48. 2003 World CARP Convention, "Breakthrough 2003 toward the Culture of Heart"

Hyun Jin Moon
July 9, 2003
Sun Moon University
Asan, Korea

Am I in the right room today? Which room am I in? The W-CARP convention? I guess I'm in the right room today. What is the motto for this year? Breakthrough 2003! What is the sub-motto? "Owning the Culture of Heart!" Highlight the word "owning."

Now all of you know that by now although I do not like to speak, somehow when I start speaking, it doesn't end. Do you want me to speak a long time, or maybe a medium time? Today the stadium is very hot. If I speak a long time, we might get very sweaty. Still it's OK? If I've observed young people, especially if you speak for a long time, go like this [falling asleep]. I think most people who've spoken in public know that their energy level is fed by the audience. That means the minute you start going like [falling asleep], the minute I start going like this [falling asleep]. So are you going to go like this [falling asleep] or have your eyes and ears open and absorb everything that is said? Then I guess I have my work cut out for myself.

What is it this year, the motto breakthrough 2003, owning the culture of heart? Owning the culture of heart! As we know, when we look at the world today we see a culture that does not necessarily reflect the ideals of our original mind and heart, right? Let me ask you a question. Do you like war? Do you like violence? Do you like hatred? Do you like disunity? Do you like misgivings and doubt? I can go on and on, yet when we look at the world today, it is not that difficult to say this world is filled with war, doubt, misgivings. Thus any conscientious person will come to a conclusion that this world really is not an ideal world. We see that throughout the course of history men and women have sought for something better that allows their original mind to find something better. They look for something better. The original mind longs for something better. So what is it that the original mind longs for?

I see today in the audience we have people from many, many different nationalities. We have people that represent many different cultures, yet we gather here today for one reason, to take ownership of the culture of heart. I would venture to say that the original mind that resides in all men regardless of race, creed, nationality, have the same common purpose and long for the same thing. If we talk about peace, isn't that the goal? If we talk about happiness, isn't that something that we all want around the world? If we talk about love, isn't that something we all want, irregardless of race, color, and creed? If we talk about harmony, unity, isn't that something we all desire? So those things that we all want, is something that is universal. It is not the province of one people, one race, but a longing of all human desire.

Then, how do we find those things such as peace, love, unity, harmony? That is one of the reasons why we have this year's motto "Breakthrough 2003: Owning the Culture of Heart." God originally intended from the beginning to substantiate a true culture. That was a reflection for God himself to touch the divinity within God's soul. What was the impulse that beckoned God to create in the first place? True love! It was a love of a parent that wanted to substantiate a tangible love relationship with his beloved son and daughter. God wanted Adam and Eve as the original parent of mankind, as the original ancestor of mankind to reciprocate this love as a son and to share this love between themselves as brothers and sisters. Then God wanted them to partake in the love between husband and wife, thereby creating a Four Position of Foundation, the fruit of that love, meaning the children of Adam and Eve, the future of mankind. Within that original model and blueprint, God wanted a substantiation of that true culture that resonated first within Him, within His bosom, which was true love. God wanted Adam and Eve as individual self bodies to resonate in this true love. And then God wanted Adam and Eve to pass on this love to their children, their children's children, on and on and on thus to all humanity. This selfless sacrificial love that lives for the sake of others should have been the bedrock of culture that humanity embodies, as generation and generations came to pass. Had that happened - the realization of God's dream, man's original mind and heart - we would have been living in a world of peace, harmony and unity. All those things that our original mind beckons for, longs for, we would have been living in that place.

Yet, what happened? Somehow this plan was spoiled or unrealized. Now, what was the impulse that prompted Satan, or Lucifer, the Devil, whatever you may want to call it to tempt man away from God's original ideal? What was the seductive tactics that he used to seduce Eve and Eve used later to seduce Adam, and that eventually Adam and Eve heartistically disconnected with God? It is so said that you shall reap what you sow. So too in the original history of making, going back to the ancestors, something was sown. What was it? God originally wanted to plant a seed of true love and through that seed and planting wanted to create a world of original ideal. But what else was sown? What was sown in the Garden of Eden was the total opposite of what God wanted. It was self-centered love! Still love, but the motivation is self-centered.

Love is such a powerful force that it's so hard not to react to its prodding. That's why the motivation has to be correct. Isn't that right? What was God's motivation when God created Adam and Eve in the first place? Was it self-centered love? I want to create these being Adam and Eve so that they can worship me and fear me. Or was it I am creating these beings as my son and daughter so that we can live in love that is rooted in living for the sake of others? Yet there was a helper in that original garden. He realize that although he helped God raise Adam and Eve, God's heart was drawn to his children Adam and Eve. Working in this mind?

Isn't it strange how usually when people fall into destructive act the first step is self-absorbed pity. In the same respect, the Archangel Lucifer started asking the question, "Why does God love Adam and Eve so much more than I when I have given so much to invest in His creation?" I have been God's helper from the very beginning, I have done this and that, yet look at Adam and Eve, these immature little brats. Whatever the case might have been, the seeds of that self-centered love that sprouts jealousy in all those negative things consuming, consuming, consuming, and consuming him, so that the motivation was self-centered love.

So the seed that was planted from the very beginning that prompted the fall of Adam and Eve was not true love, but substantiation of what God did not want, which was false love, self-centered love. Therefore, if we look at the world today, one of the reasons why nations fight is because nations are only thinking of themselves. Isn't that the root cause of why people fight because they only think about themselves? Races also, I can go on and on. The root cause of all these travesties has been the motivation of self-centered love. You can even see traces of this when young kids come up and say, "What have you done for me lately?" Isn't that right? In other words, these seeds have been planted so that it has become an accepted norm.

Unless we get rid of this seed and taint, true love, true peace cannot be realized. So what is the cure to get rid of this and to root out this self-centered love? It is living for the sake of others! This has to be the motivation behind the bedrock of CARP culture that is why I keep saying this is not something you understand conceptually or talk about, but something you have to embody. If you look at what CARP has done over the last 3 years there has been a tremendous consistency, although it is only recently that I talk to you about Core Values, everything we have done from the beginning of my inauguration up to this point has been about Core Values. Most important component of Core Values has been "living for the sake of others" or "living for the greater good." If you don't have that, ownership, teamwork and dream big mean nothing.

So, what does it mean to take ownership? I had many talks up to this point with CARP leaders, telling them constantly, "You have to take ownership of this." In the past they look up at me with confused faces. Does it mean that I just memorize and how quickly recite them? What do I mean by ownership? When I say ownership, I mean you have to embody Core Values. Core Values have to be you. Whatever you walk, speak, do, should be Core Values. Isn't that how culture is built, not by what we say or teach, but by who and what we are, how we do things. This is what I mean by owning Core Values.

Now, think about if you own Core Values? Don't you think you will be somebody who can lead others? I have had the opportunity to show Core Values to many, many people, especially those who consider themselves to be professionals in the leadership training field. Their reaction is "These qualities are qualities of leadership." In other words, if you embody the Core Values, you will understand the fundamentals of what a leader is all about. How does one lead? Do you lead because you have position? Resources? Money? Because you have charisma? It is because you are able to touch the heart and soul of man.

As a student of history, I see some older parents in this hall. During the 1960s all of you were moved to activism. Why? Because some Harvard professor in his ivory tower came up and gave you a lecture on why we should move to activation, communicating to your brain? Or was it that at that time you saw all the injustices that was being perpetrated by the whites on the blacks? What moved you to action was no great speech or argument - it was no judge or the supreme court that said this verdict, but what prompted you was your original mind and want to make a better world. Now granted when I look at those activists in 1960s were misguided. But what moved them to action was not this [mind], but this [heart].

What is the intrinsic quality for leadership? It is the ability to move one's heart that allows people to action that allows people to commit to something greater and grander than themselves. So is it the basic quality of living for the greater good, something that can move one's heart? If you follow that logic, you will come to the conclusion that living for the greater good is the first impulse to knowing the meaning of leadership. That is where leadership begins. Especially being CARP members, do you think we should be leaders or followers? I don't know. But I said in the last CARP Convention last year that I want to be a leader of leaders. So are you leaders, if I have set the paradigm as the leader of CARP to be a leader of leaders? Do you think you should become leaders or followers? If you want to become leaders what do you have to embody? I think somebody over here said it just right. Core Values! Because that is the framework of building a leader. If you want to be a leader you should embody Core Values.

Looks like I took a shower. It's really not in here. But shall I go on or shall I stop? Go on? You want to see who can outlast who? Especially these STF kids! I can't believe you. I think especially in the Unification Church, parents are surprised to see that all of a sudden kids come home in black T-shirts (STF shirt) and become transformed. I remember saying that I am going to change STF. If you want to be a leader you have to set the bar high. As the bar is set high then you raise all those who follow you up to that high bar, then eventually once you reach that bar, "Ok, who amongst us is going to raise the bar even higher?" Then raise the bar even higher. That is leadership.

Let's look at our current state of 2nd Generation. How are they like? Mostly kids fall into this average. We will make this average the standard. Well, that's the way our 2nd Generation education program was set up in the past. So if that's the new standard, what happens to the kids that are really excelling? They fall and that new average becomes the stop standard and then the average goes down, so it is the formula for disaster. So I said we are going to change this. I don't believe that young people want to settle for the second best. I don't believe that young people want to settle for mediocrity. I don't believe that young people are only consigned to the role of following. So, what we are going to do is raise the standard and we are going to raise the standard high.

Once we set that standard expectation for everybody, make the kids realize that we'll raise the bar again and again, then what happens? You raise the standard up here. There is going to be a few leaders who will reach that standard. By raising them up, all the middle guys will come up. And among them some will want to raise the bar even higher. In other words, you keep on going higher and higher and higher. So I said, instead of having our STF kids have their own STF program watered down, friends having fun together, let's create a more disciplined program. Let's have a training program as hard as initially the training program that the first generation has to go through. And then once they start exceeding and excelling that standard, what do you think my next directive will be? Let's raise the bar higher. Only then is there promise in the future. Are there going to be leaders coming out of the 2nd Generation that is worthy of being followed? That's where leadership begins.

I don't know how many times I have to tell people the most precious things you have to learn to define who you become are not things you learn in school. But those most precious learning experiences are those that you work for through experience, good experience, where you are making an effort practicing the very Core Values that I outlined, the very basis of leadership. Living for the sake of others, living for greater good, taking ownership, working teamwork, giving value to others, but owning it, experiencing it and making it your own, and the fourth component is dreaming big, thinking that anything is possible if I take ownership and build teamwork, anything is possible! How can you teach somebody these in the classroom? The only way you can teach these is by gaining your stripes by walking and living that course.

The philosophical background for this change in ways of thinking - CARP epistemology - recognizing that there are two components in the way in which we learn - the experiential and cognitive learning. Experiential is most profound. Isn't that why when we look at families those who come from good stable family are usually more stable. Yes or no? The strange thing has always been that - I sent many people to the top 5 MBA programs in America. Most of my top management team at UVG has gone to the top 5 MBA schools in America. None of what they learn has been something that I'm teaching here today. Yet when you ask them to the letter what is the most profound, they would say what is taught here because this is the fundamental of leadership. This is where everything begins. You don't learn it in the classroom. This is the power behind experiential component of learning. We put great, great importance on the experiential component. That's why I created STF so that you can experience it and make it your own. Of course it doesn't mean that we don't have classroom lectures but they framework the experiences that you have.

So, let me ask you the question here. How many records are you going to break this year? I bet if I was one of you kids. I will not stop until I break the past records and I will lead other to break that record. A constant push! Everybody starts to grow and take ownership. It just becomes a continuous cycle of value creation. Yes or no? Do you think anybody then can stop that momentum? No! Think about it. Leadership is the key. It has nothing to do with resources, how much money you have. It has everything to do with leadership.

I remember the kind of qualities I look for people who should become leaders. You have to have drive and passion, conviction, energy that is unquenchable. And then what I look for is "creativity." Because leadership is a creative process. It is easy to think linearly. There is no whiteboard here, so I cannot show you my graphs. But what I mean by think linearly is this. Most of the times when you are a leader you face issues and problems where you have to pioneer the course, it is very easy to resort back to the way you used to do things. It takes more effort for creative problem solving. If it takes that much effort, don't you think that what drives that is your passion and drive, your exuberant energy? Invest to find out a way. Now, where are those character traits formed? It is developed at your age. It doesn't mean you will have it all of a sudden. But it develops over time to become a part of who you are. Whenever you engage in something that is the way you operate. That is why the experiential component of what you learn becomes more important in what you do. Parents, you think what I'm saying is right or wrong? Just wait and see how these kids turn out.

Now think about it. Think about it. What happens if we start the STF program earlier than college? What happens if we start teaching Core Values even before they enter high school so that the learning process is a continuation. So that when they graduate high school and come into the program they are already well prepared to take on the STF challenge. I always believed that it takes at least a minimum of 7 years to raise somebody. Not one year. Not two years. Not three years. Not four years. Not five years. Not six years. It takes a minimum of seven years. Now those of you who say, "Oh, that's just HJN's opinion." Fine, think like that. But I am in good company. Especially those of who accomplished a lot, you know Jack Welch, he happens to be the most famous CEO in the corporate world. He said that a tenure of a CEO or chairman should be 20 years, that the first four years you are still trying to figure things out and that it takes not seven years, but ten years to make a leader. The reason why I mention Jack Welch is he is known as the CEO of GE, considered the training camp of business leaders. Japanese business leaders thought like that, Korean businessmen thought like that, American business leaders thought like that. Shall I give more examples or do you believe, yes or no? I can go on and on.

Education is not something that happens overnight, but a continual investment process. Especially if what you are trying to teach is as valuable as Core Values. This is learned and won through experience and through time. So let me ask you parents. Those parents who think, 'Uh, let me calculate this. Two years of STF program, one year of missionary work and four years of active work in college. What kind of job will my son or daughter have?' Even if that might be a perspective, it is quite short sighted. You ask anybody anywhere in the outside world, "Do you want conscientious young people who live for the greater good, understand ownership, teamwork, have big dreams vs. somebody who has a degree from this university or that university?" What do you think they will say? I remember when I was at Harvard Business School, Warren Buffet came to HBS and one of the kids asked him, "What type of person are you looking for to inherit your foundation once you pass away?" And he said, "I don't know what I'm looking for but I know what I'm NOT looking for." What I'm not looking for is a very smart, very well educated kid that has no character and only thinks about himself.

What you will find out especially when you get older, the world is going to start changing. CARP will change the world. Look at what's already happening all around the world. Even with all these scandals in corporate America. Issue after issue after issue. You think the world is not going to be looking for leadership? The kind of leadership that is being cultivated here at World CARP? Yes or no? Absolutely yes! The world will be looking for leadership. New breed of leaders!

Now that I've mentioned that and alleviated the fears of some of these parents, let me move on and talk about God's providence because that's why we are here. Strange thing has been that all the decisions I've made thus far the focal point has not necessarily been myself, irregardless of what I've done and what I've accomplished somehow have been turning out okay. I wonder why that is. The reason might be if I venture to guess that maybe what we are doing here is moving in "alignment" with God's providence. It is moving in alignment with the course of history. In other words, all of a sudden things start happening, opportunities start coming up even before we planned about it. So there's no doubt in the fact that there is some force behind clearing and opening the path. Because things always start to happen where even through we weren't expecting it, turned out to be even better. I had no idea. That is why I have been moving with such conviction because I know that the tide of history is behind us and that we're moving in alignment with God's providence.

