Finding My True Self Through Uniting My Mind And Body
2007-05-18 · Source: tparents.org
By Mrs. Aye Jin Masuda mmasuda@earthlink.net Photos with Father’s Words graciously offered by 1 www.Heungjin-nim.tk
Uniting my Mind and my Body
Living a life of Absolute Faith, Absolute Love, and Absolute Obedience.
The foundation for Family Harmony, Joyful Community, National Prosperity, & World Peace and Unification 2
What is Mind/Body Unity ?
The Necessity of Seeking It.
“Peace among nations can never come when those entrusted with the task
have not resolved the Cain-Abel relationship between their own mind and body.” God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World 4 True Father – March 25 - April 3 2006
“Peace among nations can never come when those entrusted with the task
have not resolved the Cain-Abel relationship between their own mind and body.” True Father – March 25 - April 3 2006 5
Mind / Body Unity !
We have heard the phrase many times before, haven’t we? 6
“ We must unify our mind and body and turn over 180 degrees; then we can go to unify.”
True Father - April 5, 2002 7
“ No matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one.”
Second of the seven points of the Path of the People of Cheon Il Guk True Father - June 13, 2006 8
“ Again the unity of mind and body is the key.”
True Father January 27, 2002 - Hawaii speech 9
“If we seek a new ideal,… we should start with mind and body unity. We can conclude that it is impossible to realize the ideal without unity of mind and body.”
True Father The Way of Unification – Part 1 10
“Everything starts from one, and unless we lay the foundation of unity from that one, the unification of the whole is not possible. The standard of unity in the midst of confusion lies in myself.”
True Father Way of Unification – Part 1 11
“God does not exist where there is division… The first criterion for God to be involved with you is absolute unity between mind and body centering on true love.”
True Father March 26, 1997 12
“You cannot see the point upon which your mind and body unite. However, you must know that is where strength, energy, and power are generated.”
True Father March 26, 1997 13
“Once you reach absolute mind-body unity, miracles take place. All kind of miracles will happen, such as healing. It is not difficult to see miracles.”
True Father March 26, 1997 14
“Once your mind and body become one, God’s love will automatically be upon you. God’s love is powerful like a magnet.”
True Father March 26, 1997 15
“People with mind-body unity always become the subject anywhere they go. Those who are subject have a magnetic power and can create unity wherever they go.”
True Father March 26, 1997 16
“Once you reach mind-body unity, you don’t have to make effort to bring God down to your level. God will automatically become one with you.”
True Father March 26, 1997 17
Do you know how to unify your mind and your body? 18
We also hear the word “struggle” a lot, often from our own mouth, or the word “challenge”.
Before we go any further, let’s differentiate ‘struggle’ and ‘challenge’.
From the Webster’s Dictionary:
Challenge: A stimulating or interesting task or problem.
Struggle: Strife - A violent effort or exertion. 20
Challenges are stimulating, interesting tasks.
They make our life fascinating.
We need them.
We want them
and take them voluntarily. 21
For example, we want to … • climb a mountain, • make a new garden, • write a book, • create a new school, • bring new life to our neighborhood, • or even create a true nation.
Challenges are exciting, thrilling, and bring joy. Challenges are good. We like them. 22
Struggles are different. They are “a violent effort or exertion” They are “conflicts, fights, discords”.
They come as hindrances on our life path. We don’t need them. We don’t want them. We don’t like them. Struggles slow down a person’s growth process.
Many people, having too many struggles, give up taking challenges. 23
When this happens, even though the person’s body continues to live, his internal, spiritual, and emotional growth stops.
That’s the time when some people look for deviated ways to get the joy and happiness we were created for.
They abandon their dreams and instead look for ‘fun’, for momentary pleasures. They are not ‘creators’ anymore, but ‘takers’. 24
What about us, brothers and sisters of the Unification Family?
Do we struggle within ourselves, our marriages, & raising our children ?
Do we struggle in our relationships with one another ?
Do we struggle reaching out to our neighbors, building our tribe ?
“…undeniably, your outer selves and inner selves are in a constant relationship of conflict and struggle.
How much longer will you allow this fighting to continue? Ten years? A hundred years?” True Father - April 10, 2006
28 True Father
29 Heung Jin Nim
After so many years of living in True Parents’ family why have I not been able to stop struggling?
After so many years of working so hard in so many campaigns, investing myself is so many church activities,
why is it that my heart is still stiff and numb?
Could it be that I am missing something important? 30
“It hurts my heart to see how locked in our people are, in so many ways.
Many times you think that the Providence is going forward because Father’s projects are going forward and Father, he is going forward; and you are working hard, whatever your job be, your mission - you have to understand something: that going forward at this time means going forward in your heart.” Heung Jin Nim 31
Heavenly Father’s love and True Parents’ love dissipate all struggles and pains.
What about my ability to receive this love that dissipates all struggles?
Because of the Fall we have lost the capability to receive the Love of God,
the love that True Father calls ‘True Love’.
When our heart is not able to receive the love of God,
it is open to all kinds of struggles making us unable to ‘truly’ love others. 33
in this situation, no matter how much we try, how hard we work, or how much we give to and serve others,
the love we give is always falling short of being ‘absolutely’ true,
and, we continue struggling. 34
Can we feel God’s love, and give it to others when we have thoughts and feelings we do not like, do not approve of, and certainly do not choose?
We wish we would be different.
But, are we really so far away from our true self ? 35
I am as far away from my true self (from being able to receive the Love of God) as my mind and my body are separated from each other.
So, every time I unite my mind and body completely (absolutely):
1- I can feel God’s love for me, and for others.
2- I am in touch with my original self.
3- My thoughts, words, and actions become the expression of my newly found true heart.
4- I am changing, I am getting reborn. 37
“…as much as you can I want you to understand you are not who you think you are.
