Relationship with Humans
How to Relate with Humans
In our daily life, everybody has his or her concept of good and evil. I think that you often experience the following. When you meet a person for the first time and just look at them, you then realize whether he or she is a good person or not.
If you are a religious or spiritual person, you will realize that all the more easily.
When you meet a person with your conscience, you will understand whether he or she is good, even if you meet him or her for the first time. You may have had such experiences in your religious life, especially if you have spiritual ability.
It is from our human relationships that we can recognize others as good or evil.
This is better than any other means. Everybody has both an internal relationship and an external relationship. An internal relationship refers to a human relationship, and an external relationship refers to a relationship with the secular world. Human beings have such relationships. (27-46)
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Desirable Human Relationships
Let us examine human beings. One smiles gently, and another one laughs with a loud voice. There are many kinds of laughing. (46-285)
In your religious life, you should establish your position, where you stand. You should examine everyone whether he or she is good or evil to you, or whether he or she is a plus or minus to you.
You must determine from the person's words and behavior whether he or she is plus or minus to you. In other words, you must examine whether a person is helpful for God's providence and your religious life or not. (40-88)
Three Classes of People
In the fallen world, we can classify human beings into three classes. One class of humans belongs in hell. Another class belongs to the middle world, which is located between the satanic and heavenly worlds. The third class of humans belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven.
An individual human being has a mind and a body. The mind is not always spiritual; it is usually between the spiritual and the physical. Thus, there are three types of human beings; the physical, the mindful and the spiritual, who belong to the satanic world, middle world, and heavenly world respectively.
When you meet someone for the first time, you sometimes feel pleasant, and you are attracted to him or her shortly. Why is it so? You are attracted to him or her because he or she is spiritually higher.
You will feel naturally pleased to meet a person who has a higher spiritual foundation, which his or her ancestors have established. It is because you will benefit rather than lose by relating to him or her. You can decide whether a person is good or evil by seeing whether you benefit or lose from your relationship.
In other cases, you don't feel pleasant or unpleasant when you meet a person. In yet another case, you feel unpleasant seeing a person. Everybody emits radiation, which affects the people around him or her.
Thus, you should correctly evaluate people. When you think that someone is good just by looking at him or her, you are already engaged in a give-and-take relationship, regarding him or her in the subject position while you are in the object position.
From the principled standpoint, when a subject and an object establish a complete reciprocal standard and are engaged in complete give and take action, God dwells in them. (50-258)
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A Being in Connection with Ancestors
When you meet a person and feel pleasant, you naturally want to give him or her something and receive something from him or her. In the same way that an iron is attracted to a magnet, two people are united as an invisible connection works between them. God dwells in them when they have a strong connection between them.
Give and take action gives rise to a movement based on a center, and the movement spreads around the center. When a center is established quickly, the movement will last for a long time, but the movement will collapse easily when it takes a lot of time to establish a center.
When two parties are engaged in give and take action, God dwells in them. When someone feels it is pleasant to see another one for the first time, there is a connection behind them, the connection between their ancestors.
One of your grandmothers may belong to the Cho family, and another one may belong to the Kim family. Thus, from the ancient ancestors down to the present parents, one's ancestors belong to various families.
However, one has special connections to some families, and we can divide our ancestors into some classes. Then we can say that one is mostly connected with the first class of ancestors, say, the ancestors who belong to the Choi family, and then with the second class of ancestors, say, the ancestors who belong to the Kim family, and so on. There are tens of classes in one's ancestors.
Even though I was born physically as the son or a daughter of my present parents, I am not merely a horizontal being of this age. The bloods of my grandfathers and grandmothers as well as those of many other ancestors are mixed in my blood. Six billion cells in one's body are connected with one's ancestors.
We need to know from which ancestors we have mostly inherited our characteristics. Your uncle may belong to the Cho family, but he does not represent merely the Cho family.
If his mother belongs to the Park family, he has some characteristics of the Park family. Thus, the present “I” was born as the combination of all my ancestors.
When you meet a person, say, Mr. Park, for the first time and feel pleasant somehow, it is because you have many Park ancestors. On the other hand, if you feel disgust for a person whom you meet for the first time, it is because the ancestors of both parties were in an antagonistic relationship.
Perhaps his ancestors harmed your ancestors. Thus, our ancestors' conflicting relationships appear as repellent human relationships today.
