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6.3 Hoondokhae (gathering for reading and learning) and the education of all humankind
While reading one volume of my sermons every day, parents have to tell their children that the contents are excellent. The collection of my sermons contains teaching materials for your children. You should encourage them to read my words, saying, "True Father shows us the way to be great people and his words are full of hope. As I'm giving you this set of books as a gift, read them whenever you have the time."
(273-177, 1995.10.22)
My words are not spoken by me. Heaven spoke through me. You will be moved by those words wherever and whenever you hear them. They are different from other speeches. I am not alone. Since I have the intention to speak from a position where I tune the vertical with the horizontal, the mind and body becomes a resonant body. Vibration arises. If the body vibrates, the mind reacts likewise because they can become one. If the mind is touched, a great revolutionary change will occur in the body. That kind of energy exists. These are not Rev. Moon's words. The word dok as in hoondokhae has a mae (to sell) next to the eon (word). That means you must sell or give the word away. If you try to keep it, you will be in deep trouble. If you try to store or stack it up, you will receive punishment. A more valuable event than getting money by selling it will take place. Even if you do not sell it, distribute or share it out with others. This is the original meaning of hoondokhae. The word hoon in hoondokhae has a cheon (a stream) next to the eon (word). Water is the element of life in all living organisms. Water creates the green zone, evaporates to form the floating clouds, flows deep and wide, and equalizes the world. Dok means to sell centering on the word. If not sold, it has to be reaped and used. Just like water flows to become a long river and vast sea and has the energy to generate the cosmos, you must understand that these contents are found in the Word.
(289-295, 1998.02.01)
Anybody including politicians can do hoondokhae. Once moved by the word, if you are confident it can teach you to correct your own course of life, go ahead and do hoondokhae by all means. If you do not, you may live to regret it. You must do it. I have started a movement that can break through even myeon, tong and ban (subdivisional administrative units of a town). Making Korea the homeland of our faith, I am initiating this nationwide movement because native Koreans living in the homeland have to become the champions of hoondokhae, more than in any other nation.
(290-158, 1998.02.18)
If only hoondokhae is carried out, that is education. Whenever you eat, your family and relatives should often gather to read and learn the Word. Am I not diligent? Whenever I have a moment to spare, I will read the Word. Just as a bean sprout will keep growing taller if you water it, you will constantly grow bigger [in heart] without your realizing it.
(290-217, 1998.02.27)
In the future, parents will have to do this for blessed children. If a married couple is moved in their hearts by their parents, their children cannot help being moved, too. This is how a stake is driven into the ground. This is what hoondokhae is about.
(290-220, 1998.02.27)
The word hoon in hoondokhae has a cheon (stream) next to the eon (word). A brook signifies flowing water. Hoon symbolizes the "Water of the Word,"so it has to move to survive. If it remains stagnant, it will turn stale. Hoondokhae is "water." If you stagnate the "Water of the Word," it will cease to live. If you tether the Word of the Unification Church, it will decay. It would be better if you did not hear it. The word dok as in hoondokhae has a mae (to sell) next to the eon (word). You must either sell or give the word away. It will not do if the word settles down. You must divide it out.
(291-088, 1998.03.05)
There is no other way for education except through hoondokhae. Do you know everything about the Principle? Are you not even aware of its existence? After reading the book a few times, you should be able to repeat in thirty minutes the important portions of what you have read in one hour. You can do that as much as you like, say, for one hundred minutes. Therefore I repeatedly tell you to educate your heart through hoondokhae. I do not ask you to just skim over the book, but to study it in depth.
(291-142, 1998.03.06)
Hoondokhae is absolutely indispensable to you while on earth. It is already happening in the spirit world. Everything in the invisible world can settle down within one week. You must realize how urgent the things we have to fulfill on earth are. We have entered the age in which families can settle down through hoondokhae. This points to the significance of hoondokhae. Hoondokhae is a program for the liberation of your ancestors in the incorporeal world and your future descendants. The past, present and future is one. When your parents become grandparents there will be three generations, centering on you and your blessed children. Centering on the three generations, you have to create a bridge on earth and go over it. The present second generation are the overall persons-in-charge. The second generation blessed children must walk the correct path. If they have received the blessing, they must carry out hoondokhae wholeheartedly, transcending the mistakes of their parents.
(291-237, 1998.03.15)
My words are not words that merely flow away. They are like testimonies in a court of law. They are like the articles of a nation's constitution. They have to go through court judgement. Unreservedly, you have to love listening to the Word at hoondokhae and cherish hoondokhae in your heart. You are carving out your own realm of liberation. Should you perpetrate anything contrary to the law, how terrible it will be. Hoondokhae has to be more delicious than eating rice and more interesting than playing games.