I never believed that it was in resources or money. When we started out in CARP, CARP was bankrupt. Members were leaving. How about you 2nd Generation? Maybe you were 15, did you ever think about going on public mission? It probably never even crossed your mind and 2nd Generation were being lost in droves. That was the reality three years ago. You think that that reality affected my beliefs and convictions? Or that reality determined the goals that I set for World CARP and the expectations and standards that I set for those who will be part of CARP? Don't ever use the "R" world because reality can be changed by what we do today. In other words, to simply put by force of will, we change our future, we change our reality in which we live.

Think about it. It is usually harder to change those who carry baggage, is it not? Did you carry baggage in the past? How much easier do you think then is it to change those without baggage? Do you not think that other kids your age will be able to be transformed even faster? In other words, we are changing our reality, the future to fit the expectation of God. Amen no-men? So, are we the vanguard on the frontline making things happen? Are we going to sit on our butts and wait for things to happen or are we going to go out and make things happen? I am not the kind of person who will sit on my butt and wait for things to happen. I will be the one man that takes you and turns you around and kicks you on the butt and says, "Follow me!" But eventually don't you think it should get to the point where you should be the one that says, "Come on, follow me!"

Now think about it. If all members and leaders of CARP have the attitude of following me, do you not feel that the world will tremble in our wake? Yes or no? Absolutely yes! Don't you think that spirit of leadership will be infectious? They'll still follow us. Leadership moves not the mind, but the heart. If they feel it, they will come. If they feel it, they will be prompted to action, eventually they will believe. Amen no-men? I don't know. Egghead people need a swift kick in the butt, who just think too much.

How can you be a leader? Let's say we have American soldier fighting in Iraq. Let's say you are a soldier and your enemy is pinning down your squad. If you rationalize this process, 'My God, if I stay here maybe I'll be able to save my skin. If I go out, it might mean my certain death.' Machine guns are firing constantly. You keep on thinking, not acting. You and all your men die. In that situation, don't you think someone has to take leadership? Somebody that says, "Forget this. I need to charge that machine gun nest." Do you think that's a rational process? If somebody doesn't lead and inspire the men to charge, most likely several of you will die, but some of them will live. Do you think you have time to weigh all that in your head? You have to lead and what will prompt your other men to follow you is what moves their heart, their bravery to inspire and it's a split action. Isn't that where leadership begins? That's where leadership begins - the ability to move other person's heart so that they can make commitment to follow.

Many times people who just live in this realm don't understand this. That is why I like STF, because it forces you to get out of here [mind] and get in here [heart]. If we raise our kids to get out of here [mind] and get in here [heart], don't you think our kids will do great things. If I'm a betting man, I will bet on them. You may see great leadership come out of these crop of kids. Because they're learning the fundamental impulse of leadership. And they're learning it in the best classroom of all, which is the classroom of experience on the frontline. Amen no-men? So are you going to inspire other 2nd Generation kids to join STF, yes or no? When you go to the CARP chapters and do fundraising and witnessing, are you going to break every record? Are you going to show the highest standard? Then truly, truly our movement has a tremendous future. Amen!

This is the embodiment of what we talk about the owning of culture of heart. These kids are making a conscious decision to own Core Values, and own leadership and their belief and conviction. You have to understand this - the meaning of this conference is "Breakthrough 2003: Owning the Culture of Heart," because the first breakthrough has to come from the individual first. If we breakthrough in one person and that person becomes a leader, he or she can affect millions, hundreds of millions. But it starts on the individual level and the breakthrough has to happen in you. That breakthrough will happen when you own the culture of heart and you become embodiment of the culture of heart and you become the living testimony of God's providence at work, true love in action. Do you want to be a living embodiment of true love in action, yes or no? By being the living embodiment you will naturally by default become a leader.

People do not follow others because of what they have or say or what position they have, but they follow them because of what they embody. Let it be a great ideal and what they substantiate. That is why if you embody Core Values, Core Values no longer becomes a conceptual thing, but a living embodiment in you. When people see that what you believe is what you do, people will be moved. Up until now this has been the main reason why we have faced difficulty - the alignment between what we believe and what we do. That is why I told the CARP leaders that the first battle ground that we have to fight and win has to be on the cultural level. There is no room for second best here. We have to win. And the only way we can win is by every single CARP leader and member embodying the Core Values so that they can be a living testament to our beliefs.

Think about it. If that happens, how powerful that must be. To be able to see that type of CARP leader, that type of CARP member! Being a living testament, even if you can't speak the language! Just by seeing, "My God, that is a very unusual person." Eyes will open up. "I want to find your secret." You know these Core Values people when they hear it and read it they are naturally attached to it. Think of how they will feel when they see someone who lives it. Do you think they will want to go away? Let's say we have a CARP center with 6 or 7 members and all members embody these Core Values. Let's say guests come, do you think they'll want to leave or stick around? Why? Because their original mind longs for it.

Up until this point, especially when leaders were talking about how to increase witnessing, they were talking about educational content. There is no need to change educational content. But the most important thing is to address the cultural issue that allows us to align our beliefs and the way that people embody it. Amen, no-men? In other words, when words and deeds come together that is the greatest testament and witness, more so than what you say and what content you are able to generate. That is why I explained that the first battleground is cultural background. Everyone that is a parent, please raise your hand. It is the cultural battlefield that has to be won first. That is why this year's motto is "Breakthrough 2003: Owning the Culture of Heart."

I think this is a good time to conclude. Transformation has to happen first on the individual level. And that transformation comes about through owning these Core Values. The most important component of these Core Values is "living for the greater good." Why is this cultural battleground so important? Because this cultural battleground will allow us to fight directly with Satanic culture that was caused by fall of Adam and Eve. Remember the impulse behind the fall was false love. If the world really wants to find peace on the national, worldwide level, first has to address this issue. Instead of planting the seed of false love, you have to plant the seed of true love. Only then shall the world be able to reap. Only way is through living for the sake of others. Amen, no-men?

Those of you, who shall become the leaders in substantiating peace not only within yourself, but in your community, raise your hands!

47. Substantiating the Ideal Culture

Hyun Jin Moon
June 5, 2003
UTS, USA

All of you are starting to realize how important this culture is, right? Everything starts from there. No matter how hard you work, if you cannot change the culture, not much will change because that's what is stifling everything. Everything is conceptual. It's all conceptual. We didn't know how to translate that into something substantial, until now.

Push New Culture Down

The more you push the leadership structure down to the frontline, the more effective it will become. The last thing I want to stretch is a centralized bureaucrat. Keep on pushing the leadership down to the frontline. You have to learn how to get your hands dirty.

Every leader in the CARP organization, regardless of position, should be an advocate of a new culture, not only in word, but in deed. Things cannot happen only within the top leadership, but have to be pushed down to every single level of leadership, where culture will be felt.

That's why one of the things you have to start doing is really evaluating your people. To make sure that they are the ones who can really drive this culture. Look at all the center leaders. Many of these cultural initiatives, the feeling of urgency and feeling of importance, are going to be determined by your actions. But where it's really going to be felt is on the center level. That's where it's really going to be felt.

In other words, you can't do everything. We usually have somebody who's somewhat competent on top, but then you have a team that lacks ownership. The middle of the management team really lacks ownership. So the person on top ends up doing everything. This is not what you want. This is not going to push culture down. What you need to do is, you have to look at the center leader as the bedrock of middle management. They have to be the ones; of course you create the urgency, you create the initiative, you create the importance of this cultural push, but they are the ones who really make the culture be felt, and solidified. People are everything. You have to make sure that they are the ones who can push this culture down.

The Battleground Is In Substantiating The Ideal Culture

I don't want you to think that education is just workshops and organized formal meetings. That's not the only part of education. I want the type of education that is more profound, more influential in molding somebody. This is the education that you get when you are around a certain culture.

Every social group has certain morals that translate into certain behaviors and can be considered culture. These are the things that are picked up. When you read True Father's speeches, why are the speeches not making an impact? It's because the negative culture is more influential, the environment is more influential. People need substantial models to follow in leading their lives. This is where culture is felt, seen and experienced, not just cognized. That's why you have to push it down to the center level. It's absolutely important. You should be very concerned about this.

When you start bringing in new members into our movement, their first experience of all these conceptual theories of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, and how ideal relationships between subject and object form, etc. are going to be manifested in their minds and hearts in the way that they see the relationships in their centers. If you have a negative culture there, that's the way in which they are going to interpret these concepts or these ideas. That's why I'm saying this is where the battlefield is. This is where the real battleground is.

It's not in the world of ideas, but in the world of culture. That means how we manifest these ideas or these beliefs. That's where the battle is. Once we are able to build that kind of alignment between what ideas we believe in, to how we act, how we think, and how we behave, then we are going to start seeing the things that we all dreamed of, because there's going to be a consistency. You have to understand this point. It's the most important point. That's why I care so much about how leaders act or how they lead. And that's why I pick up on those things.

It's not just a matter of feeling good about relationships? "Oh, that person makes me feel good." That has nothing to do with it. That's why this is so important. This is where the first initial battleground is. The battleground is in substantiating the ideal culture. Once we do that, then heavenly fortune will be tapped, and our movement, starting from leaders all the way down to members, is going to be moving in absolute alignment. You are going to see the amount of efficiency and the amount of power that could be manifested from that.

Right now everybody is moving in separate directions. There is no coordination, but just a lot of wasted effort. This is where the battle is fought first. This is the battle that has to be fought, that has to be won. There's no use for me to do all these things because, regardless of how outlined our future is and how developed our strategy is, we will not be able to execute it. Even though the path is all set out, because you wouldn't have the cultural backbone that is the inner fabric of the organization which allows you to execute, that could not exist. Those battles have to be fought and have to be won. The worst combination is a prima donna who's ignorant, and thinks he knows something and has the strength to lead. That's the worst combination.

Build Alignment Through True Communication

Reports have to make a difference. That's why one of the things we are trying to establish here constantly, is to build constant consistency. What did I tell you yesterday? Communication is absolutely key and alignment is absolutely key. If communication isn't true, it's skewed either too positively or too negatively. In other words, it's not well balanced, and not objective, then most likely you are going to have inefficiencies made in the decision making process.

Now this is very detrimental to an organization or to a leader who believes that anything can be fixed or anything can be dealt with if given a true assessment of the situation. So actually what you are doing is you are undermining that decision making process if you give false information. You are diluting the process. You are actually hurting the process.

Both are bad -- too positive or too negative; because the guy who's too positive never identifies those problems and never fixes them, and the guy who is too pessimistic or too negative is a guy who never seizes an opportunity nor take initiative. Both are bad. The way in which you get balanced communication is through that give and take process. Eventually people will understand what type of level communication is necessary. But you have to start at one point or juncture in time at which that is what you are trying to shoot for. True communication! You have to say from this point on we want true communication. And it's constant work in process to accomplish that.

The reason why this is necessary is so that alignment could be built. If you don't have true communication, you cannot build alignment. All you'll have is a centralized process with saying, "We are going to do this and then you follow direction." That's the default process especially if you don't have true communication. You cannot build alignment. The only way you can build alignment is through structure. But what did I tell you? This is not what we want to accomplish. We want the culture to be the force that builds alignment, not the structure. But if you do not have true communication, the default process will be that structure will build that alignment, not the culture.

So, basically you'd be fooling yourself. The organization will be fooling itself and you'll be undermining that culture. So what happens? Structure becomes the thing that becomes absolute. It becomes the pillar of the organization. It becomes the unchanging force that builds stability, not the culture. So in essence what happens is you build an organization filled with nonsense.

Communication Is Key

Communication is precisely the point where it supports mass structure, process, systems, etc. If you look at the human form, you have the skeletal form and you have flesh. You get fat or skinny depending on how much you eat, right? It's kind of like that. You need to have something that is stable and something that is transient, that's constantly changing. If you don't make culture something that is stable and absolute, and make structure something that is changing with the environment, then the other default case duplicates where the structure becomes something that's absolute and the culture constantly changes. You have to understand this fundamental principle. That's why I keep on saying culture, culture, culture. What drives what? When I was referring to the point of what drives what, this is what I'm referring to.

So communication is key. You need to communicate effectively. I don't know how many times I have to give this example. If I were to chop off your arm, what happens to your body? Aren't you going to feel excruciating pain because of huge blood loss? Now if God didn't make it that way, you will not feel any pain even if you were severely injured. Let's say your nervous system doesn't work. You don't feel pain. All of a sudden somebody chops off your arms and you're gushing blood. But you don't feel pain, nothing is telling you, your nervous system is not telling you. There's something dramatically and tragically wrong here. It actually tells you the opposite? "Oh, I feel fine. I want to go to sleep now." What will happen to you? You will end up dying. The nervous system is crucial here. It doesn't lie, does it?

The efficient process of communication is to build awareness for the human body to make sure that it recognizes a problem and feels it. At the same time, the nervous system is also the source of pleasure, isn't it? When you eat something that tastes good, it's your nervous system that tells you, right? When you smell something good, it's your nervous system that tells you, right? The communication that the nervous system gives to the human form so that the human form can maintain itself is true communication.

Don't you think organizations that are trying to build a model as perfect as human form should follow this example? What is the key that then allows the interpretation of either pleasure or pain to be transferred efficiently and effectively like the nervous system? Communication! When something happens, you know it. Organizations have to have that level of ability. That's why communication is key.

Why did we create a mission statement? Why did we create a statement of purpose? Why are we doing these congregating meetings among the leaders and of different chapters? Through the process of communication, we are building the alignment, right? So, everybody knows what our culture is in this organization, not only this organization, but also outside organization we are communicating with. Everybody knows what our values are. Everybody knows what we are trying to shoot for, especially people who are part of CARP organization. Communication is key. You have to understand this clearly. And this goes to the bedrock of culture.

I don't want to build an organization where people are constantly second guessing? what is being told on. The communication and the level of trust should be such when something is said you believe and take ownership over it, because if you don't believe it you're not going to take ownership over it. I don't know how many times I have to tell you this. If you want to focus on culture being the bedrock, communication is the absolute key. And that communication is not just cherry-coated communication, but it has to be honest communication.

If you don't have that, what's the default process? The default process is that the absolute backbone becomes the structure, and you create a centralized organization, the directions are given, and people follow. But there is no ownership there, there's no creativity there and there's no teamwork there. It's basically pure command and control just through will. And believe me, nine out of ten times that type of organization will fall flat on its face. Let's say you do ten projects, nine of them will flop because you are cutting the communication links out at the ends of your nervous system of that organization. It's like taking drugs. If you are numbing the nervous system, you don't know what is going on. Think about it. That's what it's like for an organization. An organization that does not have an effective communication is like an organization on drugs. This should not happen in CARP.

Culture Drives Structure

I know that when I have meetings at UVG, everything I say gets basically done. It's a very centralized organization. Whatever I say or whatever my subordinates say, people believe and take ownership over it. Why? Because we tolerate zero nonsense. And the nonsense goes both ways It goes in cherry-coated communication process, and it goes in being so pessimistic that you're not willing to take or see the opportunity, take initiative. It goes both ways. Actually one thing that you realize if you build an organization like UVG is that you have more control. The person on top has more control. Because if I say we should go like this then most likely it will go like that. And the person who will be executing on it will be the person who has conviction and ownership over that fraction. So, most likely it will be successful.

And it goes fundamentally to the issue of what drives what. Does culture drive structure or does structure drive culture? It fundamentally goes to those points. You probably didn't learn this in the MBA, did you? Believe me, this type of knowledge and wisdom doesn't just come from going to school. They did not teach this in Harvard Business School.

That's why think about all the things I'm teaching you right now, in terms of organizations, in remodeling and rebuilding the CARP organization. I'm telling you the very simple principles but that have very profound effect throughout the organization. And actually if I were to explain this from the Principle perspective I can also make that connection as well.