Some people are neither pleasant nor unpleasant to you. They belong to the neutral position. You can influence and move them if you like. They will be attracted to you if you, as a subject, do your best to serve them with all your sincerity. Then, if they are attracted to you and come closer beyond a certain line, you will be able to guide them to go the same way you go.
If you want to witness to a person with whom you feel it is difficult to get along, you have to solve the problem of restoration. You cannot restore him or her for nothing. Standing in the position of goodness, you have to pay the price for him or her.
It appears that we are living together horizontally in this world. It is not true, however, seen from the spiritual and heavenly viewpoint.
There are mountains and valleys in our human relationships, just as in the natural world. Thus, one goes the flat way, another descends, and the other ascends mountains.
You may think that all human beings are the same, but they are not. When one likes this, another likes that. Everyone feels in their or way. All these feelings are related to the historical background and spiritual connections. (50-259)
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A Good Person
What is a good person? If you try to find only shortcomings in others, and if you accuse someone ten times for his or her ten shortcomings, you are not a good person. You should forget the shortcomings of others and evaluate the value of their good points rather than accusing their shortcomings.
Thus, you can relate to others in a position of goodness, and you can guide them to happiness. They will follow you and be closely associated with you. If you just hate the shortcomings of others and judge them as worse than they are, you should know that you couldn't find goodness on earth.
Then what is a good person?
A good person is one who loves even bad people; a person who sympathizes with those in sorrow as if he himself were in sorrow.
If you become sympathetic with others and indemnify their sorrows and give joy to them, you can be a model of a good person in any situation.
How can you become such a person? You should transcend superficial, worldly habits and ideas. You should think, “I was born to change bad people into good people,” or " I was born for the sake of others.”
If you think that is the mission of your life, you will be able to get rid of all evils, whatever difficult problems may arise in your surroundings.
You should not think that you have nothing to do with the evils of others. You should suffer from them, and you should pray with tears for others, and you should live with determination to atone for their sins. Then you will become central figures to guide them. (34-130)
We should know who is a good person. A good person loves children, young people, and old people. About nature, he or she loves spring, summer, autumn, and winter. That is a good person. (72-102)
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Good Human Relationships
Loving Relationships
Today, people are indifferent to each other. They do not respect each other. Regardless of age or sex, they think it troublesome to relate with one another. Such people cannot have a spiritual awakening.
In God's providence of restoration, He does not need the Republic of Korea only; He needs all humankind. He has a deep concern for all humankind. It is the most important goal in God's providence. We are gathered here to fulfill that goal. You should know that you should have the same concern for all humankind as God has.
True concern for all humankind should come from our original minds. It should not be superficial. Then we can stand where the best connections and best relations are established. You should have sympathy with others who are in trouble and suffering as if you were in trouble.
If you love others ahead of anyone else, you will have a strong life force in you, with which you can overcome the most severe, wintry trial. A life force will grow in spring, and it will become the basis of life in the new world. (25-291)
The value of a person as a human being depends on how one relates to life and love, which integrates all sensations coming through one's five physical senses.
Thus, we need to establish human relationships and live a social life with love. If you are not in such a position, you are going backward; not even standing still. (32-19)
In the same way balls collide with each other on a billiard table, we meet people and engage in give and take action with them. In a soccer game, a ball is kicked, and it goes up and down, right and left, front and back. We have such human relationships centered on love.
What is religion?
It is seeking God. Then what shall we do after finding God? We should go further into the depths of the love of God, shouldn't we? If not for the human fall, people could have reached that point, and religion would not be necessary.
Then what explanations are necessary for love?
We can naturally realize parental love, conjugal love, and so on. We cannot be separated from love any more than we can be separated from air.
Do you have to go in a special direction to find air? You will find it anywhere. In the same way, you can experience love from your parents and your loved ones wherever you are. (91-82)
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The Fundamental Element in Human Relationships
We should decide how we should live our lives. We should associate with and serve the people, good or bad, young and old, without distinction of what we like or dislike.
You should think of what you have done to others before you judge them as good or bad. Water flows from higher to lower places. The air of high atmospheric pressure naturally comes down to the lower vacuum. Thus, when you stand in the lower position, others will come closer to you. That is the principle. (131-33)
You should be careful when you come in front of others and speak in front of them. You should consider their inner and outer situation. (42-300)
As a religious person, one should be united with God, and then one should be emotionally and horizontally related to all things and the world, centering on God's love. (82-275)
You should not relate to people with greedy ambition. (33-143)
We Are Sik-Goo (Family Members), Not Church Members
The Background of the Term Sik-Goo
For what purpose are we Unification Church members gathered here today?