(292-073, 1998.03.28)
You must not think lightly of hoondokhae, but consider it as more important than your meals. You should get a kick out of it like a hobby or an interest. Ask yourself where you are heading and what kind of life you are living now, and make an evaluation of it by seeing how well you score. You know yourself well. Hoondokhae tastes better than food and more realistic than your present lifestyle. You may forget about your meals, but you cannot forget about hoondokhae. Must you only take breakfast in a day, or must you have lunch and dinner as well? If you have time for dinner, you have to eat four times daily. You should eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and another time before going to bed. Your spirit grows then, otherwise it will be dark as a rainy day, and as suffocating as a foggy day. Hoondokhae must be regarded as more important than prayer, because it is a time when parents perfect their children.
(295-274, 1998.09.08)
The word hoon in hoondokhae is composed of a cheon (stream) and a eon (word). It is likened to the flowing water of a river. The more water moves, the more it vaporizes. It creates the green zone and is cultivating the vital nutrients that all animals live on. When you reflect on this truth, the problem is that nature would become a bleak desert zone if there were no cycles such as that which creates the clouds and rain. Hoondokhae in the Unification Church takes no rest, like the river water which does not cease to flow. The word mae (to sell) in dok (to read) indicates selling something good. Once you know the Word, you have to sell or share it. Villages will take part in hoondokhae competition in the future. I have opened the age of hoondokhae in which individuals, families, churches, communities, nations and the world will hang up the official award certificates for hoondokhae.
(296-217, 1998.11.10)
Now is the ripe time for having an impact on the grassroots level of our activities. As blessed families are all residing in their neighborhoods, we can harvest a big success by carrying out hoondokhae on a large scale. You have to pull out even the root. Will you do it at your own home, or will you just be bystanders? You have to know that I am doing such a thing in order to qualify you to do it at your own home. When you return, you should not just sit and do nothing. You have to pack your personal belongings and move. Anywhere you go in the spirit world together with a trace of tears shed for doing hoondokhae, if you follow the traditions of the True Parents, your children will inherit them. In every village throughout the entire world, every household has to extend the territory on which the True Parents and spirit world can cooperate.
(296-235, 1998.11.10)
The fearful thing about hoondokhae is that I spoke about it fifty years ago in a life-and-death situation. Centering on the Word, I spoke about it with an imploring mind that the whole world would burst open in response. I can feel the heart of Heaven and the cooperation of the spirit world very closely. Once you go to hoondokhae, people like us will be dragged into that kind of circumstances at the time of the speech, for the Word given yesterday or today is forever transcendent of time. That situation is necessary. Even though the morning sunlight is dramatically capricious, it is still that light, that world and that energy at all times. This universe is always grateful for being blessed with sunlight. In the same way, centering on hoondokhae, where can you bind the living, lasting, touching relationships of the eternal Heaven and world which transcend time and space? In the realm of life and death. A person who seeks death will live. Death belongs to me, but life belongs to God. People who have not been in such a grave plight cannot be used by God. They will just pass through history. You must put down your roots.
(296-329, 1998.11.18)
Now is the time to do witnessing with books. When you do hoondokhae, there is no need for teachers or ministers. If you do that day and night, your family will be a heavenly family.
(297-118, 1998.11.19)
When your heart is moved frequently doing hoondokhae, you must say, "I've got to let others feel moved like the way I did, or much more than that." How many times should I do that? A person doing it a thousand times will be far more deeply moved than someone who has done it only a hundred times. True Mother is the same. If I have my manuscript prepared, I will normally read it three to ten times everywhere I go and be engrossed in the Word. I will even tell True Mother to do more than I. After reading it five to ten cycles, I feel deeply moved. If I read it all night, I will be even more moved. If I shed tears while reading it, my audience will be easily moved to tears, too. I therefore encourage you to read these awesome contents that can become wonderful lecture materials everywhere you go. I am more industrious in hoondokhae than anybody else. When you listen to my speech, you have to be grateful that Heaven is standing in a painstaking, righteous position. You do not feel that, though. You always feel burdensome and cover the sunlight with a hat, but you cannot stand in the sun with your hat off. Despite extending and developing your lifeforce completely centering on sunlight, you screen it off. After the 360 million-couple blessing, when you were appointed to be national messiahs, you expressed that you did not know how to educate your members. I gave instructions for you not to teach them, saying, "As you know the words I've spoken and the path I've walked, simply do hoondokhae by directly reading my words." Do you think that hoondokhae itself suffices? Even when lecture competitions are held in Korea centering on hoondokhae, you cannot imagine such things are transpiring in the world. It is the creation of a new world of culture. Doing hoondokhae carries such meaning.