Going back to what I was saying, think about the certain principles that I'm telling you in terms of running organization effectively. I'm telling you that culture should be the absolute factor and the structure should be the component that is somewhat transient, not transient, but has the flexibility to change and meet the environmental needs, not the other way around. However, if you do not build this kind of organization, then the default organization is you have to have a strong structure. This is one thing that I explained to you.

Transformation Happens Through Experience

Now, the second thing that I explained to you was the CARP epistemology of how one learns. This is once again tied to the structure of organization in building an organization that raises leaders. I was giving you the example like all these things that I'm teaching you that you do not learn in school. Where do you think I learned? Where do you think I picked them up? Where do you think I observed them? It's experiential knowledge. I told you yesterday that it took me ten years to come up with these Core Values , although I knew it intuitively ten years ago. Yet, to be able to articulate it, to be able to put it in this type of format, to be able to explain it to you in this type of way to make all the connections between how the organization looks in terms of structural and internal components, meaning culture, it took me ten years.

How can you raise leaders within this organizational format; utilizing philosophical backbone on how one learns, which is the CARP epistemology, where experiential component becomes so important? Recognize that other components of education also exists, not just conventional form that you go to a workshop and hear material and you say, "Oh, I understand." The learning process actually happens on a daily basis. Through the experiences you are able to garner.

Also, recognize the fact that there are good experiences and bad experiences. Good experiences cultivate and nurture a certain behavior set, perspective, outlook that allows you to establish alignment that allows you to bring about the best in yourself, which is culture. These are the stuff that you pick up like osmosis, almost on a day-to-day basis. That's why many times when I make observations when I'm looking at young people, just being around somebody who has really high performance has certain values. It just rubs off on them.

Let's say a young person was placed in an environment where there are a lot of people with high performance and values. Even though that young person might have come from a very different background, he or she starts to think like that, starts to act like that, starts to have perspective like that, starts to work like that, and so on. You don't necessarily have to send them to a class to have them be able to teach something like this. They will pick up on those just by being in the proximity.

Just because you know doesn't mean you become. It's here [pointing to heart] through experience. Changing your person, changing your outlook, changing is a transformative process, and that happens through experience. That's why you want to create an environment that nurtures and cultivates positive experience. We have to recognize that all of the Unification Church should be a school and every CARP center should be a school -- a school of building this ideal culture. That is going to have more profound impact.

Of course, I'm not saying you take away conventional form of education that teaches us or puts information into our heads. You definitely need that. That has to reinforce the things that you feel. You have to reinforce it with cognitive process, so we always will have a need for workshops or educational programs. But the thing that will need the most profound effect will be the culture that resonates within every single CARP center and every single home, every single church, etc. Then you'll start to see the effect in the Second Generation, basically, when they go to the workshops and they see or hear the Divine Principle, they will not have a culture shock, it will be very natural for them.

Culture Clarifies Your True Identity

Let me ask you a question, Tosaka-san . What's your last name? So you're from the Tosaka clan. Do you have faith in that? Do you have faith in the fact that you are part of the Tosaka clan? Do you struggle with the faith that you're part of the Tosaka clan? It's such a stupid question, it's ridiculous. The reason why you need faith is because there's certain distance there. There's a gulf that needs to be filled, isn't there? Yet, when you are part of that direct lineage, where that's part of your identity, faith is natural, isn't it? That's part of who you are. Do you go questioning your identity as part of your clan? Am I really struggling I am part of the clan? Am I really a product of my father and my mother? It is such a ridiculous question. And only reason why humanity is asking such an idiotic, stupid question is because man fell.

That's why we needed institution, such as religion which happened to be leap of faith, in order to have connection with their identity, which should have been natural. Isn't that right? When I really think about issues about faith, you can consolidate, simplify and really go into the question of what your true identity is. Ask yourself fundamental questions. Look, if I have questions about my identity, I must be a total idiot. Because you cannot change who you are, and it is so absolute, isn't it? There's no question.

The reason why there are questions in your minds, in the minds of the members and Blessed kids, and people in general is because there is a gulf. It's like the Israelites who were trying to look for the Promised Land. They didn't realize that the Promised Land is actually in them, because they didn't understand their identity. They didn't understand them as God's clan or people. So, once you start to realize who you are, that really becomes a new point.

I was having a conversation with someone about different religions, and in his mind all the different religious leaders are the same kind of level. I don't know that's the way the people teach in especially religious people, doing comparative religions? Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, etc., they are all the ones that founded these great religions as if these institutions are so monolithic and so great that they should be preserved. However, when you look at it from God's providential viewpoint, God's goal was never to create these kinds of faiths. They were vehicles to bring man closer to God in his providential plan to restore an ideal family, where the substantial restoration of man could come through transfer of lineage to be under direct dominion of God.

And actually, if you look at this from historical providential point of view, these different religions, these different religious leaders have different merits. You have to look at it from the perspective of God's providence. If you look at it from the perspective of God's providence, leaders that were in the Judeo-Christians are far closer to what God wanted to accomplish. So, from God's perspective, from the perspective of God's providence, all the different leaders of different faith don't have the same merit. If I have to give a similar analogy, it's really a question of alignment, isn't it? It's a question of people who are more aligned than others.

Do not lose sight of who we are, what we are. It's really a question of alignment, is it not? You need to know who you are. You need to know who you are, where you are going, in order for you to substantiate alignment; especially if you are going to be playing a large role in God's providence. It's really a question of alignment.

But the fact of the matter is, "Do you know who you really are?" It's like the blind leading the blind. You have no idea where you are going. And the more you go this way you'll be lost in the wilderness. That's why this culture is so important. It starts solidifying, clarifying your identity, who you are. It starts to focus where we are going as the Able-type within the human community. It all clarifies what our values and believes are. It also solidifies how we should manifest it in our lives so that we are living examples of our beliefs. In that process we are aligning ourselves with God's original nature.

Culture Allows Us To Reflect God's Original Nature

What was I telling you yesterday? I was telling you yesterday that especially the first component of the Core Values, living for the greater good or living for the sake of others?is the nature that is most closely akin to God, because it reflects God's original nature. Even the Divine Principle explains that the reason why God created man is to have an object partner of love, right? That was the impulse. So, in character and in nature this culture allows us to be the true reflection of God's original nature. It's kind of like osmosis. That's the natural process.

That's why if God stands in the position of our original creator, our original parent, then we should, as human beings, reflect his original nature. And that original nature should be given to us or passed down to us through the culture that exists in the family and that is rooted on true love. That's why I told you yesterday, that there are no selfish people in the Kingdom of Heaven. Selfish people are the ones who are resigned to dungeon of hell. And actually, they are the ones who created that dungeon themselves in their own lives.

Isn't it kind of interesting that people who are self-centered have a really negative outlook on their lives? They trust nobody, right? I see that every selfish person I know live a miserable life. Regardless of how well off they are, they create that dungeon of hell themselves.

Build Alignment And Take Ownership

Culture is really important especially in building this new CARP. There are organizational ramifications, there are educational ramifications, and there are also ramifications in terms of understanding our identity, giving us purpose and directions. Those ramifications are building unity. Unity doesn't happen just by forcing, but it allows the process of natural subjugation.

The main point here is alignment. The thesis of the point is that this vertical alignment is the basis of point where everybody comes together. That's why I keep on saying this is the battleground. This is the battleground! This battle needs to be won before the Unification Church could be positioned to affect the larger community around it, the nations, and the world. If this is not set, actually I'm glad that we don't have a nation now. And believe me, if we had a nation now, we'd run it poorly. Yet, once we build this type of bedrock, then this will be the basis or the genesis of building that ideal nation.

If you look at all the different nations of the world and when you look at the American model, the American nation was truly a nation that God raised. It's a nation among nations that has the shortest history. And it was a nation that started with a dream which came from Judeo-Christian values. So you can say America came from Judeo-Christian culture.

Why is this so fundamentally important? We'll see. I even started this meeting by saying, "Look, if you don't have the right kind of culture, no matter how much I tell you which way to go, you are not going to be able to execute on it." Or even though we see successes, it's not going to be to the full potential. I don't know how many times I have to emphasize this.

That's why from now on, from this point forward, all of you should think of yourselves as this new cultural ambassadors and owner that pushes culture down to every single center of CARP. Especially to the heads of the Second Generation Department, we really educate not only the Blessed children, but also the Blessed families. That should be the mandate that you feel after you leave from here, as an owner, that you push with conviction and passion. Not because Hyun Jin Nim directed me to do it, but because you believe it sincerely, that it resonates in your heart and that you feel that this is necessary. That's something you want to commit to.

With that level of sincerity and determination, then you can truly say that before me you stand as a mature leader that has ownership over these values and therefore is moving in lock step alignment in the direction that I'm going. If you cannot be in that, if you are not able to have that level of ownership, then basically you are a prima donna that I need to baby sit. In other words, all the additional work that need to be done and all of that responsibility will come back to me. So I'll eventually have to do it. In essence, I'll be babysitting you.

So you have to move with that level of conviction this is really what I take ownership over and this is something that I need to own and embody, not half-heartedly, not because you must do it but because you believe in it. Because you must have ownership over, then you feel the urgency that I must do it.

Let's say you are a very smart person, a nuclear scientist. You feel that your knowledge of nuclear science can allow humanity to have new forms of power. And you want to continue your research because you really believe in it. And let's say that some terrorist organization kidnaps you, puts a gun to your head and tells you, "You must continue your research and find out more about nuclear power." In both examples you must have a feeling of you must do, right? The first was you have that feeling because you naturally felt the importance of it. The second is you have a gun to your head therefore you must do. What do you think eventually will be more productive? If I were a betting man, I would bet on the first example.

People in general do things better with greater ownership if they feel the necessity. That's the fundamental difference. If people are not robots, they need to take ownership. So you must do because you take ownership. If you cannot take ownership, then eventually I need to find somebody who can take ownership. That's how it works.

Set High Standards

I give UVG as an example because UVG is unadulterated. I do whatever I feel is necessary. In the past, the way that people were put into positions was, "Oh, we have a warm body here. Why don't we put him in that position?" Eventually that position is determined by the person. So if he or she was deficient, you just hire another person who is a little more capable who can take care of work that person has. That's not the way we operate now. For every position, we have clear expectation and the person has to reach it. If you don't reach it, then eventually someone has to come and fill that spot because the standard will never ever be dictated by any one person. The standard will be absolute.

So you have to rise too. Actually by doing that it forces people to grow because if there's no condition where you set the bar high, there's nothing for the people to shoot for, right? You take people as they are, and you put them in a situation where they are not pushed to grow. What happens? They don't grow, right? They don't develop, do they? They just work on auto pilot, doing the same thing over again. Do you think the creative juices come out? Do you think they grow? Do you think they are challenged? Once again that's a prime example of culture really determining which way we should go.

So we look at it from our cultural perspective. We realize this is not the way we are educating people on the culture of UVG, we are allowing welfare situations, therefore we are not challenging them, we are not making them grow, and we are not raising leaders. So looking at it from our cultural lens, we realize we need to change this. So I had to change a lot of positions, a lot of people this year.

Why do I tell you this? Because from a general principle point of view, recognizing the decisions I make is definitely going to effect in terms of message of our organization, what we hold to be valuable, what we hold to be important. If there are inconsistencies in what you believe and what you do, then what you believe in is nothing to that organization. So the culture does not become the absolute. That becomes almost like a constitution of that organization or a contract of that organization.

Looking at it from the Principle viewpoint, don't you think that in every position God has expectation? If he did not, then how could he qualify one person within the history of God's providence as failing or succeeding? He had clear expectations and that standard went over here. Did that standard change? No, it didn't. The person had to rise to that expectation. He made sure that he recognized the people with the potential to reach that. But eventually, that person through his own five percent responsibility had to rise. If he did not, it was his decision not to. It was his inability not to. This is your five percent responsibility. Do you understand that concept? If somebody came to you and said this is where you should be, you make a choice of whether you choose to try to rise up to that or not, right?

If you say that the average kid is like this [drawing on board] and therefore we should raise our standard, you know what will happen? Let's say, this is the standard that we operated before. You have a certain number of kids, and that's a normal distribution for. But what happens is when you lower the standard to over here, to someone that is average, then even the top kids will go down. So basically that lowered standard becomes a new top. So the average performance of everybody drops by that much. What actually happens is you become worse and worse, even the best kids become worse and worse. It's like a slippery slope. That's one thing you didn't understand. That is why you always keep for organization focusing on leadership.

Mantle Of Leadership

Everybody has innate potential, yet if you are not challenged you will not rise to find that innate potential. That's the problem. Once again, culture has to be the absolute, not the structure. One of the things that you need to feel is the mantle of leadership. People think of leadership as, "I get more perks, I get more power, etc." That's why they are terrible leaders. They couldn't know what leadership meant. The mantle of leadership is like this, you always feel that you need to rise, and set a new paradigm.

There's a certain measure of discomfort there. If you are complacent, you are not a leader. If you feel comfortable, you are not a leader. With the mantle of leadership, there's tremendous discomfort. If I have a leaders' meeting among all my business leaders, they are all nervous. It's not a comfortable environment, but it's a very challenging environment. Everything that they say will be scrutinized. So you'd better know what you say. You can't just say stupid things. It had better be well thought out. Why? Because everybody is gathering there, with precious time, for the sake of finding the best solution for any given task. So if you want to be part of value creating process, you'd better put some good thought into what you say. So it's a very uncomfortable environment. But that's what the real mantle of leadership is.

The leader has to identify what the best course of action is, isn't that right? Do you think that's a simple process? Do you think that's an easy process? One thing that I noticed especially when I first started going public mission was how quickly our Unification Church members wanted to have position. Why is that the case? The reason why they haven't learned this mantle of leadership was because of the welfare mentality. They've been subsidized forever.

In terms of developing Second Generation education, I want to actually send Second Generation kids in the working business environment for one or two years, especially those who I feel like have leadership potential, even who might even in the future work with church side. Because they'll realize that free market is pretty brutal. If you are not performing, you are not going to be in that job. Your company is going to go under. You know, I have not seen this level of accountability on the church side. There's no concept of accountability.

I told you that I'm hiring three new people at I-ZONE , right? These three girls, they are so motivated? "If I don't perform, I'm probably not going to be here. If I don't set the bar higher, I'm probably not going to be here." So the level of accountability that exists on the business side is more acutely felt than on the church side. Why am I mentioning this to you and why is it that I'm focusing on building a world-class business organization?

If you actually look at the modern history, in the last century there was the boom of the Catholic religion, the Mormon faith and etc. The reason why these organizations eventually grew was because there were really successful business leaders within those communities. Actually they helped build accountabilities in the church processes. You have Steven Covey that helped the Mormon faith, organized their education programs, organized their youth programs, organized their leadership programs, etc. Who is the most famous business organizational management guru? Peter Drucker is a catholic; actually his philosophy was, "I was in business, but I want my kids all to work for non-for-profit." He felt that all business leaders should eventually go into running non-for profit because they know how to bring in discipline into non-for-profit organizations.

When I say non-for-profit organization, I'm talking about the church. That is how you build discipline; in other words, bring in accountability. This happened over last 50-70 years. So, does it mean that everything I'm doing is business-oriented? Working with business language like that is because I like business? It's because the business tool sets allow you to substantiate conceptual formats into substantive, executable plans.

The organizational dynamic is fundamentally the same. The most important component you need to build is discipline. And that's what it brings. Because the environment is harsher, it's more unforgiving. I don't know how many times I keep on saying the way that things are going will not last. There will eventually be an end. Don't think it will last forever. And don't think that it's growing or getting better. Actually it's been growing worse and worse. I'm not worried about it, because like I said, it's not a matter of things, but it's a matter of leaders. You raise leaders; things can turn around quickly.