The person you really are is trying to be born right now.“ Heung Jin Nim 38
“ …As an individual, your body and mind must be united. That is the basic thing. Then God’s love will be with you.
With that done, you can proceed on to be united with other people,
and then the degree of God’s love with you will be deeper and broader.”
True Father – The Way of Tradition, Volume III 39
“ Which one comes first, unity or love?
… Unity is the beginning point of love,
the point where love can come to abide.”
True Father – The Way of Tradition, Volume III
So, which one comes first: ‘Love’ or ‘Unity’?
We need to seek unity first.
When you find unity of your mind and body, you feel something you might have never felt before. You feel different. You feel a love for others that goes beyond all the barriers you usually have.
When you find unity of your mind and body, You feel that nothing is impossible for you from now on.
You feel that you are able to do everything that you previously could only dream of.
But as soon as your mind and body disunite again, your old self reappears.
Have you ever had that experience? 42
“You must become one with God. Your mind and body must become one;
You cannot focus on your object if there is no foundation of love to base the relationship upon,
a foundation of love that can be the center of the principle of unity.”
Father at Pledge Service – God’s Day 2004 43
For example, if I struggle with my spouse, it is because I do not feel God’s love for him or her.
I do not feel God’s love for my spouse because my mind and my body are far from each other.
So, true love for my spouse remains only a dream. 44
Does the problem reside within my spouse?
within the fact that my own mind & body are disunited?
Thus, what is best to focus on?
On my relationship with my spouse?
Or, instead,
on the relationship between my own mind and body?
Unifying my mind and body brings them into focus, making the ‘fuzziness’ disappear.
So when I unify my mind and body, negative thoughts and feelings disappear,
leaving space for my original heart.
When I unify my mind and body
I feel liberated, new. I feel that finally I am my true self;
and I can hear a voice – the voice of my own conscience - whispering to me how to love my spouse.
My conscience becomes my teacher. 48
And so it goes for all the other relationships in my life, from the family level to the cosmic level.
When I unite my mind and body absolutely,
I am allowing myself to feel the Love of God
which is waiting, there, at the center of unity of my own mind and body,
and I start to feel true love for others, no matter who that other is, even my enemy,
tasting the realm of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
“Whenever I look at Mother, I wonder, ‘Am I loving her with an united mind and body?’ Mother has the same attitude.”
True Father – June 5, 1983 Parents, Children, and the World Centered upon Oneself
“Before you can talk about world peace and talk about solving the problems of society,
you must first worry about peace within yourself
and between yourself and God.”
True Father - Breaking the Barrier 54 December 10, 1978
Uniting my mind and body brings peace within me, and between myself and God.
It is the fulfillment of the First Great Blessing. It is my first responsibility.
From my own initiative and effort, I, individually, need to fulfill it. 55
Uniting my Mind and Body is the most crucial issue. My family depends on it! Our world depends on it! 56
How do I know for sure that my mind and body are dis-united?
I am struggling within myself as well as with others.
I cannot truly repent (repent in tears).
I cannot truly pray and cannot truly love.
How do I know for sure that my mind and body are dis-united?
I am numb to other people’s joy and pain. I don’t shed a tear for them, no matter what happens to them. I am apathetic.
“If you find out that your brother is going to jail and you do not shed tears, what kind of a person are you?” True Father
60 True Father
How do I know for sure that my mind and body are dis-united?
I cannot feel God’s Heart.
I am separated from Him
as well as from others.
When my 87 years old Father and my 64 years old Mother are going around the world at a frantic pace, desperately trying to save our world, and my eyes remain dry, what kind of a son or daughter am I?
How do I know when my mind and body are united?
“It is a world wherein the success of a person represents the success of the whole, the likes of a person represent the likes of the whole, and the joy of a person represents the joy of the whole.” 63 True Father - April 10, 2006
When I unite my mind and my body, I come in touch with my true self.
I feel true love for others, even for my enemy. I feel God’s love for me, as well as for others, and I can’t help but CRY.
In that moment In that moment when I feel God’s love …
when I feel God’s love … and that tears come, I also feel repentant.
and tears are washing my eyes, It is at this very moment in the depth of my soul, that New Hope appears. the difference between my ‘fallen self’ and my ‘ideal self’ becomes clear to me, and my tears become tears of repentance.
After my tears have become tears of repentance I feel new life and new hope in the depth of my soul.
In that moment of unity between my mind and body depending on what I am thinking, reading, or doing
. the loving and hopeful Heart of God at the time of the Creation,
. His devastated Heart at the Fall of Adam and Eve.
. or His longing heart throughout history. 67
In that moment of unity between my mind and body depending on what I am thinking, reading, or doing
I meet (in my heart, my emotions) . our True Parents as my own personal True Parents,
. the True Children as my very own true brothers and sisters,
. or any person as my own family member. 68
In that moment of unity between my mind and body depending on what I am thinking, reading, or doing
I also feel: . the heart of the creation and its longing for True Parents.
. or the hope and joyful heart of the Saints and Sages and of our Ancestors at this time of the Providence. 69
“The biggest problem is your body’s tendency to separate from your mind. But upon the foundation of unity between your mind and body, then you seek True Parents, true children, all things.” True Father - June 3, 1983 Parents, Children, and the World Centered upon Oneself.
How often should I ‘seek’ unity of my mind and body?
I need to become the person who voluntarily searches for that place of heart. I need to look for it until I find it, even for a few seconds. Then I find it another time, and another, and more and more often, even for longer and longer periods of time.71
How often should I ‘seek’ unity of my mind and body?
The more I find that place of heart, and express it in my actions, the more a true person I become, the more God is able to manifest Himself through me, and the more fruits my life brings forth.72
As I am making effort to unite my mind and body more and more each and every day,
I feel a transformation within myself. I feel that I am changing, growing, and becoming the person I am meant to be, the person I never even dreamt to become.
