Speeches of Hyo Jin Moon 2006-2008
Delivered Sunday at Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown, New York
Hyo Jin Moon Speaks on What Are We Dying For?, Page 317

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What Are We Dying For?

July 1, 2007

Good morning. (Good morning.)

It never gets any easier, and it shouldn't. "What Are We Dying For?" People here, including me, are dying for faith, right? And life is about proving the faith that we have. And what is faith? How much do you know about God? How much in terms of percentage? Do you know him absolutely 100 percent or what? Life is a risk and we choose our path and that in itself is a risk, the choices that we make. And we have chosen to follow faith.

What is that faith? And if I ask you individually, almost like a job interview, I'm sure that everyone has a different degree of answer. You might say something general like, "I want to know God." But there are all sorts of variations. That is reality. And how do you conclude and say, "This is faith." You like changes. That's why somebody who stands here has to live a miserable life, one of unchanging misery. Yes, life is miserable, but you have to change.

What are you dying for? Look at yourself as an individual. Father is always talking about us being the microcosm of the universe. And just on a social level, a societal level, yes, we are law makers. Individually speaking, we are managers. We make things. We are creators. We do make laws for ourselves, don't we? We give ourselves laws and say, "Okay, this is my standard. This is my law, and I will do my best to follow it." And as you grow, those can change. But at the same time, once you make the law you have to manage yourself and what you do. What you see in society is just a magnification of what you actually go through in your own individual life. That's it. And some people do get carried away in body mechanics. That's just pure physical things. That's just body mechanics.

But what's greater? When you can set a standard and then manage yourself to live up to that standard and prove yourself, then what happens afterward? You have to take yourself to the next level. What is that? Expansion. And where does that come from? How do you expand? You have to educate yourself, right? Education is important, right? Knowing the beauty of God and all His creation, that takes a whole lot of education, to understand God's beauty and purpose. It takes a whole lot of effort to make that expansion. How much do you know about your own potential? Education in its ideal sense provokes people to reach their potential. Because if you don't, you can't expand. And if you can't expand, then how the heck can you know about God who Himself is expanding in love? Who do think you are to say that I know everything about God's love? Based on God's love, a new face that I see is part of that plan, that realm. But how can I know you automatically? What kind of arrogance is that?

When you talk about dying for faith you really have to understand that the risks we take, we take for a reason. We want to grow. We want to expand. We want to ultimately understand how we can unite with God. Many times on a physical level, you know, immediate reality, sometimes it's difficult just to get to know the next person, even a friend. How sociable are you? And if you're not, why aren't you that way? I'm sure that you have a whole lot of excuses and blame. And I'm sure it's justifiable in the way the world is. In this age, if you look at secular politics, the presentation is more important than the deed. You see so much pretentiousness and all that stuff. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but action is worth a thousand pictures. How's that? Putting something into action for the right reasons, for the sake of others, for the sake of stuff we believe that is good, is difficult. And you're going to do it till the day you die? Difficult. Because like I said earlier, it's about proving your faith.

Having said that, I want to thank those of you here because you are changing my ways. I used to be detached. I was indifferent. I was vulgar. I lived in rage. I am grateful to you too, for you are helping me to change my ways. Little by little, I've got a ways to go. How can you change without give and take, without relationships, opportunity, reality? Some things you just don't want to change if you're by yourself. You know what I'm saying?

Changes come when you reach out, when you want to reach out, for whatever reason. That's how changes come. And that's how you grow in faith. It doesn't matter if you have to serve a purpose in a position of unchangingness, the symbolism of it. Still you need to have that give­-and-take relationship so you can change too. Because you have to expand, right? And as it takes time to do so, you need that unchanging stuff to balance the change and then you go to the next level. Then you go to the next level. It's that kind of stuff. But finding gratitude in misery is difficult, but if it comes with the territory, you can't complain, right? Everybody suffers, right? One way or the other, right? There is no exception. 

Please, know what you're dying for and prove that ultimately you have the greatest faith. That's a good competition slogan! Take care of yourself.