The reason why we have these kinds of problems is because we have no leaders. You don't understand the mantle of leadership, you don't understand discipline, you don't understand accountability, and you don't understand what essence of leadership is all about, starting with wanting to do something for the larger good. In other words, you don't have the culture. I know personally that I can build these things back up. There's no problem. Things are not the matter, but the most important thing is leadership. We don't have leadership. This will have to change from CARP.

War Against Negative Culture

Culture is the key. I don't have to explain it over and over again. This is where my first battle is going to be. The battle is the battle of culture. Once that is set, everything will start falling into place. It's not a battle of how I fix this, how I fix that. I know that given the current culture, even if I go in to fix this, it's just a matter of time when that turns bad again. So the culture is really that which will build the basis of leadership. This is where the first battle is going to be fought, especially in CARP. If you don't believe this, fine, sit on the sidelines. But, don't get in my way.

So, you understand the importance of culture, right? Beyond that, there's not much for me to say. You need to really take ownership and drive this culture to every single center, so that whoever comes in contact with CARP feels it. Actually, I want to take that back to every single member of CARP, not center, so you can go down to the individual member level. So that when I do travel once again and visit CARP centers and members, I can feel in them that they exude, exemplify and embody this culture. That should be our goal. Then, eventually, they will be the type of people that have leadership innately within them. Innate characteristics are components of leadership innately within them.

Go back to the example that I was giving especially when I was explaining to you the way that we define our Core Values as competencies. These are life-long skill sets that one develops, and these are not easy to learn. Yet, if you start embedding that within you through experience, through ownership and let it grow, and these are things that allow you to understand an essence of leadership and to be somebody who can make a difference, not in your own way but in alignment. That's the fundamental difference. Hopefully in the future I'll be able to see those types of individuals that I recognize as being mature leaders, true leaders of not only Second Generation but all of the Unification Church. Right now I don't see that. That's what I want to see.

Like I said, it's not a question of me giving you things. See, if I just gave you thing, it's not helping you. The greatest gift that I can give is to give you the gift to be able to rise to your full potential and to stand as a leader that is moving in alignment with the course of history, providential history. Because if you are that type of person then you'll be a conduit, you'll be an agent, in whom the blessings of heaven will unfold, moving our movement that much closer.

Even on individual level, you'll have the sources to create value. That means no matter where you go you'll have the ability to create value, not destroy value? "I have the confidence wherever I go I will create value. I'm not worried." And these are the internal things that you cannot learn easily. That's why it takes at least a minimum of seven years, even more to raise leaders. It's all of these things that are being built.

And I know that a lot of Second Generation kids think that just by going to good schools can make them leaders, right? You think if you go to MBA program, eventually you can run one of the UVG companies? It will never happen that way because that's not where leadership comes from. It comes from here [pointing to heart]. And once you have that, you start learning other things, like skill sets, then that makes you that much more powerful package, right? But if you don't have that, it means nothing because you do not understand the fundamentals of leadership.

It's not just a matter of knowing things. Have I made myself clear? That's why culture is important. I made observations that if I talk too much, then it all ends up in your head and you end up being paralyzed. So sometimes too much is not so good. I want you to realize the importance of culture and the importance of ownership. This is not something that happens easily. It's a continual process where you are constantly aligning yourself to this cultural paradigm, and that becomes a compass where it always keeps you in check. It's a constant, vigilant process where you check yourself and push it in terms of ownership to all those under you. I want you to understand that.

CARP has declared war on negative culture. So CARP has to take on the responsibility of really substantiating God's Kingdom on earth, and really start building the proper culture. So all the dreams and expectations that had not been met, CARP should fulfill. And you are going to fulfill it by first having war against negative culture. So things will start happening here.

46. Hyun Jin Nim - A Short Biography

2003

Hyun Jin Moon was born on May 25, 1969, the third son and sixth child of the True Parents.

His name means 'Manifestation of Light'. We know that light is a symbol of the truth, understanding. This name fits Hyun Jin Nim's character - he has a very powerful spiritual perception and intellect.

The heartistic situation of the True Family

True Parents came to the USA in 1971 and Hyun Jin Nim came two years later, when he was 4. As blessed children, if your parents were very dedicated for the public mission, you may have some feeling for how Hyun Jin Nim's life was. True Children often felt very lonely. They even sometimes felt they have no parents at all. For example, when Kook Jin Nim was 10 years old, he asked True Father: "Are you really my father?"

True Parents are parents for all mankind. Therefore, their heart is always being pulled into the world. They are always thinking of the millions of mankind who are waiting to be touched by the love of God.

Only if we ourselves are truly dedicated to the public mission can we really begin to grasp the incredibly painful heart of True Parents, whose heart for their own children is more devoted than any parents, but who cannot express their love before first saving their 'other' children - mankind. That heart full of tragedy and pain is beyond our understanding. If you have children and dedicate yourself to the public mission, you can begin to understand that heart a little bit.

True Parents are the wisest and most loving people in history. Don't you think they would have been the most incredibly devoted, loving and successful parents if they had had the chance? When we think of True Parents situation, we can only feel humbled.

Hyun Jin Nim's mentality

As mentioned, Hyun Jin Nim came to live in the USA when he was 4 years old. When Hyun Jin Nim is meeting with Korean leaders, you can realize that his Korean language is not very fluent. When Hyun Jin Nim came to Germany, he was asked what was his mother tongue. Hyun Jin Nim replied that until the age of 4, he learnt Korean, but after he arrived in the USA, the True Children's tutor did not allow them to speak Korean.

Therefore, Hyun Jin Nim lost his fluency in Korean, and English became his best language.

Because Hyun Jin Nim was raised mainly in the USA, he has adopted the values of western culture, such as the emphasis on respect for human rights, personal accomplishment, and organizational and communication skills. Nevertheless, his root is Korean and so he is able to blend very well both eastern and western value systems. For example, while very much respecting individual rights and relationships among equals (brothers and sisters), he never loses sight of the more fundamental principle of parent-child and the importance of the unity among generations.

Studies and business activities

In his teenage years, Hyun Jin Nim showed a lot of ability in both school work and sport. He wanted to do further studies at university.

True Father recommended him to study theology, philosophy or history. He chose history and graduated from Columbia University in 1995 with honors. Having gained a deep understanding of human affairs, he wanted to master economics, so he decided to do business studies. He graduated from Harvard Business School MBA, which is the leading business school in the USA, with a first-class degree, completing a two year course in a year and a half. Hyun Jin Nim graduated from UTS in 2002, according to True Parents expectation that all leaders in the Unification Movement should graduate from UTS. He also graduated for UTS with a first-class degree.

Hyun Jin Nim is very talented in business. He took over several church businesses, which he re-named 'UVG' in the 1992, when he was still a student at Columbia. Since then, their market value has been increasing at a rapid rate.

Sports

Hyun Jin Nim excels in sport as well as studies. He was even in the South Korean equestrian team in both the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, as well as the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. He is a very skilled hunter and strong hiker. He once said that his favorite place, where he feels most at home, is Alaska.

Character

Hyun Jin Nim's character in personal relationships is very warm and sympathetic. In public situations when he is speaking on the heavenly principle, Hyun Jin Nim sometimes has to speak strongly and strictly. He is a passionate family man and loves to go hiking in nature with his family.

Hyun Jin Moon was inaugurated as Vice-President of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) in 1998, and President of World CARP in March 2000.

45. Leaders Meeting on July 16

Sun Myung Moon
July 16, 2002
East Garden
Irvington, New York
Translation by Rev. Jeong Phyo Hong and Mrs. Hee Hun Standard

We opened with True Parents by watching a web cast of Hyun Jin Nim's speech and concert in Mongolia.

Hyun An Nim:

Are you the leaders of the American movement? What is the meaning of leadership? [Living for the sake of others. Ownership.] It means to build teams and bring the best out of other people.

We need to create the right culture, beginning with our leaders. The problem is with our leaders. I tell you again and again, but it falls on deaf ears. We need alignment between God, True Parents, True Family and leaders. Then great victory can come.

You have to have high expectations. Look at the founder of Starbucks. He created a paradigm by which he could sell coffee for $4, which sold for $1. His father-in-law told him he was crazy. But he's very successful. All the old hands never believed it could happen. He had a new paradigm. Sometimes, old experiences can blind us to new opportunities.

We are in the era of the 4" Adam, the settlement age. There are so many ages we've entered, including the era of Chun 11 Guk, and the Completed Testament. We are in the process of finding a nation. This is a new paradigm. So we need to throw away the baggage of the past. Starbuck's chairman's past experience had no relevance in his new paradigm.

So I'm advocating the CARP culture. Our leadership likes structure, but should structure drive culture, or culture determine structure? Our leaders care about structure, and don't care about culture. That's why you are so fixed on having clear responsibilities. You have to wear many hats and do many different things. That structure defined our culture. But in fact, culture should determine structure.

Three Core Values

During our quarterly meetings, I've given examples of how in the real world, the business world, institutions study this, and find that the ones that focus on culture over structure grow the best. Culture is like the internal nature, or mind, and the social structure is the body. The culture determines how the organization works, its values and aspirations.

So we have created a culture for World CARP, based on the core teachings of our movement. What is the legacy of True Parents? Is he the founder of many organizations? No; their legacy is that they substantiate the ultimate ideal of God, the True Family. They have planted the true love, life and lineage, which is a substantial foundation for all humanity. What is it that drives that family? True love, living for the sake of others, is the driving force. That's the motivation, the first value.

Second, in order to inherit, you have to have ownership. You all are renters, not owners. I asked one leader if he would invest in his organization, at the cost of mortgaging his house and investing all he has. If you can do that, you are an owner. He couldn't answer, but he is using the assets of our movement, from Japan. If someone else is going to do it for you, how can you be an owner? The fundamental meaning of ownership is: will I invest my assets into it? Are you willing to invest?

Third is teamwork. I don't see a lot of teamwork. The three major leaders in DC didn't know what the others were doing. There's a great foundation, but no coordination. Think of the amount of duplication and wasted effort. And each of these guys was thinking they were doing a good job.

Teamwork is not a social relationship, but it is sharing assets, erasing the boundaries between organizations, such as the Washington Times Foundation and FFWPU. Maybe there's some level of coordination, but there is no synergy that is enough to enlarge the pie.

We will not compromise on our core values, but the structure can change. You are not the judge of this, nor are your peers; rather, I'm the judge. In my judgment, the right paradigm of culture to structure does not exist.

Are you in the movement so that you can get to a higher place in spirit world? What really gets you out of Satan's accusation? It's your shimjung, heart, and your motivation to live for others. This is where liberation begins. But I've seen this not to be the case, over and over again. How many of you have your own personal agenda? You be the judge; I won't judge that, but I know most of you.

The culture should have emanated from the True Family. Then what is the structure? Why do these World CARP events have so much effect? I resent you trying to patronize me. I demand that you speak frankly. What is the paradigm shift that we have established in events at World CARP? Are the results real or fictitious?

The New Paradigm: (for an event)

Mobilization - HUMAN RESOURCES - This means numbers, but we don't give a flap about numbers; bringing warm bodies is not the goal. The new paradigm focuses on owners. That means people who believe in the vision and ideals of the event. In this case, it is service for peace, a movement that was created to change satanic culture, to create a divine culture of living for others. Our focus is owners.

VIPs. Leaders always focus on VIPs who attended. I met our "VIPs" and determined that many are not VIPs, but VUPs, which means that they don't believe in what we are doing. They are like dead weights here to get something from us. They are leeches that suck our marrow. So we don't care their name value; if they aren't owners, they are VUPs. A VIP is an owner of the vision, except that he has more authority and influence in society. This is the arena of PARTNERSHIPS. These are our partners.

IMAGE. One of the objectives of the event in Korea was to build the image of SfP. I questioned a leader there on it. He said that we focus on our creating our image, but I don't react well to this. What is the the substance behind the image? Image means perception, whether good or bad. That's old paradigm; new paradigm is that image follows substance. Image naturally follows if you create something of value. Otherwise, you are creating smoke and mirrors. It is not enduring, and those whom you attract will end up being resentful. This is marketing. OWP is growing at 30% - 40% because I changed their paradigm, from the "wow factor" (impulse buying). I reject it, because it soon turns off the customer, and you have to build long-term relationships with the customer. We changed the model, because the focus is the long-term relationships, with products of substance.

BUDGET. I asked for the value-creation model with the Washington Times Foundation, and a leader said his model is, "save money, spend as little as possible." I told him to look at it from a budget point of view versus an investment point of view. Budget means allocation, how you slice your pie. That's just bureaucracy. Investment is the question of return on the assets. It begins with the perception of management, of how you utilize the resources. So CARP's focus is not allocation, but investment in order to grow the organization.

EVENT. Each event was looked at as an end. But if you look at a graph, and look at an event as an end, you see that you use resources and time, but if you see it as an end, there is no follow-up plan, and the foundation you built starts to decline. Then one event follows another without growth. But each event uses up resources, so your resources are declining and you have fewer resources to invest each time. So the trend is downward. The way we should look at it is as a process. When you make the initial investment, you are planning to build off the first event to grow to the next one, gaining a return on your assets. Then over time, your foundation will increase. Your money, people, image and VIPs are all increasing through your events.

GOALS. Leaders care about the immediate results instead of long-term, regarding how all these factors are affected by each event and lead us to the overall goal.

PROVIDENTIAL CONDITIONS. We used to look at them as obligations, but we should be looking at them strategically.

Old Versus New

So, to build a model, start with culture. Goal: attract owners, true VIPs, build substance, it is an investment, long-term, a process, not an end in itself, and strategic. Look at these key words. The old versus the new: old, numbers, VUP, perception, allocation, end, immediate, obligation. This will fail over time. The true model, centered on parents teaching and culture, is owner, not renter (the owner takes care of the property; a renter calls the owner and has no personal investment, and has to be told what to do; this is the difference of ownership). So we are focusing on the new paradigms.

So we are doing this with SfP, and why is it so successful? We are in the business of teaching fallen humanity about God's tradition and culture to bring about transformation, not through force but through love. So, how does one learn? Not in the old way, by giving information, conceptually. Look at our workshop models. Our church members have big heads, but we need to move the heart. The heart is not moved by information, knowledge. Knowledge is neutral; it does not know right from wrong. It is passive. What leads people to righteousness? Not just information, but heart.

So when True Father says the family is the school of love, what are you learning there? True love. If you look at my 21-day workshop model-Rev. Hwang didn't want to print my speeches because he thought they were different from Father-the four realms of heart align you with God, through the foundation of heart, true love. How do we learn about love? Do we learn it in a classroom? Or do we learn it through give and take action, through experience?

So the natural mechanics of learning that determine the kind of person you are would have been designed naturally in the true family, had there been one. [Hyun Jin Nim explains that the core education takes place in the family, and how.]

Making New Members

Here is the CARP epistemology: the subjective motive of education is the experience of heart through love, living for others in practice. The secondary component is cognitive. They are subject-object. This epistemology is used for SfP. It is not a service organization. Why do leaders think it is a service organization? It's an educational organization. The effect is powerful, because it teaches the whole being. If you see those who are involved in SfP, without a Divine Principle lecture even, they almost become members in the process. And when they hear do hear Divine Principle, they get it,

What we are about is to build the ideal culture, centered on the model of the true family, and they come into that and then they can learn. They get it without us telling them. They draw the conclusions by participating. They come to own it. It becomes theirs. So what happens? They think that it is their activity. They want to commit to it. We don't need to use coercion of force, for them to be in alignment with the course of providential history.

I know the baggage you are carrying; you don't need to believe me, just wait and see. The ones who open the door for us are not our members, speaking of the report you'll hear on Mongolia. I ask leaders first, what do you believe? I challenge them because if their belief is not aligned with mine, we can't work together. Then I explain what I believe. Things start with belief. Mine is: based on Parents' teaching, core values, we are to build one family of humankind. So the blessing is not for your sake, but so you can be Abel to the world, for the salvation of the world. So our responsibility is to connect to the world, to build one ideal family under God. I tell this to outside people, and they are more receptive to it than you are.