As I am making effort to unite my mind and body more and more each and every day,
I am opening the way for the achievement of my goals, the fulfillment of my dreams, starting to do what I always felt I could do if if if if … or when, when, when …
Which means that I become: 74
My True Self Peaceful - Confident - Optimistic - Joyful Trustful – Honest – Public minded Loving – Caring - Generous Gracious – Humble - Kind Content – Grateful - Gentle Trusting – Hopeful - Inspired Passionate - Enthusiastic Empowered - Appreciative Inspiring – Supportive Patient – Understanding Giving - Thinking of others Naturally wanting to help other Feeling responsible – Taking initiative 75
My True Self Receptive to others - Forgiving Joyful when others are joyful Sad when others are sad Desperate when others are desperate Shedding tears when others shed tears Sensitive to others’ situation and needs Considering others as my own family members - Compassionate Loving the Creation and being one in heart with it Efficient - Doing what I set myself to do Organized – Competent - Prosperous 76 Having no enemy.
In a time of someone’s special joy or special pain, when my mind and body are ONE, the other person’s joy or pain hits my heart directly and tears always come.
This is the beginning of my true love for others. Then I do not hesitate to pass into ACTION, with one heart, one motivation.
On the other hand, what kind of person am I while struggling?
My Struggling Self
Aware of Anxious – Nervous – Confused - Guilty my own Worried - Resentful – Envious - Liar - Cheater feelings only Lack of confidence in myself - Self-conscious Demanding – Selfish – Can’t wait Arrogant – Complaining - Having bad habits Doubtful – Pessimistic – Hopeless - Disloyal Lonely – Think that nobody cares – Depressed Thinking of myself first or all the time Apathetic - Can’t love - Sad – Deceitful Thinking I am better than others – False pride Not receiving and learning from others Not listening – Contradicting others Arguing with others – Swearing - Cursing Angry – Impatient – Unforgiving - Irresponsible 79 Not caring about others’ situation
More of My Struggling Self Stressed out - Bored – Betray others Disappointed – Overwhelmed Aware of Procrastinating – Disorganized my own Doing things I don’t want to do feelings only Not doing what I want to do Jealous – Indifferent - Numb Compare myself with others Do not like the success of others Do not rejoice with the other person Cannot feel the other person’s pain Insensitive to others’ situation and needs Others may be dying and I don’t feel anything Regretful - Fearful – Always expecting the wors Frustrated - Disconnected from the Creation Having enemies - Being hurt easily 80 Life feels like a struggle, a burden.
Separation, dis-unity of Mind and Body
MIND BODY I THINK about myself: I am good, I am aware about my own I am better than him, her, them, FEELINGS only: I am bad, unable to do this, that, I am hungry, hungry, hungry … I am misunderstood, I am sleepy, sleepy, sleepy … I want to do this and that no I am tired, tired, tired … matter what is publicly needed. I am lonely, frustrated, angry …
“I” knows only its own “I” is first, and remains first … situation.
Mind and Body are centered on their own thoughts, feelings, needs, and desires. Mind and Body are removed from other people’s thoughts, feelings, needs, and desires. 81
“One thing I am really concerned about today is the decline in religious life.
Such a decline tends to occur when practical matters become more important for you.
I worry very much about that…
… If you focus only on external activities, your religious life weakens. If your religious life declines, then you will have absolutely no assistance of the spirit world, and eventually, you will have no relationship with the spirit world, either.”
True Father 83
“Have no quarrel of mind and body, absolutely understand this.”
True Father - April 5, 2002
“Unity of mind and body is always the fundamental necessity, and only the power of love can achieve it. When you understand that true love is your goal and you focus everything in pursuit of it, then at that point, mind and body are working together.”
True Father – June 3, 1983 Parents, Children, and the World Centered upon Oneself. 85
Seeking Mind- -Body Unity 86
How to Receive and Give God’s Love
the Love that Brings my Mind and Body Together, Bringing Lasting Peace Within Myself and Others. 87
Part 2: My Personal Discovery Ignited by the Tragedy of September 11, 2001
“America is going away from God; In order to turn back to God America is in need of serious repentance,” I thought.
America needed me to repent for her, but how do I do that? I understood that tears always come with true repentance. But this kind of repentance I could not have. 88
What am I doing with my life,
understanding the time we are living in
and not caring for people’s eternal life?
After serious research of Father’s words,
while honestly sharing with some brothers and sisters
I started to experience that
tearful repentance comes naturally whenever I feel the love that God has for me. 90
I also started to experience that
knowing how to love others comes also from
feeling the love that God has for me.
I began the journey of finding out
how to unite my mind with God’s Mind, my heart with God’s Heart,
I expected the result Father told me I would get while applying his guidance on a daily basis.
What has been the result?
My life has been transformed from the inside out,
and continues to be transformed, every day,
in the exact manner that Father is telling me it will,
to the exact extent I am practicing his guidance.
1. The fake path 2.The long path 3.The fast path
1- The Fake Path: Pretending
• I pretend to be loving and caring, I smile while hiding my real feelings. • I pretend compassion, forgiveness. • I pretend to have my life under control. • I hope that people do not notice that I am pretending, but many do. I cannot easily fool others, and I am fooling myself instead. 95
True Father 96
2 - The Long Path
The long, winding, and desert like road.
The focus is on MYSELF, on my own struggling state. 97
I take one struggle of mine and start focusing on it: anger, for example.
I get books on the subject, study my anger, where it comes from, get counselling sessions, etc … and try to apply in my daily life the proven 7 or 10 steps on how to overcome my anger.
Then, I turn to struggle # 2, and do the same thing.
How many issues do I have ? More than I am aware of.
How long will it take me to get rid of all of them?
10 years, 30 years, 60 years ? …. or 100 years ?
