Speeches of Hyo Jin Moon 2006-2008
Delivered Sunday at Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown, New York
Hyo Jin Moon Speaks on How Are You Going to Change the World?, Page 379

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How Are You Going to Change the World?

January 27, 2008

How are you? Good morning. (Good morning.) Happy New Year! (Happy New Year!) 

(This is Hyo Jin nim's first Belvedere speech of the new year.)

How many years do we have? One more year is gone, what does that mean? Okay, what it means depends on how you think about the way things are and what you are in control of in reality. How are you going to change the world? Do you know how to change yourself? Do you know that your ways are the right way? Are you absolutely sure, whatever you think that you have talent in, that you know what perfection is in it? Are you a master of it and can you control it?

How are you going to change the world? You ask yourself that question. We're trying, but how are we going to do it in actuality? You have your ways, right, and you have to start from there. But, you have to change the ways of other people if you're going to change the world. So, you have to know what the ways of the world are, and the ways of the people that you're focusing on are, and from there, begin to make a difference.

What is your way? How do you live? What do you live for? What is your goal? I know that you want to be somebody. Everybody wants to be somebody. So, what is your way? There are many, many, ways. That's the problem. We have to know all those ways to change the world. Yes, the different ways come from cliques, so to speak. They start from some kind of tribal reality. But that's what you need to know to change the world. You have to know human ways, otherwise you will not change the world, right? And that's what we need to focus on, otherwise it's meaningless. 

I'm trying to understand my little kids, okay? I'm sure that they have a hard time understanding me, a crazy guy like me.

But that's the way it works, you have to know why humans are the way they are. For the more we know, the more we can get closer to that ultimate goal that we all talk about in religion. And where do you start? If you tell yourself, "I start now," then what can you do? That's what you do. You think from there, one step at a time until it gets holy and mighty. All the time just start from that, and you build it from there. See if it works. Try it out on people that you know. I don't know you. You don't know me. But you have people that you know around you. So, start there. Try it out. Change the world.

Okay, take care.