The guy who has been selling coffee for $1 will not believe the guy who says we can sell it for $4. The Starbucks guy did not work with the old paradigm. So when I talk to SfP to outside people, they see the future, but the Unification Church leadership sees the past. The younger the member, the more receptive they are. The leadership are turned off to the new paradigm. It falls out of your experience, so you reject it.

I'm giving you opportunities, but it has been a personal test for me, because you are rejecting it. This is where my beliefs and convictions come in. I started with True Father's core values, what we are really about. This is the success cycle. Belief and conviction create expectation, which energizes performance. Enhanced performance build confidence, and that strengthens belief. It is documented that people in successful organizations are not arrogant, but are confident. The cycle turns into an upward spiral.

Belief and Conviction

Belief and conviction drive performance. You have a new circumstance and environment, so you have to throw your baggage away, to enter the settlement age. It is our belief that allows us to shed our baggage and look forward. This has been documented: faith allows you to go over the hump. You will be tested.

The opposite cycle: weak belief creates low expectations, and with these in your mind you naturally fail. This leads to a loss of confidence and strengthens your disbelief. Old CARP leaders had already made up their mind that it couldn't happen. What if I declared that SfP is going to change the world? What if I showed you the results? Then how many would believe it? So, how many of you are owners? Ownership is membership blind, is blessing-blind.

What motivates you? Do you need someone behind you, pushing you? Ownership gives alignment with God's providence and the overall direction given to us.

The tale of the tape: When I see our entire Unification Church movement, if we were all united, we can do anything. All the events we've done were by CARP with the reluctant help of the FFWPU. They were all done by kids in their 20s, in the movement for 2 or 3 years. Mongolia took place without money or members. It is not so; it has to do with owners, and the ability to make owners.

[Jin Man Kwak gave a report following Hyun Jin Nim's explanation.]

Owners. Impact and influence by substantial change and transformation in the community and society. He spoke about the financial side, our investment and result. We started with 2,000 members and brought 4,000 attending the event (?). We spent more money than we expected. This was 2001. Now in 2002 we had 13,000 participants. $5 ticket, but monthly salary average is $30. We sold tickets; it was not easy. How to motivate sales? Do you do it by bringing a popular entertainer? By giving a door prize? We considered, but if people come for that reason, are they owners? 400 full-time members mobilized the 13,000.

They had confidence. The members took ownership; that this will save Mongolia and Mongolia will be the leading country in Asia. We brought the VIPs to work with the SfP project in a very poor area, and they really enjoyed working with the young people. They were overjoyed, thinking this will really save Mongolia. They ended up cheering "Hyun Jin Moon! Hyun Jin Moon!" at the airport. The 13,000 were not all Unification Church members, but were SfP members, shouting "Hyun tin Moon!" The CARP staff couldn't even believe it.

Hyun Jin Nim:

The fruit is what kind of people result from the event. The congressman was such a pure young man. They respect my parents through me, That congressman said he is owner of SfP and will change Mongolia. Our goal for next year is 130,000. They made a 30 second television ad and broadcast it 8 times a day for free for a week.

The 130,000 represents a substantial part of the voting power, so by next we will be able to influence the government substantially. SfP: True love in Action. Mongolia can influence China, Russia, North Korea and so forth. It will lead to the unification of Korea.

True Father:

This is very simple, but it's good.

Hyun Jin Nim:

This is Mongolia, and we used the same paradigm in the Philippines and it brought the same result. The problems with the three providential nations is that the leaders have too much old paradigm thinking and memory.

True Father:

Heaven and earth want ... and this is not just God's desire and True Parents' desire, but your desire. The basic important thing is the settlement of the family, God should visit all families and see no difference of culture worldwide. Now it is fallen and all are different and there is no balance.

Centered on American Christianity, we can mobilize a couple of million in Mongolia. There are 193 embassies in America, and if the UN supports, maybe Korea and Japan can give formula education to everyone through an educational system. The victory of Mongolia, bring it here to America and not just America, but to the spirit world, the four saints and communist leaders, who testified that they want to unite with the earthly world. Then good, unbelievable things will happen not just in Mongolia, but also worldwide.

We need to change the society, so in spirit world they proclaimed a resolution that they appreciate and want to unite with True Parents and True Parents' ideas and traditions. Those top religious leaders will support and get resolution to support what the True Parents are doing on the earth.

The King of SfP

The last settlement is the ideal family, your blessed central family. How important it is. Who is the king of SfP? God is the king in Heaven, and on earth it is the True Parents. Centered on true love, sacrifice and serve, share and sacrifice for others. That is one, unique idea, connected with God. All people should raise this flag, at their capital and congress. They should stand up and support it. We are going to set up the place of the king of the SfP. Going step by step from the small nation, and bringing all into balance.

You bring back the original attitude, what you believed two decades ago. It's not going well. That's why I brought you today. You are abusing such a precious time. If you do not do the right action, you are a liar. Even the spirit world gives the idea: Rev. Moon, you are the Messiah. I know it without them telling me, but they are testifying to the foundation I have made.

The whole world is the reciprocal environment for the Messiah. You should develop your thinking as a Unification Church family. If you do not, you are a devil, against the will of God. The Coronation of God's Kingship took place 18 months and three days ago. This was a turning point. The significance of the Chun Il Guk is that we have to save the country of Korea. Whatever we have to sacrifice, we have to do it, but we do not have this determination. Father is looking at you and doubting you can do it.

You are being critical. Check yourselves. What is the meaning of the blessed central family? God is looking for the blessed central family. Do you really mean the Family Pledge when you recite it? How can you sleep without sharing this with your neighborhood? You don't even spread these ideas. You have no strong confidence. You should explain and declare. The people will receive the benefit of heaven, but if you don't share it, they cannot benefit. If you don't act, nothing will happen.

Spread It in Your Neighborhood

It is simple: True Parents are Messiah, and how to gain recognition of it, on eight stages. We understand the teachings of Rev. Moon, and yes, you are Messiah, spread that out. In spirit world it is spread, but we have to in the physical world. As a blessed central family, you are the center of the universe. You don't need to follow the salary. Repent, you are rebellious. Even America should do better than Mongolia, and Russia should, and North Korea. The UN and America influence all others.

Recall the Lasting Love conference. I gave this idea to Dr. Yang. Did I do that so that I could become the king of America? No; I did it to help save the world and to equalize the value of all parts of the world. True Parents have given so much to save humankind. We are over 80; do you young people take a rest? You will perish if you do. I will go to Korea, and I want to give to America what I accomplished here, the media and educational foundations. Should I give it to you? Who is prepared to receive it and inherit it? Are you going to? Do you have the quality to do so, eternally, to support God and True Parents? Is there a person of such quality here?

It is upside down in America. True Parents invested for the last 30 years, even with the media trying to destroy me. But you are standing, If I were white, would I have had to endure this? You white people should support, or if not, repent. You should recognize yourself how important it is. From 36 couples to 360,000 and beyond, for who is the blessing? For you: this foundation is for you, and to liberate God. But how much are you interested and how much do you connect to it?

Before I leave America, should I curse America? So I need to see you make a new pledge and determination, so I can leave this country. Your children have to stand up and connect with Hyun Jin Nim. The 15` generation is not good enough, even if you are the leader of some organization. So I lifted up Hyun Jin Nim to lead the second-generation. The family is connected with the tribe and nation. You have to educate your tribe. On the foundation of Christianity, the Messiah comes to give the final idea.

What is the goal? You are an unfallen Adam position, a blessed central family. You can prepare the whole globe as mine, and with this kind of ownership, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. True Parents prepared this foundation their whole life. Heavenly Father supported me, so even though the society is against me, I am supported by the seminar in spirit world, who made oneness, with absolute faith, love and obedience to the Principle. When God created the universe, that was His standard, and True Parents are one with it.

Does your family have absolute faith? Did you prepare for True Parents in your house? Will you give up your family life for this? If you don't think about that, you are a false family. How much do you attend the parents of Heaven and Earth? Do you attend them more than you do your spouse and children? Do you think about it at every meal? You don't, so I spew you out. We need to bring unity of spirit world and physical world centered on this idea, and unite the world that way.

Prepare the Resolution

If America fails, we can replace it. I spent all my resources and power again and again, and what is the result? I thought you'd stand up higher than me, and not persecute me. Korea's unification will take longer without American and Japanese support. Because of American missionary opposition, I lost all kinds of foundation in

Korea. Don't think that I will help you. As surely as the sun sets after it rises, America will go down someday. How will you embrace the Muslims? With weapons? No, with the way of unification of the four saints, who are following the True Parents. So the Americans should go to the 193 embassies and share these ideas, and to the White House and Congress.

Mobilize all American leaders and members to go to the embassies. Prepare the content and resolution. Then the blessed central family can become an owner. The responsibility for the unification of Korea is with Japan and America, but they are my enemies. So are Germany and France, but I love and help them. But now the time has come, because the resolution is here. If you avoid it, spirit world will pick you up. When I go to spirit world, we can set all this up in a short time. The spirit world is waiting for me to come.

Who knows the heart of God? Spirit world is ready and they are totally supportive. Spread it to the world. As a pioneer, recognize it clearly and make a special determination. I can make much more powerful media than we have created thus far. America should appreciate what I've done. Do you seriously consider my direction? This is the last time, the last battle.

We can invite the billionaires from throughout the world, 500 of them from the world over, and also the MacArthur, Reagan and Bush families can support a scholarship foundation. Maybe they will support it. I expected the media to bring better results.

We are bringing all Christianity and religions into oneness. Nuclear or chemical warfare could happen and those are beyond American military power to deal with. Biological warfare can kill millions in seconds. People will cry out to God to save them. In paradise, the top religious leaders made a resolution to come to help me, so anyone who opposes these ideas will be picked up. I will not save you in spirit world, even if 36 couples intercede for you. I cannot forgive you.

Young Church Leaders

Did you truly welcome the Korean and Japanese leaders? Usually you said, "We don't need you." What does that mean? I sent them for the sake of America, to give you a hard time for the sake of America. You have to bet your life. We need a new resolution to open the door and survive. Now is the time to clean things up.

Go to your hometown, invite your tribe, educate them and maybe some of the children will become ambassadors for peace. Ambassadors for Peace are representatives of Jesus' age.

Your children don't need to go to college; high school is enough, then they can become church leaders. Japan has 360,000 churches; how many do we have in America? We will make tribal/family churches, and give them education. Then you can become a king of the family, digesting your relatives.

[Hoon Dok Hae text, about 144,000.]

This is the measure of the family. We need a competition to see who will be the core blessed central family. Each time, teach your children the core essential messages. Connect to your tribe and make the kingdom of your family. I found the secret of heaven. I don't know how serious you are about this principle. If you ignore it, you are a sinner and must repent. Repent and recognize, no matter how big a leader you are.

What you learned 10 years ago is not enough. Your intellect is not enough; your heart has to be burning. It is not a matter of graduating from Harvard; it is being willing to witness to people. If we keep our mouth closed and say nothing about True Parents, it is like a conspiracy in support of what is wrong.

Settle in the family and enter the realm of the royal family. If you white people do not fulfill your responsibility, blacks will take your position away. You are like enemies, like the Romans. England failed to fulfill Eve's role, so Japan took that position. If Christianity doesn't fulfill, then they will lose their position, and... Japan, America and Germany are the ones professing their technological foundation. They have those things. Basically, those things are happening because of God's providence. What am I trying to say? It is the reason that Russia perished. When I did that, do you know how many Americans opposed me? I would like to curse them, but it is not right and God would feel sorrow if I were do it. It is not because of you that you are living well, but because of what I did for you. You should be determined to become foreigners. When you resolve to fulfill your responsibility on behalf of True Parents, then whether a president or embassy blocks you, you will be able to overcome any obstacle.

How I Stand as the Messiah

Kajong chongchak. Family settlement. We should be able to attend God and True Parents in our family. Our entire tribe should be able to come together, restored. I have made conditions for three years for that, and unless you do the same, you will not be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a principle we have to follow. You need to bring the Heaven and Earth parents into your family, to get into the same lineage as true Adam and Eve and that is they way to be saved. That is Principle, not a lie. We have to attend the Heaven and Earth parents.

The country that does that will become the fatherland. We have to live for others, serving others. It is where the cosmic parents, the Heaven and Earth parents, live and that is the idea of a blessed central family. We are not to be living well by ourselves, but to save our tribe. We need to serve the devil's children. You might wonder why I suddenly called you. Yesterday, some people just suddenly departed, and today's gathering is to pay indemnity for that. You came here and should resolve yourself, as a blessed central family. You need to establish the family in which parents can settle down. That is the life I have been living over 80 years, and is how I could stand in the position of Messiah and True Parents.

Jesus and other saints pray in the name of the blessed central family. You should listen to their reports, from all the religions. They should be guiding you and opening the door for you. You have to recognize them as the elder brothers and sisters to you. In our family, the 36 couples have been here the longest, but they didn't fulfill their responsibility, so I have to pay indemnity for them. You all must repent; that is the point you are at right now.

Cham kajong ideal chongchak. You have to dedicate three years of your life for this purpose. Listen to this Hoon Dok Hae well. This is the speech given at the banquet for the 144,000 clergy blessing. The title is "Blessed Family and Ideal Family."

[After Hoon Dok Hae:]

We needed a nation, but now we need to be registered in a tribe, and the head of the tribe restores the original land. It should be interracial and inter-religious; then Satan cannot accuse us and there is no Satan there. It will be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. In spirit world they are waiting for me to come. There are many people grieving over their past life, so they are anxious to see me there.

But, if I am not in the physical world, can you lay the foundation for the original fatherland? Otherwise you will face serious problems here. You should not live the individualistic way you have until now. The question is: how can we build an ideal family as a blessed central family? We'll talk about this tomorrow. I'll talk about the details, and if you cannot fulfill it, it is not my responsibility anymore. After that, we have to say goodbye. I have to make sure you understand it.

Michael Jenkins, pray now. Be sure to attend Hoon Dok Hae tomorrow morning.

44. We Have the Vision!

Hyun Jin Moon
September, 2001

This is an excerpt from the keynote address given by Hyun Jin Moon on his speaking tour of Korea.

We have to build a revolution of the heart, because if we want to change people we have to begin by changing their soul. At the core of the new paradigm of true leadership I am sharing is the message of living for the sake of others. As a leader, as a central person, you need to become someone whom God, True Parents, and True Family can trust. This trust comes with enormous grace and responsibility. You need to use the blessing of heaven to positively influence those around you, not for yourself. In other words, you need to become a True Abel. Abel was blessed not for his sake but for Cain’s sake, and for the sake of saving his family.

True Father has been emphasizing how we have now entered a time when it is no longer enough to simply believe in him and follow his directions. After the coronation of God, we have the responsibility to directly represent God and True Parents. Therefore, we have to live for the sake of others as they do.

The idea of Service for Peace was built on the foundation of the Inheritance and Development Tour. We have entered the Age of Second Generation, the Settlement Age. We are building a whole new world, yet the Second Generation don’t understand their root. Inheritance means understanding the root of history, the beginning of the movement and God’s framework and time line. Development explores the possibilities of the future.

We cannot be political people who have many different constituents to please and are bound to many masters. If you work for God’s providence, you can only have one master. Did Moses and Noah of the Old Testament Age care about what others thought of them, or did they only think about God’s providence? Adam and Eve were to be true sons and daughters of God. Were they? The Messiah is the true son of God. A True Son goes the path of fulfilling his father’s will and God’s will.

