we have to break through in our local communities? To where is the history of restoration returning us? It has to return us from the fallen world through the gate of the True Parents.
Everything that was propagated from what came through the gate of the Fall must turn around, pass through the gate of the True Parents, and ascend to the starting point in the Garden of Eden.
You Unification Church members are the mainstream people who turned around and are now rising. When you do so, you do not need baggage with any old, tattered things from your past life.
You have to thoroughly cleanse everything that Satan polluted and purify it to be as clear as crystal. You should have a mind and body of true love, as pure as distilled water.
And you should be people who can say with confidence that you have become the princes and princesses of the heavenly kingdom that is appearing on this earth; and that you are its heirs by true love. (211-129, 1990.12.29)
16. The task now is to break through in your communities. Two thousand years ago, Jesus could not establish the domain of his family and tribe. But today, because the families of the Unification Church are completing their tribal-level domain, the liberation of the tribal-level domain worldwide is taking place in all four directions. I see this as a condition that can spread the realm of liberation to communities throughout the world. It is for this reason I am giving you instructions today and asking for your pledge. (166-259, 1987.06.07)
17. Today, the most important thing is where we plant our roots. The place where our roots should take hold is not the province. Provinces are made up of counties (gun), and under the counties are districts (tong) and villages (li}. However, all these became places Satan took over and occupied.
For this reason, we must plant our roots in local communities (tong) and neighborhoods (ban). You should know this from the viewpoint of the Principal. That is why the Unification Church must be single-minded in its goal to break through in the community.
We have only one goal, and that is restoration. All of us, whether in the past, present, or future and whether at the formation, growth,h or completion stage, have only one purpose. It is the same path for all: we must build a rock-solid foundation centering on the local community. (171-299, 1988.01.20)
18. Even though you cannot reach the level where I am fighting at the front line of the battle, still, with tears, you must go over the peak of your community and neighborhood and then settle down there. You must help your neighbors overcome their sorrowful fate, the fate brought on by the Fall.
If you don't do this, Heaven will not cooperate with you. Heaven will not move. Heaven will leave you. It doesn't matter how much I invested; it doesn't matter how well you follow me; if Heaven doesn't work with us, it is no good. Heaven must work with us. (166-172, 1987.06.05)
19. While conducting activities in your community, you should work so hard that you wear out several pairs of shoes. When you visit the leading people of your community or neighborhood, do not take your car. You must walk.
Go about your work on foot, even though you may go through numerous pairs of shoes. See what happens if, looking all sweaty, you knock on their doors three or four times a day. Most of you will have visited only once, right?
Go to your community or neighborhood and give lectures there. Lecture numerous times a day and with such passion that you are soaked with sweat and have to take a shower or bath afterward. Try it and see if Heaven doesn't help you. See whether people are fired up. (167-040, 1987.06.14)
20. From now on, you must make breakthroughs in your community. You should not miss even one home. We are in such a time. That is why I coined the phrase tong ban gyeokpa, “community breakthrough.” No matter how tired you are, you need to walk day and night to reach even one more home.
You must cross your neighborhood from east to west, and south to north, and then walk its perimeter. I am saying you should visit each house at least three times. When you meet someone, what should you do?
Give them the most precious gift. What is that? It is to help them become the sons and daughters of True Parents. This is because their lineage must be changed. (202-304, 1990.05.25)
21. I have loved you more than my mother and father. My whole life is full of stories of shedding blood and tears for the Unification Church. I shed blood, sweat, and tears to reach out to the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world.
If I hadn't reached each of these levels, Satan would not have been separated from us. That is why I went to America and underwent all kinds of suffering and hardships. Now I am preparing to save the Soviet Union.
Since I have completed my responsibilities on the world level, I am back in Korea to do community breakthrough activities. (203-254, 1990.06.26)
22. It is based on the Principle that we must return to the land of our original hometown. That is why I am telling all the members in Korea to return to their hometowns. We need to build a national foundation based upon the foundation of accomplishing breakthrough activities in our communities.
With the family as a starting point, we need to go through the formation, growth, and completion stages. The family is the formation stage, the community is the tribal-level growth stage and the nation is the completion stage. To connect these three, we have to be connected in the family.
Otherwise, we cannot connect to the tribe we cannot connect to the nation; nor can we connect to the world. When you expand the foundation in this way, Satan will find no den in which to hide.
In this way, you can liquidate him. You can build such a foundation quickly; there is no longer any persecution. The foundation is prepared for you to be welcomed. (218-184, 1991.07.28)
23. Community breakthrough is not about threatening or intimidating people; it is not about weapons. If you work day and night practicing love based on the Word, then even while elderly citizens sit around smoking and drinking or pursuing other vices, they will praise the Unification Church and say, “I have to let my son or daughter follow the example of that person.”
If they do that, the evil spirits attached to them, trying to influence them to carouse, will flee. Further, if those elderly citizens see a violent young man become good-natured after he joins the Unification Church, then they will think, “Our children also should become like Unification Church members.”
If this happens, the evil spirits within them will take flight. In every aspect, you need to become a model representing the Principle. You should set the standard as the ancestor in your family.
You must become a guide for the ancestors in your family by becoming like a signboard displaying Heaven's principles and rules. The True Parents are the ancestors among all ancestors. (212-101, 1991.01.02)
24. Once you complete community breakthrough activities, you should ensure that each family hoists the Unification Church flag. Thereafter, if you have three visitors to your home every day, including Unification Church members, who are happy with your family, through that condition alone everyone in your family can be saved. That is why I am making people indebted to you.
Through my practical accomplishments and teaching of the Word, I benefit people spiritually and materially. I have reached that stage. Therefore, I could declare the True Parents and be welcomed; I could step on this world that Satan has used as his stage, go over its summit, and stand at the top.
The time has come when I can return to Korea, connect the globe with the heavenly realm, and then hold a declaration ceremony for the settlement of God's kingship. I am pushing hard for this.
Great things can be achieved when our mind and body are united. The time will come when Satan's world will not use the power of the fist; we can bring it into submission through our teachings. (200-346, 1990.02.27)
Sun Myung Moon