Father’s speech on November 4, 1990 at Belvedere
Once again, the topic of Father’s speech today cannot be adequately translated into another language. In English we do not have a concept similar to In Yun in Korean. For example, if two people meet in a crowded place and their sleeves touch, it is said to be caused by hidden reasons that had their beginnings years before. That is In Yun. Sung gong means encounter or meeting. Because of In Yun we are meeting together like this, not by accident.
There is a book called Chu yok in Korea that tells all about how things separate and meet again. It has had a great influence on Oriental life. There is o haeng and sa jut. Each individual has a sa ju within him. It is composed of the time and date he was born. Experts can calculate an amazingly accurate account of your past and future using this method. They can tell you what specific ailments you have, and what herbal medication to take for them. They can tell you how many children you will have, what are the highlights of your life, what you are suited for, what your ancestors’ problems were, and so forth.
The things that happen to you are not accidental; they have a certain explainable cause, or In Yun. We come from all over the world and you might say, “Well, we are like a scoop out of the mass,” but actually each one has been destined a long time ago to be here, living together and especially to be married.
Why have some people gone to the North Pole and South Pole? Nobody voluntarily goes to such extremely cold areas. The tendency is for us to find a comfortable place to live. Perhaps those people were expelled from somewhere after committing some crime. Or, there must have been a big fight, with the result that someone came to hate someone so much that if one ate with his right hand, the other would want to eat with the left hand. More likely than not, it was not a happy cause behind these people separating and ending up in the North Pole or South Pole.
Do you think the ancestors of white people began under good conditions or bad conditions? Why would white people have chosen to live in the extreme cold? They must have been hunters and nomads. From one human ancestor, different tribes and races have been scattered all around not because of good reasons, but unhappy ones. There are so many different languages and customs.
Spirit world is also not unified but has formed different societies. Even more than us, it is segregated by groups that have certain things in common. Those people who have a nature like cats, always scratching others and not letting them be in peace, will go to spirit world and be together in the same community. Imagine what kind of community that will be!
THE CONFLICT WITHIN US
Does anybody love his own personality? We see our mind and body always in conflict, and nobody likes this state. When a man and a woman, each with their mind and body in conflict, come together and get married, they fight on a different level. Usually they fight because each one wants more love. Are we qualified to be loved to begin with? Nevertheless, we always want others to love us. Someone thinks, “My mother hates me, my sister hates me, my uncle even hates me.” But that person looks so cold and hateful, no wonder no one loves him! Thus you transfer such treatment to others, even to dogs sometimes! You might kick a dog who is minding his own business, because you have no other place to relieve your stress. Or you might go and poke a cow who is just eating grass, or even call names at the birds who are flying by. You might hate to see a couple of birds getting along so well together when you are so miserable.
When we see the conflict in us, how ashamed and sad we feel. When so much hatred goes on within human beings, even within families, all the things of creation indeed look down on us and feel angry. Even dogs notice! The situation is so bad that if air had a choice, it would escape from the scene.
There are 250 million individuals in the United States. Here is one woman. How many people do you think love her? Can you count? How many people would love you? It is a serious thing to think about. Unless you are very sure that you are a good person, it is absurd, even a sin, to expect good circumstances. You always want something good or new, but check first to see if you deserve it.
The clock moves clockwise. What if it insists on going the other way around? Then it is destroying all 360 degrees. How much are we moving like a clock, how many degrees? A perfect 360 degrees? Or are we only covering 120 degrees? A perfect 360 degrees means paying attention to everything and loving in every situation. Are you covering at least half or 180 degrees? When you really think and coolly examine yourself, there is no real reason why people have to like and love you. Isn’t it despairing to think like that? Think, how many degrees are we harmonious and how many are we in conflict? You may say, “Americans are firstrate people. Surely they cover 360 degrees.” Can you say that?
