The Goal of Training

1. What should we do to find our lost self? We must remember God's heart when He lost His children. Otherwise, we cannot find our original selves. We need to return to where we were to find what we lost.

Likewise, to find our lost self, we must rediscover the heart God had when He lost us. Unless we initiate this movement, we cannot find our true, original selves.
(5-066, 1958.12.21)

Finding my original self

2. Centered on whom are we seeking our true self? We cannot search with a self-centered focus. Unless we focus on God as we search for our true selves, we cannot return to our original position.

This is why so many religions seek God. The religious path allows us to understand our relationship with God and how we should lead our lives.
(088-064, 1976.07.18)

3. Our greatest treasure is our original self, which possesses the attributes of God. Because what we lost is the highest value, we cannot feel joy or happiness until we recover it. Accordingly, fallen people today scatter to the four winds seeking their original selves. (5-144, 1959.01.11)

4. We need to find the Absolute Being who is the origin of absolute philosophy, the origin of goodness, the origin of life, and the origin of love, yet we are still wandering around looking.

As wanderers, how do our direction and angle differ from the direction and angle of absolute goodness? How can we explain that our mind tells us to go left, but our body goes right? How can we explain that our mind seeks a higher ideal yet our Anew of the cosmos is so limited?

We need to look at ourselves honestly in the mirror. When we look at ourselves we see a poor, desperate seeker. Within us are mind, body, and spirit. We need to integrate mind, body, and spirit to create one unified image. (5-064, 1958.12.21)

5. Unless we endeavor to re-create ourselves and work together with God, we have nothing to do with a state of peace or with God's ideal.

We have to shorten the path to that state, be aware that an ideal state of peace is ours, follow the original way created by God, and completely liberate and clean up everything that Satan stained people with from the time of their infancy until they go to heaven. Then we have to inherit the heavenly kingship and enter the kingdom of heaven. (550-015, 2006.12.29)

6. Every person is indebted. We are indebted for our life and our lineage. We are indebted to the world of existence that came into being through cosmic love. So we have to free ourselves of any debt.

Hence, we must embody the original heart of love with which God created the universe and rise to the point where we can free God. This means that we, human beings, have to recover and return to God everything that He lost, everything that He created through absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
(465-083, 2004.08.19)

Mastery of oneself comes first

7. We live in the era of awakening, in which we can save our lives and those of our ancestors. When we think about this, we realize that we cannot live and act freely.

Let us feel substantially how strongly the creation yearns for us to realize the value of our existence within the sphere of cosmic relationships. Let us feel this not only in our minds but also in our hearts. When looking at people, we have to say, “Human beings are so pitiful, Father!

Nevertheless, we are aware of Your Will, which demands that You bequeath material blessings to conscientious people, and requires that we have dominion over our body with a true heart. Furthermore, We are aware that true spiritual beings must come under Your dominion.”

Therefore, even if we are given mountains of gold and riches, if these treasures are not what our original mind seeks, we have to be able to reject them completely.

The question is whether we can overcome the pain of such material loss. Our body has greater value than the universe; accordingly, when our mind subjugates our body, it assumes a value greater than that of the entire universe.
(4-274, 1958.08.03)

8. Our heart seeks to embrace the world, heaven and earth, and eventually God. This is the heart's purpose.

This is why Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21) He further added, "I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you." (John 14:20)

To what extent can you include your neighbors in your ideology and your daily life? Can your ideology and your daily life embrace the nation and the world?

You each have a big heart; however, you are fallen human beings unable to contain your body within your heart. Your heart wants to embrace heaven and earth, including God, and bring about His Sabbath. Nevertheless, you are struggling to conquer even your body. (8-048, 1959.11.01)

9. Each of you has a mind; therefore, should your mind and body become the best of friends, or should they be hostile to each other? If the two cannot become friends, on whose side will you stand?

When the mind and body are at odds with one another, it is always the body that initiates the fight. The body provokes the peaceable mind. Whether it is the body of a man or woman, this body annoys the mind.

Hence, each of us has to achieve unity of mind and body. Nonetheless, you cannot achieve this unity simply with the order, “Mind, body, the two of you must unite!” (18-318, 1967.08.13)

10. How vast is your mind? It may be invisible, but it exists. To illustrate the vastness of your mind, even if you place a hundred or a thousand worlds inside your mind, you will not be satisfied. When there are tens of thousands of diamonds as big as the earth, if you get only one, you will not be happy.

