Speeches of Hyo Jin Moon 2006-2008
Delivered Sunday at Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown, New York
Hyo Jin Moon Speaks on The Parental Role, Page 330

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The Parental Role

July 29, 2007

Hello. (Good morning.) Let me ask you a question: Do you need more money? Do you need more inspiration? Do you need more love? In which order? You want everything at the same time! 

Let me start with something personal I guess. I came here to America in 1973. I'm not going to say the last name but Earl was a kind of funky kid. I was in a kind of period where things were changing in a dramatic way, with a lot of persecution, you know, and the only friend I had was this guy called Earl. He's the one, I think, I was in seventh grade or something like that and we had lockers and stuff, and he actually brought a beer, and he brought a cigarette, and he brought a Playboy magazine to school. That was my first exposure to "Earl-ism", and I was like 14 or 15.

So, what I'm trying to get at is that these days you're worried about your kids, right? I've got kids. And today's world is a different world. Internet schooling is becoming more and more popular, because you can get a basic education via stuff like that through homeschooling. Homeschooling has certain limitations, but you have that option. And you then have to deal with the argument about how kids learn to relate to other people, about the social skill level stuff. That's where you have the church. So, when you have a kind of basic parental foundation you don't have to compete with that kind of stuff. You can literally take initiative and take control of your situation. You don't have to rely on someone else, because you can compete when you're ready. It takes time to get ready. Nobody is ready right from the start. That's too much to ask when you're not in control. And it is way, way beyond logic to expect your children, all of them, hopefully, ideally, to take care of themselves somehow. That's just unrealistic.

So, if you're supposed to be in control of something, you have to find appropriate measures. That is your responsibility, whether you like it or not. That's the parental role. If your children screw up, who are you going to blame? You're going to blame you, right? And because it's your children, society will blame you, and it is your responsibility. You ought to be the best and you've got to get involved. So, that's just about children. That is the essence of life isn't it, your life, your future, your everything when you're dead and gone. So, are we in control? You want money? How are we going to get money? How are you going to become useful to somebody in life, in general? Like I said, you know it is important that you become someone who can reciprocate to the rest of the world based on essence. 

Do you know how to heal? Do you know how to make things better? There are all sorts of things, science, technology, and chemistry, whatever. There are so many things available. Do you know how to inspire? That's hard, and to educate? Joe Kinney here, he sends his email notes of what I say here to a lot of guys, I guess. I guess there are some members out there fighting the war in Iraq who read those notes. What do you think is important to them? Money? I don't think so. Maybe inspiration, maybe love. Coming home! It's that kind of basic stuff. If you don't address that stuff you don't build anything. You cannot increase if you don't strengthen the essence of stuff. It might be money, body, spirit and mind, something, but, it has to be something relevant to you at that moment otherwise there's nothing gained. It's sad, but true. 

So, what's important to you? Everything right? You want the spirit, mind, and body aligned perfectly, right? The desire of the mind is more important than the desire of the body! The desire of the spirit is more important than the desire of the mind! That kind of stuff, right? Ultimately you want the spirit to line up somehow down to the body. I wish that upon you. And if I can help you, I'll help you as much as I can. If three hundred million Americans say, "I want ten thousand dollars", that adds up to three trillion dollars. But, you can't do things like that, right? Otherwise you'll go belly up very quickly, you're dead. Do I see you as a black person or do I see you as humanity? Do I see you as a white person or do I see you as humanity. Do I see you as Japanese or do I see you as humanity. It's that kind of stuff. That's what we need to revisit, and teach our children too. They can learn from us, from that point, from that fundamental aspect. If we don't do our job correctly, it isn't going to work. (The sound of flatulence is heard in the room.) Somebody is blasting off! No problem. It happens. Thank you, you made my day!

If you want that perfect alignment—spirit, mind, and body—don't ask somebody else, ask yourself. Okay. Where are you? What is the most important thing to you? And don't blame it on anybody else. You answer that question first before you try to find a solution. You have to know your limit, otherwise expansion is futile. Ask yourself sincerely, "Where am I? What do I want?" and from that you start. Okay, see you later.