Imagine, out of 250 million Americans how many are in harmony 360 degrees? (Zero!) Then we can say that there is something wrong with them, that they are in need of repair. They are out-of-order people. But most of the time aren’t they proud and demanding? The universe is looking down and laughing. It is kol buk young, or something that is out of proportion and somewhat ugly, like a woman who puts on too much makeup to hide something. Or when two people put on an extreme display of love, hugging and kissing and saying, “I love you.” Can you say to a broken machine, “I love you”? You would be out of your mind! How can you love something that doesn’t work?
We are always thinking about true love, but how far away our reality is! Father has always been talking about true love to us, out-of-order people. Here is a banquet for holy people and a smelly, nervous person comes in. Imagine that scene. It is funny to think about, but if this is our reality, we should feel so serious and disappointed that we may faint.
Imagine there are many millions of people living in so many parts of the earth, and zero percent are perfect they are all broken people. But they all are chasing after good luck. Do you think good luck will come to anyone? It will try to escape at the sight of them’ Not just escape, but escape shouting!
When you imagine these things, do you feel good, or distressed? You might say, “Well, I am the exception. Father certainly doesn’t mean me. He means everybody else.” Then maybe you feel better. But if you think, “Father is speaking to me,” then how serious you will feel.
DISCOVERING OUR GOODNESS
How serious it is that we, all mankind, have a fate to find out what is good in us. We have to try very hard to discover what part of us is good. We need the kind of character that will inspire God to say, “Yes, you will live within my boundary for thousands of years.” To the person who does not have this kind of deserving mind and body, God will say, “No! Don’t you ever come in! Don’t even look inside my Kingdom.” What do you think, will God nevertheless let them come inside and live? He simply cannot bear that.
Why did human beings become like that? That is a serious question. The simple answer is: something must have gone greatly wrong with the root. Historically, man has been loving nature and trying to take after the things of nature. After the fall, mankind became more distant from God than nature itself. Historically, serious people looking at a tree that is thousands of years old bow their heads and think, “Here is something that is not changing and has withstood all things and gloriously maintained itself for so long.”
Think about your high school alumni. Imagine there is one girl who laughs and smiles all the time to everybody, is never down and always helpful to others. Another one is always making a sad face and hardly does anything good for other people. Years later, who will be remembered? When you want to make friends with that good person, even though everything about you is bad, you try very hard to find something good in you and bring that to her. You bring your most precious secret that you never told another person, and tell it to her to make friends. True?
What is it that is most precious in you? Love, but that is between man and woman. Even though you may have love, you have to be the same level as someone before you can be accepted. If you are on a lower level, how can someone on a different level come to like you? That one, too, wants love from a higher plane.
Something that we all have in common is that we want friends, sons and daughters, and especially a spouse, to be better than ourselves. In what way better? In love. Here is a very tall person. Does that person want somebody much smaller or much taller in love? That means that the shorter ones have no chance. How does a person who is short gain the respect of the tall one? He tries to be helpful to that person. Then that person will lift him up.
When I know that I am short in Jove, short in every way, then should I just go to a high person any time, or restrain myself? I must restrain myself this is the work of my conscience. The one who is bad should be solitary, saying, “Don’t come to me. I should be alone.” Then other things will start to take sympathy toward him. At least that person has a conscience, at least that person knows where he is. People will then try to help. The kind of person who just tries to demonstrate his badness will give all things pain just to look at him.
Let’s say one person is seriously looking at himself, contains himself, thinking that he can only have a bad influence on others. Another doesn’t think that way at all. Which is the better person? Sometimes you may come to hate one friend and wish he didn’t come around you. But he comes more and more often. Do you feel good? If he keeps coming, then you close the door and pretend not to be home. We can understand why certain conscientious people, especially religious people, try not to have such regular contact with others, even friends, but instead go to the mountains where they live in solitude and in prayer.