(301-181, 1999.04.26)
I am initiating hoondokhae in order to hand down my traditions. My words do not just drain away. They are contained in all the practical textbooks with which you can settle down on earth. You have to inherit the heavenly traditions, day or night. After knowing the traditions, you have to put them into practice. Through hoondokhae, you are taught to inherit the traditions. Keeping pace with the suffering path that Rev. Moon and Heaven have walked, and acting accordingly, you have to establish your own family and nation. This is of paramount importance. Nobody will interfere. Without becoming a center yourself, even the spirit world cannot cooperate with you. Hoondokhae teaches the traditions True Parents have set up and the traditions that can consummate their Will. After familiarizing yourself with the traditions, you have to realize them yourself. They soon end in smoke, but by firmly laying down the root in your foundation of life, the tree will grow bigger and taller. No matter how occupied with work I am, I have never missed hoondokhae even once. I was busy yesterday morning, so I did hoondokhae in the evening right through until after twelve midnight. Exhaustion is no matter. It is like respiration. The spirit world is encamped in our background and our ancestors are encircling us. Before them, your family has to become an example of family traditions that can fulfill your responsibilities on earth. To do that, you have to surpass blessed families in the spirit world in the area of teaching and practicing the traditions. If not, you will have to pay indemnity.
(302-278, 1999.06.26)
Doing hoondokhae is in a way preparing myself for the next world. Can our long history of thousands of years proceed without me? It is a test. I laughed when you asked me how you should educate the blessed families of the 360 million couples. Will you actually teach them? Within ten years you will pack your bags and run off! Before passing on to the other world I will leave behind my words.
(303-079, 1999.08.08)
So far, there has not been any education of character, but only technical education. Materialistic, technical education totally removed all contents related to human values and God's nature. However, it must link itself to a technology that can pattern after God's model of creation, centering on God's ideal of creation. If not, the result will be the denial of God. Considering this issue in general, character education and then religious education has to be included in the curriculum. Looking at literature, philosophy and technology, character education is based on a materialistic perspective. They say that the material precedes the spiritual. Philosophy and character education have to become one, and be connected to technical education and the scientific world. The question is how to integrate them. As technical education is a field of the relative aspect, we can link it to the concept of God only if the contents of the Principle of Creation - which states that a subject and an object are related centering on love since all things of creation exist in a pair system - are included. They should not be separated. You have to educate young people through hoondokhae and workshops. In the present age of democratic and communist ideologies, only Godism can resurrect them anew. Godism is the Head-wing ideology. To verify whether this is true, we do hoondokhae. Hoondokhae is a training workshop to acknowledge this.
(315-134, 2000.01.28)
Wives have to be assiduous in doing hoondokhae. By doing hoondokhae, women can bring the satanic world under their control and manage everything. Transcending the democratic and communist worlds, they stand in a position to educate people as their own sons and daughters. As the father stands in the bridegroom's position of giving the blessing, that is the textbook. Centering on the family traditions and true love, you have to give birth to true sons and true daughters and raise them up. You have to engraft the sons and daughters of the Cain-type world with those of the Abel-like world. Switching positions, Satan will fall.
(315-230, 2000.02.03)
God is the true parent, true teacher and true owner of all humanity. Your family traditions have to begin in Heaven. As you are taking over God's position in becoming a parent, you have to teach the duty of love. You have to be a teacher who educates on a family of love or the ideal of a nation, and you have to nurture people qualified to be owners. Schools have been implementing technical education. Education on the true nature of man has to be carried out at home. Only then can the original blood lineage be inherited. You have the grave mission of leaving behind a succession generation that resembles your parents through a long blood lineage of thousands of years. This is not fate, but a destined responsibility. Neither parents nor siblings can be exchanged. Can Adam swap his spouse in the Garden of Eden? No. Knowing this principle, by establishing the family tradition before Heaven, you have to purify the blood lineage centering on love, and the fruit of a true parent and true teacher.
Next, you have to bequeath the position of a true owner of a blood lineage of thousands of years. You have to understand its significance. Bearing that in mind, please love and study the Word. When you have reached the stage where you can answer all questions asked of you, you will not try to escape but follow faithfully even though I might test your faith. If God is with me in the heavenly kingdom I am going to and in the direction that I have shown, then He will be with you, too. As God protected me so that I could survive in times of trouble and persecution, I know He will give you divine protection, setting you up in the owner's position where your family can prosper for millions of years and going beyond your descendants and nations, and He will safeguard the unified world. Thus you have to do hoondokhae and study my words seriously. If you possess something remarkable, you have to teach everything to your relatives who share your blood lineage.
(316-171~172, 2000.02.11)
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