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1. The world of creation has two axes: a visible axis and an invisible axis. They form a dual structure. The visible axis and the invisible axis rotate around the subject partner at their center, which also rotates along with the two axes. The give-and-receive action between mind and body works in this manner.
All beings exist according to this principle. These two axes exist even in the fallen world, but to restore that world, we have to repair them. In human beings, the center of the body is the mind. Since the body is connected to the mind with the mind as its center, the body should rotate around the mind.
The body should move according to the commands of the mind. When the mind directs the body to go east the body should go east, and when the mind tells the body to go west the body should go west. (136-014, 1985.12.20)
Mind and body in a relationship
2. What is the mind? It is that part of us that received love from the vertical Father, the Creator. The body is that part of us that received love from our horizontal parents. Therefore, the mind is the vertical.
“I” and the body is the horizontal “I.” Their relationship is one of subject partner and object partner. When the circumstances are such that our mind and body are united, horizontal and vertical unity finally takes place within us.
With love, the vertical plus and the horizontal minus make a ninety-degree angle as they meet at the ideal and central point of unity. Nothing exists at that central point, but all power flows through it. Power jumps and dives into it; there is no resistance whatsoever.
Everything there whirls about like a typhoon that nothing can stop. It is God who made the center in this way; He is truly the King of wisdom. The center exists in a vacuum state.
When a vacuum is created, the pulling power becomes hundreds of times stronger, so everything is naturally pulled in. Its pulling power is so strong that it can swallow whatever it encounters, even a big mountain.
(229-324, 1992.04.13)
3. The mind is the vertical master because it has inherited God's lineage. The body is the horizontal master; it is the self that received the lineage of the perfected Adam. Thus, there are two masters in each of us.
One is the master who inherited God's vertical lineage, but it does not suffice to have only God's lineage. We need a horizontal line that intersects with the vertical line of God's lineage. That intersection is the center where the directions of east, west, north, and south can meet.
Each of those horizontal lines connects to the vertical line at a ninety-degree angle. When each line extends an equal distance from that perpendicular vertical line to the east, west, north, and south, together they form a sphere.
(302-156, 1999.06.13)
4. Looking at the mind and the body, the mind is the subject partner, in the plus position, and the body is the object partner, in the minus position. Even so, they fight each other. How did they come to fight?
It is because the body became another plus. The body should be eternally the object partner before the mind, but it took over the position of the f subject partner. That was the Fall. (61-330, 1972.09.03)
5. God's love is vertical, but there must also be horizontal love. Who can possess this horizontal love? The ones in the position to possess it are the true ancestors who have nothing to do with the Fall, who reach perfection, and who align themselves with true love.
If the human ancestors had become one with God's love in this way, then each of us would have been born through that love. In addition, our minds and bodies would have resembled God's mind and body, even as they resembled the mind and body of our father and mother, Adam and Eve. This is how it would have been for us. (178-244, 1988.06.05)
6. The mind is the vertical “I” and the body is the horizontal “I.” My vertical Parent and my horizontal parents created me together. Had there been no Fall, I would have inherited true love, true life, and true lineage from them.
That is how I was supposed to come into being. I was meant to be brought into this world when they united in true love.
Therefore, I was meant to be the center of the universe and a representative of Heavenly Parent's love, a central manifestation of the formula for horizontal love, and a central being of true love formed through the union of horizontal and vertical love. That is who I was meant to be. (217-153, 1991.05.19)
7. Looking at ourselves, our mind represents the vertical aspect, and our body the horizontal aspect.
We use the expression, “a mind that is upright and straight.” Upright means the mind is correct vertically and horizontally. When it stands vertically it is correct, and when it extends itself horizontally it is correct.
When it stands vertically it is correct, and when it extends itself horizontally it is correct. To the mind, which we consider to be vertical, the body is horizontal. Hence, if the mind and body reciprocate well according to the desires of the mind, the mind is at peace. In that case, we grow well.
Physical suffering is painful, but the suffering of the mind is worse. That is because the vertical is central. (178-274, 1988.06.08)
8. The mind and body are in different positions. The mind is vertical, and the body is horizontal. Yet unless they are united, unless they are made level, we cannot form a perpendicular that is aligned with the direction of God's essential, absolute love. There can be only one perpendicular, not two.