When God looks upon humanity, does he like all the different cultures, languages, nations, etc.? Does he like the fact that humans separate themselves because of the color of their skin? No. God wants to bring together the whole variety of children into one harmonious union as one family. This is the Kingdom of Heaven. And where does that Kingdom of Heaven begin? With ideal families. Blessed Families are the foundation on which the Kingdom of Heaven is built upon eternal, lasting relationships.

People say belief in God is ideal, but not pragmatic. But without recognizing God as the universal parent, how can we talk about brotherhood? There are many homeless people on the street. If you don’t know the homeless people, would you stop? If it was your friend, you might stop. If it was your brother the question is no longer would you stop but when will you stop. The most are deep and enduring relationships are in the context of family.

We’ve entered an inflection point in human history. From here human history can branch out in many directions. Service for Peace can become a mass world wide movement. Who’s going to get that ball rolling? CARP is a youth movement so we have power. If we create the conviction, we have power to move this nation. If we keep living for the sake of others, they will begin to change. We have power and we have the vision. Centered on the Second Generation youth we can change history!

43. World CARP President Hyun Jin Moon Speaks to the New York Rally

This speech was given at the rally at the Manhattan Center, Saturday, July 14 2001. The event was a great success, with a packed Manhattan Center responding eagerly to Hyun Jin Nim’s message, which was tailored toward youth and especially second Generation. These are unofficial notes taken by Mike Balcomb during the speech.

Young people have enough energy to move the world and stir the cosmos. Do you have enough energy to do that, yes or no? Are you going to be victorious, yes or no?

Before I begin, as you all know this is more of an internal event. As I’m Father’s son it is hard for me to be confined by this little podium here, so I want permission from all of you to use the whole stage and even the whole auditorium as my podium. Will you give me permission to do that? And a second question, since I have been speaking constantly for 3 weeks and I am a little hoarse, please allow me to carry this cup of water.

From now on, I will not come and speak at rallies that have only 1500 or 2000 people, but I will make an exception here because I feel the energy. You loud call has just rung in my ears! In Japan and Korea I had ten or twenty thousand people, with 2000 VIPS alone. Will speaking to you be more or less exciting than that?

I sometimes think of VIPs as being really VUPs—Very Unimportant People. Why? A True VIP has only one master, and that is God. There should be a vertical line to God. But most VIPs are political or religious leaders who end up being slaves to many causes. They have to constantly kowtow to public opinion. Well, how about you today? Are you VIPs or VUPs? VIPs! Then how many masters do you follow? There can only be One.

I see many young people in the front row here. In Japan, I tried to keep my message within one hour and thirty minutes because there were many VIPS. My experience with young people is that after one hour your attention span is wavering! Yet, if you are VIPS and not VUPS, and have only one master, then you should know what that Master wants even if it takes the whole day!

The Beginning of a New Age

This year’s theme is Service for Peace. This is not a motto that just came lightly. We have entered the 7th millennium from a historical biblical perspective, the third millennium after Jesus and the 21st century. You can say that all these important numbers converging like this coincidence and happenstance, but it is not. Providence is working whether we realize it or not.

What is the meaning of the numbers 3, 7 and 21? 3 is a number of perfection, as in the 3 stages of growth. 7 represents completion, as when God rested on the 7th day, the Sabbath after creating man. And 21 is 3 times 7. These numbers reappearing indicate that we have entered an inflection point in history, the beginning of a new era when God’s providence is moving in human history.

What is Service for Peace? This is a message for a new generation, for a new era and a new history. Yet it is rooted deeply in the providential timetable of this age. On God’s Day, Father said that a foundation of faith in True Parents alone is no longer enough for Blessed families. This is a time when True Parents bequeathed to us the ability to pray in our own names. With that responsibility comes accountability. What is that we must do? To live in accordance with True Parents’ teaching, and the fundamental part of that teaching is to live for the sake of others.

Until this point, Father and Mother took responsibility for the whole movement on their shoulders. As a movement, we have enjoyed the course of providence up to this point but now a new age has come where we must take responsibility by living for the sake of others, by offering service for the sake of others.

Hence the first word of the theme, Service. What about the second word, peace? This is the time when the original ideal of God must be realized. And what was this ideal? The original ideal that God had was to create an ideal family with the 3 kingships and the 4 realms of heart. It was to be the model family from which the ideal kingdom would arise. Heaven and earth would not have been two separate worlds but one.

Had Adam not fallen away, God would have been grandparents, Adam and Eve the True parents and their children, Cain, Abel and Seth would have been the grandchildren. This would have been the building block of the substantial kingdom. What is that kingdom? Is it just a geographical boundary? No. Is it just in our hearts? No, it is in the family. In Adam’s family God wanted to build the foundation for his kingdom in three generations.

But what happened? The fall happened and sowed the seeds for the world of conflict and destruction that we see today? It is a world of struggle, conflict, war, plague and disease and self-destruction. The world of peace is the antithesis of this world we see today.

Our Legacy and Destiny

Stay with me now, for this content is very important. You have to know your legacy as blessed children. How and where you stand now is not just as an individual alone, but also as a historical person who is carrying on the providence of God.

How can you do that if you do not understand what God did through history, what True Parents did in 40 years? Without that, how can you mold your identity? Without that understanding, the blessed families will be a people without an identity, without a home. That is not what should happen to the fruit of our True Parents. The harvest should encompass the whole world. Then you must understand this content well.

Today I am going to challenge you as blessed children. I did not gather you here just to have a fun time, but to prod you, wake you and enlighten you as to what you should be. I may even kick your butt, is that OK? In America that might be grounds for a lawsuit, but if the purpose is to wake someone up to what they should do, then it is OK.

When you visit any country, you see in the young people what the country may be like in 20 years time. America has a disease, a cancer that shows most clearly in the young people. They do not have a high vision. How many do you know yourselves that are involved in drugs or promiscuity, playing Russian roulette with their own lives and those of others? How many do you know who are tied up in gang violence? All American leaders realize that there is more than just an image problem for young people of this nation.

A person who lives for their own sake alone will destroy the family, tribe, society, nation and even the world and God’s ideal. We’ve entered an age in which a greater enemy is threatening us than ever before. Do not think that just because communism fell, we have entered into an age of hope. There is greater and greater ethnic strife. Young people in the developed nations are going to the altar of secular humanism and of materialism with religious fervor. They are not unreligious people. They directed their whole life course towards that mistaken path.

Today we are going to start a new alternative, a counterproposal that surpasses any selfish individual dream, family dream or national dream. And what is that vision? It is a time to create a counter-counterculture revolution, new vision of living for the sake of others.

In the world, people are living for themselves and going destructively. But living for the sake of others is the course of true love. The mind has a quality of public interest and the body wants self-interest. We should not just understand living for others, but live that way and practice, live and practice. That kind of individual will be prosperous, not destructive.

Learning through Doing

Why should we be a person who lives in a family that is living for the sake of others? Such a person can start a new revolution offering a new way to young people of this world Do you want to be foot soldiers who embody this message in spirit and truth? Do you want to be an ambassador to the nation, world and cosmos? Yes! This is what I like to hear.

I am starting to "brainwash" you to live for the sake of others, to clean up your thinking. Let me ask you a question, do you want to be brainwashed or not? Think about it! True Parents have been called the king of brainwashers for 30 years. As the son of True Parents then, I must be the prince of brainwashers! Maybe your grandparents accused your parents of being brainwashed. Now here I am to inspire you to walk the course of public mission.

What is the secret of true "brainwashing?" I will tell you, so that you can become an expert yourselves. The secret is to live for the sake of others. If there is any spy that wants to write this up, I gave it to you. I dare you to write that in the New York Times!

Should we be on the offensive or defensive? Should we shake and rock America, yes or no? If you can build that kind of conviction, things can happen. Just because your parents are blessed couples, you still have to find your own faith and conviction. Do you want to have the opportunity to do so? The secret lies in action and experience.

Let’s think about the way we learn. If I gave you all a Divine Principle test right now, I would bet that almost all of you would pass. You have had the full dose of Divine Principle lectures, haven’t you? But are you living Divine Principle in your daily life and in your home? If not, you nay not pass the real test.

I mentioned before that there are two main schools of epistemology. One is learning through reason, through concept and abstraction. The other is learning through experience. This is the real learning. Only when you experience something can you truly learn it. Even in the scientific method, this is true. Theory can only become scientific fact when there is direct evidence to support that theory.

Experience-based knowledge is the most important component of learning, but it has not been stressed in the education of our young people. That is why I told everyone in Japan that I will directly teach them what it means to live for the sake of others. I mean changing your life course, not just doing a 2 –3 year stint. Being an owner means making a lifelong commitment, not just for a moment!

This is why our young people have to have their own faith and conviction that will allow them to have confidence enough to pass it on to others. Do you have that kind of conviction? Do you mean to do it, even if you have to sacrifice your own school, and your dreams, the life you wanted to aspire to? If young people can do this, then there is hope. Young people have a lot of energy. If it is focused and directed it can bring about a world of change.

Peace has been a dream that people have longed for from the beginning but they were never able to catch it. Will it come from an Einstein, a genius? No History is full of those kind of people but there is no peace. How about military power, or political power? Again, there has been no shortage of politicians and soldiers, but there has been no substantial peace on earth. If there were, we would be enjoying the fruit of peace.

Peace is something that has to be passed down through the generations. Where do we go to find the starting point of peace? We have to go back to God, and the original ideal of God. That is Chapter 1 of Divine Principle. The Principle of Creation outlines the original ideal of God which is where we can find true peace. This is what God has been preparing for consistently throughout human history, and especially in the time of the Second Advent.

The Foundation God Prepared

In the Old Testament Age, God prepared the foundation to build a mighty nation of religious faith. Think about that foundation being built for 2000 years! When Jesus came there was supposed to be a new world based on God, yet the people of the day failed to recognize the central importance of God’s providence.

When Jesus went on the cross it meant that another 2000 years until Father appeared onto the world stage. As you know, we have entered the settlement age, the era of the Fourth Adam. It marks a new period in providential history. It should have already started many years ago.

When True Parents lost the foundation of Christianity in 1945, they had to walk a course of re-indemnification to restore the lost hope of God. To explain all of this would take many hours, but you should understand how much God prepared Christianity and America for his Will.

World War II had adjusted the international political structure of the Europe. Among the victorious allies, this nation stood in the position of Abel. America was founded by the most Abel type Christians. This is the only nation that writes on its money, In God We Trust. The Declaration of Independence recognized the Christian foundation and the Christian inheritance.

God had already prepared a deep connection between America and Korea. American missionaries opened up Korea. Christianity came first to Korea in the 16th century, with the Catholic church, but it did not really blossom until the American missionaries came at the end of the nineteenth century. Soon, Korea became world renowned for the fervor of its Christian revivals. The missionaries at that time said that this is the most prepared nation in Asia for the message of Christianity. When True Father was born in 1920, Christianity had already made deep inroads.

Where was the apex of these revivals? It happened to be in the Northern Capital of Pyongyang, not many miles away from Fathers hometown. It is not by chance that the Moon family turned to Christianity. The noble families of Korea were the first to be missionized in Korea.

The environment of the last days started erupting. It was like the time of Jesus, with all the apocalyptic sects arising among Judaism. Among the fervent sectors of Korean Christianity, there were many apocalyptic sects. This was the age and environment in which Father was born and grew up. God was preparing everything for the coming of the Lord of Second Advent. You see how even when it looks like nothing is moving, in fact history is moving ahead in accordance with Gods vision?

After World War II, the geopolitical focus of the world shifted away from Europe to America. The world was forming into Cain and Abel camps and Korea was quickly in the center of it. While I was in Columbia I studied the inter-war years in Korea (1920 - 1950) which show that the geopolitics of the world were in fact being greatly defined by what was happening in Korea, even though it was a small obscure nation. This is more than coincidence. Then what was happening?

The foundation of Korean Christianity was connected deeply to America. If Korean Christianity had accepted Father, then that would have spread quickly to America. The 20th century would have gone in a very different direction from that time on. But Father was rejected and Christianity did not unite.

Then Satan began to invade Christian society. In the last 50 years such concepts as homosexuality and free sex became legitimized. 100 years ago, these were not acceptable. Self-centered individualism was not acceptable. But with the rejection of God’s providential Will, we saw the rise of a secular humanism that has ignored God and arrogantly credited all progress to man alone. People moved toward a goal of material satisfaction rather than spiritual happiness, more so each year than ever before.

The Lost Generation

And where did these anti-God sentiments develop? In the Christian democracies of America and Europe. During my inauguration as the President of YFWP, I spoke of the importance of creating a counter-counterrevolution. Satan poisoned the ideals of the Christian youth who should have responded to Father, based on false seeds of false love.

The young people born after World War II were 20 years old in the 1960s. They were the ones who made the counter cultural revolution. These were the baby boomers, the second generation Christians who should have been born as blessed children in the Kingdom of God! They should never have ended up the way they did! If Christians had accepted Father, he could have given them the blessing. They would have been like you are 30 to 40 years ago!

However, the foundation was lost and the second generation was not offered to God. Instead it was lost in the abyss that Satan created to destroy God’s culture, the abyss of self-centered individualism that is the opposite of true love and living for the sake of others. Instead of creating one united family under God, this lost second generation went to attack the ideal of the family through the lineage. Materialism, drugs and free sex took these children away from the spiritual path and put the body above the mind.

All the things that lead to destruction emerged from this lost second generation. This is why the age in which we stand today is so important, and why the challenges that Father faced in 1945 still have to be overcome today.

Jesus had to go to the cross in similar circumstances of betrayal and rejection. Yet Father knew that if he walked the course of the cross, God’s providence would be delayed once again, so instead he created our movement through the suffering and indemnity of prison. It is on that foundation that the Unification Church came into existence and that is the reason why during the last 40 years there have been so many trials.

If True Parents had wavered, we would not have come to this point. Yet don’t you think that at every step of the way they were severely tested? To restore and re-indemnify the 6000 years lost, they had just 40 years! That is why the course of our movement has been one of sacrifice.

If you do not know this content, you may look at the past and ask, "Why did we do things that way?" During the Inheritance and Development tour last year, I talked about this history. I told our older members to shed all their baggage, if they have any, and to rise anew based on the new age of settlement and Fourth Adam that has just begun. Yet at this time, many parents and first generation became tired. Instead of looking up to the future, they started looking down, down, down instead of realizing that this is an age in which we should be liberated, the start of a new age!

Do you want to talk about the past or the future? I want to rise and see the stars again. True Parents practiced absolute faith, love and obedience, not only to God’s Will and providence, but also to humanity itself. True Parents overcame all the impossible barriers and walls to stand victorious, and to launch a new age of settlement through the coronation of God’s kingship. This is how we come to stand at the crossroads of history. This is the history and legacy that you all belong to. Amen!

True Families and True Peace

What does it mean for you as blessed families and blessed children? During the Old Testament Era, the covenant was written through the law. During the New Testament Era, it was based on faith. Now in the Completed Testament Age, it is based on blood lineage. What does this mean?

As blessed families, what special gift did you receive? The change of blood lineage. This means that the ownership has changed. A "covenant written in blood" means a vertical line from God, True Parents and True Family. It is upon this foundation that blessed couples were engrafted, representing the extended true family. We must all work together!

Which relationships are the most absolute and unchanging? Not friendships, not work relations, but the family. Family relations. Blood relationships. The family is where God lost humanity and where He can claim humanity back again.

On his 50-state tour, Father often asked the ministers, "Which is more important, true love or true lineage?" They answered true love, but that is not enough. From God’s perspective it is the lineage. The children are more important than the spouse. True Love is the glue that holds the relationships together. That is why we talk about the 3 Kingships and the 4 great realms of heart. True love is the glue that keeps parents and children, husband and wife brothers and sisters together. This brings all the different parts together to make up the ideal family.