This way works to some extent. I improve myself,
but it robs me of the time to genuinely give myself to others, and receive them into my life.
It may even separate me from True Parent’s heart and God’s Providence, slowly but surely. 100
3 – The Fast Path
The Path of Obeying my Conscience 101
The focus is onGod’s Ideal and on Others
Smart and efficient, it is the path to success 102
Brothers and sisters, we can indeed go beyond our own struggles, whatever they are.
As we make effort every day to unite our mind and body,
we begin to sense God’s ideal. 103
As we sense God’s Ideal we develop a true love feeling and a true love consciousness
that become our guide in all our relationships. 104
Walking on this path is going through the ‘revolution of conscience’ and the ‘revolution of heart’
that our True Father is talking about.
12 Necessary Steps
to Achieve Absolute Mind & Body Unity 106
Step 1 It’s up to me.
No one can unite my mind and my body for me. No one can make the effort for me. No one can follow my conscience for me. No one can stop my suffering for me: not my spouse, not my leader, not my parents, not my members, not my children, not the Church, not True Parents, not anybody. Not even the one who makes me suffer! 107
“There must be some champion who can liquidate the problem. Don’t you want to open your bag and clean everything up, making your mind flat and tranquil? Is this an urgent task to be tackled, or can it wait until you have some extra time after eating and sleeping? This is an emergency task.” True Father - Breaking the Barrier 12-10-1978
I must take initiative.
• From my own initiative, I need to find the peaceful place, within myself, where my mind is “flat and tranquil”.
• In other words, find the zero point, as Father calls it, the point where there is no struggle whatsoever. It is at this peaceful point where I can feel God’s presence & love, deep within me. 109
I must take initiative.
• When we feel God’s love, it is only natural to offer this true love to others.
• At the zero point our heart is unselfish, pure, and true. It is absolute, with no hidden motives.
• A the zero point, what other people do to me or think about me or those I love, does not affect my heart and attitude anymore. It is my original true heart. 110
“ You have to secure the zero point and when necessary go back there for a new start.
The zero point is where you have the chance to find God.” True Father
Step 2 An Effort. In order to find the zero point and secure it, I need to make an effort.
This effort must be desperate, as if I were trying to save a person drowning in a strong current.
The drowning person is me.
“How can we unite our minds and bodies?
Do your mind and body unite automatically without any effort?” True Father - The Ideal World of Subject and Object - February 13, 1977
“ Only by finding our original self and only by resembling God can we meet Him.
So, if we know this fact, we will be desperate to obtain that goal.
We cannot but be desperate in our efforts. You must be doing this at the cost of your own life.
Unless you are ready to find this, to try to find this at the cost of your own life you cannot find your new life there.” True Father 114
What kind of effort is necessary ?
What kind of constant & desperate effort?
“Once again you have heard that we must do it with tears.
I have trusted you but now you are shaking my confidence.” True Father - The Return to Tears - October 16, 1977
• True Father is telling us that we need to find the heart that brings tears to our eyes whenever we think about others.
• And that unless we find this kind of heart, he cannot trust us. Father is loosing confidence that we will be able to achieve providential goals.
• True Father said this in 1977, when he asked us to witness to 10,000 young people. A goal that year after year we fell short of fulfilling.
• Could it be that we have not found those 10,000 young people because we were witnessing with dry eyes?
• Instead of loving others with tears in our eyes, we kept fighting among each other.
We had not learned and mastered how to reach ‘the zero point’. We had not broken through in the realm of heart.
• To stop struggling among each other, we should have made effort to unite our mind with God’s Mind on our own individual level, from our own initiative.
• Going back to the zero point on a daily basis would have transformed our heart to the point of having so much love for our brothers and sisters, including our leaders, that we would have shed tears for them, regardless of their character and attitude. 120
• Those tears would have liberated us, brothers and sisters, leaving us free to witness with a unified heart, which would have brought the 10,000 young people that were needed to restore the world back then, a generation ago.
• Brothers and sisters, please read the speech: ‘The Return to Tears’ of October 16, 1977 as well as of True Father’s speeches from that time.
“Tears must come together with your sweat and blood because otherwise you are not walking the road of restoration.” True Father - The Return to Tears – October 16, 1977
• What a serious statement this is! Father is telling me that if I do not shed tears while working hard, I am not walking the road of restoration.
• Do I help restore our world when I am not restoring myself?
• I might work very hard, but if I do it without absolutely – 100% - uniting my mind and body to the point of weeping for God and mankind I am most probably keeping, hidden deep inside myself, a self-centered motivation, pain and suffering, and all kinds of other ugly stuff as well. Isn’t this true?
• I don’t know if you are like me, but after so many years in the Church I reached a point where:
* I was definitely not the kind of person I knew I could be, * I did not have the kind of family I wanted to have, * I was not doing what I thought I was able to do, * I could not unite my heart with God’s Providence at any given time, * I felt powerless about this whole situation, * and had no clue how to get out of it. 125
• I also felt disconnected from other people’s lives. I was kind of apathetic, insensitive to people’s joy and pain.
• I even became scared of myself: how is it that I may see other people in total despair, like on September 11th, and not shed a single tear for them?
I know from listening to brothers and sisters that this situation is rampant within our Unification Family. What has happened to the chosen people’s heart?
In the course of working hard to accomplish this precious mission that I have received, thinking that I am doing what my True Father is asking me to do, I have become heartless.
How come? How did this happen?
Am I really doing what my True Father is asking me to do? Am I truly uniting with his heart? 128
Why does Father emphasize tears so much, so many times, in so many speeches?
Over 220 times in The Return to Tears speech
Why does Father emphasize tears so much, so many times, in so many speeches? Over 220 times in The Return to Tears speech
1. We spontaneously pour out selfless tears whenever our thoughts and our emotions are 100% centered on God and other people’s heart.