When Father opens the door and says, “You come and live with me,” then all of us will rush in with joy. How about Father’s position? Looking at all of us, does he wish he could dwell with us forever? Is there any person to whom Father can go and shout “Mansei!” and rejoice? Even Father has to think seriously about whether or not he can go to live with someone. What about God? We pray for God to come to live in us, but will He jump right in where Father hesitates? Will God listen to most of our prayers, or try to plug His ears? Are we asking a lot that we don’t deserve? That is a serious question to contemplate.
THE VEILS OF FALLEN NATURE
In your mind, how many people do you want to accommodate? God has enough room to accommodate everybody, so He wants many people to come and live within Him. But suppose the most dirty ones are the first to come in. What should God do, let them in or try to close the door? This is God’s problem.
There are many different levels in spirit world. A person lives in the level where he feels most comfortable, thus creating walls. It is very difficult to go up to another level, but very easy to go down.
God never wants anybody to be below a certain level, but man chooses to be there. God cannot help him, no matter how much God wants to accommodate him. If you were the master, you too would have no other choice. If God would give amnesty and allow everyone to be equal, then bad persons would always want to come up higher first. They will come up at any cost, even trampling others. Good people will be pushed away. So God has to have walls between the different levels of spirit world, otherwise it is not controllable. So you must train yourself for thousands of years and pull down a wall to advance yourself to the next higher level. Is God right to allow walls and demand that we train ourselves a long time in order to come up? What about Father; would he do the same?
We are covered with a lot of veils, like the layers of an onion. Father will peel them off one by one … that one is pride, that one is the love of money. Then someone says, “Well, Father, take everything away from me. I will throw everything away and go to hell. I will go naked if you want!” Think about it. Is there a better way to bring people up to the high level fast? There are two ways. The other one is that Father goes along with your demands.
One way to get to the top is to hang on tenaciously to Father, never letting go even if he tries to shake you loose. If Father allows us to tag along with him, to what point will we go? Will we go to some point and then say, “Father this is good enough for me, I will rest here”? Up to where would we go? Wherever Father goes? When Father goes to Japan, leaving American behind, will we all follow him there? Then if Father goes back to Korea, do we go to Korea, too?
When Father first came to America, he had nothing. Do you think he expected to live in an estate like East Garden when he first came here? Or did he decide to be ready for prison when he came here? Father thought, if they put me in prison, then I will turn the prison upside down.
Imagine years ago when Father first came, with the way people are in America, do you think Father thought the way would be easy for him? You don’t know how resolved he was to face any difficulty in America to do his work here. When Father came here, he thought, “With millions of people opposing me, even if I die, I cannot give up God’s way.”
Think about this: Where does Father come from? In his childhood, he lived deep in the North Korean countryside, in a mountain valley, a place called Chongju. He was a small king; he went all over the valley catching every kind of animal. He really explored the area. His radius was a ten mile area, a big territory for a child. If he didn’t know everything about the area-who was living there and what they were doing-he couldn’t sleep. Every morning he would go out and explore some more. That is the kind of personality he has. When there was a bully who gave a hard time to the other children, even though Father was very small, he fought against him and protected the smaller children.
That’s how Father thought about America. You know how big America is! As with the bully, Father fought with America, which is so much bigger than him. Was he intimidated? He said everything he wanted to say.
It is our wish that our children be married with earlier blessed couples’ children. The highest level is True Family. Father wishes he had numberless children in order to give more chances for everyone to get married with his family. Those who say, “Father, I don’t want my children to get married with one of yours,” raise your hands!
What do you think? Father will have lots of grandchildren and you will have lots of sons and daughters, too. When matching time comes, should Father select candidates for marriage to his family out of French-speaking or Greek-speaking people of whom Father cannot understand even a word they speak, or those who, even though they may be Greek or French or Italian, can speak perfect Korean? We all laughed, that means we got the message: Learn Korean!
When Father was young, his relatives would show him their potential fiancees’ pictures, and speak with him very respectfully. Even though he was just ten, Father would look at the picture and just throw it away if it was not good. If Father approved, then they would get married. Father was accurate. Sometimes they would get married anyway, but the result would prove Father was right. This is the background of Father matching members. Do you think it was a good matching or bad? (Good.) Those who think it was a bad matching, raise your hands. (Laughter) There are bound to be problems in any marriage. The more you confront them in the first three years, the better.