We call our members “Sik-Goo,” don't we? What does Sik-Goo mean? It does not mean the one who eats meals.
By Sik-Goo, we mean those who have the connections of brothers and sisters; those who were born under the same parents' heart. We should have a relationship of brothers under the same parents. Then we inherit the life, habits, and traditions of our parents, and we have the lifestyle that heaven likes. In this way, family members come to be formed. (155-211)
What are the requirements for family members?
You have your position and situation establishing the relationship of above and below, front and back, right and left. Then you should bear your brother's tribulation as your own, your parents' tribulation as your own, your spouse's tribulation as your own. You should confront various difficulties, thinking, “Others' pain is mine.”
If you accept the sorrow from your brother, his suffering will be dispersed. If you accept the sorrow from your parents, their suffering will be dispersed. We shall be closely related to each other, as brothers, if we have the strong will to fight against the enemies who are obstructing our providential way. Then we shall be protected and guided by our brothers. It is the heavenly way.
Through the age of struggle on the individual level, the age of struggle on the family level, the age of struggle on the tribal and national levels, we have come to the age of preparation for the struggle on the global level.
Our life is not merely our life. All humankind and all the members of our family should harmonize with our lives and march forward with us. Such a thing should happen. Then we are family members.
As family members, we live for our parents above and our brothers left and right.
We live to build the kingdom of hope and goodness, a good nation, and a good planet. In the presence of such solemn tasks, the storm of struggle will necessarily arise. Who will confront the storm? Our Unification Church members, namely our family members, will.
Today, we who used to be strangers are gathered here hand in hand, young and old, men and women. We have the same blood lineage with the same God's heart. We have started, motivated by God, and therefore, we should attain the divine result. (67-325)
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Beings with Connections
The connections, with which you are united, centering on God, could not have been established in a few years. Behind such connections, there is a fallen, sad history and God's hope for humankind.
You should not forget that you have gathered here with such connections and with a heart of longing for each other. (49-216)
What are the connections with which we were born?
They are vertical connections. They have not been established based on ideologies; rather, they have been established based on God's heart and His ideal of creation. They are firmly connected with the original human nature. You have to understand the absoluteness of such connections. (49-206)
The Points Family Members Should Keep in Mind
You should not say the kind of things that would hurt family members or disturb their religious lives. (18-43)
You criticize or judge other family members from a distance, thinking that you cannot get along with them. You must not do those things. (19-138)
I cannot tolerate such a thing as someone criticizing and deliberately attacking other family members.
Where should we begin to love?
We should begin to love by loving each other. We have gathered here from north, south, east, and west under the same connections, and therefore we should love each other. Our Unification Church is proud of such connections among its members. Without them, we have nothing to be proud of. (49-62)
There should not be struggles in the Unification Church. You have gathered here to love each other. You should seek to love rather than to be loved.
From whom do you learn to love?
It's from Father. When you met Father, you naturally felt like a loving Father. You felt love that you could not help but give to others. You should give such love to your brothers and sisters.
Then God will give you back as much love as you gave to others many times over. It is because parents wish their children to love each other. If you love brothers and sisters in the same way you love God, the door to the Kingdom of Heaven will be opened. You should go together with your brothers and sisters, just as you want to go with Father.
In this respect, it is family members rather than God or Father who will guide you higher and more quickly to heaven. The one who has love greater than parental or conjugal love can lead people as the supreme subject of love.
You should make desperate efforts to train yourself to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. If you are in the Abel position, you should subjugate and lead the Cain-side people.
Otherwise, your Kingdom of Heaven is merely a kingdom inside a well. It is not the Kingdom of Heaven where you can freely associate with people vertically and horizontally.
It is a global age today. A white man, a black man, and a yellow man are three brothers. You may wonder whether you will be happy living together.
There is no conflict among the various races in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is not the place where only one race can enter; it is the place where people are allowed to enter depending on their achievement of love-how many people they loved.
It is stated in the Bible, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." (Matt 5:9)
You should keep company with the children of God. If you keep company with the children of Satan, you will feel fear and anxiety. You should think that your brothers are more valuable than you.
If you live for the sake of your brothers, you will naturally go to the Kingdom of Heaven. You will be welcome everywhere, and you will become a central figure.
