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| April 22, 2007
Opening song was The Scientist by Coldplay
Highlighting (with powerpoint slides) particular phrases in the Sections from the Fifth of the Ten Peace Messages; duties and mission that every citizen...The goal (in hoon dok sal kyo) is to stimulate give and take with the words, and speaker is sensitive to what insight God wants to give to the audience (and to the speaker) - not to bring the audience to a momentary good feeling or point of decision.
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Citizens of the kingdom of heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory. Now, as the King of Cosmic Peace, I will declare, on this 13 th day of June in the sixth year of Cheon Il Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every citizen of Cheon Il Guk should understand and live by as they walk the way of Heaven.
First, as God is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will establish the realm of three generations your family, perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity.
Further, you will inscribe on your heart the need to uphold the Cosmic King of Peace, who is the horizontal True Parent, and to live with absolute obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. You will make living for the sake of others, which is the practice of true love, the standard of your life. You will establish a true family and raise true children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God’s lineage and bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.
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REALM OF THREE GENERATIONS
Book of ten peace messages, whole section devoted to this topic 6 X
When seeking after the lost original family, you should set out from the position of the perfected Adam, the position of the perfected Jesus, and the position representing the perfected Second Coming of the Lord.
God will dwell in such a family.
That family would be one of three generations - grandparents, parents and children - living in harmony.
In such a family the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom of heaven extends into it. It is in such a family that the root of the kingdom of heaven takes root.
It is also where the everlasting root of kingship is firmly planted, and where the roots of the past, present and future are represented by grandparents, parents, and grandchildren, respectively. The root of the past represents the spirit world; the root of the present is the palace representing the world today; and, the root of the future establishes the grandsons and granddaughters as princes and princesses, and erects the palace of peace representing the two worlds, the spirit world and the physical world.
The three generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the eternally existent God.
reflection
SINLESS AND PURE
At the Amnesty Ceremony we attended, Rev. Philip Schankar mentioned a helpful discovery about the meaning of sin:
Traditionally sin is often defined as the state of separation from God.
But to be more clear, sin is any thought or action which makes a common base for give and take with Satan.
Feeling some of the grief God feels when we even think of about a sinful act, this helps deepen our appreciation of DP (see page 34).
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Second, no matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one. In my case as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven’s path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: “Before you desire to have dominion over the universe, you must first have dominion over yourself.”
God has given you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows all these things about you before your teacher or pastor knows. It knows them before your parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So if you place your conscience in God’s position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of “high-noon settlement,” it is certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body and perfect their unity.
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MIND AND BODY UNITED AS ONE
In order for individuals to perfect their characters, they must form four position foundations within themselves, whereby their minds and bodies become one through give and take action with God as their center. Such individuals become the temples of God, ACHIEVE complete oneness with Him, and acquire a divine nature. They experience the heart of God as if it were their own. Sharing all the feelings of God as their own, they would never commit any sinful acts that would cause God grief. This means they (WE) would never fall.
Achieve complete oneness - we must strive, persevere, not allow ourselves to get discouraged
CONSCIENCE
When asked by a seminarian at UTS , "How much can we trust our conscience, TF's answer was that conscience was like water. If the water is muddy, then we cannot see through it; if our conscience is muddied then we cannot trust it. If our conscience is like clear water, then we can trust it completely.
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Citizens of Cheon Il Guk, the unification of spirit world has been completed. The issue now is the 6.5 billion people living on earth in the physical body. They struggle in agony in the midst of sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon Il Guk.
You should educate everyone to understand that all human beings without exception are descended from the Fall and must change their blood lineage through receiving the Holy Marriage Blessing from the True Parents. You must continue the work of engrafting people onto the True Olive Tree, by having them participate in the grace of exchange marriage, until the day when all humankind, numbering more than 300 billion souls, is restored to God’s lineage.