So we have to do our best to unite our minds and bodies with our minds as the center, especially in our life of faith. (178-045, 1988.06.01)
9. Each person has a mind and a body. The mind represents a person's vertical aspect and the body his or her horizontal aspect. When you remark, “That person is upright,” you say it with the horizontal in mind. To arrive at such an opinion, you did not look at that person solely from a vertical perspective.
Inevitably you considered his or her horizontal standard. Believers in Buddhism, for example, try to comprehend the nature of the mind through meditation, but they have not yet discovered what the mind truly is. It is simple.
The mind is the vertical “I” and the body is the horizontal “I”. I am perfected as a human being when the vertical “I” and the horizontal “I” unite. What is the center that enables the horizontal and the vertical to unite?
There must be an essence by which the two can resonate with each other and unite in a state of perfection. Neither money nor knowledge nor power can create this resonance. The only thing that can bring it forth is God's true love.
(226-075, 1992.02.02)
10. The body represents the horizontal and the mind the vertical. The vertical and the horizontal have to meet at a ninety-degree angle within you. When four ninety-degree angles are combined, they make 360 degrees. Unless this happens within you, you cannot be a perfect person.
That is why you have to become one centering on the vertical, the mind. To attain unity of mind and body, the body should not be the center. The mind should not vacillate or change under the body's influence. You need to control your body, the horizontal, to unite completely with your mind, the vertical.
When you have done that, you must find the “I” who abides in complete mind-body unity, where they form a ninety-degree angle.
You will find that real “I” only when you grow to perfection and experience conjugal love for the first time. For a person living in the east to look west and for a person living in the west to look east, they have to attain maturity.
(168-196, 1987.09.20)
11. The mind that takes after the principle of heaven and earth represents the vertical aspect of a human being. That is why we consider that the mind should be high and lofty. Although a mind can be considered broad, the concept of being broad-minded is also the concept of height.
So your mind should be both broad and high. An upright mind should consist of a perpendicular connection reaching the highest point in heaven and to the ends of the earth. In the world of things in motion, the spherical realm of the great universe, at every point on a plane there can be only one perpendicular.
If there is a perpendicular that is desired by all beings in the creation as their ideal, it has to be one. That is true love. That perpendicular, namely, true love, cannot be two. This is so anywhere in the universe.
Whether someone is from the East or the West, whether living in the past, the present, or the future, there is only one perpendicular of true love.
Since God is also connected to that perpendicular, and the action of love takes place at that one point, the ideal that God desires is connected with the realm that arises from the perpendicular. However, this axis, this point of perpendicularity, has not yet been formed on this earth. (177-327, 1988.05.22)
12. We often use the expression “He has an upright mind.” Upright means standing straight in a line perpendicular to the ground. We do not use such an expression for a tree that is leaning over.
Thus, for a person to have an upright mind means that his or her mind stands straight. That is why human beings walk with an upright posture. A person can be spiritually upright only when his or her mind is vertical.
Hence, we have to make the mind completely vertical. Then our body becomes a horizontal line. When we establish the vertical and horizontal within ourselves, the force of the vertical that pulls inward and the force of the horizontal that expands outward are in balance and manifest as centripetal and centrifugal forces.
(299-073, 1999.02.04)
13. We each have both a mind and a body. When the mind and body are united, we do not feel distress. But when the mind and body are disunited, when they are not balanced horizontally, we feel inner torment. The problem arises when either the mind or the body is too overpowering, creating an imbalance.
When the mind and body are balanced in horizontal alignment, however, we do not feel anxiety. Furthermore, when the mind and body are aligned with the perpendicular, things begin to move. A lively motion ensues, and we feel joy.
That is why everything should be aligned with the perpendicular. The horizontal and the vertical must always be in harmony, joining on the perpendicular.
(212-293, 1991.01.08)
14. The kingdom of heaven begins with the love of a man and a woman. The original kingdom of heaven is where the horizontal line unites with the vertical line at the center, based on God's love.
With God present, a loving man and a loving woman become a core within the love of God, and their minds and bodies together form a perfect sphere. There, the mind is the vertical self and the body is the horizontal self. Furthermore, the vertical mind is God, and the horizontal body is the True Parents. The two are united.
(217-150, 1991.05.19)
15. The mind is invisible and vertical. The body is visible and horizontal. The family is the microcosm of the great universe. The spirit world exists within human beings. A spirit dwells within us; that is the mind.
The invisible mind and the visible body represent the world. Even though they may travel all over the place, as long as they do not leave their orbit around the center of true love, they can form an ideal person.
