The Simple Life Is Best

Sun Myung Moon April 24, 1992 Unification Theological Seminary Unofficial translation by Masami Teraoka and Yasuhiko Higashi

Reverend Moon speaks with UTS students in Japanese

Rev. Moon spoke to Japanese UTS students for 30 to 40 minutes in Japanese with no translation.

Those who came from Japan should take Seminary life seriously and study hard. Do you understand? This time I went to Japan and pushed the Japanese members, even though they have been working hard. In order to fulfill your heavenly mission as Japanese, you should work the hardest. If you restore your tribe, in the future every one of your kinsmen will be proud of you. “Oh, my uncle is such a great man!” Through the Professors’ World Peace Academy I have a plan to make a worldwide university federation.

Everything I have spoken will become a reality in the future. If you follow me, I will take all responsibility for it. The Japanese dispensation can be taken care of only by UTS graduates, which now total 69. You should plant new and fresh seeds, not for yourselves, but for Japan and the world. In order to do this you have to make yourselves offerings for heaven.

You have to have this kind of ideology. Satan has been persecuting me with his entire power, but now there is no more place for persecution.

Last time when I went to Japan I met Nakasone [former Prime Minister] and Kanamaru [ vice-president of the governing party], and I even scolded them and asked them if they had any hope for the future of Japan. When I told them I knew the Japanese situation better than any member of the Jimin-to [Japanese governing party], they were so surprised.

I met with 30 congressmen and VIPs in the political and economic field. They realized that Rev. Moon has influential power over politics and economics in Japan. Nakasone failed last time, but this time I will directly guide Kanamaru.

God cannot abandon Japan

Although the Japanese diplomats may not know it, Japan needs Rev. Moon. If Japan does not follow me, the Japanese future will be dark. If Prime Minister Miyazawa met with me, many powerful people would go against him. Therefore he avoided the publicity and arranged to meet with Kanamaru. Kanamaru made a good report to Miyazawa; he spoke in tears about his meeting with me. God feels compassion for Japan and cannot abandon her. Those who follow me should become greater than Kanamaru and Miyazawa.

Great people always come up from among the suffering and poor, not from rich circumstances. Do you understand? In order to build the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, you should go the reverse way, which means you must go through hell. I have also gone through the most suffering course, being attacked in the political, economic, and academic areas, and finally I achieved world-wide victory.

Now Japan is afraid of me, and America is afraid of me too. Russia, Mainland China, England, Germany, France, Italy, and other nations also fear me.

There is no fear on our side. I alone have the key to leading the Third World. Even the academic world recognizes that. All the politicians and national leaders who know me support our movement and are ready to become its advisers. I have already educated many top leaders. To lead Japan, first of all we must

organize well inside the church, which is the spiritual core, and then we can digest the external world.

The best business From now on, fishing will become very important. Why do I take fishing so seriously? It is because fish is to become food for all human beings. For example, in the fish world, one fish bears millions of eggs. If we can incubate those eggs in fish farms, 90 percent of them will become fish. The fish-farming business is the best kind of business.

You need many acres of land to raise livestock, but you don’t need so much space for a fish farm. You can earn a lot of profit out of a small space.

In the future, a building higher than the Empire State Building will be built for fish farms. Do you understand? There the temperature and conditions of the water will be automatically controlled by a computer system. Even the transportation of the fish can be done automatically through an underground tunnel system. I am thinking about such a plan. This is no dream, but a very reasonable plan.

Today there is no difficulty in transporting sea water from the ocean to the land through pipelines. The Pacific Ocean will never become a desert, so we can always use the water from the sea. You don’t need to be concerned about using up the water. Fishing is the key to the food problem. I am now preparing for this huge undertaking.

Living simply

In the future the Unification Church members will farm a lot of fish. Even in this room, half the space will be used for fish; a glass tank filled with fish will be put by each wall. So you can take a fish out the box and eat it any time. In the basement there will be a big fish tank. You won’t need soy sauce, because there will be salt in the water. You won’t even need to use fuel to cook it.

Not using fuel can really help reduce the pollution problem. In addition, fish is very digestible-100% digestible. When you eat sashimi (raw fish), you don’t need to go to the toilet. Fish is very convenient.

You don’t even need a flush toilet. You can use a natural toilet outside. Big and small waste will not be a problem. You can put the waste in a bag and throw it away. It will become natural fertilizer.

The simple life is best. If we were to live in such a world, we would no longer need a house. We could live in a car and a submarine. If we had a car and a submarine, we would have no problems in life, neither on land nor in the water. Then what will we do there? Fish farming and going around the world in the fish business. It will be your job.

Such a time will come. What I say always comes true. This is not a dream. If such a world doesn’t come, I will make it.

Do you understand? You have to go all the way from the lowest to the highest in order to attain the eternal world.

And there is only one way to fulfill that task-that is to absolutely follow my direction. Do you understand? So don’t complain. Go forward. If you do that, then the sun will rise even from the south, not from the east. If the sun rises from the south and sets in the north, the ice of the South and North Poles will melt and become water. Then the entire world will become our territory. So please have hope and go forward.

How about English? English is difficult, isn’t it? You Japanese say, Igo, Aigo! [Igo means “Oh!” in Japanese, and Aigo means “My goodness!” in Korean, and Aigo means “English” in Japanese.] Do you understand what I said? Then raise your hands. Are all these Japanese?