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SIN AND SUFFERING
Not just people who don't know TP, but our own members
HJN - "Inheritance and Development" World Speaking Tour 2000
I am 32 years old. I grew up with many of the Second Generation. They were my friends from around my age group. Out of all those friends that I know and remember, not many are left. They are still searching. So I know the situation of the Second Generation and the difficulty that the Second Generation faces. I know it well. I went to the University of Bridgeport and I gathered all the Blessed Children and gave a talk to them. The essence of my talk was this: "Regardless of whether you leave or stay, you will always be a Blessed Child. That's what your essence is. You'll always be a UC member."
When we hear of 1st or 2nd or even 3rd generation who are struggling, this is the attitude to keep.
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EXCHANGE MARRIAGE
Book of 10 Peace Messages, this topic had section devoted to it 6 times
Our bondage to the lineage of Satan has caused so much suffering throughout history. Let us now boldly step forth to sever it and be grafted onto the root of the lineage of the TP. Why should we foolishly continue to live and die as wild olive trees? A wild olive tree, even if it lives a thousand years, will only continue producing the seeds of more wild olive trees. The path to escape this vicious cycle is through the Holy Blessing.
The Holy Blessing offers the grace of being grafted onto the true olive tree.
The best way to receive the Holy Blessing is with someone from another race, nationality or religion - an exchange marriage. This contributes to the enormous task of transcending the barriers of race, culture, nationality, ethnicity and religion and creating one family of humankind. (My own background is a military family that moved around the country often, and my husband was in a civilian family that did not move but once in his whole life and that was in even within the same small town.)
When TF blesses, he always puts the most amazing combinations of couples together. We should strive to follow this way in our own lives as we match our own children.
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Fourth, you are created to spend ten months in your mother’s womb, about 100 years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You should understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for a healthy life after birth, you must devote your earthly life to prepare yourself for the next stage of life in the spirit world. Never forget that in every time and place, and no matter what you are doing, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live in harmony with the spirit world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world with sincerity and dedication, so that you may become perfected in your spirit self while you are living on the earth.
Highlight - reflection
Never forget that in every time and place, and no matter what you are doing, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you.
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Fifth, your talents and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon Il Guk. Now therefore, cut away and cast off your mask of selfish individualism. It is but a remnant of the Age Before the Coming of Heaven. In order to belong to Heaven, you must change ownership by participating in the Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering everything you own to God and then
receiving it back from God.
In addition, all citizens of Cheon Il Guk will provide funds for the well being and peace of humanity, not by taxation but by voluntary contributions. They will demonstrate the model of offering the first three tenths of their income for public purposes. This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.
reflection
TALENTS AND ABILITIES ARE REQUIRED
Human beings have individual variations in terms of their stature, body shape, facial expression, personality, and the like. The ultimate cause of the individual features of human beings and all things is located within God's Original Sungsang. This individual nature is called the Individual Image. In human beings the Individual Image consists of the varied individual characteristics of each person.
The Individual Image becomes individualized in each of us. For example, the different features of the faces of human beings are Universal Image made specific to that particular face. (face reading) The differences in human personality are the Universal Image made specific through a specific character or disposition.
The reason why every human being's individual personality should be absolutely respected is because it has its origin in the Individual Image stemming from God.
not "your character is bad, change it"
rather, "use your character for God's purpose"
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Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, in the Age After the Coming of Heaven it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Human Fall. God created all the earth’s creatures as our natural environment; they are absolutely needed for human prosperity. Human beings and nature are meant to share a realm of mutual resonance, with humans as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner thriving under human management and beautified by human creativity. We can no longer tolerate actions that destroy nature and pollute the environment. As citizens of Cheon Il Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature, human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where human beings and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature. If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.
reflection
REALM OF MUTUAL RESONANCE
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BLOSSOM IN PERFECTION
Not talking about free of flaw
Resonate with nature
Seed
Growth - Time Period
We will blossom in perfection (feel God's feelings) over time
Feel God's feelings
Takes time and patience in natural world: careful planting of a seed; nurture it; growth before bloom is even visible; time to blossom.....mind and body united, centered on God, share all the feelings of God, could never commit a sinful act that would cause God grief...