Further, when the invisible mind and the visible body become one with true love at their core, that person will become an ideal man or an ideal woman, a perfect individual. (217-150, 1991.05.19)
The mind is the second God
16. Among ten friends, if one of them says, “Live for me,” the others will flee. However, if one of the ten is willing to give up his or her life for the other nine friends, he or she will become their leader.
That is why if you live for the sake of others you will not perish. Rather, you will become the owner, the teacher, and the parent. God is not far away; He is within you. The mind within you is your master.
When you are tempted to do something wrong, your mind speaks up and says, “Don't do it.” It interposes itself wherever you are and seeks to become the master. Wherever you are it instructs you, like your mother and your teacher.
(201-075, 1990.03.01)
17. Your conscience or higher mind is your second God. God is your first God, in the plus position to your mind. Your mind, in the minus position to God, is your second God. You need to understand this.
Again, the mind is your second God. That second God, the mind, is always with you. It relates to you from deep in your conscience, from within the depths of love, life, and lineage. It is ever-cleansing and removing anything impure, resolving your inner problem, ms and guiding you to a higher place in life.
By doing so, your original conscience is also lifted. The force of this conscience governs your physical self. This force and the physical self are naturally perfected when they unite and become one, as a plus and minus.
Thus, your conscience is your second God. It is your center, from which arises a powerful force that governs you all the time. (254-238, 1994.02.13)
18. Your higher mind does not need a teacher. It is already your second God. Rather than follow a teacher, you should follow your higher mind. What is the nature of this mind?
When you wake up alone at daybreak, and it is so quiet, and you do not hear even the squeak of a mouse or the buzz of a fly, you think to yourself, “I should do such and such good deeds today'' Then your mind will tell you, “Good!
Good! Go ahead and do them!” On the other hand, if you harbor evil ideas in your mind, it will chide you and say, “Don't you dare!” That is the way it is. Your mind is well aware of what is good and bad. (138-125, 1986.01.19)
19. Your mind is your watchman. It protects you night and day. It tells you over and over again, “Do good deeds! Do good deeds!” without letting you rest. Have you ever imagined how exhausted your mind is?
From the day you began to think for yourself, from the day you acquired the intellectual capacity to analyze situations in society, your conscience has always been following you around and telling you what to do.
It will keep doing so until you die. It tells you to take after God, the saints, patriots, and children who practice filial piety. It commands you to resemble them all. It keeps telling your body, “My body, you need to resemble me!”
(179-312, 1988.08.14)
20. We never knew we had such a wonderful teacher within us. The original mind within you has the aspect of a great mother and father. The teachings of such mothers and fathers never contradict this mind.
You should learn to obey whenever this mind counsels you, just as you would your mother or father.
Thus far the formula that could serve as the origin of a moral order and bring our whole environment into accord with that order has not appeared. Therefore, your original mind must serve as your teacher, as your parent, and as God. No teacher can teach that mind. (207-267, 1990.11.11) 21.
The original mind guides you better than God does. It existed even before you did. As a guide, this mind or conscience is better than your parents, better than your king, and even better than God. It is that precious.
When you are about to do something wrong, it does not say, “Hurry and do it!” No, if you are about to do something perverse, it says, “Don't do it, you rascal!” Therefore, you need to listen to your conscience. Once you make it a habit, you and your conscience will be in constant dialogue. (338-139, 2000.10.29)
22. When you pray, you have to do it focusing on your original mind. How often do you act in the way this mind desires? No matter how much you call upon God, it is of no use if you ignore your original mind.
You can connect with God only once you are united with your original mind. This is why your thinking should always be rooted in this mind. Always ask your original mind for answers. Instead of asking your parents, ask your eternal conscience. Your conscience will tell you before your parents do.
You can leave your parents, but you cannot leave your mind. You can leave your teachers, but you cannot leave your mind. You can leave your lord, but you cannot leave your mind. It is a great sin to ignore your original mind, which lives in attendance to these three subject partners.
Doing so is to ignore your parents, your teachers, and God, the Lord of the universe. To ignore your original mind is to ignore these three as well.
(306-225, 1998.09.23)
23. You should set aside some time to experience the joy of being with your original mind. It may seem to others as if you are all alone, but you are becoming a friend to this mind. Sit down in a tranquil place and meditate.