The way to the Kingdom of Heaven is to realize brotherly and sisterly love based on parental and conjugal love. The key to entering the Kingdom of Heaven is to give and receive love for joy. You should keep it deeply in your mind that brothers and sisters are more valuable than you are. (66-125)
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The Reason We Should Love All Humankind
The Reason We Should Love People
Arrogance and stubbornness are our enemies. They are natures of Satan. Instead, we should be modest and harmonious. There is love where there is harmony, and you should harmonize with everyone. If two persons are united, something greater than what they have will arise.
Jealousy is another satanic nature, but here you should keep in mind that you should not be arrogant and stubborn. (37-132)
The first commandment is, “Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” The second commandment is, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
The first commandment says that you should love God, and the second one says that you should love your neighbor, meaning all humankind. It is God's will that all humankind should live in the world of love. Therefore, He will not accuse us if we love people more than God. (136-141)
Why do we have to love each other?
It is because if we do not love, God's love cannot go around. The love between subject and object must be there before vertical love can appear. (34-240)
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How Much Should We Love People?
What is a saint? Is he a person who eats well? Is he a person who fights well? No, he is not. A saint should love all people as his parents, his brothers and sisters, and his children. Parents suffer when their children are sick.
A saint will suffer to see humankind in trouble. It is the way of a saint to love all humankind and invest all he has into them, forgetting his pride. This way of a saint has been inherited as the standard of morals throughout history, beyond ages and national boundaries. It is the philanthropic spirit, the love for humankind. (186-74)
How much did you love people?
Have you ever loved a person at the risk of your life? How much and how many people have you loved? Your heart of love will be formed depending on how much emphasis you put on loving others. (73-78)
You should walk the way of faith based on God's love if you want to inherit the eternal connections. Then you will bear fruit in the presence of humankind. Our association should be greater than any other association in loving people.
Our association has been established by God's will rather than by human will. Therefore, it will bear fruit of love in the presence of the world.
In winter, leaves fall. When spring comes, trees turn green and we feel hope.
Likewise, if you keep loving all humankind in whatever difficult situation you may be in, you will become a hope and a representative of heaven. When you love others, you should not only love youths; you should love young and old and all human beings.
You should love and respect old people more than young people. Especially, you should love and have sympathy for old people who cannot work and need care. But today's tendency is for young people to ignore old people. That should not be the case. (25-289)
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Relationships With Words
The Importance of Words
Words are the most important thing in our daily life and in life in general. We express our thinking with words, and the words we use convey emotion and mood to others. We give excitement or despair to other people. We have to know well what important work the words are doing. (91-73)
People use words to express themselves. It is the words that prove the personality of the person instead of what he or she does. The Chinese character, which means “believe,” is interesting, isn't it? It consists of two parts: one part means “person,” the other part means “words.” (66-242)
The Words with Love Inside
When we speak centering upon love, then, no matter how badly we speak or whatever we speak, we inevitably prosper and develop, and the universe will rejoice. (91-91)
Words and Action
Thinking is important. All human activities and all human words start with thinking. So you have to have the right thinking, and when you speak, you speak from that thinking.
You cannot intervene; you cannot put yourself in that tradition. Here exists the universe and God. You should speak representing the universe and representing humankind. (126-20)
You know, in this world we often say, “that person is good with words.” We know for a fact that some are good with words. But it is not good if the words alone are good.
Those who are good not only at words but also at behavior or in their actions are those who pass the tests in life. We think that way. Whether it is better to have more words or more deeds is a significant issue in our lives.
Centering upon this issue, it is decided whether a certain person is a good person or a bad person. The value of good and evil is determined. When we speak, what should we speak about?
What should we center on when we act?
It is not good if words are only words and actions are only actions. We should stand in the position of the sons and daughters of God and speak and behave as God's sons and daughters. (91-73)
When you speak and act, you should do so in such a way that everything may belong to God, and everything may be supplemented by heaven. When you talk to your friends and brothers, and family members, you have to do so in such a way that you can move their hearts. (91-96)
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The Harm Words Can Do
Those who have faith, those who are true, those who want to live truthfully should not make a mistake in speaking words. (45-247)
You may use words instantaneously, but if you make mistakes in using one word, that influence will last for one year. In other words, if you misuse one word for one second, you will be put in a situation where you will have to pay the price for one year. (43-1 11)
You should not use words you don't have in your mind. Not. Heavenly law will accuse you. (91-97)
The Posture of Listening
When somebody speaks, then there is a triangular relationship established between the person who spoke, God, and me. In this triangular relationship, there is necessarily a purpose between God, me, and that person on three points.