When we talk about World Peace we will find the solution not in politics or economics but in the true family where the 3 Kingships and the 4 great realms of heart are substantiated. This is the place that represents the continuum of past present and future. The true family is where the relationships between generations and sexes come together.

That is why the person who comes from the true family will become a true peacemaker. If you can make true peace in your family, then you have already learned how to go beyond your family to the society, nation and cosmos, not in an abstract belief but in reality.

The Service for Peace themes summarize the cosmic age we have entered, and what we as Blessed Families we need to know. We as blessed families should know this, for it is the way we connect with God, True Parents and True Family. True Love is the glue the bridge that races, generations, sexes. Going back to Father’s message, this is not the time to only believe, but to go and live for the sake of others.

What can you do for the World?

Will you take this message to your families, your community, your school, the society and the nation of America, then to the world and the cosmos? It was in the 1960s, with the new presidency of John F Kennedy that a new movement of volunteers began, the Peace Corps. It did not, however, contain the term service for peace. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!" I come to you today to say, "Ask not what the world can do for you, but what you can do for the world!"

This is the time of a new counter-counter cultural revolution, to set things straight. This is the task of the second generation of this age. Those of you who want to take the challenges, who want to be the foot soldiers, raise your hands! Are you going to be future CARP members? Do you want to lead or follow? Who will lead Service for Peace? You will! I want you to be not a CARP member just serving time, but a CARP member who has committed his or her whole life to building God’s kingdom on earth.

42. New York Rally

Hyun Jin Moon, World CARP President
Manhattan Center
Saturday, July 14 2001

The New York event was a great success, with a packed Manhattan Center responding eagerly to Hyun Jin Nim’s message, which was tailored toward youth and especially Second Generation. These are unofficial notes taken by Mike Balcomb during the speech, and are for private use only.

Young people have enough energy to move the world and stir the cosmos. Do you have enough energy to do that, yes or no? Are you going to be victorious, yes or no?

Before I begin, as you all know this is more of an internal event. As I’m Father’s son it is hard for me to be confined by this little podium here, so I want permission from all of you to use the whole stage and even the whole auditorium as my podium. Will you give me permission to do that? And a second question, since I have been speaking constantly for 3 weeks and I am a little hoarse, please allow me to carry this cup of water.

From now on, I will not come and speak at rallies that have only 1500 or 2000 people, but I will make an exception here because I feel the energy. Your loud call has just rung in my ears! In Japan and Korea I had ten or twenty thousand people, with 2000 VIPs alone. Will speaking to you be more or less exciting than that?

I sometimes think of VIPs as being really VUPs -- Very Unimportant People. Why? A True VIP has only one master, and that is God. There should be a vertical line to God. But most VIPs are political or religious leaders who end up being slaves to many causes. They have to constantly kowtow to public opinion. Well, how about you today? Are you VIPs or VUPs? VIPs! Then how many masters do you follow? There can only be One.

I see many young people in the front row here. In Japan, I tried to keep my message within one hour and thirty minutes because there were many VIPs. My experience with young people is that after one hour your attention span is wavering! Yet, if you are VIPs and not VUPs, and have only one master, then you should know what that Master wants even if it takes the whole day!

The Beginning of a New Age

This year’s theme is Service for Peace. This is not a motto that just came lightly. We have entered the 7th millennium from a historical biblical perspective, the third millennium after Jesus and the 21st century. You can say that all these important numbers converging like this coincidence and happenstance, but it is not. Providence is working whether we realize it or not.

What is the meaning of the numbers 3, 7 and 21? 3 is a number of perfection, as in the 3 stages of growth. 7 represents completion, as when God rested on the 7th day, the Sabbath after creating man. And 21 is 3 times 7. These numbers reappearing indicate that we have entered an inflection point in history, the beginning of a new era when God’s providence is moving in human history.

What is Service for Peace? This is a message for a new generation, for a new era and a new history. Yet it is rooted deeply in the providential timetable of this age. On God’s Day, Father said that a foundation of faith in True Parents alone is no longer enough for Blessed families. This is a time when True Parents bequeathed to us the ability to pray in our own names. With that responsibility comes accountability. What is that we must do? To live in accordance with True Parents’ teaching, and the fundamental part of that teaching is to live for the sake of others.

Until this point, Father and Mother took responsibility for the whole movement on their shoulders. As a movement, we have enjoyed the course of providence up to this point but now a new age has come where we must take responsibility by living for the sake of others, by offering service for the sake of others.

Hence the first word of the theme, Service. What about the second word, peace? This is the time when the original ideal of God must be realized. And what was this ideal? The original ideal that God had was to create an ideal family with the 3 kingships and the 4 realms of heart. It was to be the model family from which the ideal kingdom would arise. Heaven and earth would not have been two separate worlds but one.

Had Adam not fallen away, God would have been grandparents, Adam and Eve the True parents and their children, Cain, Abel and Seth would have been the grandchildren. This would have been the building block of the substantial kingdom. What is that kingdom? Is it just a geographical boundary? No. Is it just in our hearts? No, it is in the family. In Adam’s family God wanted to build the foundation for his kingdom in three generations.

But what happened? The fall happened and sowed the seeds for the world of conflict and destruction that we see today? It is a world of struggle, conflict, war, plague and disease and self-destruction. The world of peace is the antithesis of this world we see today.

Our Legacy and Destiny

Stay with me now, for this content is very important. You have to know your legacy as blessed children. How and where you stand now is not just as an individual alone, but also as a historical person who is carrying on the providence of God.

How can you do that if you do not understand what God did through history, what True Parents did in 40 years? Without that, how can you mold your identity? Without that understanding, the blessed families will be a people without an identity, without a home. That is not what should happen to the fruit of our True Parents. The harvest should encompass the whole world. Then you must understand this content well.

Today I am going to challenge you as blessed children. I did not gather you here just to have a fun time, but to prod you, wake you and enlighten you as to what you should be. I may even kick your butt, is that OK? In America that might be grounds for a lawsuit, but if the purpose is to wake someone up to what they should do, then it is OK.

When you visit any country, you see in the young people what the country may be like in 20 years time. America has a disease, a cancer that shows most clearly in the young people. They do not have a high vision. How many do you know yourselves that are involved in drugs or promiscuity, playing Russian roulette with their own lives and those of others? How many do you know who are tied up in gang violence? All American leaders realize that there is more than just an image problem for young people of this nation.

A person who lives for their own sake alone will destroy the family, tribe, society, nation and even the world and God’s ideal. We’ve entered an age in which a greater enemy is threatening us than ever before. Do not think that just because communism fell, we have entered into an age of hope. There is greater and greater ethnic strife. Young people in the developed nations are going to the altar of secular humanism and of materialism with religious fervor. They are not un-religious people. They directed their whole life course towards that mistaken path.

Today we are going to start a new alternative, a counterproposal that surpasses any selfish individual dream, family dream or national dream. And what is that vision? It is a time to create a counter-counterculture revolution, new vision of living for the sake of others.

In the world, people are living for themselves and going destructively. But living for the sake of others is the course of true love. The mind has a quality of public interest and the body wants self-interest. We should not just understand living for others, but live that way and practice, live and practice. That kind of individual will be prosperous, not destructive.

Learning through Doing

Why should we be a person who lives in a family that is living for the sake of others? Such a person can start a new revolution offering a new way to young people of this world Do you want to be foot soldiers who embody this message in spirit and truth? Do you want to be an ambassador to the nation, world and cosmos? Yes! This is what I like to hear.

I am starting to "brainwash" you to live for the sake of others, to clean up your thinking. Let me ask you a question, do you want to be brainwashed or not? Think about it! True Parents have been called the king of brainwashers for 30 years. As the son of True Parents then, I must be the prince of brainwashers! Maybe your grandparents accused your parents of being brainwashed. Now here I am to inspire you to walk the course of public mission.

What is the secret of true "brainwashing?" I will tell you, so that you can become an expert yourselves. The secret is to live for the sake of others. If there is any spy that wants to write this up, I gave it to you. I dare you to write that in the New York Times!

Should we be on the offensive or defensive? Should we shake and rock America, yes or no? If you can build that kind of conviction, things can happen. Just because your parents are blessed couples, you still have to find your own faith and conviction. Do you want to have the opportunity to do so? The secret lies in action and experience.

Let’s think about the way we learn. If I gave you all a Divine Principle test right now, I would bet that almost all of you would pass. You have had the full dose of Divine Principle lectures, haven’t you? But are you living Divine Principle in your daily life and in your home? If not, you nay not pass the real test.

I mentioned before that there are two main schools of epistemology. One is learning through reason, through concept and abstraction. The other is learning through experience. This is the real learning. Only when you experience something can you truly learn it. Even in the scientific method, this is true. Theory can only become scientific fact when there is direct evidence to support that theory.

Experience-based knowledge is the most important component of learning, but it has not been stressed in the education of our young people. That is why I told everyone in Japan that I will directly teach them what it means to live for the sake of others. I mean changing your life course, not just doing a 2 –3 year stint. Being an owner means making a lifelong commitment, not just for a moment!

This is why our young people have to have their own faith and conviction that will allow them to have confidence enough to pass it on to others. Do you have that kind of conviction? Do you mean to do it, even if you have to sacrifice your own school, and your dreams, the life you wanted to aspire to? If young people can do this, then there is hope. Young people have a lot of energy. If it is focused and directed it can bring about a world of change.

Peace has been a dream that people have longed for from the beginning but they were never able to catch it. Will it come from an Einstein, a genius? No History is full of those kind of people but there is no peace. How about military power, or political power? Again, there has been no shortage of politicians and soldiers, but there has been no substantial peace on earth. If there were, we would be enjoying the fruit of peace.

Peace is something that has to be passed down through the generations. Where do we go to find the starting point of peace? We have to go back to God, and the original ideal of God. That is Chapter 1 of Divine Principle. The Principle of Creation outlines the original ideal of God which is where we can find true peace. This is what God has been preparing for consistently throughout human history, and especially in the time of the Second Advent.

The Foundation God Prepared

In the Old Testament Age, God prepared the foundation to build a mighty nation of religious faith. Think about that foundation being built for 2000 years! When Jesus came there was supposed to be a new world based on God, yet the people of the day failed to recognize the central importance of God’s providence.

When Jesus went on the cross it meant that another 2000 years until Father appeared onto the world stage. As you know, we have entered the settlement age, the era of the 4th Adam. It marks a new period in providential history. It should have already started many years ago.

When True Parents lost the foundation of Christianity in 1945, they had to walk a course of re-indemnification to restore the lost hope of God. To explain all of this would take many hours, but you should understand how much God prepared Christianity and America for his will.

World War II had adjusted the international political structure of the Europe. Among the victorious allies, this nation stood in the position of Abel. America was founded by the most Abel type Christians. This is the only nation that writes on its money, In God We Trust. The Declaration of Independence recognized the Christian foundation and the Christian inheritance.

God had already prepared a deep connection between America and Korea. American missionaries opened up Korea. Christianity came first to Korea in the 16th century, with the Catholic church, but it did not really blossom until the American missionaries came at the end of the nineteenth century. Soon, Korea became world renowned for the fervor of its Christian revivals. The missionaries at that time said that this is the most prepared nation in Asia for the message of Christianity. When True Father was born in 1920, Christianity had already made deep inroads.

Where was the apex of these revivals? It happened to be in the Northern Capital of Pyongyang, not many miles away from Fathers hometown. It is not by chance that the Moon family turned to Christianity. The noble families of Korea were the first to be missionized in Korea.

The environment of the last days started erupting. It was like the time of Jesus, with all the apocalyptic sects arising among Judaism. Among the fervent sectors of Korean Christianity, there were many apocalyptic sects. This was the age and environment in which Father was born and grew up. God was preparing everything for the coming of the Lord of Second Advent. You see how even when it looks like nothing is moving, in fact history is moving ahead in accordance with Gods vision?

After World War II, the geopolitical focus of the world shifted away from Europe to America. The world was forming into Cain and Abel camps and Korea was quickly in the center of it. While I was in Columbia, I studied the inter-war years in Korea (1920 – 1950) which show that the geopolitics of the world were in fact being greatly defined by what was happening in Korea, even though it was a small obscure nation. This is more than coincidence. Then what was happening?

The foundation of Korean Christianity was connected deeply to America. If Korean Christianity had accepted Father, then that would have spread quickly to America. The 20th century would have gone in a very different direction from that time on. But Father was rejected and Christianity did not unite.

Then Satan began to invade Christian society. In the last 50 years such concepts as homosexuality and free sex became legitimized. 100 years ago, these were not acceptable. Self-centered individualism was not acceptable. But with the rejection of God’s providential will, we saw the rise of a secular humanism that has ignored God and arrogantly credited all progress to man alone. People moved toward a goal of material satisfaction rather than spiritual happiness, more so each year than ever before.

The Lost Generation

And where did these anti-God sentiments develop? In the Christian democracies of America and Europe. During my inauguration as the President of YFWP, I spoke of the importance of creating a counter-counterrevolution. Satan poisoned the ideals of the Christian youth who should have responded to Father, based on false seeds of false love.

The young people born after World War II were 20 years old in the 1960s. They were the ones who made the counter cultural revolution. These were the baby boomers, the Second Generation Christians who should have been born as blessed children in the Kingdom of God! They should never have ended up the way they did! If Christians had accepted Father, he could have given them the blessing. They would have been like you are 30 to 40 years ago!

However, the foundation was lost and the Second Generation was not offered to God. Instead it was lost in the abyss that Satan created to destroy God’s culture, the abyss of self-centered individualism that is the opposite of true love and living for the sake of others. Instead of creating one united family under God, this lost second generation went to attack the ideal of the family through the lineage. Materialism, drugs and free sex took these children away from the spiritual path and put the body above the mind.

All the things that lead to destruction emerged from this lost second generation. This is why the age in which we stand today is so important, and why the challenges that Father faced in 1945 still have to be overcome today.

Jesus had to go to the cross in similar circumstances of betrayal and rejection. Yet Father knew that if he walked the course of the cross, God’s providence would be delayed once again, so instead he created our movement through the suffering and indemnity of prison. It is on that foundation that the Unification Church came into existence and that is the reason why during the last 40 years there have been so many trials.

If True Parents had wavered, we would not have come to this point. Yet don’t you think that at every step of the way they were severely tested? To restore and re-indemnify the 6000 years lost, they had just 40 years! That is why the course of our movement has been one of sacrifice.

If you do not know this content, you may look at the past and ask, "Why did we do things that way?" During the Inheritance and Development tour last year, I talked about this history. I told our older members to shed all their baggage, if they have any, and to rise anew based on the new age of settlement and Fourth Adam that has just begun. Yet at this time, many parents and first generation became tired. Instead of looking up to the future, they started looking down, down, down instead of realizing that this is an age in which we should be liberated, the start of a new age!

Do you want to talk about the past or the future? I want to rise and see the stars again. True Parents practiced absolute faith, love and obedience, not only to God’s Will and providence, but also to humanity itself. True Parents overcame all the impossible barriers and walls to stand victorious, and to launch a new age of settlement through the coronation of God’s kingship. This is how we come to stand at the crossroads of history. This is the history and legacy that you all belong to. Amen!

True Families and True Peace

What does it mean for you as blessed families and blessed children? During the Old Testament Era, the covenant was written through the law. During the New Testament Era, it was based on faith. Now in the Completed Testament Age, it is based on blood lineage. What does this mean?

As blessed families, what special gift did you receive? The change of blood lineage. This means that the ownership has changed. A "covenant written in blood" means a vertical line from God, True Parents and True Family. It is upon this foundation that blessed couples were engrafted, representing the extended true family. We must all work together!

