Peace between Mind and Body

1. The place where you live is full of gangsters. Your mind and body are fighting each other. So if you are a husband and wife, there will be four gangsters within your couple. Where there are ten family members, there are twenty gangsters.

With 3.6 billion people on earth, there are 7.2 billion gangsters. No one can even dream of peace under such circumstances. God is wise, and He understands the logic of this situation very well. So where did He place the origin of peace? He works on it within individuals through religion.

This reveals the greatness of God. He did not place the origin of peace on the world level or the level of a nation or tribe. He placed it within individuals. The peace between the individual's mind and body is that eternal origin. Then who could separate a man and woman who are born of God, and who attains that peace? Who could tear apart their completely united family?

Who could pull apart a perfected man as a plus and a perfected woman as a minus who attach themselves with the force of God's love? The foundation of such a family in which all are rooted in the love of God, the source of all power, has yet to appear on earth. (160-264, 1969.05.17)

2. Religion addresses life-and-death issues for individuals. These are issues such as: “Will I die or will I live?” and “How will I find the criteria for mind-body harmony and freedom in the mind-body relationship?”

This is because the liberation of the society, nation, and world comes only when individuals have found their place of liberation, their right to freedom and self-governance. This is the only way that avoid contradictions of logic. But how can you possibly find freedom within, while your mind and body are constantly fighting? (187-119, 1989.02.05)

3. Humanity desires a peaceful world. Yet even after hundreds of millions of years, there is no peace. For fallen people, peace is not possible. Who owns peace? For a family to be peaceful, the mother and father, who own peace, have to teach their family members the origin and contents of peace and how to put these into practice.

We will not find eternal peace until this happens. Did our human ancestors find peace? Adam and Eve became enemies. You who have received the blood of those enemies endure constant battles between your body and mind. Why did your body and mind start fighting?

The fight began because the source of peace was lost and destroyed. How could people who have not found the criteria for peace between their body and mind find peace in the world? People who fight are expelled from their family, their nation, and the world.

Today, with the entire human race battling between mind and body, how can anyone go to the kingdom of God? No matter how much you focus on the mind, you will not get there. The purpose of religion is to bring unity between the body and the mind. (347-225, 2001.07.05)

The struggle between mind and body

4. The world in which division and conflict never end is the opposite of the garden of God's ideal love. It is not a world of truth that realizes the ideology of peace premised upon love. It is a world that Satan inhabits, in which he destroys the moral laws of family relationships.

It is a world in which jealousy and envy sow unending struggle and division. Are you seeking the heavenly castle, in other words, the garden of the original ideal, while you harbor jealousy and envy in your heart? Do you have conflict and division in your mind? If such things remain within, you will never find the garden of the original ideal. (002-247, 1957.06.09)

5. The Fall originated with self-centeredness. The Fall ruined human history, bringing affliction, failure, and war. We need to arrive at an understanding of fundamental issues to clear these things away.

We need to discover the root of living for the sake of others and all things, grounded in God's love. To do so is to discover the source of peace. Without discovering the source of peace, we will not be able to build a world of peace.
(146-103, 1986.06.07)

6. Our bodies, which were to have received God's lineage and God's love eternally, received the blood of the devil Satan, the enemy of both God and original human beings. We are in a bitter situation that will drag us into hell. To this day, people do not know this.

What I'm saying is that Satan took a family – a family that could have lived a happy, ideal life in a peaceful kingdom with God as the center – and he violated it, creating a world of misery and hell. (53-142, 1972.02.13)

7. The battle between the mind and body is more hideous than a nuclear war. In a nuclear war, there can be a ceasefire, but there are no ceasefires in the battle between the mind and body. That war never ends. From each person's first day of existence on earth until the last, a ceaseless war is fought in the background of the mind.

People in this state formed families and then tribes and the fighting increased. Then people were added upon people, increasing the conflict, after which nations fought against nations. Human history until now has continued as a history of war. There has not been a single day when all wars were stopped.

Their origin is the mind and body. This point of origin, the body, and mind, initiates the conflict. Individuals, families, tribes, peoples, and nations follow this pattern. (19-287, 1968.03.10)

8. No matter how impressive someone may look, if we analyze that person, say, Mrs. Kim, we will find a struggle between her inner self and outer self. I am telling you that the outer person and the inner person are constantly confronting each other. This is undeniable.

Within each of you, the good mind and evil body are always fighting each other. This battle is the problem. What is its source? Where is its origin? It originated at the very beginning of human history. It appears as if this battle may continue for tens of thousands of years. (23-102, 1969.05.14)

9. You are fighting right now. You are firing guns throughout your life. Irrespective of how you arrange things in this world, your body, and mind are fighting each other. How can you bring peace between them? Will your body win this battle, or will your mind?