The question is whether those three points are in accord with the points of purpose for God, myself, and that person, respectively. Unless this is in accord, that relationship will get twisted and destroyed, no matter how hard you try. Unless that is by the will of God, the heavenly fortune will depart instantly.
You should develop a habit so that you can understand these things without prayer. You have to evaluate those things, centering upon your first impression.
In that case, if God is not pleased with what that person has said, there will necessarily occur some phenomena of discord. For example, you will feel angry with the person you see for the first time, and some bad words will come out like thunder. You have to reach that state, but to reach there, you need to make preparations.
Therefore, you must not stand in a position where you always criticize others. You have to examine what kind of impression you give to others in the first moment of meeting without saying a word. Furthermore, when you listen to the first word of that person, you should notice how your heart moves.
You should examine those things. In other words, in the relationship between subject and object, you have to examine whether that relationship goes well for you. By adjusting the angle of that feeling, you should examine your position by drawing a line that God seeks, and see if you exist as a plus or as a minus. If it is a plus, you should move by that point. (40-82)
The important thing is not the content of a person's words. The important point is the impression, the first feelings of the person who listens to those words. You should always think about this by yourself.
Therefore, when somebody speaks to you, you should ask yourself what kind of feelings your mind and body have in listening to those words before you think about the content of those words.
If you get accustomed to that kind of thinking, then, regardless of what may happen, you know whether it will be good or bad, plus or minus for you. (40-68)
You should realize that in the past, Adam and Eve failed because they were unable to distinguish the words that they heard horizontally. So, you should become perfect people who have perfect personalities and who can make distinctions.
… Archangel with the original nature given by nature and heaven, they would not have fallen. (3-162)
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Relationships With Things
The Relationship Towards Things in Our Daily Life
How do we distinguish among the relationships we have in our daily lives?
First, we have relationships toward things; second, we have relationships toward other human beings; third, we have relationships toward words.
In other words, we use our relationships with things and words in our relationships with other people. Words exist for indirect purposes, mainly for the third purpose.
Therefore, when we deal with things, we should not get caught in front of God or by the heavenly law. Furthermore, in our relationship toward people, we should not get caught or fail to pass in the relationship toward things, toward other people, and in the words we use. Words necessarily lead to action. These are the relationships we have in our daily lives. (40-289)
All the things we deal with are educational material. They are the objects with which we can have a relationship, which can cause an indirect response, not a direct response, in the spiritual world.
Those are God's creation since those created beings resemble God's nature. Indirectly, they have within themselves the sungsang elements Therefore, they have elements of goodness as their inner characteristics, with which we can establish a relationship.
If there are people who develop their lives making connections through those characteristics, those people do not become obstacles; they don't become negative elements. (40-292)
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The True Owner of All Things
All things want to say, “I belong to this person, and the first ancestor of that family loved me in this way. The second ancestor loved me more, in addition to that, and the third ancestor added more and loved me.” Do they want that or not?
If you want to become the true owner of these things, you should take care of all things on behalf of God and love them. You should not only love them; you should educate your descendants so that they may love them even more. The people who do it that way become the true owners of all things.
Let's think about your value. Because you are a valuable existence, the things you have also come to have value as your objects. This is the Principle of Creation.
When a thing appears as an object in front of the subject, the subject and object become one by giving and receiving mutually. Then the object is given a value equivalent to that of the subject. That is the teaching of the Principle. Therefore, those people who don't take good care of things that belong to them cannot last.
You should love what you own. You have to think that everything you own is precious, from a sheet of paper to all the properties of your house. You should also save them and not waste them.
No matter how small a thing may be, if I pick it up, it comes to have value as my object. That way, it is precious. Therefore, all the things that a famous person used are kept as the very precious antiques of the nation.
No matter how old they become, they remain national property, part of the national treasure, right or wrong? Those things have value as the object of the central figures, which have a value equivalent to the whole nation. All people come to worship them.
The things that are in accord with the traditional thought of the nation will lead people in the aspect of emotions and feelings. The world was formed when those things gathered. Do you understand? The true owner is a representative of God. The true owner should be the true owner of true things and true material. (46-273)
As members of the Church, you are in the position of becoming the sons and daughters of the Parents. For you to be able to inherit the generation of the parents, you should love the things that belong to Father more than Father did. You should love them by putting your unique individual love into them; you should love them more than Father loves them. (46-272)
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Basic Posture in Relationship to Things
In our relationship with things, how do we change those things into things that belong to heaven? In other words, what should I do to stand as a subject as if God were a subject toward those things?