This is the way God created us.
True love brings tears to our eyes, naturally. 130
2. Through the ‘quality’ of the thoughts I am entertaining I have the possibility to liberate my true original emotions, my true heart.
This selfless peaceful state of heart is called
“the zero point” or “the zero place”.
3. When I reach the ‘zero point’ I enter a new realm of being, where self- centeredness has disappeared; not by force, not by tricks, but by peacefully concentrating my attention, my thoughts and my emotions in one direction: GOD and OTHERS.
I have reached the realm of TRUE LOVE,
the realm I was desperately looking for. 132
4. So, I do not need to worry about my fallen nature. I don’t need to concentrate on it, focus on it, lament about it.
When I lament about my faults, lacks, etc… I am only losing precious time, instead of concentrating my 100% efforts on uniting my mind and body here and now and looking towards the brightness of life.
So … I need to find the zero place, within my thought process, the place where God or another person’s heart abide, where I feel for them the kind of love that brings me to tears.
Is this kind of love only for a few sensitive people?
Or only for women? 134
“If you are united with my heart, you will be in tears when you pray, even as a man missing me.” True Father
I need to seek the zero place,
which is the “realm of True Love” within myself.
I need to seek it, until I find it.
I need to seek the zero place, until I find it, … and live there.
• True Love will not come to me by me working hard, offering my service and love here and there, and complaining in between.
• My goal is to live in the realm of True Love, working joyfully, with tears of love and tears of hope, until all tears of sorrow will be wiped away.
How do I seek and find the realm of TRUE LOVE?
Seeking and finding the realm of TRUE LOVE
• In the following slides we are going to walk through a process of seeking mind and body unity or the zero place; In other words: “seeking my true self”, the realm of “Absolute Faith, Absolute Love, and Absolute Obedience,” “Cheong Il Guk” or “Our Original Homeland”. 139
Seeking and finding the realm of TRUE LOVE
• This process has been pioneered by our Elder Sister Hoon Mo Nim. It is entirely based on Divine Principle and the guidance True Father gives in his numerous speeches. True Father summarized it on June 13, 2006, in the seven points of ‘The Path of the People of Cheon Il Guk.’ 140
Seeking and finding the realm of TRUE LOVE
• When we apply those points in our daily life,
with utmost sincerity and devotion, we enter a realm of life, that so far we have only dreamt of, but it is real; and it transforms us, our family, our environment, day by day.
“I want to make you realize that there is a new realm that is open, and that the time of growth is here.
It’s not the kind of person you always thought you were. Something new has opened, and you can be the person you never even imagined.” 142 Heung Jin Nim
“You must take the first steps on the foundation of clear understanding.“ True Father 143
“This is the time in the course or restoration when you have to take the first step toward a new world, centering on the heart of God.
Therefore, it is a very important period, not only the period of changing the blood lineage, but the time of change in your life. You must take the first steps on the foundation of clear understanding.”
True Father, Change of Blood Lineage, October 13, 1970 - Seoul, Korea 144
Receiving God’s love and giving it to others need to become the purpose of our daily life, the motivation behind all of our thoughts, words, and actions. We need to clearly understand how to do this. So … (next slide) 145
I need to “be centered on the Step 3 Heart of God”.
I need to have the right motivation
The Heart of God
needs to become the source of my motivation.
Not the God that I believe in only. Not the God I fear or makes me feel guilty; but the Father whose Presence I feel, whose love I receive, whose pain I share, and whose joy I feel. 147
“There must be some central motivation, some catalyst to bring mind and body together, God is the catalyst, and around Him the two can be cemented into one.” True Father - The Ideal World of Subject and Object February 13, 1977 148
To find that central motivation, I need to unite my mind with God’s mind.
“This unity is the highest point of human value for eternity. Man is striving upward toward that goal, and God is striving downward toward that goal.” True Father - The Ideal World of Subject and Object February 13, 1977 - The Way of Tradition Volume III p.189
How do I unite my mind with God’s mind?
I need to go to or create an atmosphere to prepare to meet my Heavenly Father, my Creator.
Singing Holy Songs while focusing on the meaning of the words, Reciting the Family Pledge with heart, Reading Father’s speeches going deeply into the words, etc … 151
I need to calm my mind and find peace within myself through nature.
“There are ways to awaken your mind. Try to look at the sun in the morning, and you will feel that your mind is opened. That morning you will spiritually feel happy, as though the sun is there for you, warming up your heart. Then you will feel God’s love. In the morning, when you look at the trees, don’t you usually feel happy? Your mind is sprouting and budding out, and you feel the growth of your heart.” True Father - To Foreign Missionaries 152 April 19, 1975
“God created the human mind to be peaceful and tranquil.” True Father – The Way of Tradition, Volume III
I need to calm my mind and find peace within myself through meditation.
“We should emulate the ideal that God set up at the beginning of His creative acts.”
True Father - March 25 – April 3, 2006
“Your mind must be parallel to God’s mind and God’s ideal, and then you must try to express that mind in your actions. The meeting of the mind and body is the dwelling place of God.” True Father - The Ideal World of Subject and Object - February 13, 1977
I imagine God’s heart, His motivation, His dream, as if I would have been there, at the time of creation. Imagining helps me feel His ideal together with Him. At first I might have to do a lot of imagining. I imagine the truth, until it becomes real to me. As I learn to think the same way as God Himself thinks, the truth starts ‘sinking’ into my heart. 156
In order to find God’s situation, His Heart and His ideal, I need to take time just for that …
… like going three days on the mountain or on the sea, getting away from all obligations and worries; or isolating myself in my prayer room, or both, whatever works for me.
I need to calm my mind to find peace within myself, and meditate to get in touch with His feelings, His heart, 157 which are inside of me, in the depth of my soul.