You need to become people who can say, “Undoubtedly, my mind will be victorious.” Those whose minds are victorious are on the side of good, while those whose bodies are victorious are on the side of evil. (36-061, 1970.11.15)

10. To this day, people have endured constant struggles between their minds and bodies. That is, we have never seen a day of peace and unity, a day that would allow us to run toward a clear goal by moral laws.

Since the entire course of history has unfolded while our bodies and minds have conflicted, there has been no way to avoid a division into two worlds, one oriented spiritually, the other materially. (20-166, 1968.06.09)

11. If we were originally designed with our body and mind in conflict, things such as ideals, peace, and systems of thought would be nothing but empty words, spoken in vain. If we were created not to struggle internally, then there would be a purpose for ideals, peace, and systems of thought.

It is illogical that people born with an inherent inner conflict could come up with the concepts of true ideals and peace. In all respects, we are resultant beings, not causal beings. We were brought into being by a cause and, as resultant beings, our existence must be consistent with that cause.

Cause and effect cannot be different; a resultant being is formed from the substance of a causal being. So we can conclude that we, as a result, are not inherently different from the cause, and there must be a process by which we can unite. That is scientific. (86-035, 1976.03.04)

12. The original mind, which is God's base, is the guard post for the kingdom of heaven. The body, which is Satan's base, is the guard post for hell. They are on opposite sides of a border. You can hear gunshots across the border. This is the sound of your original mind fighting with your body.

Until you win this war, you cannot become God's children, and you cannot go to the heavenly nation. Without this victory as the starting point, the kingdom of heaven and the ideal world cannot be realized. (54-101, 1972.03.20)

13. Our mind-body relationship is the place of confrontation between the goodness of God and the evil of Satan. A vicious battle is taking place there. I, too, have struggled with this, and have set up the motto, “Gain mastery over myself before seeking to master the universe.” How do we deal with this habitual conflict?

Korean people crave to eat red pepper paste and soybean paste. Can you overcome this? During the day you need to work and at night you need to sleep. Is it possible not to sleep? That is the problem. You have to conquer yourself concerning sleep, hunger, and women, if you are a man or men, if you are a woman.
(137-156, 1986.01.01)

14. Our body is Satan's kingdom. Thus, God teaches us to be victorious over ourselves, to conquer ourselves. Unless we discover the way to become one Within ourselves, there can't be a peaceful, united world.

People today think that the key to uniting the world is found in external systems such as democracy or communism, but this is not correct. It is wrong because our minds and bodies are fighting each other.

Even if we could create external unity, authentic unity would still be far away if our bodies and minds were to remain at war. (72-120, 1974.05.26)

15. We say that both our original mind and body are alive, but we are Satan's prisoners who cannot live as expressions of goodness alone. So, in truth, we are dead.

Therefore, we have to break the iron bars that surround us and escape. As long as we serve two masters in our mind or environment, there cannot be such a thing as peace, so our suffering will continue.

As we seek the path of life, what determinations and resolutions should we make? The iron bars that surround us are nothing apart from our bodies. We have to mobilize our conscience to break these iron bars. The time when that can happen is called the Last Days. (12-085, 1962.11.01)

16. Peace and equality are goals shared by the entire human race. What is the starting point toward achieving them in the world? It is a way and a truth that allows for communication, harmonization, and agreement.

Then, what is that new truth? It needs to be an absolute truth that can link heaven and earth and that can remain beyond the end of human history. It has to be an ideology with a view of human life that contains a driving force that allows you to connect with any being in the world, whether that being is above or below you, in front of or behind you, to your left or right.

History did not begin in communication and harmony but rather in mutual aversion. Such a beginning can only lead to failure and sorrow. Unless there is an absolute being who calls out to humanity with an ideology of communication and harmony, human history will consist of nothing but hopelessness.
(17-120, 1966.12.11)

Unifying the mind and body

17. To this day, countless saints have come and gone. Not one of them knew where the enemy was or where to seek the standard for world peace. The battleground of the devil or Satan is within the self.

That is why I am telling you to unite your body with your mind. I am teaching you an ideology that demonstrates logically the need for unity between your body and your mind. This standard is based on a logic that no saint in history has managed to elucidate.

Are you settled within your mind? Can you trust yourself?

This is a serious matter. How can you ask God to recognize you when you cannot even trust yourself? How can you ask me to recognize you?