In the relationship with people as well, how should we relate to them together with God, not just as ourselves? In speaking with people, how should we speak heavenly words? We should always accompany actions with words. That is the important content for us in our daily lives.
Our work life begins where we deal with things. Human relationships take place where we deal with other people. In other words, the relationship of morality expands, and in the relationship of dialogue, the issue of action takes place. Those are the given conditions we are involved in our lives.
Therefore, we should not deviate from the Principle of politeness or courtesy in our relationships with things. We should not deviate from the laws of courtesy in our human relationships either.
The relationship with things also occurs in the relationship with people. Of course, the relationship with things takes place centered upon people. You should know that you have those relationships with those positions.
As a man or woman of faith, how should you deal with things? You have to do that publicly, certainly. If a thing has a value of ten, then you should not regard the thing as such; you should increase the value. In other words, when God is involved in the relationship with the things you love, the value of the things will come to have limitless value.
If you deal with things with such a heart, you will come to have a truly loving feeling for those things. In your life and the world of the heart, you can have such a sentiment.
If you do your work with such a heart, then as a result of that, you will feel a three-dimensional value rather than just seeing it yourself. The fact that in dealing with a thing you feel more value in that thing means you are now in the position where you can occupy a higher sense of spiritual value.
You have to feel that yourself. Then you can be grateful for doing your work. No matter how hard the work may be, if you don't hate that work, and feel heavenly value in doing that work, you can increase the value by hundreds and thousands of times. No matter how difficult the work may be, that work will become an object of gratitude.
Therefore, when you deal with things, you should not deal with them without thinking or feeling. You have to think whether that thing becomes a plus or a minus for you; in other words, whether it brings good fortune or bad fortune for you.
Therefore, when you deal with a thing in the position of the value of ten, you have to think whether that thing will have the value of eleven or the value of nine in the future.
If it brings a minus, then you should avoid the position that will become a minus for you. You must think and try to set up a position that will bring you more benefits.
In this way, if you seek, your mind already knows about anything. When you deal with a thing, you know instantly whether it is a plus or minus for you. In doing work, when my mind and ambition, or subject and object, have a giving and receiving relationship and become one, three points are decided.
Then the realm of the four-position foundation, which is in accord with God's Principle of Creation, or His original motive, expands. When a thing manifests its exact value in accord with the result of the relationship of subject and object, then the result of the purpose of God's creation is fulfilled. As an object of God, it will bring you a good result.
As you keep those results of goodness around you, you can have a higher and wider position in the process of your re-creation. The more you stay in that position and the more you live that kind of life, regardless of what kind of things you may deal with, you will receive waves from them.
You can come to deal with things seriously with a heart of mind like a tuning fork. Then you will have the feeling about whether it is good or bad and whether it will bring you plus or minus. So you should always examine things.
If you don't feel the waves, then disregard the evil mind by standing in a public position and make your heart round and smooth, and deal with work or things.
Then do the work through your first impressions or the first feelings you had with the absolute feeling that this will become a price without failure. Do the work with that kind of feeling instead of doing things in a senseless, meaningless way.
You should do work from a truthful position with the same heart God had in making the creation. Then you will necessarily know whether something is good or bad.
Furthermore, you have to examine in your life what percentage of your evaluations were true and correct. You should always be careful in knowing how many percent of your first evaluation proved to be true.
If you get accustomed to that kind of attitude toward life, then you will know that your accuracy will increase from 5 or 6 out of 10. Your accuracy will get higher. On the other hand, if you do something that makes you feel …
In this way, when you deal with the things surrounding you, you should do them not in a meaningless way, but always centered on principles.
You know how important it is to enlighten and promote your feelings within yourself. The same can be said about your life of work, about things. As a member of a company in which you work, you should deal with the property of the company as a public thing.
If you deal with them rudely or carelessly, you will become a minus for that company. If you consider those things to be the property of the nation, the property of God, then you cannot even use a sheet of paper wastefully.
In dealing with things, you should not treat them without due respect. Instead, you should seek the value with the heart of not wasting them, from the smallest things to the largest. You should search for things as the conditional objects for expanding your heartistic value or virtue.
Furthermore, you have to try to connect them with the feelings in your life. Then you will never forget, no matter how much you try, that God is always with you in your life. The more you deal with those things, the more realistically you come to feel that God is with you. Those who live life in such a way cannot get exhausted.