ENCOUNTERS ARE HISTORICAL MIRACLES
Today’s topic is “Iny8n and Encounter.” Strangers meet, but they are not strangers; it is predestined. Today is cloudless, but let’s say there is a cloud here. Where do you think it was formed? Is it an American cloud, or was it formed in other parts of the world? It was formed by waters from different parts of the world, from Africa to the polar regions. Imagine that one particle evaporated from some black person’s saliva, and adjacent to it is evaporation from a white person’s urine. Do you think these waters will hate each other? Or refuse to shake hands, even though they are side by side? They must make friends, under those circumstances.
Are we all 1n debt or not? This brother looks healthy, with lots of muscle and fat-where does that come from? Maybe he stole it from someone. Does nature like to be eaten, mercilessly? We took a lot from nature, ate it and became nice and fat, without returning anything back to nature. What does nature think about us? It would call us parasites. Have we ever stopped to thank nature, to thank all things? This sister is glad to have a top coat, a shirt and underwear. Did it all come from the U.S., or elsewhere? Have you ever thanked Korea for sending this merchandise to you?
Look at it this way. ln America they work eight hours and go home. 1n Korea they are desperate; their lifeline is with their product, and they are more serious than are other nations. If you go to Itaewon, even in the evening, you can be measured and told, “come tomorrow morning.” You go at ten in the morning and your suit is there waiting for you. When do you think they did the work? They prepare the component parts separately, and therefore can assemble a suit from the parts, within two hours. Many factories work throughout the night, not just the tailors.
In five thousand years Korea has been invaded by the big nations of China, Russia, Japan and America, but never lost its identity. But it is difficult for Koreans to become one. Once they become one they can defeat anybody. No one can make them into one, except me. (Applause.) Do you think that is more difficult than bringing communist and democratic countries together, as Father did? Good question, you say. But consider: North and South Korea were one 40 years ago, and they use the same language.
There is one difference between Father and Kim II Sung. Kim II Sung started big, but now has come down. However, he is still famous and has a lot. Father started from nothing, and everyone persecuted him, but Father increased, and is as big as Kim II Sung now, if not bigger. (Bigger.) Father’s foundation is bigger, with Japan, Korea, and Russia. But Kim II Sung observed Father so much throughout the years. When they shake hands, one thing is for sure: Father will never follow Kim II Sung and he knows this.
Everything develops according to its harmonious inyon. Nobody knows who will meet whom in the next moment, but when they meet it is a good destiny and they learn to get along together. How many tens of thousands of years of preparation did it take for these two sisters to end up sitting next to each other here? This is a historical encounter, a miracle. We may not know it, but the spirit world is like a computer which, when you push the button, will reveal the tons of records concerning what it took to bring these two together. There is no area it does not cover. Perhaps at some point the two, sister A and sister B, came very close but did not make it. Now the two are together here. All of you who are here did not come a straight way. Your ancestors clubbed you to bring you here now.
When you were born, wherever and whenever, did you ever have the slightest notion that you would meet Father here today? If someone planned to find a way to sit with Father, how many years would it take? But we have hardly done anything, and we find ourselves here. The background behind us is not simple. On the universal level there was plenty of work for each of us to be here. Do you think you can dismiss the brother or sister sitting next to you under such circumstances? Can you say what is going to happen, what good things? Who knows, maybe she will become First Lady of a country. Think of ten or twenty years from now and cherish this moment. Don’t just think of today or tomorrow in treating each other.
