Learn From My Way Of Life

K.Owensl N.F.P.

LEARN FROM MY WAY OF LIFE REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON FEBRUARY 25, 1985 EXCERPTS FROM FATHER’S TALK AT THE LEADERS CONFERENCE Translator, Dr. Bo Hi Pak EAST GARDEN

T HE MESSAGE I HAVE SENT FROM DANBURY IS REALLY MOST wilderness before they settled in the land of Canaan. Similarly, dramatic and shocking to the ministers who have received after we pass through 40 years of the wilderness of the 20th it. If the American Unification Church headquarters in New century, our great movement will settle. Where are we going? York City had sent out the books and videotapes to the ministers, Ultimately, God wants us to create and settle a new America. In they would have just put them on the bookshelf to collect dust. order to revive America, I have to accomplish several momentous However, because the message is coming from prison, it has an tasks together with you. entirely different impact. First, we must be victorious over communism. Second, we must Also the ministers have witnessed that Unification Church put new energy into the Christian churches and awaken them. members are going after them, trying to turn them around even Finally, we must stop moral degradation. If we can do that, the while their own leader is incarcerated. That’s incredible spiritual American people will ultimately accept our teaching and create a boldness. The ministers compare our young people with those in new America. Then God’s will will be done, and my visit to the their own churches, and they see that they are as different as United States will be fulfilled. heaven and earth. Father and the American culture can be compared to two My primary mission in coming to America is to re-ignite the different pine trees. Father’s pine tree has grown in a very cold Christian churches so that they can serve God’s purpose. Now they weather zone. The American pine tree has grown in a tropical are opening their doors and welcoming my message. weather zone. The pine tree that grows in hot weather will bring After leaving Egypt the Israelites endured 40 years in the forth a seed which is not sound and hard enough. The American

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I AM NOW TRAINING AND TEACHING YOU SO THA T YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE PEOPLE WHOSE PERSONALITIES ARE ALREADY SET AND ESTABLISHED, AND MOBILIZE AND INSPIRE THEM TO DO SOMETHING MUCH GREA TER AND NOBLER.

seed has not yielded good fruit from generation to generation: all don’t ask me anymore. They just help themselves to all the food in kinds of odd and perverted subcultures are blossoming in America, my closet! revolving around forms of moral decay, like homosexuality and When Mr. Kamiyama was at Danbury, he had a footache free love. Such social ills are rampant now. What should we do? which was very inconvenient. I taught him a special exercise, and We should just chop this American pine tree and engraft it onto after Mr. Kamiyama practiced it for a while, the footache the heartier pine tree. The American people will protest, saying disappeared. Even now as I am talking to you, I am not just idly that the American pine tree is good and looks just the same as standing; I am always exercising, everywhere I go-even in the Father’s, but the pine trees are different. Father’s pine tree is hard bathroom. Also, at Danbury there is one special, very uneven rock and sound, and solid fruit will come from it. What kind of pine that I use to exercise and massage every part of my body. tree are you? When I finish serving in Danbury, the accumulated amount of Life in Danbury prison holds many benefits for me. I have to time that I will have spent in prisons will be five years. How could live according to the American lifestyle and eat three American I survive prison life for five years? It is because I have developed meals a day. Shut up in prison without any freedom, I am paying special methods of breathing and exercise, and practice them this indemnity gratefully. There is no rice or kimchi or regularly. I am probably the eldest here among you, but in terms of kochichang-just peas and butter and bread and meat. I don’t like physical strength, none of you can keep up with me. I can walk for that kind of food, but by now I have grown accustomed to it and miles, no problem. have totally indemnified my tastes. I am thinking that you should There is always give and take action in the body. Whenever any go to Korea and try living without any hamburgers, cheese or of those give and take actions stop, you become sick. Circulation coffee, and pay the reverse indemnity. You can even try to change must be correct. Even when you have a bad cold with a stuffy your pattern of life right here, without going to Korea. nose, certain exercises will bring relief. We have a lot to Originally I wanted to eat very little food and survive on small revolutionize in our way of life. Have you ever thought about how portions, but then I realized what kind of impression the other many times you go to the bathroom? By studying the statistics in inmates would get from that. They would think that Orientals eat my own situation, I could derive some estimate about how long I much too little and are thereforesmall and weak. So, on the ’ will live. Even the frequency of urination has something to do with contrary, I decided to eat a lot, and I always take seconds, even if I the state of your health. don’t finish. Faced with the leftovers, I think about how hungry the Follow my way of life. The time will come when I will teach missionaries must be, and I pray that Heavenly Father will send you all my secret techniques of good health management. You such portions of food to those who are working so hard in far-off should always be learning and preparing for something greater in lands. At the garbage can I also pray this way, making even the the future. trashcan a place of offering. Normally the fiber of all the body systems change every six STUDYING AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE months. After six months on a diet of American food, I feel good. I

