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3.4 Go where your conscience leads you
Nobody needs to be taught the path leading to evil. Anybody can take that path without being taught. Because history started from evil, anyone can go the way of evil without any special education. What kind of education is needed there? It is automatic, and that is the reason why humanity is taught to choose and follow the standard of the conscience based upon morality and ethics.
Why is the education based on that? Even though the education is based on virtue and the power of the conscience, how many people actually base their lives on that standard? Evil can always be enacted even without an education. Anybody can get a perfect score.
(036-056, 1970.11.15)
Even obstinate people know their own mind, regardless of whether they act out the mind's intentions fully or not. Therefore, no education is needed in the world of mind. Your own mind knows completely whether or not you have done what you intended well or poorly. Nonetheless, if you make obstinate demands or insist on your own way, what will happen? You will inherit Satan's nature. It is like poisonous snakes coming and biting you. If poisonous snakes start to bite you, will you just sit still? In fact, inheriting Satan's qualities like that is far worse than being bitten by snakes. If you are bitten by snakes, you are the only one who dies. But if the world of the mind is corrupted, millions of generations are doomed to spiritual death.
(037-131, 1970.12.23)
Who is it who educates the mind? Have you heard anybody saying he or she attended elementary school or junior high school for the mind? The mind needs no education whatsoever. No matter how many laws there are today, none of them can teach a more correct or righteous way than the way of the mind. If somebody commits evil, his conscience prick him. The conscience is always straight. If someone is asked if his conscience is straight or crooked, no one will tell you that his conscience is crooked. Generally speaking, everyone thinks that his conscience is straight and upright.
(038-228, 1971.01.08)
Is education necessary if you want to engage in evil, or not? No education is necessary to become evil. Even without doing anything special, people will turn to all sorts of evil. All anyone needs to do is to follow the body, and without a doubt, he or she will definitely become a villain. He cannot even imagine himself becoming a good person.
(038-301, 1971.01.08)
Education is totally unnecessary if you want to become an evil person. Not only is education unnecessary, but neither is anything else. If someone wants to do evil or become evil, he will become evil whether you teach him or not. Even if you don't teach him to do evil, automatically he will learn how to do it. On the other hand, it isn't all that easy to become a good person even if you want to. Consequently, education is necessary to transform someone into a good person - to live a life doing good deeds. Because the directions of good and evil are exactly opposite to each other, the path to goodness is not easy at all. How good it would be if the path to good were easy!
(039-022, 1971.01.09)
To carry out evil, neither education nor discipline is necessary. Anybody can become the most evil person in the world even if they just step outside their house without any preparation. All you have to do is stick a knife into someone walking along the street and there you are. If you follow what your body tells you to do, you will want to kill or destroy everything in the world. You don't need education to become evil. Left by himself, a man can turn as rotten or corrupted as he wants. It's easy. However, in order to become good, a man will always have to pay a certain price in terms of discipline or sacrifice. This goes to prove that the world we are living in is evil.
(039-266, 1971.01.15)
The original mind knows. No explanation is required in the original mind. It can naturally understand, just like the north and south poles of a magnet automatically enter into give-and-take action. This is both great and wonderful. When the force of true giving combines with the power of true receiving, automatically a universal atmosphere of existence is generated. We call that atmosphere "nature."
(147-141, 1986.09.07)
If you go into the mind of an original man, you can see that God occupies the center of his mind. The mind is born inheriting the nature of the vertical heavenly parent. The mind born from the vertical parent must be unified with the body born through the horizontal parents. When the mind and the body become one at an angle of ninety degrees, the person can clearly know who God is, where Hell is, for example. Everything in Heaven and Earth becomes visible and understandable.
(187-117, 1989.02.05)
No education is necessary. Because it is vertical, the conscience does not need any form of education. The vertical can only stay in a single, unique point. Next, when the horizontal has completely been achieved, can you educate the horizontal entity to modify or adjust itself? Think about it. Those who think they can educate the horizontal, please raise your hands high. Whoever thinks that is crazy. Once it has become horizontal, it is already an eternal, unchanging matrix. The vertical is the same.
(211-231, 1990.12.30)
How much has the conscience been sacrificed for the sake of the body? Do you understand the situation of the conscience that has been trampled upon by the body for an entire lifetime? The conscience gets weary from looking after the person day and night. Nevertheless, if the body tries to do something evil, the conscience still steps in to block it. "Isn't it time you quit? Haven't you done enough? Don't you think you should listen to me now?" The entity that is closest to me, the entity that represents my parents, my teacher, my God, is the conscience. Education is not necessary for the mind itself, but for the body, it is absolutely essential.
(214-282, 1991.02.03)
What is the situation between the world of our conscience and our body? Our conscience knows all about goodness without being taught. For example, let us say that the rulers of five different nations each enacted a different constitution and decided on them as the standard of goodness for governing the people. Conscientious people would be able to judge who among the five rulers is more righteous. They could also measure which nation was the best, and which one was the worst. Because our conscience knows how to judge such things, it automatically follows the most righteous nation of the five.
