Speeches of Hyo Jin Moon 2006-2008
Delivered Sunday at Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown, New York
Hyo Jin Moon Speaks on Tradition, Page 352

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Tradition

October 7, 2007  

How are you doing? I feel a little restless, a lot of routine. So, how have you been doing? Hanging in there? Let's talk about "Tradition." 

These days we have a lot more church holidays than we used to·have, right? It's almost like every week there's some ceremonial days, right? Is that good? Does it make you feel better? What does tradition give you, what kind of feeling does it give you? What do you do with tradition and what happens to you when you face tradition? What goes through your mind? "Today it's this celebration, on this day we're celebrating or 'ceremonializing' something" What does that mean to you? And you want that every day? So, every day should be a ceremonial day! We have to find some kind of ceremonial topic to celebrate 365 days a year! When are we going to work when we're always celebrating? I mean it's all good, it's just that give-and-take stuff I guess. That's what these celebrations are trying to emphasize, I guess, to symbolically try to teach us.

When we celebrate something, we take something, right? And we have to give. That's about it, isn't it? How does one celebrate something? How does one make something that is important into a tradition? How does something become a tradition? Let's say that you're Japanese and that you're proud of something. You like a certain tradition. Why do you like that tradition and why do you think that tradition is important? Because it gives you pride. It gives you pride in something, whatever you identify with, whatever it means. Without pride you can't have tradition. So, how does one become proud of something? So, how do you inspire pride, how do you go about achieving pride? It's inspiration, and then there's the degree of it. But, before pride there has to be some kind of provocation. And what inspires us to go to the next phase? How do we feel that something, "Hey! I want to be part of that stuff!" Of course, it can be good and bad. It depends on where your head is at. But if it's going to last, it should be good. That's safe to say because we're good people in the end, everybody. We can make bad choices because of the problems that we face, as we know, but we're all good in the end. We want to be good, and we want to inspire each other in goodness.

So, what is good inspiration? What is the inspiration that makes us better? We have to know the basic things that give us our quality as a human being that I can say, "This is me!" This is my innocence, this is my truth, this is my humility, this is my sacrifice, this is my offering to you God, because all of us have to do that. Some people will inspire you a little more than others. There'll be fluctuations, but that's life. That's how we grow and that is the way. You want absolute, then that is the way. You want a way to make everyone good, that is the way. So, that's how you try. It doesn't matter what you have left. You will grow. Children can bother you when they're crawling around, and then they grow up and start to complain and give you a hard time and try to overcome you, and try to ride on your shoulder. Especially in the secular world, after a child reaches 18 years old that's basically it, you know, good riddance. Are you having a jolly good time, little there (to a 6-year-old boy sitting in the front row)? 

We need to make more good traditions. We have a lot of traditions, but if we want to compete and win, we need good traditions, more good traditions, more new good traditions. Why? Because without them you can't build a culture. You can't build a society. We need to have that stuff. We need to be strong. Without that kind of pride and tradition, you can't be strong. Unfortunately the physical world is a physical world. We need to face it as it is and that's what we have to do. We need to focus on those things, that's what's important. Unfortunately, a lot of stuff that the church has done in the past was done in cash. And a lot of people are no-good fallen people. They try to stay in certain positions for that reason. Before the eyes of Father they speak well, but in the end they have nothing. Why? Because it's just about that. It takes basic stuff to make you good at anything, and it takes time and it takes a whole lot of stuff just to be good at one thing. And who are you kidding? I know my Father's urgency, but that does not give people the right to do the things that some people do. That's wrong and because of it we'll suffer in the end. There are always the consequences. You will suffer.

Tradition, what kind of tradition do you think that we need to create? A new tradition that can change, little-by-little, the world. Okay? What is that thing that can change the world a little bit starting from you, your friends, your workplace, whatever? That little change, what is that little change that you can make? That's what you need to focus on, because that's something that you can do. We have to do it. You can't just allow somebody to make a lot of noise and talk and talk. No, that's wrong. What can you do? What kind of tradition can you make that is good? Think about it. And if you're part of a certain group then talk about it. Talk to each other. If you're on a fundraising team or a witnessing team, talk about it. You're not going to be there forever, right? You have to do something. Just try to think in a way that makes sense to you in reality. Okay? But it will grow that way, it should! And that's how you're going to get bigger, and better. And you will die.

It's good to see you. Everything is going okay, I'll tell you later. I don't like to talk too much about stuff until it's done. Anyway, if it's done right you can see it for yourself. See you next week.