T have become much lighter, which is helpful. HE PRISONIS ALSO A GOOD LABORATORY FOR ME TO STUDY Larry, who is sharing my cubicle and supporting me in place of the American way of life. Because there is so much time, Mr. Kamiyama, eats snacks all the time. He never goes to meals, the inmates are continuously talking-and complaining. but is always nibbling. However, I never eat snacks, but eat only at Talking is the only freedom they enjoy, and from their regular mealtimes: that is my discipline. conversations I can learn all about Am~rican life. I can clearly perceive the behavioral cycles of the inmates. I GOOD HEALTH MANAGEMENT have watched one prisoner who always fights periodically, without fail. I have observed how much the inmates love to win at Ping-

I FEEL THAT THE BODY IS A GOOD LABORATORY AND I HAVE Pong, and how much they show their unhappiness when they are tested out my own health in many different ways. I have come defeated. to the conclusion that snacks between meals are not good for God is still keeping me in prison because I still have more health, and that the best pattern is to limit food intake to lessons to learn about the American people, so that I can lead them mealtimes. Three meals a day is adequate for maintaining good in the best possible way. From God’s point of view, I need a little energy and body strength. Food intake should follow a certain more workshop. The more I can understand American culture and formula and rhythm. American people have very undisciplined character, the more I can develop certain techniques for relating to eating habits. Just eating and drinking, going about and then American people. When I come out of prison, I will know exactly coming back again to the icebox for more has no rhythm, no how to push you and motivate you so that you can become much discipline. Because of that you may sometimes get a stomach ache tougher. or fever. I particularly abhor seeing a person walking down the You are very lucky to meet Father; it is the greatest fortune of street and eating at the same time. People bring me fruit and your life. I am now training and teaching you so that you will be biscuits and chocolate from the commissary, but I just excuse able to move people whose personalities are already set and myself and invite the others to go ahead. I have explained my established, and mobilize and inspire them to do something much thinking to the inmates who are close to me and who are trying to greater and nobler. That’s the kind of leadership quality that I be helpful. Now they know that I will never take a snack, so they would like to implant in you. .

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AMONG ALL THE CONGREGA TION~ BE THE ONE TO SERVE A MINISTER AND HIS CHURCH THE MOST LOYALLY AND THE MOST LOVINGLY.

commitment from me; instead, I say that I will think about it, or that the future is really up to them. In this way, I inspire them. Even when they gang up to playa joke on me, they end up realizing that the joke was played on them. Although some of them, like Larry, love Father, they have come to know that I am not an easy man. With quick wit, I can also make people laugh until they have a bellyache. When I am talking to important people, I can get to the crucial core of any matter in a short time, and force a showdown. I use so many techniques and methods. I can assess each person’s strengths and weaknesses, hit the vulnerable point, and undermine all resistance. I would not teach you these techniques now, because you would become a swindler instead of a good Divine Principle member. Yet if each one of you were like Rev. Moon, America would have been saved a long time ago. Now while I am jn prison and you are free, you must become more serious than the desper- ate situation of America, and determine to grasp and to solve all the problems of this country. I have heard that members are going for therapy and psychiatric counselling. If you have faith and pray, you will have the solution, won’t you? God is the solution for everything. What I learned did not come from a classroom, or a psychiatrist, but from faith and from understanding of God Himself. Do you understand? You should be able to move between emotional extremes freely and easily. If someone gets very mad at you, you should react calmly and naturally. When you meet the person the next day, you DIFFERENT QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP can just act as if you don’t even remember what happened. This will give you power, for the other person doesn’t expect that kind