Enter a state of deep prayer. Then you will enter a world deep within, a world that no one else can know. You need to have such experiences.
(133-182, 1984.07.10) 24.
Your original mind is your lord. It is your teacher. Because a mind gives birth to a body that resembles it, your mind is the root of your body. For this reason, the mind represents your mother and father on the horizontal plane. The original mind represents parents, teachers, and owners. (222-157, 1991.11.03)
25. Have you ever considered the value of your original mind, and how precious it is? Whenever your body seeks to do something wrong, this mind admonishes it not to and tries to block its way. But too often the body ignores, abuses, and tramples on the mind and does as it pleases.
Your mind is interior to your body. It gives of itself time and again to fulfill its duties as your subject partner, your comrade amid hardships, and your teacher until your death. (217-092, 1991.05.04)
26. When you glance at someone, your mind can immediately sense what kind of person he or she is.
Before you get to know him or her well, your mind already knows. That is why I declare that the teacher closest to you is your mind. Hence, you should not torment it or cause it sorrow.
If you do, you will sadden the Teacher and Lord of the universe. Your original mind is the lord of your life. When you grieve this mind, you bring sorrow to the lord of your life. Instead, you should follow a path that will cause your mind to rejoice. (133-181, 1984.07.10)
27. Your original mind precedes your parents and teachers. That is because your mind is with you for eternity, while your parents, teachers, and lords are not. That is why the mind has such great value.
Hence, before you ask your parents a question, you need to discuss it with your original mind. Then you may not even need to ask your parents. Because this mind is directly connected to God, when you go into a state of resonance with it, your body attains the same frequency and you get the right answer.
For instance, if you ask your original mind, “Should I meet such and such a person tomorrow?” you will feel either joy or uneasiness in your mind. Your mind knows whether it is good or bad to meet that person. If it is not good, your mind will prompt you to withdraw. (306-224, 1998.09.23)
28. When you search for what is true, your body must obey your mind. When your mind and body become one, connected at an uncompromised ninety-degree angle linking heaven and earth and centered on God, you will know everything wherever you go – north, south, east, or west, up or down.
You will also naturally connect to the spirit world. You will know even things that you were never taught. How do you think I came to know all the secrets of heaven and earth? It is because I entered that state.
When I reached the state where my mind and body resonated with true love, everything became clear. I could understand all the fundamental issues of God, the spirit world, and history.
God's original desire, according to the Principle of Creation, is that we live an ideal life in an environment that enables us to relate and bond with one another in true love.
Therefore, once I entered that state, I had access to everything. If I called upon any among humanity's forebears in the spirit world, they would immediately appear so I could ask them questions. (199-372, 1990.02.21)
The way of mind-body unity
29. If your body does something wrong, even late into the night, your conscience will stay awake and say, “Stop it, you rascal!” More than that, if you even think about doing something wrong, you immediately feel pangs of conscience.
Through your conscience, the God you thought was dead, and your teachers and parents who seemed to have died within you, come back to life. Hence, you are left with little choice but to follow your conscience.
You may wonder whether the conscience and the body were fighting even before the Fall, but the answer is no. No one even now can say that God's conscience and body are fighting each other.
Our struggles persist only because we failed to become true sons and daughters of such a God; our roots have changed. This is a simple truth, but even the saints and sages of history did not understand it. You do not know how much I struggled over this matter. That is why I say, “Before trying to govern the universe, you must first govern yourself' If you don't, your body is the enemy of the universe.
(518-011, 2006.02.14)
30. Throughout our lives, we each have within ourselves a most precious teacher. Nevertheless, we frequently mistreat, abuse, and trample on it. That teacher is none other than our conscience. It always speaks to us in its efforts to help us and tries to connect us to true love.
Like our parents, it encourages us to become good and unselfish, and it guides us to act according to God's desire. However, within each of us, there is a rebellion that goes against the voice of the conscience. That rebel is our body.
(201-208, 1990.04.09)
31. In the fallen world, you recognize who your parents are, who your teachers are, and who your leaders are, but as a human being, you have a master whom you often do not recognize namely your conscience.
The conscience has planted within us the idea of God, who is the original root of parents, teachers, and owners. I was really surprised when I discovered this. The culmination of everything I was looking for, the hidden home within me, was my conscience. I said to myself, “I cannot hold God accountable for anything.