PROPERLY ARRANGED INYON
Why did it take thousands of years to make such a meeting? It is because the goal of the meeting is so big, that nature and history had to work through thousands of years of inyon to get you here. Now you arrived here, not knowing this has all taken place, and you doze off. Spirit world is nervous watching us. Imagine that your encounter with Father and everyone here has required lots of sacrifice, even your ancestors being killed so that you could work your way up here. Then how serious is our meeting here? Once we understand this background, we realize that indemnity is a natural thing, and that if there is no indemnity, maybe I am not going the right direction. Then for a bigger cause we can say, “Father, I am ready to accept more suffering and more indemnity.” If you do, then there will be more good inyon working out for a higher level of encounter.
When Father came to America he knew that much inyon was here. Father properly arranged the inyon, relating it with the situation of the nation as a whole, knowing so much history behind the scenes and in spirit world. Father did his very best to bring everyone the highest blessing, putting everyone in the best possible position. Based upon Father working day in and day out for this, Father has come to be loved by others who are saying that even at the sacrifice of their own lives they cannot leave Father. That kind of strong relationship has come about. Father knew that when he came to America he would meet some offspring from the Mayflower. He thought about how to meet such people, and how to lead them to the top of Heaven. Before even noticing his own suffering Father only thought about fulfilling his part of the responsibility to the offspring of the Mayflower or other American people who came into his church through inyon. A person who does this will receive all the blessings of the universe.
After Danbury, Father thought, “Whom will God bring to meet me first?” Father was expecting that. Even today there are former inmates visiting Father. When you have that kind of attitude throughout your life, you have no room for complaint. If you bump into someone on the street, even a troublemaker, instead of fighting you should think, “What is this situation going to bring to me?” Then suddenly you look around and see someone there. It is the son or daughter you lost many years ago, because of war. That so-called accident can happen to all of us. If this crazy person had not bothered me on the street, then I would have missed my lost son and never had another chance. Who is making that man act crazy? He may not know himself, but something is making him act that way, for my sake. That is good inyon.
There are two kinds of people. One immediately fights and retaliates and ruins his whole day when this kind of inconvenience comes. The second thinks philosophically: “Why did this come to me? What do I deserve? What can I expect from this?” We must know that this inyon and encounter has a great significance.
If it were not for three years imprisonment in North Korea, Father would never have known what communism really is. Maybe like everyone else he would have thought, “Oh, that is just another philosophy,” and dismissed it. But by three years in prison Father could come to understand the minutest detail of the nature of communism, and could decide to liberate communism, the enemy of God, with his own hands. Today, everyone is wondering why in less than one year a miracle has happened in the world. It is not a miracle. Father knows and he worked for it.
This grand principle applies even to daily life. Just an innocent happening, an accident, depends upon your attitude toward inyon. If you live like that, your life will improve.
We can’t pray on the way to Belvedere, “Please God, prevent an accident from happening to me.” Rather pray, “Please lead me in Your Will.” We do have accidents. Maybe that’s His Will, and as a result of that we gain a higher level. We are bound to get to a higher level if our mind is basically good. Who knows what will happen in the future. In the event of a tragedy, there are two ways for us: either complain, or continue on contemplating what chance this offers me. Who is the wise person, the sagacious person? The wise person does not complain.
Father knows one thing: our life, whatever it may be, is a course of indemnity. Whether we approve it or not, it’s indemnity. It’s bound to be. So if the indemnity goes the normal way, it takes a normal amount of time. Everybody wants to quicken it. But how? By something extraordinary happening, then it quickens. So we have to expect that to happen.
Human history is like a sine curve. Let’s say one is smooth and one is saturated, complicated. Which curve do you want to follow? The simple curve will take thousands of years. The other, saturated way means you are always busy, with no time to be complacent, but it only takes a hundred years. Which way do you prefer? There are many different combinations of curves. Sometimes you go up, sometimes down. Shorter indemnity means that even though you think today is miserable, tomorrow will be worse, and the next day even worse. Which do you want: a smooth life which requires thousands of years of indemnity, or short, which gets it over with?
(Short.) When you receive glory, that period will end and you must go down before you can go up again. Established Christianity suffered for 2,000 years, then went up in America. Now it has come down again. Conversely, the Unification Church started from the deepest suffering, but then went up.