I N DANBURY I HAVE MET WITH MANY FAMOUS AND INTERESTING of reaction and will be at a total loss to know how to deal with personalities. Ordinarily, they come initially to pay respect or you. Then grab him and tell him that you understand his heart, his express sympathy to me. Yet inevitably, within an hour or so, thinking, very well, and that he shouldn’t worry about it at all. they become a kind of disciple! I can completely turn the tables on From that point on, that person will be faithful and obedient to them. They are amazed at how dynamic I am-that I never even you, and you will have conquered him with love. American feel I’m in prison-and they leave with willingness to carry out the people, however, are impulsive; they just act and react. This is a mission I have given them. very difficult aspect of Western mentality. If the leadership in America were sound in this way, then Sometimes I would even secretly help a suffering family that America would not be sinking. Everybody said the Unification was opposing me and our movement. I would help in such a Church would not last long; Rev. Moon, however, has prospered, remote way that they never knew what was really happening. because the quality of his leadership is different. Like a living thing, Many years later the truth would come out, and then that whole it moves and continuously grows upward. Once you become still family would just break down in repentance. I would be a kind of you go down without being able to stop. If everything were left to savior to them, even while they opposed me. Rev. Moon, it would probably only take him half a year to turn I am always looking at you: evaluating, testing, hoping. When the country around. you met me, did you become a new person, with new direction, So you have a sacred and patriotic responsibility to create new new motivation and a new way of life? You must continue to leadership for the future of this country. You have to create the advance. There’s no better way than to learn from each other, substantial foundation. Words cheat; deeds are what count. Today, serve each other, help and be helped by each other. your responsibility is to educate the ministers. How can you do Perhaps you thought Rev. Moon is so fortunate and that? The ministers are experts in talking, in giving sermons, but comfortable, living in a mansion, using an expensive car and so they don’t know how to produce the results. For example, if there forth. But now I am in prison, living in the smallest cubicle, and I is a fight going on, they don’t know how to stop that fight. The am doing better there. Did you know that aspect of Father? I am ministers’ way of life is a one-way street, but the Moonies’ way of doing more and doing better in prison than I did at East Garden, life is four-directional. For God’s purpose, we can even visit a bar and God cherishes the tears I shed in prison even more than the or a house of prostitution, and learn to understand and win the tears I shed at East Garden. heart of the people there. When Mr. Kamiyama was in Danbury, I asked him to read The inmates have learned that I will never go against my own aloud all of my speeches which had been published in Japanese. word. Sometimes they try to extract a certain promise or At one point, Mr. Kamiyama completely broke down in tears, and

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I WOULD LIKE YOU TO BE WITH ME ALL THE TIME, FOR ETERNITY, BUT YOU MUST HA VE THE SAME VIBRA TION OF SPIRIT.

was so touched by the Spirit of God that he could not continue. I had a piece of bread, he could not eat it by himself, but would saw that man and it was an unforgettable memory. It was probably come to me and share it. Even that piece of bread would trigger the highest point of Mr. Kamiyama’s life in the Unification tears and make for an eternal relationship. Church. It was a priceless gift. I enjoy such deep, soul-searching Do that now with your ministers. Among all the congregation, experiences. I always looks forward to dramatic encounters, even be the one to serve a minister and his church the most loyally and those with suffering. the most lovingly. How many people are going to give up Such encounters never come while driving in an expensive car. everything to try to follow you, as people have done for me? They always come in a shabby, cheap place, in the circumstances At our meetings I always see five colors of people, all with tears of a pitiful ordeal. Prison is that kind of testing ground. Also, in in their eyes. How real are those tears? How long will those tears prison you cannot help but become close friends with nature. I last? How unchanging are you? The relationship I am seeking is come out at night to observe the position of the stars and galaxies. eternal. They are so mystic, telling some kind of story, conveying It is my philosophy that, in the Unification Church, I would mysterious messages. Happiness has nothing to do with opulence. rather let you suffer and go through incredible ordeals before the Of course, before going to prison, I had many telephone age of thirty. By doing so, you dig the well, build the dam and conversations with Mother-but none like the telephone harden yourself so that you will never retreat, but always go conversations from Danbury. They have a special, totally different forward. The strength built when you are young will remain kind of feeling; you can’t imagine. Now I have been thinking how forever. God wants that kind of person. When you discover the much more I would like to talk to the underground missionaries in truth, you must go for eternity without changing. the Soviet satellite countries. How about calling God, speaking Throughout my life I have shed tears. When I pray aloud, my God’s heart over the wire? Maybe I would break down in tears, prayer never ends without tears. I am a strong man, but when I go but then God would break down in tears too. into the heart of God, I become so vulnerable. The tears flowing In that case, how could I comfort God? With one word-what down cleanse the relationship and the heart. could that one word be? It would be a very serious word. When I would like you to be with me all the time, for eternity, but you you have only happy times with your friend, that friendship will must have the same vibration of spirit. Our goal is still far away, not last; but when you become a friend with someone under our training is still long; but we will not get tired-we will move adverse conditions, such a friendship will indeed last. When I met on. Win the battle, and reach my spiritual vibration. Look at me, the early pioneer members of the church, in such a difficult follow my example, learn from my experiences, and become like situation even one piece of bread was precious. When a member me. There is nothing more that I can ask. Thank you. .

Father returns to Danbury in the evening.

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