I have to hold myself accountable to follow my conscience and fulfill my mission. Therefore, there is no situation in which I can ask someone else to take responsibility. I must take responsibility myself.” This is the stance I take. Because I take this stance, God cannot help but love me. (307-325, 1998.11.21)
32. The revolution of the conscience is internal. It requires us to obey absolutely the voice of our conscience. All of you still face the internal struggle between your conscience, which prompts you to do good, and your physical desires, which tempt you to do evil. To end this shameful internal struggle, you have to understand clearly the position and action of your conscience.
Your conscience knows everything you do and everything you think. You cannot add or subtract anything; nothing can be hidden from it. It knows before your teacher does and before your parents do. It knows even before God does.
When you disobey your conscience, you feel conscience-stricken. Then dust sticks to your spirit, and stains and scars appear. Such scars are a heavy burden that you take with you to the spirit world, where they can never be erased.
Therefore, I tell you, you need to control your physical mind with a revolutionary determination and be guided by your conscience, until the day you go before God without any speck, with a clean and clear spirit. (474-182, 2004.10.30)
33. Originally, the mind and body were meant to be inseparable, in total oneness. The human mind was supposed to be God's mind and the human body was supposed to hold it as a container.
However, due to the Fall, human beings turned their bodies over to the devil and have been his servants ever since. The human conscience is that aspect of the mind that represents God. It does not exist for itself but for the sake of God,'s righteousness. It constantly seeks the direction of goodness.
The body rebels against this. It seeks only physical comfort. It is selfish and instinctively follows carnal desires. The conscience chastises the body and tries to make it conform to the mind. This is why bitter conflict and struggle occur within oneself. (219-118, 1991.08.27)
34. All religions teach their adherents to strike the body. Religion is the training ground where we learn to control our body and its physical desires with the mind. It is the training ground where we cultivate ourselves to become original people by the ideal of creation.
No one, though, can conquer the body without welcoming God into him or herself. Only with the power of God's true love and truth can the mind become the subject partner, take command of the body as its object partner, and realize the ideal of oneness with God. The result is the human perfection that all religions speak of. (219-118, 1991.08.27)
35. When you have attained oneness in true love, you can attain a perfect score as a person of precious value. Mind-body unity refers to the state in which the physical self resonates and harmonizes with the conscience.
When you strike one prong of a tuning fork, the other prong vibrates at the same frequency. Similarly, when you strike the conscience with true love, the physical self resonates with it.
Conversely, when you strike the physical self with true love, the conscience resonates with it. In that state, you do not need any moral education. Once you find that center in yourself, you will know everything without being taught.
(223-356, 1991.11.20)
36. Looking at human beings, we can see that the mind and body are at war. This struggle did not start today, in the current age; it began with our first ancestors. As is recorded in the Bible, it began just after the Fall of Adam and Eve.
Has there ever been any saint or sage in history who could say, “Model yourself after me, as a representative of human history, for my mind and body are not in conflict; I have realized their complete unity”?
The mind is important, and the body is important, but most important of all is that you attain the realm where the mind and body are united. That is vital.
Even if the entire world were united, if you had not attained unity between your mind and body, you would be disconsolate. A person torn by this sorrowful struggle would not find a place in the united world but would be rejected.
He or she would be repelled. So before we strive to unite the world, before we strive to achieve the ideal vision of a new world, we have to discover within ourselves the ability to resolve the conflict between mind and body and set them in harmony. (142-325, 1986.03.14)
37. Unification Church members must accomplish mind-body unity under any circumstances. Those who cannot achieve mind-body unity within their lifetime should not muse about love and the ideal; if they do, it is shameful. It is also going against heavenly fortune.
The path of new hope opens only to those who wish for it after having achieved perfect mind-body unity. If you stagnate in your current condition, the path of new hope that leads to the kingdom of God will not open up before you.
(205-047, 1990.07.07)
38. Human beings were created to live with God's true love within their minds and bodies and to resonate with His love directly. The mind was to resonate with God centered on true love, and the body was to resonate with the mind.
The origin of true unity, a state in which the mind and body are not in conflict, begins when we inherit and experience God's true love just as it is. The human ideal of mind-body unity can be realized when we completely possess God's true love.
When our mind and body are united based on true love, the ideal of true freedom and peace can begin.'
On the foundation of mind-body unity, there will emerge free and peaceful individuals, free and peaceful families, tribes, peoples, nations, and a world of peace and freedom. (234-271, 1992.08.26)
Sun Myung Moon