10,000 YEARS OF HAPPINESS
What was Father’s motto? “Within this twenty years, let us indemnify 2,000 years.” Father actually invited opposition, saying, “If you are going to oppose, then oppose me now, when you are at your strongest.” Thus Father set the condition to be able to say: “You persecuted me for twenty years, and at the end of the persecution if you are stronger you can have your way. But if you are weaker, then you must listen to me.”
So this pain of twenty years is incredible. The ground on which the Empire State building is built was dug up and pounded, laid with pipes and wires. That ground must have said, “What are you doing to me? I’ve never had so much torture.” Later when the Empire State building was erected, then it said, “Had I known this, I would have asked for more pounding, because then I could be a taller building.”
When Father was breaking the ground and laying the foundation, all Unification Church members said, “Oh, I don’t like that, why do I suffer like this?” How much more proud will one be if one is right at the bottom center of the foundation. We will say that if we had known, we would have volunteered for that. No matter how tall that building is, no point is greater than that person who is at the deepest bottom.
Are we pursuing ten thousand years of happiness or ten years of happiness? (Ten thousand.) Is that going to be easy? (No.) Should we accomplish the suffering in a condensed time or a long time? (Condensed.) Ten years or one year? If you say one year, that means ten thousand times more suffering than we had in the past. Do we want that? How about American women? Do you have that kind of endurance?
(Yes, Father.) American women speak too soon. How can you take that indemnity? Chinese women bind their feet. With small feet they cover long distances. But American women have big feet. Chinese women will walk many years, and still continue to walk. American women will ride in the car, go around the obstacle, and call it a day. They will say, “I’ve seen it; I’m going around it.” Maybe you saw a mountain, but you never bothered to go see what ore is inside-you just went around it. True? (Yes.) Do you think diamond mines and gold mines are found lying next to the highway?
The Chinese woman will go thousands of miles to find her husband and lost children. This is a great characteristic of Oriental attitudes and philosophy. Because of this, they understand the thousands of years of preparation behind one hour’s meeting. Therefore, they take it very seriously and endure and endure. The Oriental person first listens you out, because he is interested in how you came to that meeting. The Western concept is opposite: “Hello, ha ha. I like you; get close to me, ha ha ha.” So which attitude will lead us to the blessed position more surely? (Oriental.)
INHERIT THIS WAY OF LIFE
A Unification Church member should not be lightweight. You should be heavyweight. You shouldn’t be so happy. Always think, if you laugh in a big way there will come a time when you will cry in a big way. If there is day, night is bound to come. The peak of a civilization, too, will always come down to a certain point, and a new one will start. What does the world say, that the Western civilization is starting anew? Or that the Oriental is starting to flourish? (Oriental.) Five thousand years of preparation is there, and now the new era is in the making. So we have to take Father’s words today very seriously and practically, because Father wants to prepare us for the forthcoming trend of the world, in which we Unification Church members must embrace the world in the Oriental way, the deep, contemplative way, understanding the background of thousands of years, not just as if it is a chance happening.
By the same token, so many Moonies think, “Well I have done so much for so many years, now I will be carried on Father’s back.” That is the end of their development. Whereas those who think, “Father, you raised me up, now I will carry you on my back,” will prosper forever and ever. Is this a correct statement? Father has been carrying us on his back but he cannot do that forever here in America. Now he has done all he can do and should do for this country.
How deeply has inyon manifested for Father’s encounter with America? We must understand how great a mistake we made in the past, unknowingly throwing inyon with our shallow thinking. The universe, looking at us, is very disappointed. We have to lead life in such a way that when God sees us, He will say, “Yes, I know how much you suffered and yet went steadfastly on the right course.” This is the formula for success.
We know that we should never budge no matter what happens, and endure and take seriously this inyon. You will inherit this way of life from Father, pledging, “Father, from this time on, I will conduct my life in your way. I never understood before, but now I take this way as my own.” Those who pledge to never forget their responsibility, raise your hands. Thank you.