What is the purpose of education? Is it to educate our conscience or to educate our body? Our conscience has the ability to discern which of the five nations is good, and which is evil. It always maintains its autonomous position and guides us from that place. But for our body, everything is in a state of chaos and confusion. Therefore, education is absolutely required in order to control and guide the body. But our conscience is already eternally settled in the subjective position, so what does it need in terms of education? The mind can tell if it meets a good person. If you meet a person once, twice, thrice, the mind knows if the person is good. "I'd like to become one with him!" it says. What about the mind uniting with the body? If the mind and body struggle, the world of conscience really does not like it. Our conscience is unchanging. The logical conclusion is that the spirit world, which does not change, has to work to accomplish its goals with the unchanging conscience as its foundation. When we approach the spirit world, as when receiving a revelation for example, our conscience stands in the horizontal position, and must be free from any turbulence before it can get connect naturally to the invisible, spiritual world. The connection cannot be made using the physical body.
(216-306, 1991.04.15)
Everybody without exception possesses the dual nature of the conscience and body. If you look at your own situation, you will see that the body sometimes acts against the wishes of the conscience. In those cases, the body and conscience fail to become one and keep fighting against each other. If they cannot find unity, there is no way to move towards the ideal. If we look at history, we can see that so far, nothing, not even education, has been able to stop the ongoing war between the conscience and the body.
(247-011, 1993.04.21)
Your conscience is better than your parents. It is better than me, Rev. Moon. It doesn't need any education, and you have one! The conscience is even better than God! The reason we need God is to be connected through love. When you are connected with love, you are always connected with God.
(252-151, 1993.12.29)
The absolute conscience is in God's absolute position. You don't need to ask anything of God. Have you ever seen anyone educating the conscience? Our parents cannot issue commands to our conscience. Parents intervene because our body commits a mistake, but if we think with our conscience, it will guide us by an even higher standard than our parents'. The conscience is the second God, so it has an even higher standard than our parents, and even higher standard than our teachers. There is no need to ask your teacher. There is no need to ask God. God does not teach us about our conscience. The conscience has already been taught everything. We have to think of our conscience in terms of absolute importance, otherwise there will never be a way to unite the mind and body.
(252-255, 1994.01.01)
Our conscience is the second God. I have never seen anybody who tried to teach their conscience, have you? If I meet someone, I always ask if he or she is a conscientious person. I ask the diplomats, I ask the politicians. Even the economists, I ask the same question.
(256-201, 1994.03.13)
Write this down as you shout out "My conscience is even better than my parents'." Then underline it in red three times or even a hundred times so that you will not forget. Our conscience does not need to consult our parents, for it thoroughly understands itself and knows what it is doing.
(257-116, 1994.03.13)
The conscience must be absolutely one in the position of the object that can attain the Three-Subject Thought. If it does not stand in a better position than our natural parents, our teachers or the king of any nation, it cannot become the object of God's love. It needs no teaching. You have to absolutely serve and attend it as the representative of God.
(259-041, 1994.03.27)
If all the countries of the world are able to say "The conscientious person advocates the omnipotence of the conscience, and brings the sphere of conscientious liberation, and is a victor for ten thousand years, Amen!", if the age comes when the conscience is held in greater esteem than even God, than parents, than anything in the nation, then the time will come when those whose consciences have been liberated will rule both heaven and earth. That is why I am teaching you that your conscience must come before your parents. Your parents may be separated from you if you have difficulties after getting married, but your conscience never leaves you, for eternity, and always guides you on the path to the heavenly world, your true hometown, with a love surpassing even your parents' love. Your conscience transcends your teachers. The world of conscience does not need any education or training. Have you ever heard a Minister of Education proclaiming the education of conscience? There is nothing about the path you must take that your conscience does not know. In anything you do, you must not act against your conscience. Acting against your conscience is the way to Hell. Your conscience is one step ahead of your teacher, one step ahead of God even. Why? Because it desires for the object of your love to be even better and higher than yourself.
(266-277, 1995.01.01)
Your conscience comes before your parents, before your teacher, before your master. You can live separately from them, but not from your conscience. If you obey the orders of your mind, of your conscience, you can become the direct son or daughter of God. For example, if you stand up, a shadow will form in the morning and in the afternoon, but at midday, there is no shadow. Because there is no shadow at noon, it means you are one with that position. You have to become one with the core, with the central entity if there is to be no shadow.
(291-183, 1998.03.11)
Your conscience comes before your teacher. In the whole world, is there any Minister of Education who seeks to nurture the conscience? The conscience of your original nature does not need to undergo education of any kind. It is planted within you to naturally show you the direction towards the ideal education you need for your life, but your body gets in the way. Because the relationship between your body and your conscience is severed, the body blocks the way and prevents your conscience from clearly pointing you in the right direction. Your conscience comes before your teacher. If you learn this through your own education, you will know whether something is true or not before asking your teacher, or before asking me. You will know whether you can stand in the position of welcoming the master of the eternal world, in the position that you have to settle in, or if you are above that position. Your conscience has all these attributes and is in a position higher than any master or king. No matter how great the teaching of that nation is, the conscience will not want to reside in that country. The wounds or injuries you get while sacrificing, serving or living a public life will be an essential and substantial form of education for both you and your future descendants.
(298-181, 1999.01.01)
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