This is how unimaginably vast your mind is. Our original mind knows what is good and bad, even without being taught. Has anyone ever said to his or her mind, “Attention, mind! If such and such happens, it is bad; please guard against that.” Our mind does not receive education as to what is good or bad and yet, even when our strong body is challenged, our mind does not flinch.

Instead, the mind reacts immediately, faster than an electron spins. If your thoughts are wrong, your original mind stops you immediately. How much education do you need to reach this level?

If anyone could teach this, they would be very popular. Nevertheless, no person, however great an educator they may be, has ever been able to teach this. Yet do you know it or not? Even without education, your original mind knows this very well. (023-021, 1969.05.11)

11. The world is not the issue. Even if heaven and earth have achieved unity, if I am not united within myself, I cannot appear before God. If I say even one wrong word, my conscience knows.

Your conscience comes before your parents. Your parents did not give you your conscience. It comes from Heaven, and since its root is God, your conscience comes before your parents. The conscience comes before teachers in the Men world and before your parents. (431-118, 2004.01.13)

12. Do you know when your mind and body began fighting? They began fighting right after the Fall; they became infected at that moment. Unless we completely cure this infection, we cannot enter heaven.

The person whose mind and body conflict cannot enter heaven. I have struggled to fulfill this standard: “Before seeking to master the universe, attain mastery over yourself.” The further you advance and the deeper your spiritual level, the more fearsome the Satan you will have to face. (527-217, 2006.05.28)

13. You have to be mindful always that you are an entity embodying both good and evil. I struggled with this issue in my youth when I was your age. This is why I created the motto, “Before seeking to master the universe, attain mastery over yourself?'

This is Article 1 in our life of faith. Therefore, when you can complete and control yourself, which means achieving the independence that comes with controlling your body, the conflict between mind and body will disappear.
(037-122, 1970.12.23)

14. I never pray to receive money. I also do not pray to become successful. What are the three great objectives? The first is, “Before seeking to master the universe, attain mastery over yourself?' The second is, “Let us have absolute faith.” The third is, “Let us have absolute love.”

These are the three great objectives. While I have carried out my mission, even if Satan was cheating me, I persevered with absolute faith until I confirmed the facts. So I am practicing the faith through which I can say, “Satan, even you could not but guide me to the right path.” (139-063, 1986.01.26)

15. The perfection of human beings, to achieve the ideal of sublime love, is only possible if we take responsibility for love. This responsibility means that we should be grateful to God for giving us the freedom to love, and should become the masters of that freedom through self-discipline and self-denial.

We do not uphold our responsibility to love based on laws or public perception. Rather, we uphold it based on self-control and self-determination, grounded in a living vertical relationship with God. (282-213, 1997.03.13)

The unity of mind and body

16. There are only two ways to unite the mind and the body. The first method involves pummeling the body into submission, while the second achieves unity without chastising the body. Pummeling the body into submission is not a good method. What then should we do?

Until now, the mind has been like a balloon, losing to the body every time without putting up a fight. This has happened because the mind is weak. What do you think will happen if the mind's energy level is boosted to be two or three times greater than now? The mind will have no difficulty dragging the body anywhere. The mind will firmly hold the body and pull it.

The tires of a car inflate when we pump air into them. What will happen if we pump energy into the mind? We will strengthen the mind's energy. Then, if the mind and body fight, which do you suppose will win? We can thus see that there are two methods: pummeling the body into submission or strengthening the mind. (18-328, 1967.08.13)

17. Love is the mind's source of energy. Accordingly, if we connect to God and generate colossal energy through the action of giving and receiving, we can increase our unity a hundred or a thousand times.

We also can realize humanity's cherished hopes, live together for eternity, and take ownership of heaven. The secret to this is love. Love is the elevator leading to unity and the secret to its absolute achievement. (18-328, 1967.08.13)

18. Generally, the greater the sorrow fallen human beings feel on earth, the greater the division among people. Self-centered sorrow leads to division, which is the habit of evil people.

Nonetheless, sorrow for the sake of goodness brings together what was divided. This forges oneness between the divided mind and body, to the point that they reach convergence and unity with heavenly law. (4-055, 1958.03.02)

19. We have to achieve oneness, beginning with our mind and body. This is the teaching of the Unification Church. Therefore, after joining the Unification Church, distant strangers become even closer than brothers and sisters.

Furthermore, the Unification Church has a higher love that brings a strong bond of unity among brothers and sisters even from different countries, which enables them to attend to parents who are not their natural parents.