If you just work around without thinking, making a loss, you will get hurt and fall away. Therefore, to enlighten and develop this kind of attitude of faith, you should never deal with things carelessly, without due respect.
You have to deal with them seriously. If you make mistakes, then the way of your faith will be caught, and you will not be able to pass. You will have established conditions to be caught along the way. (40-281)
Sun Myung Moon
Father's State of Mind in Loving All Things
Here in America, there are so many material things that the people don't have feelings of loving all things. I felt that. You must know that you should deal with all things, thinking that they are objects that should receive the love of God. Material things should receive the love of True Parents and True Children.
The cars you drive are similar to the clothes you wear. Just like your clothes, your cars are one with your physical body. What is uncomfortable in a place like New York is that there are only a few people who are driving clean cars. Most people drive dusty cars, which have crushed parts as a result of accidents. That is not good.
Women do their make-up in the morning; men shave and drive their cars. Likewise, their cars should also be cleaned. Your car should have the same standard of cleanliness as your body and clothes.
Therefore, from now on, the members of the Unification Church should have the heart to cry if the car you drive has a damaged part. You should think that way. You should love them that way. Since you cannot love your car, you can't love your things so well.
The American people often get divorced. They don't love their sons and daughters; they get divorced. Those problems are all linked.
Do you understand how grateful I was when I had only one apple? There was such an occasion. Twice a year, the first of January and the first of May, inmates were given fruit--only one apple. But we were not allowed to choose what we wanted. We had to receive what they gave, in order.
Whether the apples were ripe or spoiled and shriveled from too much heat or whatever, we just had to receive what we were given. As soon as the inmates received the apples, they usually ate them instantly.
However, in my case, I made a rule to think about how pretty the color of the apple was. I couldn't eat this beautiful color. Then I admired the taste. Then, when I looked at it, I didn't feel like eating it. I had that kind of feeling.
I tried to feel that way. However, we were not allowed to keep the apple and walk around with it in our hands. So I finally ate, but when I ate it, I prayed in front of God by saying to myself, “I am the first person in the world that have eaten an apple with such thinking.” With that pride in my heart, I ate it. I thought of those things, even when I ate just an apple.
Do you Americans love your cars? Did you love them, or are you going to love them from now on? If you love them, your cars will not break down or malfunction. If you love your cars and unite with them, then, no matter how fast you drive, you can avoid an accident. If other cars are coming toward you, they will go away.
That is the way. Believe in that way because Satan cannot invade what is completed, united with the principled way. God protects them and prevents Satan from coming. That is the principle, isn't it? Just as you put on your clothes and look in the mirror to see your face before going out, so, when you drive a car, you look at the car and see if it has gasoline and enough water.
Then you put it in gear and check if there is no problem, no matter whether you start driving the car. After you've started, after 100 miles, use the brakes and make sure there is no malfunction, just like you put your clothes in good order.
If you do that, then an accident will not happen. It is also good to examine the condition of the car by listening to the sound.
Today, you have decorated and cleaned this hall. While you were doing that, you must have thought that you should make this room clean.
It is good to be good at doing those things, but when you clean the place and put things in order, you should do so thinking, “Oh! How wonderful it will be if I put them in order.” You should think like that. Furthermore, if you change your clothes, you should say, “Oh! I'm sorry.”
You must know clearly that you cannot realize the idea of unity with God unless you have that kind of heartistic relationship with things, centering upon the Principle. If you come to know that, you will automatically have it. Even if you are not told to take good care of things, you become like that. It doesn't matter whether others see you or not. That is how it is. (67-155)
Sun Myung Moon
The Method of a Mission
Our Basic Posture Toward Work
You must not deal with your daily work absently. Through those works, heaven draws you closer, centering upon practical life in heaven. For that reason, you have to make efforts to discover your subjective self, who can digest those works and bring good results.
To find that, you must become a body of resonance by always consulting Heavenly Father about the feelings you first had or your intuition. If you have the standard to relate to Heaven day or night with an open heart, then you can necessarily receive spiritual waves. (40-296)
When you do your work, it will be bad to have your mind and body united and deal with the work as one being. If your mind and body get united, that will form the Four-Position Foundation.
The same can be said about work. The Four-Position Foundation is the purpose. Unless my mind and body are united, and unless I am united with that work, the purpose of the Four-Position Foundation cannot be fulfilled.
