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5.2 Koreans - Awaken!
Today, we must transcend all barriers and boundaries with the idea of unification and stand forth before all thirty million people of the Korean Peninsula. We must educate all youths on the street. That is how urgent our situation is. We must do it. Otherwise, I see nothing but impending ruin.
(015-341, 1965.12.07)
We should intensify our work in training and educating people in schools and government offices. Is it impolite to impose yourselves upon those people? You, men, think about it. Is it rude to do so? You people in the audience, what do you think? How good do you feel about it? Is it good enough to risk your own life? You have no time to think. You should be very serious.
(017-153, 1966.12.11)
When you go out to fight, do so in the position of parents. Even if you are fighting against your enemies, ultimately, they are like your children. Our motto is to shed sweat for the earth, tears for humanity, and blood for heaven with the heart of a parent and the body of a servant. Only by such means can we fully restore the world. God's highest goal of education is to raise us up to be that kind of people.
(017-338, 1967.04.30)
Koreans distinguish themselves individually, and you can tell that they are a people of excellent quality. However, Korean parents do not bring up their children properly. Hence, as their second parents, we should educate them to be become great people. That is what the Unification Church must do.
(018-237, 1967.06.11)
Even if I should die, Unification Thought will endure. The time of working centering on churches has passed. It is time to work at the national level. Do not think that we are going to enter into politics. That is not the case. We must educate people, teaching them the right ideology and how to live good lives. During the 1970s, we must teach Unification Thought to all Koreans. Please understand that this is what God wants us to do.
(027-245, 1969.12.24)
Day and night we need to be thinking of how to restore Korea, both south and north. External things are not the problem. Even if South and North Korea were unified, how would we educate young people who grew up in North Korea? They are completely fanatical communists. How shall we turn them around and inspire them to resist Maoist and Stalinist communism on our behalf? How shall we make them the Cains who surrender to and fight on behalf of Abel? Unless we achieve this, we cannot bring about the unification of Korea in the truest sense, resolving all historical resentment to stand before Heaven and make our appearance before the world once again as a unified sovereign nation. That is the destined path we must go.
(030-021, 1970.03.14)
We first launched our Victory Over Communism (VOC) education during the busy farming season of rice transplantation. If the farmers neglected their work that week, the entire annual crop of their village would be ruined. Don't you think so? Would they not run away saying, "Why do you bother us at this busiest time? Why don't you come in late fall or in the winter?" We have now very successfully held the tenth workshop against all the odds. The spirit world is willing to help us, the ancestors having no choice but to support us by working through their descendants on earth and inspiring them to attend the workshops. Once they have received education here, they come to miss the workshop.
(034-041, 1970.08.29)
CARP is developing into a powerful organization on the campuses. Academics are beginning to realize that we are a growing concern they need to grapple with and know more about. Recently, 55 scholars attended our Unification Thought seminar at the Christian Academy House. There was an article about us that will certainly become an issue. All that did not come about through our own design. They came to us and listened to our teachings and concluded on their own that the Unification Thought is the truth that can unify world religions, and that it is the new guiding principle for college students and the young people to sort out the problematic issues of the lack of values and the absence of morality. They were excited after they learned what we had to tell them. Some of them said that they would have brought some prominent academics along had they known the program would offer such rich content.
(039-269, 1971.01.15)
By the time people get to the forty-day workshop, they usually reach the point where they can offer their lives for God's Will. At the end of the seven-day workshop, people normally decide to leave the past behind and work for God's Will. I make it a point to interview them to ascertain their intentions and resolutions. Those willing to devote their lives for God's Will later proceed to attend the twenty-one-day workshop. Would they be willing to die for God's Will at that stage? That is the question. Our education turns on the issue of whether or not we are willing to devote our entire life for God's Will. After the twenty-one-day workshop, people should feel strongly that they are God's children. We are raising them up to that level.
The forty-day workshop empowers people to work on God's behalf, pour everything of themselves into fighting for Him. Just as God has been laboring assiduously in leading the providence of restoration throughout history, taking responsibility for everything, people need to be helped to rise to the level where they are, in fact, working on God's behalf. Let us systematize our curriculum in realizing these objectives. You may explore various options in searching for the optimum. Adopt an eclectic approach in studying the Western and Oriental educational systems.
(075-093, 1975.01.02)
In 1967 I told the Korean Intelligence Bureau that they should put me in charge of educating North Koreans, who, as young people who have tasted the bitterness of the communist regime, need to be enlightened by the Victory Over Communism (VOC) theory. However, the Intelligence Bureau scoffed at the idea of getting the Unification Church to run a reorientation program for North Koreans. You cannot imagine their contempt. Despite all that, I have continued to expend our foundation.
I have long emphasized the need for us to hasten the process of public education for the local authorities. Those 70,000 personnel out there can become the branches that will sprout leaves, namely the citizens under their jurisdiction. To employ communist terminology, they are the "cells" that must come alive. When all the leaves are eaten up by bugs and die, the branches, trunks and roots will eventually die, too. What should we do with those 70,000 people? You may not know it, but many high ranking officers from the air force, the army and the navy, including well-known generals and admirals, as well as heads of veterans' associations, have undergone our CAUSA training program in America.