This is why people view the Unification Church as the unified world that they desire. When you join the Unification Church, you acquire this hope.
(18-334, 1967.08.13)

20. When a man or a woman achieves unity of mind and body, what standard determines this unity? It is not the standard of one's mind or one's body. It must be the standard of God's mind and body and the standard of our original ancestors.

Thus, we need the original standard of God's mind and God's body. God created human beings centered on His invisible mind and body. Therefore, we need to advance by aligning ourselves entirely with the invisible mind and body of God.

Where should you meet with God when aligning with Him? You should meet in love. Unity is to occur in love. (166-232, 1987.06.07)

21. No saint has ever claimed, “The unity of mind and body is the basis for the unity of everything.” We have the saying, “Family harmony makes all go well.”

Family harmony indeed brings success, however, when we ask whether the mind and body of the father and mother are united, the answer is no. If ten people live together, their minds and bodies should be united.

However, in Satan's world, the minds, and bodies of these ten people are at war, meaning that twenty camps are fighting one another. There can be no peace in such a group. (213-011, 1991.01.13)

22. You each need to unite your mind and body. Then you need to achieve unity as a couple. When you live for the sake of each other out of love, unity will blossom. Until now, your mind has lived its entire life for the sake of your body.

However, the body has not lived for the sake of the mind. Just as the mind has lived for the sake of the body, however, the body needs to live for the sake of the mind, and they must achieve unity. Centered on what should this unity take place? Unity is achieved with true love and altruistic love.

We have to become people with united mind and body and unite as husband and wife centered on true love. This is how we can form new branches and grow. Each of us knows this.

This is the key to the mind's happiness. If we do so, the creation will delight us, work will not exhaust us and, even if we don't sleep, we will not feel fatigued.
(213-205, 1991.01.20)

23. What is the meaning of “unification” in the name, of the Unification Church? If God has a mind and a body, then unless God's mind and body are united, He cannot stand in the joyful place of liberation and happiness.

If this is true of God, it holds for the world. The world itself is composed of relationships between subject and object partners; the same goes for societies and families.

The providence of salvation is the providence of restoration and the providence of restoration is the providence of re-creation. Nothing is possible unless it goes through the providence of re-creation.

When a man and a woman get together, they can create a couple. Unless subject and object partners have a common base, they cannot interact. Unity is achieved in this way. God and human beings must have interaction to achieve oneness. This means the mind interacts and the body interacts. (251-058, 1993.10.17)

24. Where do we find unification? Unification is found where sacrifices and concessions are made. If we practice this, wherever we go we will achieve unity within three years.

The one who invests for the sake of harmony and sacrifices their interests for three years, actively coming and going, will become the new owner and achieve unification. Then the world will be filled with the air of universal true love and enter the realm of liberation. (602-196, 2008.11.14)

25. What has to be done before unification? Unification has to stand on level ground. Without peace, there is no unification. Thus, it is unification through peace. Ignorant people say that peace comes through unification, but those who know recognize that it is unification through peace.

Words have to accord with reason, and these words accord with reason. This is a wonderful fact. It is a miracle that in daily life, people use language that accords with traditional ideas. It is quite mysterious. (571-250, 2007.08.11)

26. Harmony and unification lead to prosperity while fighting and division lead to destruction. With division comes ruin. God created each entity to have a partner and form a pair, so division naturally leads to ruin. It destroys everything.

So we need harmony and unification. Everything unites and harmonizes as individual truth bodies. Up-center-down; right-center-left; front-center-back: all these prosper because they complement one another.

Evil struggles and divides, then perishs goodness tries to harmonize, even under assault, then unifies and prospers. (506-290, 2005.09.05)

27. Peace and harmony are different. Peace can stand alone on a level plane; however, harmony requires a relationship between the two. Furthermore, as for unification, without a nucleus, it just wanders around.

Having no center is disastrous. The reason we live and work relates to our purpose. Hence, the question of why we work and why we live is connected to our viewpoint about our purpose. (569-169, 2007.07.24)

28. The harmony and peace that arise in the natural environment through living for others are centered on The principle that belongs to heaven. On the other hand, whatever coerces or commands others to serve it is going opposite the way of harmony and peace. It belongs to the world of hell.

If you examine your mind and body, you can see that your original mind encourages you to live for others. This is because it knows Heaven's principles.

However, because the body stands opposed to God's direction, and since it tells the mind to live for its sake by force, it cannot exist forever and must disappear.
(526-065, 2006.05.12)