In the depth of my soul, my original self, God is being trapped. Because of all my self-centeredness (garbage) piling up on top of Him, most of the time I don’t even feel Him; but He is there, brothers and sisters, He is there, waiting for me to get in touch with Him, my Heavenly Parent. He is there waiting and waiting 158 at the door of my original heart.
Will I take the time to feel the love that Heavenly Father has for me?
Will I take the time to feel the love of the One who cannot be happy without me?
Or will I continue to keep busy, … ignoring Him? 159
“Tears are the link between you and God.” True Father - The Return to Tears October 16, 1977
“Thus, unity with God brings your mind and body into unity.” True Mother on World Tour August- October, 2006 161
“Please try to understand Heavenly Father’s love for you. You personally. For you, not for anybody else; for you – for you.
This is what’s going to change the world, this is what’s going to change brothers and sisters when they can understand this.
If they can feel our Heavenly Father’s love, even if they can feel just a tiny little bit, it would change their lives… (next slide) 162
… They could never be the same again. It’s rebirth; it’s new life. It’s a whole new world completely.
You can never go back again after that experience. You get a taste and you want more and more. And you can’t stop.
And the only way to keep that love coming is to become a pipeline. When you receive it, you have to give it out; you have to – you cannot hold it in. It just flows out of you.“ 163 Heung Jin Nim – The Victory of Love - Page 141
I discover the Power of Step 4 Divine Principle and Father’s Words.
I don’t stop until I ‘feel’ the words and can’t help but shed tears while reading. True Father
Those words with those tears wash my soul and elevate my heart. 164
“If we do not unite our mind and body, information will come to us but we will not absorb it and not really know it.” True Father - April 5, 2002
“When you hear the messages at Hoon Dok Hae, the deeper you go into what is being said, you will not be able to read them without shedding tears.”
True Mother – July 19, 2006
“Centered on the words that were passed down through history, centered on those established words, you find unity of your mind and body.
When my philosophy and your mind become one, and when Cain and Abel unite, the parents of heaven come and the spiritual world become directly connected to you, building your own independent foundation. This is the formula of the principle.”
True Father - The Way of the Spiritual Leader 168
Step 5 I Need to Obey My Conscience.
What I know as being true, deep inside myself, I need to pursue it, make it happen, not expecting other people’s love or approval to support me. I do not depend on others to stand for what my conscience calls me to stand for.
I need to obey my conscience ABSOLUTELY. 169
“You must not Once you know the Will, be like a crowd you must pioneer your own path, which only moves asking God when it is pulled to give you by someone. purposes which center upon the Will.” True Father
“That is why your conscience knows and remembers every thought you have entertained …
Hence, if you were to live in absolute obedience to the commands of your conscience, which is your teacher for eternity,
you would be absolutely guaranteed to have eternal life.” True Father - April 10, 2006
All those great inspirations I ever had on what I can do for others, how many of them have I obeyed?
All those dreams of mine, how many have I seriously worked on to fulfill?
“… You will live with your mind and body united as one. God has given you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective…
So, if you place your conscience in God’s position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, (to your conscience) of ‘high-noon settlement’,
it is certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body and perfect their unity.”
True Father - June 13, 2006 173
“You need to know that it is your duty and responsibility as a human being …
to achieve victory in life
by following the way of your inner self – your conscience.”
True Father - April 10, 2006
I Learn to Use the Power of Step 6 True Parents’ Picture
“… as you look at the picture, your ancestors and spiritual world will assist you. If starting from one generation and gradually all of your ancestors bow to the picture. Then your ancestors in spiritual world can be liberated.”
True Father - God’s Day 1991 175
Why is it important to liberate our ancestors?
• When I liberate my ancestors I am liberating myself at the very same time,
• allowing me to get in touch with my original heart, my true self.
• allowing me to become free to truly love the people I am relating with. 177
When we look at True Parents’ picture and bow to them with a sincere heart, we create an atmosphere of humility and repentance.
Our ancestors come to bow together with us, moving our heart to tears … and we can sincerely repent together with them.
Every time we do this, we are liberating our ancestors’ heart, and ‘we’ become a little more free.
Then … we may go through our day, naturally offering to others the True Love we have gained through this ‘liberation’. This sounds possible to do, doesn’t it?
Thus I bow to God & True Parents while thinking about them, their life, their love for me, their love for this world. This brings Heaven and Earth together, within my own heart. 180
Start every day with sincere bows to Heaven (God, True Parents, Heung Jin Nim, Dae Mo Nim, Jesus) inviting your ancestors to join you, and your heart will move.
Shed your tears for God and humanity and watch your day go smoothly, with more peace, a deeper heart, and more love than the day before.
End the day the same way and see how you wake up in the morning. Try it and see the difference.
“All Blessed Central Families should pray very clearly and directly for assistance and support from their ancestors and the Spirit World.
We must pray with our heart and through this become one with the Spirit World.
Through this continuous prayer they will be able to help us. With this power we can achieve every thing we set our mind to do.
We have to pray specifically for the areas that we are focusing on.” True Father - March 2, 2003 (Rev. Jenkins’ Notes) 184
“From this time forward you should know that I can help you, Jesus can help you, and thousands, millions of spirits can help you.
If you decide to do something that is in the Principle you can do it.” Heung Jin Nim 185
“Be ever mindful to live in harmony with the spirit world.” “Never forget that in every time and place, and no matter what you are doing, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you.” True Father - June 13, 2006
“The best way is absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. If you are able to live such an exemplary life, then the Spirit World will belong to you.” True Father 186
“ Today begins a new tradition of those who can totally unite the physical world, the spirit world, and your ancestors.”
True Father – April 5, 2002
I learn to look at others Step 7 with God’s eyes.
To do this I may imagine that I am God Himself (won’t Heavenly Father be touched by the effort I am making to find His heart?) and I look at the people I imagine to have created.