Your mind needs to recognize your body and your body needs to recognize your mind. You must stand in this absolute position. Then you will be in a place where God has no choice but to recognize you. (202-090, 1990.05.06)

18. The standard for world peace is not something that is to be found at the endpoint of a historical era. It is at the place where we unite our body and mind, which have been fighting each other.

If we can occupy such a position, the ideal world will surely come. Such a world is unchanging, so how can you, who are constantly changing, possess it? It doesn't make sense to think that you can. It is impossible. Therefore, before pursuing an ideal world, you should first seek your inner realm of unity and happiness.
(139-095, 1986.01.28)

19. You need to unite within yourself, with your mind as the center. First, you need to lay an internal foundation and then seek an external foundation. While doing this, you need to go beyond yourself by making God your focus, and then seek the family, society, nation and world, and even heaven and earth.

Then what is the crucial problem facing us in searching for one world and one ideology? It is not the ideology of a nation or world that exists for a while and then disappears. It is not gaining more power or a high position. It is crucial to find the ideology and the person who can unite two worlds into one.

We reside within an internal world that centers on the mind and an external world that centers on the body. Just as we have divided this world into two, the spirit world also has a realm of good sovereignty governed by Heaven and a realm of evil sovereignty governed by Satan.

I am telling you that the concluding point of God's providence, of all six thousand years, is within the body of each person. (4-163, 1958.04.06)

20. Even though people say they have united the world, this world remains a scene of internal battles. External unity does not stand on the foundation of internal unity.

Thus, even if external unity is proclaimed, it is inevitable that the world will continue to yield divisive results. No matter how desperately we want peace and freedom, and to live in heaven, we cannot obtain these things if we are attached to the present. The fundamental issue at hand is unity within ourselves.

Unless we unite our mind and body, unless our mind can say that it has attained all the conditions necessary for it to enjoy the greatest level of happiness, and unless we can become the people whose center will never yield to any earthly things, world peace will remain elusive. (20-169, 1968.06.09)

21. Peace, happiness, freedom, and hope to exist only on the foundation of unification. How can you be free when your body is not united with your mind? Even when you go to work, your body and mind are waging a world war.

So, how can you be free? The word “freedom” comes to mean unhappiness. Is there happiness at the point where your body is fighting with your mind? Consequently, you worry deeply about the problems of life and overlook the real problem. How can there be happiness or peace if the body is not united with the mind?
(242-060, 1992.12.27)

22. To this day, God has conducted His providence through religion. He has nudged people through religion toward a lifestyle that centers on the mind. He has always emphasized a lifestyle that centers on the mind, not one that centers on this world.

God has been drawing us toward the life connections we will have in the final world that comes beyond this life. Even in the Christian view, God does not teach us to live focusing on the present world.

We are not taught to eat well and live well in this world. Religion always directs us toward the peace that belongs to the world of the mind. It teaches, “Where is the kingdom of heaven? It is not in this world but in your mind. The kingdom of heaven is in the world of your mind and is realized at the end of our days.” (49-024, 1971.10.03)

23. Without true love, we cannot unite the world of the mind and the world of the body. The world in which the mind and body separate and fight is none other than this fallen world.

The mind has to be the center and the body absolutely cannot complain. The body always needs to take the minus position, and the mind needs to take the plus position. When the plus takes the forefront, it is eternal. In response to the mind's authority, the body has to create that place.

If it does not, then even if this world is peaceful and ideal, you will not be able to connect to it. (217-317, 1991.06.12)

24. Where there is no unity, there can be no peace. Where there is no unity, there is no hope. Can you be happy when your mind and body are not united? Can you be happy when your mind and body are fighting? Can you be free? The two have to work well together.

Peace requires a balance between the two. Have you found that balance? Do you get along well with your spouse? If you fight with your spouse in the morning, do you just go your way feeling happy the rest of the day? No.

Freedom exists on the foundation of unity. If there is no unity, there is no happiness; if there is no unity, there is no peace; if there is no unity, there is no hope. (231-269, 1992.06.07)

25. The new ideology for the future needs to examine precisely God's Will and ideal for human beings. It also has to reveal God's relationship with us. The human mind and body are designed to constitute one perfected, united person rooted in God's true love.

Consider a man and woman, each with a mind and body that have united based on God's true love. If they meet as a husband and wife under God's true love and form a family, that family will realize oneness by putting God's true love at its center. It will then become a source of true freedom, peace, and happiness.
(234-238, 1992.08.22)

26. The most valuable achievement in human life is to figure out where to set the standard for peace in terms of our mind and body. The mind and body are fighting each other. What is the standard for peace? It is not the world, not a nation, and not a religion.