(135-253, 1985.12.12)
In many respects, the new spring breeze is blowing in over humankind, particularly in the free world. I don't know if they have a spring breeze in the communist world. Their time, however, is over. They failed in what they had set out to do in the beginning. The new spring breeze is blowing centering on Rev. Moon's ideas. New buds are sprouting in your hearts. We have begun educating grassroots leaders of all the towns in Korea. From where do flowers bloom? From below? Where? Flowers bloom from the softest part of the branch. The families of those grassroots leaders are like the new buds sprouting forth. If they blossom into flowers, Korea will have hope. Seoul will not be overrun by spies. Without educating the grassroots leaders properly, we cannot liberate North Korea. They will dominate us. It is an urgent matter to educate the grassroots leaders. We must plant the new seeds. When the buds sprout forth centering on the leaders we educate, we must make them grow into trees.
(142-255, 1986.03.12)
I have built this foundation in the face of worldwide opposition. We will be able to work dozens or even hundreds of times faster in a more conducive environment. I speak to you in this way because I consider you as my family. Please be reminded of your responsibility and start sowing your seeds in the hearts of the 120,000 grassroots leaders of Korea. The International Federation for Victory Over Communism (IFVOC) and the Unification Church are to play their roles in influencing and inspiring politicians and in providing them with a clear and positive action plan in dealing with communism. Seeing the Korean government being plainly adrift, we have no other recourse than to take the initiative and be firmly rooted in order to get a good grasp of the situation.
(142-256, 1986.03.12)
I ordered the books Victory Over Communism Theory, Unification Thought and Unification Principle for you, paying for them out of my own pocket for you to use them as textbooks in town meetings. If these teachings are disseminated, Korea will not perish. Korea has attained this standard of living despite the tragic Korean War and its devastating aftereffects over the following two decades because Koreans invested a lot in their children's education. Although universities have sometimes been disparagingly referred to as ivory towers education is undoubtedly important. We need to equip people with the right ideology. I know for sure that only then can Koreans go on to become world leaders.
It is not my ideology, but yours. With it you can guide people in any society, in any culture in any developed country. You can assimilate the culture of developed countries. Koreans are crazy about migrating to the developed countries. Whoever is armed with my teachings will excel overseas.
We need to train people over the next three years from 1986 through 1988. Following the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Olympics, within three weeks, Kim Il-sung will surely propose holding unified elections in both South and North Korea. The free world will welcome it, too. If that happens, South Korea will be pushed into a corner from which it will not be able to extricate itself. Having already organized themselves clandestinely and in advance, they will push for early elections to be held. Knowing the urgency of the situation, those of you sleep, drink or play will perish. Those who are not caught unawares will not fail.
(142-260, 1986.03.12)
Who can provide public education in Korea? I can. Some government officials announced that they had educated 195,000 people through the People's Movement for Reconstruction. In actual fact, that number included the 165,000 we had educated. They had asked my permission to incorporate our result into their statistics and I told them to go ahead. That is the state of affairs in the Korean government. Who is leading the New Village Movement? I was the first to organize agricultural cooperatives. This nation cannot be saved without some ideology related to the Unification Church. These days, the government is conducting forty-day workshops under the name of "New Village Education." The very idea of a forty-day workshop came from me.
(148-121, 1986.10.05)
The theory of communism is most extensive. It is no simple task sharing our ideas one on one with those coming from a philosophical background. Considerable experience is evidently required in analyzing and propounding Marxism-Leninism. Yet we must educate all the people in South Korea in a short time and increase the scope of education into North Korea once unified elections have been held. Once someone has been thoroughly indoctrinated in dialectical materialism, it is well nigh impossible to turn him around 180 degrees.
The South Korean government has been trying to re-educate captured North Korean spies who have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the communist ideology. When we teach them, they admit that we are right. Yet they have become exceedingly accustomed to their old way of thought, similar to smokers who know that their habit is going to kill them one day, and yet are unable to cut off from the addictive taste of nicotine. They would say, "You have failed to make it as delectable as my long held faith. How can you excise something that has for so long been a part of me? I know you're right. Based on your theory, I cannot deny that God exists. It is a fact that we all possess dual characteristics, as you say. I can understand that the First Cause possesses dual characteristics in the same way as resultant beings. But, it is not as tasty as my communist ideas." They don't like the taste. They are unable to free themselves from the thought patterns programmed into their minds for their entire life. Communists feel exhilarated by communist ideology but they don't experience that exhilaration with us. Exceptional efforts and sacrifices are needed to get old habits to die.
(172-190, 1988.01.21)
About 900,000 participants underwent our official four-day training program over the past twenty years through the activities of the International Federation for Victory Over Communism (IFVOC). We cherish the precious accomplishments of having helped so many people to completely revolutionize their lives. Apart from the efforts of the IFVOC another 2 million people were exposed to our ideas. Although not all of them joined the Unification Church, they still form an important base of positivity for our movement. Even the Korean government was not aware of the network we had set up, running like veins through the whole country.
(203-139, 1990.06.24)
More than a million people participated in our IFVOC three-day seminars. About ten million attend the IFVOC meetings every year. Altogether, some 40 to 70 million people have been contacted in one way or another at some point in time. You don't see them, but once the word is out that I am coming to speak, massive stadiums can be filled up with a hundred thousand people within three days.
(232-172, 1992.07.03)
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