I imagine them all to be my children, I love them all equally. I love them all as if they were my own physical children. 188
I learn to look at others with God’s eyes.
Whenever a conflict arises, peacefully & desperately, I need to look for my Heavenly Father’s glasses. I go back to Heavenly Father’s position and look at the situation from God’s position, like if I am a parent looking at my own children in conflict.
There are many ways to help us see others from God’s point of view, feel their heart and wear their shoes. 189
“You must put yourself in the position of God, with your eyes being God’s eyes and your tears God’s tears.
… When you look at them as God looks at them and weep and suffer for them, you are putting yourself absolutely in the position of God.
… You are learning God’s point of view, seeing the world as God does. As we look at the world we grieve over the suffering situation of humanity and cry out for them as God has been doing. 190 True Father – The Return to Tears – October 16, 1977
“Have you ever burst out in tears for God and humanity?” True Father - February 5, 2006
I keep my “enemy” in my Step 8 heartfelt daily prayers. On the foundation of steps 1 to 7, I need to offer super special prayers for my ‘enemy’.
When I pray in tears, I have no enemy. All people become my family members, even my ‘enemy’.
While in tearful prayer, I feel deep love for the person that usually drives me crazy, and I can’t wait to make peace with him. 194
But, when not in deep prayer that person still drains my energy, still irritates me, and makes me upset,
that person is a hole in my boat, And he/she needs my very special attention.
I need to keep forgiving while offering daily tearful prayers for him/her,
until him/her and I make substantial peace, until the long awaited meeting of Abel and Cain takes place. 195
196 True Father
“When Adam and Eve left God they shed tears of sorrow – that is the heart of Cain.
Therefore Abel should shed tears of hope for God’s hope in him and for God’s providence of restoration, thinking of God’s painful heart when He lost Adam and Eve.
Such a man always comes to the central position in the providence of restoration.”
True Father - How God is Pursuing His Restoration Providence December 22, 1971 198
199 True Father
“Without Cain and Abel becoming one, they cannot meet the True Parents. That is the Principle.” True Father - Opening of the Training Session December 9, 1972
201 True Father
“We must find the original heart. That is more crucial than anything. If we focus on the heart we can go beyond anything in the world. If we don’t go this way, everything will be burned.” True Father, East Garden, October 15, 2004
If my heart remains dry …
… I need to turn towards our Elder Brother Heung Jin Nim as well as Jesus, and our Elder Sister Dae Mo Nim, as I am seriously in need of help and they are waiting … begging me to accept their support. 203
If my heart remains dry …
From the Spirit World Lord Heung Jin Nim, Jesus, and Dae Mo Nim can liberate and even transform my heart. But I need to ask them, believing that they can do it … and they will.
“When the Unification members of this nation realize that they have a close friend in me, someone who is always there for them in whatever situation they may be in,
then an enormous revolution of heart will take place once more.
A deeper relationship with True Parents will be ignited,
and this movement will jump up to a higher level. 205 Heung Jin Nim - Victory of Love - page 35
Heung Jin Nim
If I have difficulties to feel Heavenly Father’s love for me (to find the zero point, to unite my mind and body),
as well as believing that Heung Jin Nim can help me, I am in need to offer special conditions like fasting, bowing, or other bodily conditions, while sincerely and desperately asking Heung Jin Nim, Jesus, and Dae Mo Nim to help me to soften and develop my heart. 207
Why fasting, bowing, or other bodily conditions?
It is because: “There are only two ways to secure mind-body unity.
One is to negate and suppress your bodily desires.
The second way is to focus absolutely on the connection with God
and love God more than your children or your parents.” True Father – March 26, 1997 208
Whenever I ask Heung Jin Nim, Jesus, and Dae Mo Nim for help,
I am giving them the permission to help me to get rid of the spiritual barriers that are stopping my mind and body to unite.
Thus, they help my original mind, which is naturally full of true love for God and others, to come forth.
210 Heung Jin Nim
“You know the Principle. I can’t force my way in. The highest realms of spirit do not deal in domination. They do not deal in taking over.
The highest realm of spirit deals in loving and harmonious cooperation.” Heung Jin Nim – The Victory of Love – page 72
“By being with me and by opening up to me not only will you receive words in your mind but your heart will begin to change. This is why you cry ….”
Heung Jin Nim – 1987 South America, to Foreign Missionaries
“… so tears are the water of life for our spiritual lives.” Heung Jin Nim - The Victory of Love – page 122
“Once you can begin calling on us then your mind-body problem can be resolved.
And as more and more brothers and sisters really connect like this, it allows the spiritual power of heaven to come and work on this earth more and more.” Heung Jin Nim
On the Foundation of True Love for God and Others Step 9 + Unity of Heart between Cain and Abel I reach out, reach out, reach out … This needs to be re-started new each and every day. 215
On the Foundation of True Love for God and Others + Unity of Heart between Cain and Abel
I Listen, I Serve, and I Teach. I work in a team, always following my heart and conscience.
• I don’t wait, • I don’t do it alone. • I build my team. 216
All the wonderful tools I have acquired throughout my life, such as:
Time management, Inter-personal relationships, Knowledge, Leadership & business skills, Marriage & Parenting skills, Yoga, Reiki, Tai Chi, etc… 218
… will now bear eternal fruits,
at the 90 degrees vertical foundation of True Love for God and others, rooted in absolute mind / body unity
+ the horizontal foundation of true heartistic unity between Abel and Cain.
All those wonderful life tools
have been longing to be used
with the proper connection with Heaven,
the proper foundation on the earth.
221 Heung Jin Nim
“Only on the basis of your having achieved
complete unity between your mind and body during your earthly life
by expressing TRUE LOVE through actions
can your spiritual self fully mature.”