A religious leader is a person who establishes a standard for peace, by forming absolute unity between his or her mind and body. That is the purpose of education and training. Therefore, believing in religion or becoming a great religious leader is not the point.

What we have to do is unite our body and mind. We have to establish and settle the origin of peace at the individual level.

If the origin of peace is unsettled within us, things such as an ideal religion or the kingdom of heaven will be nothing more than dreams with no connection to us. (217-180, 1991.05.27)

27. How do you achieve unity between your body and mind? Before you complain about the world, before you shout about true peace in the world, before you shout about true fulfillment in the world, answer these questions: Are your body and mind united as the starting point of peace?

Have you set God as the central starting point of peace? You cannot set that beginning point with your mind alone. Your body needs to conform to your mind, with God at the center.

If you were like this, you could never conceive of two separate paths to following God. But people today walk on two paths, and it is due to the Fall. They are divided. When we look at this result, we cannot deny that something went wrong at the origin. (140-017, 1986.02.01)

28. Godism says, “I will break down the global ideological barriers and sacrifice myself for the sake of the world.” God sacrifices His closest sons and daughters for the sake of the world. In the end, only Godism will remain.

That is because God has sacrificed the people closest to Him to own the origin from which to love the world. Therefore, even if we face the end of history, our hearts have to go beyond the world's barriers. We have to commit to living as a people or nation that puts the world first.

If we cannot do that, our group cannot remain in this world. We cannot become one by making our body the center. The body needs to make the mind its center, and the mind needs to make Heaven its center. Then they can be one. Peace, happiness, and ideals can settle in the person whose mind and body are aligned with Heaven. (26-236, 1969.11.02)

29. If people could achieve mind-body unity with the mind at the center, such that the two never separate, they could attain perfection and remain unstained. Had there been no Fall in Eden, the body and mind would not have been divided. Yet, mind and body have fought with each other to this day. In every person of the fallen world, the mind and body fight.

Our inability to unite our mind and body is a source of anguish. If the body and mind cannot become one, peace can't come. Happiness has nowhere to dwell. There is some truth to the saying that ours is a life of misfortune, that this world is a valley of tears.

Despite the original, providential vision that they become one, our mind and body became divided. From that point, everything in all directions was divided. In other words, subject and object partners became divided. (81-281, 1975.12.29)

30. How will the peaceful world come? If we cannot find the place where the body has united with the mind, there will be no origin of a peaceful world. Modern-day people say that a unified world will come and the kingdom of heaven on earth will then be realized.

The base for the kingdom of heaven on earth, in all respects, is unity between our body and mind. Our body and mind need to become one. Then we need to become one as husband and wife, and next the children need to become one. Because human beings fell, the entire world has broken down. (261-118, 1994.06.09)

31. As the gap between the mind and body widens, the amount of distress increases. Suffering and tragedy take hold. Thus, we need to narrow the gap between our minds and bodies until they unite into one. If we cannot do that, this world will never know peace or happiness.

Even if the global battle ends, and we try to live in peace, we will not see hope, fulfillment, or peace unless each of us ends our battle, the battle within ourselves. The problem is within me, within myself. I have to resolve my fundamental issues.

Once I do so, when I come upon ideal surroundings in the external world, I will feel a peace and fulfillment that permeates my mind. To realize a free and happy kingdom of heaven, we need to connect with the world on that basis.

No matter how well organized the environment may be, if we remain in a situation where our problems have not been solved, we cannot blend into that happy environment. (20-167, 1968.06.09)

32. The way to a peaceful world is to integrate two directions into one. Until now, the fight between body and mind has divided the world. The religious world and political world are like the mind and body on a global scale.

We need to unite these two worlds so that they can move in one direction for a global realm of peace to emerge. Had there been no Fall, a standard for world peace with Adam at the center would have been possible.

The world would have moved in a direction opposite to that in which it is going. Instead of going to hell, it would have gone to the kingdom of heaven. Heaven would have unfolded from the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, and world, with God and Parents at the center. If that had happened, then everything would have belonged to the kingdom of heaven. (227-175, 1992.02.11)

33. What is one important standard and primary factor in realizing the kingdom of heaven? It is unity. Unless we go through the fundamental principle of unity, the kingdom of heaven cannot be realized. The kingdom of heaven is realized only when we are united.

The fundamental human desire for peace and happiness is also realized at the point where we become one. If my mind and body are disunited, peace and happiness will elude me, no matter how much I want them. It means that unity is more important than anything else. (82-271, 1976.02.01)