Which relationships are the most absolute and unchaining? Not friendships, not work relations, but the family. Family relations. Blood relationships. The family is where God lost humanity and where He can claim humanity back again.

On his 50-state tour, Father often asked the ministers, "Which is more important, true love or true lineage?" They answered true love, but that is not enough. From God’s perspective it is the lineage. The children are more important than the spouse. True Love is the glue that holds the relationships together. That is why we talk about the Three Kingships and the Four Great Realms of Heart. True love is the glue that keeps parents and children, husband and wife brothers and sisters together. This brings all the different parts together to make up the ideal family.

When we talk about World Peace we will find the solution not in politics or economics but in the true family where the Three Kingships and the Four Great Realms of Heart are substantiated. This is the place that represents the continuum of past present and future. The true family is where the relationships between generations and sexes come together.

That is why the person who comes from the true family will become a true peacemaker. If you can make true peace in your family, then you have already learned how to go beyond your family to the society, nation and cosmos, not in an abstract belief but in reality.

The Service for Peace themes summarize the cosmic age we have entered, and what we as Blessed Families we need to know. We as blessed families should know this, for it is the way we connect with God, True Parents and True Family. True Love is the glue the bridge that races, generations, sexes. Going back to Father’s message, this is not the time to only believe, but to go and live for the sake of others.

What can you do for the World?

Will you take this message to your families, your community, your school, the society and the nation of America, then to the world and the cosmos? It was in the 1960s, with the new presidency of John F. Kennedy that a new movement of volunteers began, the Peace Corps. It did not, however, contain the term service for peace. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!" I come to you today to say, "Ask not what the world can do for you, but what you can do for the world!"

This is the time of a new counter-counter cultural revolution, to set things straight. This is the task of the Second Generation of this age. Those of you who want to take the challenges, who want to be the foot soldiers, raise your hands! Are you going to be future CARP members? Do you want to lead or follow? Who will lead Service for Peace? You will! I want you to be not a CARP member just serving time, but a CARP member who has committed his or her whole life to building God’s kingdom on earth.

Amen! Amen! Amen!

41. Japan Tour Keynote Speech

Hyun Jin Moon

This is the speech given in Kobe, Japan on July 3, 2001.

A mighty whirlwind is beginning that is resonating in its swirls. Do you think it will lose its gusto or get higher and wilder every minute and hour!

Before I begin, I would like to break some conventions, but since I am your guest, I will do it only if you will permit me. As you know it is very difficult for me to stand still. I feel confined. If you permit me, I would like to use the whole stage as my podium.

I see many young people here in the front! It seems like only yesterday that I saw only old people in the front row [at last year’s rally] I wonder, am I at the right rally? I cam to light a fire here in Kobe! Do you want to make it really hot today?

You have spirit of young people. It is so contagious that I get more and more excited. The topic for today’s rally is Service for Peace: a New Paradigm for Ideal Youth and Family. In the past, we heard much talk about the need to establish peace. However, up until this point, no one ever found the root of establishing lasting peace. Peace has eluded humanity ever since beginning of human history when Eve seduced Adam. Ever since then, we see the remnants of the problems that made peace an elusive dream.

For this tour, I gave direction to CARP leaders that we have to bring young people of every background, every walk of life. We have to bring VIPs, from areas of academia, politics, religion, etc., so that we can bring all factions under one roof and build an everlasting peace.

So many times the word peace has been banged around. Many brilliant people thought of it from political, religious economic points of view but none found the solution. If they had we would be already be living in a peaceful world.

Today we are standing in the dawn of new era. It is third millennium since the birth of Christ, and the 7th Millennium of biblical history. We have entered into the 21st Century. Number three is the number of perfection; number seven is number of completion. It was on the 7th day, after God finishing his most divine creation, humankind, that he rested on the Sabbath. We have entered into a special time, when number 3 and number 7 have combined. We have entered into the 21st Century and of course 21 is 3 multiples of 7. The concurrence of all these conditions and factors is not just by chance but is a condition set by Divine Providence. We are at an inflection point where the course of humanity can change.

As you may know, True Parents held God’s Coronation Ceremony at the beginning of this year. In that ceremony, they were enthroning God as King. If God were already our king, then a word such as peace would not be a foreign term, or have remained elusive for ages. It would have been the reality. The world would have been very different. The question is, where is that kingdom in which peace truly exists, where God’s sovereignty exists?

I love these large questions because I just graduated from UTS, where we spent a lot of time dealing with these big theological issues. From the theological point of view, where is God’s kingdom? Many people will say many different things! In the world of confusion you have many opinions. Even if the truth exists, it is dimmed by the impact of many other opinions.

How did God move throughout history? In the providential history, God tested the individual and shook the bedrock of his or her faith, to make that faith and conviction so strong, that if God invested more it would not falter and it will not shake. In history, we can learn of the lives of men and women who have been tested by God. Regardless of all the persecution, tests, and challenges that were thrown upon them, their conviction and faith in God did not shake or falter.

Throughout history, whose voice came out loud and clear over time? It was those men and women those who were truly chosen. God’s providence didn’t develop by happenstance, but by the power God’s blood sweat and tears and the efforts of those who wanted to live for the sake of God, who wanted to bring about God’s providence despite all suffering.

What was the purpose of God for humanity? Was God’s purpose for us division -- ethnic, national, racial and even religious divisions? Was that the purpose for God? When God looks at humanity, with what eyes does God look at humanity? Our original mind tells us that God is our original parent! Then with what eye would God look at us? Of course, the heart of the parent!

Let me ask the young people sitting here in the front row, do you know the heart of parent? Yes or No? You say yes, but is that really true? Many times, you would rather play Nintendo more than studying, wouldn’t you? Do you really know your identity?

What about my identity? Am I Korean or American? Most Korean people are a little short, yet I am six foot tall, a little bit taller than even some Americans. When I go to Korea, I stand out. People ask, what kind of mix is that kid? Where did he come from? Koreans have round faces and shallow noses, but my nose is high. Even Koreans don’t know what I am! On the other hand, when I go to America, even though I can speak language fully, I am another yellow face. Do I look like an American?

My character is so Korean and in one sense, I don’t even have a home. But don’t feel pity or sadness for me. Because I do not define my home based on national geography. My home is where God is, my home is where True Parents are, where the True Family is.

So, you smart young people. Do you really understand the heart of parents? No, not really. Many young people don’t understand heart of parents. When parents tell you to do something, you don’t always understand it. Yet, would a parent ask you something because he or she wanted to do to harm you or to help you? Of course, they want to give good counsel.

One of the reason why Jun Sook Nim couldn’t come this time is because she is already nine months pregnant. Her stomach is getting bigger and bigger. The amount of attention that goes into the heart of a mother is so great. Another gift from God is her breast, so that she can feed baby. The very essence of mother is going to that child. As a parent, all your attention, all your hopes, all your dreams are invested in the child. There is no other relationship where so much sacrifice is made.

A couple of minutes ago, I explained that God has the heart of parents. Don’t you think God had that kind of attention to the creation of man? Doesn’t God have as much hope and aspiration for his children that human parents have for their child? Absolutely he did.

What was that dream? What was that aspiration?

You here at Kobe are lucky than the people in Fukuoka because I am going into more details here. Fukuoka is the door by which all major religions came in. Buddhism and Christianity came through there. How about Kansai region? What does this represent in history of Japan? This is very important location. Here in the middle of this region, Japan was united under one leadership. It was here that Japan’s vision to conquer the rest of Asia began. What resonates here is not only for Japan but goes throughout the whole of Asia. Kobe is sometimes called the US Airport, because all western culture comes through here. This area of Japan has tremendous importance.

Do you want me to give a special message for Kobe or the same message I gave in Fukuoka? If you want a special message, that means I have to speak differently at every rally! Yet I have no written text. I have no outline! So that must mean this message must be coming from somewhere profound and mysterious, not just from the top of my head. So listen carefully!

Heavenly Father stands in the position of parents. Like parents he invested everything, sacrificed everything. Parents through their sacrifice learn the first experience of love. What makes the parent/ child relationship so unique? Both the child and the parent must both make total investment. It is love of absolute investment.

If I truly want to talk about world peace and service, then we have to understand the root and the origin that these things come from. We have to understand the root and origin of where peace comes from! Amen!

It is through the vertical relationship that one first learns the true meaning of love. When we go back and back all the way to the beginning of human history, we realize that we ultimately end up in front of God. The vertical love that our parents had is divinely touched by God, because God is at the end and pinnacle of that vertical point.

In all major religions, there is the idea of individual salvation based on individual relationship with God. Their concept of spirituality is rooted in a person’s individual relationship with God. But was that Adam and Eve’s purpose? No, they were to inherit divine love together, not as individuals.

We have so much divorce in the world today. In America, the rate is around 50%. How can marriages and relationships stay together? If the relationship is based on physical attraction, do you think that a couple would stay together into old age? No matter how much makeup you put on and cosmetic surgery you undergo, eventually age catches up with you and the beauty fades.

Many young people don’t understand this. I was driving down here and I saw one boy who had a yellow hair. I thought oh, I can go and talk to that American tourist, so I approached that person. But as I got closer, I saw that the roots were black. When he turned around the face I saw was a yellow Japanese face! Many are also piercing themselves because it looks very cool. Young people are into physical attraction and stimulation. What happens when that physical attraction fades?

How about you young people? There has to be a root. Where is the root? The love that keeps husband and wife for all eternity can only be qualified as being true love. The fact that we have to qualify a relationship as ‘true,’ indicates that there are also false loves. True love is the love that one learns in vertical connection to God! When that love between husband and wife is united based on God, it will be everlasting.

What about brotherhood? Japanese want to make a brotherhood relationship with Americans, Koreans and others, don’t they? Why hasn’t it been possible? True everlasting brotherhood has to be established based on a vertical axis, based on the vertical relationship of divine Heavenly Father. That is why a family without Parents is a divided home. Only with the presence of parents can all children can unite tightly. Without parents and their tradition, there would only be constant bickering and struggle.

Look at all these international politicians jockeying position for greater influence! That kind of horizontal relationship will not go beyond even one generation. For this reason, superficial means to establish peace do not last long. It is only with a divine relationship with God, based on True Parents, that a relationship of true brotherhood can be established. The position of True Parents has to be established first. Those of you who were here on last year’s tour will remember that this was not the easy process.

Once Adam and Eve fell away from God, a new true family had to be established. Only in the True Family is there a substantial solution for peace. Instead of going into theological explanation as to the reason why peace eluded humankind for 7000 years, we can reach the simple answer that it was because God’s original ideal was not established in the beginning of human history.

Adam and Eve were to establish a true relationship as a son and daughter of God. After they matured, they should have been able to complete the three blessings to be fruitful multiply and dominate all things. What happened?

What is the glue that can hold the divine family together? It is True Love. The impulse of True Love is to live for the sake of others. A genuine love of service comes directly from divine parents. In a true and absolute investment for service, a true family, true love, true life, and true lineage would have been established.

Last year I explained that we had entered the Settlement Age. The Completed Testament Age, the era of the 4th Adam, the time to build God’s substantial kingdom. Where is God’s kingdom? What is it? Is it some physical kingdom with geographic boarder? No, the infinite, eternal and unique God would not limit his kingdom in that way. The kingdom is the ideal family. It is in there infinite scope and depth of love can be expressed, and it is there that God can dwell. It is there, that one world and one family one world under God can be built up. Amen! Amen!

This is the kingdom where God can dwell. Therefore, it is appropriate that in this year 2001, after Coronation of God on January 13th, that the young people are gathered here to carry forth this divine tradition, this divine dream, not only in the island of Japan but throughout the world! Can you young people carry the dream? [YES.] Can you carry the mantle of faith and conviction? Then God can commit his eternal foundation upon you. The foundation you build would be so steady and strong that God can come and dwell in you. You can build God’s kingdom on you!

Truly, a whirlwind is brewing. It is being started by this message of Service for Peace. Those two words should be like husband and wife. In the past, when people talked about peace they didn’t talk about service. Yet in that sentence service should exist. Because in service, the eternal ideal of true love exists. The person who is willing to live more for the sake of the other person than himself cannot be opposed. Even if convention holds us back, people want to feel close to those who serve. Isn’t that why we feel so close to those who love us? Isn’t it why we feel so indebted to those who invest to us?

We must break down all different barriers that divide us. When man or woman stands naked before God and before heaven, he or she is no different, whether Korean, Japanese, American, etc. Who created all these different conventions and barriers, that made humankind unable to see true commonality between us? It was not God.

It is time to shed the past and stand anew before God. There is only one Master, one Will, and one Dream that is worth committing oneself to. That is to build one world and one family under God. Amen. Amen. Amen. This is the powerful message of service for peace.

Why service? When we look at world today what are young people doing? Can we see a true filial son, true patriot, true saint, and true holy son? No. We do not see the world that is in true alignment with God’s original will.

In Fukuoka, I said that Japan is wealthy nation, rich in material resources. Japan has received tremendous blessing, but look at the young people. All the economic wealth in the world has not brought a solution to your young people. On the contrary, you are now seeing crimes that were unheard of before. You are seeing immorality in young people that was never seen in the past.

Is economic material wealth the solution to the problem of young people? No. If I ask people what they care for more, children or your job, they will probably say that they love people more. But when we see young people they are getting more lost. This phenomenon is not exclusive to America. It is the same situation in Japan and other countries too.

Although our children have a roof over their heads, are going to school and living comfortably, we are living in the age more urgent than before. We are losing our children at the altar of selfish individualism. Under that circumstance where can ideal family exist? Where can God dwell? Where are God’s kingdom, God’s church, and God’s love? None of that can exist.

Young people are the future of the world. If we are able to move the young people then we can move the future. When we look at the young people today, what future can we see? That is why the message of Service for Peace, and the promotion of service activity that is rooted not only in ideas but in substance is exactly the truth that Japan and the world needs, Amen!

This message today is Service for Peace. We are bringing those two words together as if they were a representative of husband and wife. You can never establish true peace without true service, and there is no true service without true peace. If you are someone who inherits the true sprit of service, then you can establish a true family where true love, life and lineage exists and from which a true filial son, patriot, saints and holy son can come out.

When I talked with VIPs, they often say, "Your father always talk about peace! But what is the solution for peace? One has to be true peace maker to establish true peace. And where does one learn to become a true peace maker? In the family.

True Peace comes from the four realms of heart and three kingships, and the three generations representing a continuum of past, present, and future. All of these things come from the family. The four realms of heart represent relationships between parents and child, different sexes, between brother and sisters. If you learn to become the peace maker in your family where 4 realms of heart and 3 kingships exist, you can become the people of true peace. This knowledge is not cognitive, abstract knowledge but rooted in substance and experience. How much more practical can you get?

This is the true formula for peace! Building an ideal God Centered family where true love, life, lineage exists. The impulse and glue that holds the true family together is true love. True Love is living for the sake of other, living in service to others. We gathered here today to hear the message of peace that will resonate throughout Japan, rooted in the ideal of service for others and living for the sake of others.

Think about it, how great will it be for young people here to go to their communities, for sake of their nation, or even leave their nation and go to developing nations and help? Those experiences of service will lay the foundation for young people to be the true peacemakers. Amen!

People of Kobe! Are you ready for that challenge? Yes or No? [YES.] You know you can’t come to rally and not be challenged by someone from Moon family! Therefore, I will challenge you today. This dream of creating one world, one family under God is not just my dream. It should be a dream for all of humanity that is aspiring to build one true peace that transcends all generations, all different divisions between sexes, all existing divisions between nations and cultures. This is the vision given by True Parents, to create one family under God, and live the ideal of Service for Peace.