Speeches of Hyo Jin Moon: Episode 92
Speeches of Hyo Jin Moon 2006-2008
Delivered Sunday at Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown, New York
Hyo Jin Moon Speaks on Communication, Page 357
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Communication
October 21, 2007
Today's topic is communication.
I need a haircut, right? It looks like I'm wearing a helmet!
Did your parents read you stories when you were young to put you asleep? Did you have that experience? If you did, was that important to you? What if the opposite happens?
(Pointing toward a brother) Hey man! Do what you got to do! Make the best with what you got—do what's right.
And I'm known for making short statements, but sometimes when you're a little kid, when your daddy or your mommy reads you a story, that's important to you. Why? It is nurturing. That's the way we grow in body, mind, and spirit. What a parent is saying might not mean anything, might not be significant, but just the action in itself, that adds the value that can guide a child into the direction that ultimately any parent would want the child to go.
You know, you kind of have to look at communication in a spherical way. What I mean is that you have a forward and backwards, you have to have some kind of historical background and tradition and think about putting emphasis on that, and future thinking, outward thinking, and balancing the left and right, whatever. On a reality level, for lack of a better term, liberalism and conservatism, and up and down, God and selfishness. You have to build from there, and as you try, hopefully, the sphere gets bigger, as you blow more air into a balloon, so to speak. Love is elastic, so it's like the balloon that doesn't pop. Although it has boundaries, it will expand and it shouldn't pop. It won't pop, theoretically.
The most difficult thing for me is being humble. I always jokingly say. "A humble man is nobody other than a person who knows how to keep his arrogance to himself." It's very difficult. The things that make the vertical work are things that are basic: humility, self-sacrifice, unselfishness, love, forgiveness, compassion, all that goody-goody two-shoes stuff. But those things are very difficult to achieve unless you can control the forwards and backwards, left and right and balance them.
You know there's a fine line in everything, even in the extremes, right? What about righteousness? The opposite is self-righteousness. What is the fine line that divides those two? When you destroy—"destroy" is a very strong word, but I'm going to use it anyway, the union of the blood, that's self-righteousness. Loyalty is important too. Sometimes, even if you can't deal with yourself in the moment, at least you may have the sense to walk away, right? I'm a good fighter, and when I see some jackass and he's provoking a fight, I can kick his butt or I can walk away. Now that's difficult. Walking away is difficult. Humility is difficult. I know that I can be very arrogant. I know that I can be very self-serving. If you do that long enough, you get greedy. I've seen that happen many times. But that's reality. That's what we face every day. You see people, good people, go down because of that kind of stuff because they allow themselves to let something get the best of them. And what is that something? That's what we need to communicate about to each other.
You can't live alone, right? No matter how smart you are. God doesn't want to be alone, right? So, let's just end it there. You don't want to be alone. So, you need to communicate. That's why we form a group, that's why family is important. That's the building block of a greater society, right? Tribe, society, nation, world, right? So, if we want to establish an ideal kingdom of God on earth, basic sense has to be met. And you have to know what the hell the basic is and then communicate, have give and take.
Look, love and forgiveness are an opposite, aren't they? That's give and take isn't it? Why? Because when you forgive somebody, you will receive greater love. You will take greater love. Take sounds strong, but basically that's what it is. That's why we forgive, because we will take greater love because we will in turn receive love from something greater than ourselves, or even from each other, even from peers, even from your friends. Just because you know how to forgive, friends might think of you a little more differently. Even in a group they'll think that you're a little more special than everybody that they know. Now that's something, isn't it? That's called growth, and that's what matters. Nothing else matters more than that.
Ultimately, you want to communicate with God. How many people talk to God regularly? Oh, please don't raise your hand because I'm going to chop it off! At least, be in control of yourself. And give the best you got to the ones that you love, the ones that you care about. Start from there. Think about the future, think about the past, think about the left and right, think about God and your selfishness, and give. If you've got something to say, say it. Share it. And make that little balloon grow, and make sure it's true.
Let God judge, Okay? Let Him do the judging. You don't want to get into that mess. Do what's right. Do the best you can. Do that first, and don't even think about anything else. Let God do the judging when you die! So, speak the truth from your heart, because when you do that you'll die for it. Because the heart lives on, right? Spirit lives on, you die. Your arrogant ass will die! And let's all be judged by God. Okay? It's all equal there. You can forgive somebody, but still there's a judgment for that person. You know what I'm saying? So, I did my best. I tried to learn what is right. So, I'm all yours. Do what you want. Isn't that what it is? Isn't that the Christian belief? Isn't that the essence of religion? You fear God, right? But no man, right? Okay, I'll see you next week.
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