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Seventh, the Age after the Coming of Heaven that God and True Parents have opened is a time of dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon Il Guk, you have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory. Therefore, please become Heaven’s emissaries, fulfilling the dual missions of the “Peace Kingdom Police Force” and “Peace Kingdom Corps.” Serve humanity under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the position of the Abel-type United Nations. Worthy countrymen and women, if not you, then who, will nurture and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has given us? Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your True Parent, for He is the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting Peace Kingdom by attending the King of Cosmic Peace and fulfilling the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters.
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TRUE PRINCES AND PRINCESSES
Reminded of the aspect of us raising our children as princes and princesses
Keep in mind that we don't want spoiled, selfish little princes and princesses.
UT tells us that love without norms is blind love. Should parents or teachers love the children with that kind of love, the children would come to despise them. Parental love and the love of teachers must have some form of authority and dignity. In situations where there is too little love and too much emphasis on norms, the children will feel restricted and come to revolt against their parents or teachers. The reason is that love should be above norms. Even when children fail to obey norms, they must still be given love continuously.
Love and norms must be united. Love is harmonious and round, whereas norms are, so to speak, linear. So a person in whom love and norms are united is a person in whom, so to speak, a circle and a straight line are united. Love seeks to forgive and accept all, whereas norms seek to regulate strictly.
Therefore, such a person has a character equipped with unified polarity, being most harmonious and at the same time most strict. A person with this kind of character is sometimes very strict and other times very kind, and can always assume the proper attitude according to the time and place.
The first classroom to put this into practice is of course in our families. For those of us who are fortunate enough to work as teachers, we put this into practice with our students.
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Beloved people of Cheon Il Guk, I hope you truly will celebrate and enjoy this precious and holy day. Brush off all your cares and worries and celebrate this day in joy while attending your Heavenly Father and True Parents with all your heart. The sincerity and dedication expressed by each of you brings even more glory to this day. The beautiful mountains, streams, trees and flowers here at Cheong Pyeong Lake are showering their blessings upon you as you prepare to embark on your ambitious journeys. Your descendants, too, will take pride that you participated in this long-awaited day, and they will honor and praise you forever.
I pray that the abundant grace and blessings of God in heaven may be upon you and your families.
Thank you.
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| relevant? Second, no matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one. In my case as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven’s path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: “Before you desire to have dominion over the universe, you must first have dominion over yourself.” God has given you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows all these things about you before your teacher or pastor knows. It knows them before your parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So if you place your conscience in God’s position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of “high-noon settlement,” it is certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body and perfect their unity. | | |
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cd (10:58 AM): Would like to make this relevant to our current situation and include this with how this term is used in the Messages of Peace
High noon - (in MSWord dictionary) 1. a time of confronting a serious problem or making a hard decision 2. the high point or most creative part of somebody's career or achievements 3. the exact moment of noon
bd (10:58 AM): what about it
cd (11:00 AM): like to include the passages in the Messages of Peace...
(page numbers)
cd (11:01 AM): then get each person's thoughts on what it means for real world day- to- day stuff
cd (11:02 AM): we can explore this for the closing meeting that Abe and Mika do tonight? ? ?
bd (11:02 AM): do whatever you want
cd (11:03 AM): I am asking for your input and ideas.
1. High Noon (1952) Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges. A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, ...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/ - Cached - Similar 2. High Noon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jun 11, 2009 ... High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon - Cached - Similar
http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/high-noon.html | | |
| Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, in the Age After the Coming of Heaven it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Human Fall. God created all the earth’s creatures as our natural environment; they are absolutely needed for human prosperity. Human beings and nature are meant to share a realm of mutual resonance, with humans as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner thriving under human management and beautified by human creativity. We can no longer tolerate actions that destroy nature and pollute the environment.
As citizens of Cheon Il Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature, human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where human beings and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature. If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.
reflection
REALM OF MUTUAL RESONANCE
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BLOSSOM IN PERFECTION
Not talking about free of flaw
Resonate with nature
Seed
Growth - Time Period
We will blossom in perfection (feel God's feelings) over time
Feel God's feelings
Takes time and patience in natural world: careful planting of a seed; nurture it; growth before bloom is even visible; time to blossom.....mind and body united, centered on God, share all the feelings of God, could never commit a sinful act that would cause God grief...
First posted 10/24/ 2008 
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