Then the work will be useful. Do you do the work just because someone is supervising you or watching you? Heaven and hell do not expand in space. They expand by the Principle of Creation, centering upon the purpose of the three objects, when your mind and body are united. (40-300)
That is how you should work. For example, when women sew, they may do it for the sake of their husbands, or for the sake of those whom they love, or they may do it for the sake of people they don't like.
Still, they must do their best and put all their sincerity into all those things. The same can be said of those who sew to make money. If they do the work only to make money or only to make a profit, without much sincerity, then they will necessarily come to an end.
Instead, if they do the work as if they were doing it for themselves with all sincerity, as if they were making clothes for the ones they love, then those who wear the clothes would say, “This is a good product.”
If some people have deep faith, then they can easily know if you did it with all your heart, if you put all your heart and sincerity into that work. You must observe all things in that way. (40-285)
We must be grateful while we are engaged in work. Furthermore, while we are doing the work, we should feel the heart of God who is trying to develop our world of searching for the truth.
The more we expand that kind of life, the greater it will naturally become. If you say, “Oh! I don't like it, whatever you are doing, that is resentful. You have to discard the idea, “I cannot do this.” (73-78)
Do you love your spouse? Mutually? Those people blessed as husband and wife, do you love each other? Those people who love their spouse, when they go to work, their workplace is in the same position as their second life. They are like the external clothes of women.
Therefore, when you go to work, you must have the feeling, “Oh! I want to go to my workplace as soon as possible.” Then, as you get to your workplace early, you should say, “Oh! I want to go home quickly, as soon as I finish this work.” You must be like that.
When you return home, you should feel like going back to your work again, and then, when you arrive at your workplace, you should feel like going home. Go back and forth in this way. Those people who do that will never perish. They are destined to prosper without fail. Wait and see if this proves to be true.
Father has been going back and forth, to and from the factory in Soot ack-Li with that kind of heart. We are destined to prosper. It will naturally happen that way. You must feel like going to your workplace even at night, and if you are going to your workplace, you must feel like going home.
Those of you who are present here may have gone to the Soo tackle factory, but Father has visited the factory three times a day.
People say, “Oh, I don't understand Father. He came here yesterday. He came here just one hour ago, and he has come again. For what purpose?” If you build up a heart like Father's, that is the Principle. (67-157)
Sun Myung Moon
Father's Posture toward Work
Father does not get tired of whatever work he does. What about you? Do you get tired after one year? After how long do you get tired? Do you get tired in 10 years or 20 years? After how many years do you get tired? Do you never get tired? Truly? I cannot believe you. You complain.
You must regard it as interesting. You should think, “Since I was born for this purpose, this is my destiny. I cannot live without digesting this.” You should think this is interesting work. All we have to do is find fun and happiness, and joy in the work. You have to find those things.
Father started this work even before you were born. You are around 30 years of age. I have been doing many things. I think I have many more works to do now than in those days. Therefore, I am not the kind of person who likes to be proud. I think of how to invest myself in the fight for tomorrow.
I am busy going and doing it this way. Do you find me tired? I am not tired yet. The more places I go, the more stimulation I feel. The more power I receive, the more wonderful I become. I want to feel those things. So, I am far from being tired.
Therefore, you will be successful if you try. You will be successful even if you would rather not succeed. God will have sympathy with those He loves more. He says, “That person may die in a short while, so I have to make that person successful.”
Before God makes that person successful, if the person dies and goes to the spiritual world, God will feel bad, won't He? Parents are like that. Parents want to do what their children want and fulfill their needs. Otherwise, the parents will feel unhappy.
God is your Father; you are His son. Yet, you do terrible things, which make you die. If children do things at the risk of their lives, saying, “I do this for the sake of my father and mother,” without knowing that he or she may die, the parents will feel like saving that person with all their power, won't they?
Parents want to go ahead of their children and take all the responsibility, don't they? It is not good for children to do things for their own sake.
But if they do it for the sake of the parents, then parents cannot sleep at night and want to work to help their children because their children are doing those things for the sake of God, for the sake of the Parents.
Parents are weak in love, especially in their love for their children. You should know that parents can become strong in their hearts of love in front of their children.
In my case, I start doing a thing, forgetting to eat, and forgetting to sleep, and I get intoxicated in doing the work. I do the work, forgetting day or night. God also thinks that in case I die, He will come to help me. God Himself has made this calculation. He cannot but offer help. (66-318)
Sun Myung Moon