True Father – April 10, 2006 222
223 True Father
224 True Father
“ Unless you maintain a life of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values which is focused on the greater good, harmony and unity between mind and body is impossible.” True Father - May 21, 2004
Report to God Daily Step 10 with a heart of gratitude & repentance
• Every night, I honestly report my day to Heavenly Father sincerely repenting for my lacks of the day, feeling His Heart for this world.
• I also report to my spouse, my family, my leaders, my brothers and sisters, always keeping a flowing relationship in every direction. 226
With Gratitude, Step 11 Humility, and Joy We Celebrate our Accomplishments!
Step 12 Carefully Plan the Next Day
“In the last hour before midnight I try to solve all the issues for the next day. When I can do that, in one hour I save the next day.” True Father - July 27, 2004 228
In summary: How to bring my mind and body into one entity Step 1: I decide to unite my mind and body to the point of shedding tears, because it is absolutely necessary if I want to live a life of true love and fulfill my life purpose. No one can do this for me.
Step 2: I understand that specific daily constant efforts need to be made.
Step 3: I need to find the Heart of GOD as my motivation by learning how to unite my mind with His mind, find the zero point.
Step 4: I need to discover and to use daily the healing power of reading Divine Principle and True Parents’ words.
Step 5: I learn to obey my conscience (absolute obedience).
Step 6: I need to learn to use the power of True Parents’ picture, and of the Spirit World (Heung Jin Nim, Jesus, Dae Mo Nim, Saints and 229 sages, and my ancestors).
In summary: How to bring my mind and body into one entity
Step 7: I look at others with God’s eyes. Step 1 to 6 help me to feel towards others the same heart as God feels towards them.
Step 8: I pray for my enemy daily, until the Unity of Cain and Abel takes place in reality.
Step 9: On the foundation of step 1 to 8 (vertical foundation: absolute faith) I go out to fulfill the foundation of substance: horizontal foundation: absolute love.
Step 10: I report, report, report, with gratitude and repentance.
Step 11: I celebrate my accomplishments!
Step 12: I plan in details the next day. 230
“Just try at least for three years to concentrate your efforts on making your mind and body into one,
and you will experience God abiding in you, working through you.” True Father - December 31,1973231
My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
• During this course of seeking the heart of our Heavenly Father and of our brothers and sisters, thus, bringing your mind and body into harmony, you will experience shedding many tears of True Love as well as many tears of repentance. On this course Heaven will bring to your mind and heart anything from your past that you have not yet cleaned up enough, those past memories and emotions that have not been resolved. 232
• But as you keep seeking that zero place, you will find your way through, untangling all those unresolved problems and struggles of the past. Heaven will be right there with you, always trying to guide you in your mind and heart.
• As you keep walking this path, you will find the heart to leave behind all the excuses you might still be holding on to, you will ‘see’ the situation of your heart the way Heaven sees it, and will find strength to go beyond it. You will begin to see things from the viewpoint of true heart, God’s viewpoint. You will see the ‘real’ reality for the first time. 234
• You will not hold anymore onto your past accomplishments, no matter how great or how small they have been. You will become free from the past and see a bright future ahead of you.
• If you feel something is still missing in your life, it probably is. Taking the Path of the Citizen of Cheon Il Guk with utmost seriousness will bring you to the Light promised by Divine Principle and the Coming of the True Parents of Heaven and Earth.
• It will liberate you as well as those around you, and far beyond. You will become the pillar that Heaven needs to make God’s Providence move forward.
You will become directly connected in heart with True Parents’ heart and feel that you, yourself, are walking in True Father’s footsteps, taking burdens off True Parents’ shoulders, and becoming an owner of the Providence.
• Reading Divine Principle and True Father’s words will take on a whole new dimension.
You will hear True Father speaking directly to your heart through the same speeches you previously thought you knew already.
• You will feel being part of Heaven’s plan instead of feeling tired and wanting to pass on the torch to your children, because you, yourself, are not feeling successful.
It is indeed the one awaited great day, the Day of the Lord! The Day of Victory! It is the Era after the Coming of Heaven. Let us all be part of it. Aju.
A few more quotes
“ …when we think of reality, when we really understand what reality is, we realize that we never began to even touch reality in our former lives. And even just now there are so many doors to be opened, so many doors that need to be opened.” Heung Jin Nim – The Victory of Love – page 71
“ Great things have been fulfilled in the past, but people who have fulfilled the great things in God’s providence get stuck in the past many times
and stand on their foundation of the past and do not continue up the hill … Do not rest on your victories of the past.
This is a time when each … member must have a victory now and each day, each day, each day! It will be in the heart.” Heung Jin Nim – The Victory of Love – page 131 242
“If it’s just the blessed children that are the hope, then what of all of you? What is the hope for you? Are you just the servants who work hard on Father’s projects and beat your brains out every day? That’s not God’s desire for you; it’s not our True Parents’ desire for you. They want to bequeath more to you. Obedience is something, but it is not the key to inheritance. … next slide 243
… Obedience is an important part, but it is a step toward a more important dominion of heart.
You know the Principle, the foundation of faith is a foundation, but you must build upon that obedience of faith. And it is there that many of you have been stuck. … next slide 244
You obey, but if the heart doesn’t grow, then what you build on the foundation of your obedience, I’m sorry to use the word, is corruption. In your hearts and in your minds. Because anything that’s not growing is dying. Please understand, this is your time to grow.” Heung Jin Nim – The Victory of Love - page 113
“If you have discovered your true, original self, then God is in your heart and you are within the realm of liberation. Your original self was born to continue the history of the original lineage through God and True Parents’ original love. Finding this self will resolve everything.” True Father
“Father, we long for the day when we can live together with You. Please, allow us to become sons and daughters who long for You, and run towards You, and who can bring all the things of creation into harmony by offering greetings of joy and gratitude to You, having arrived at the day of glory which we can live together with You.”
247 Father’s Prayer, May 24, 1959