Cheon Seong Gyeong Ⅱ - 408. Peace between Mind and Body 1 The place where you live is full of gangsters. Your mind and body are fighting each other. So if you are a husband and wife, there will be four gangsters within your couple. Where there are ten family members, there are twenty gangsters. With 3.6 billion people on earth, there are 7.2 billion gangsters.
No one can even dream of peace under such circumstances. God is wise and He understands the logic of this situation very well. So where did He place the origin of peace? He works on it within individuals through religion. This reveals the greatness of God. He did not place the origin of peace on the world level or on the level of a nation or tribe. He placed it within individuals.
The peace between the individual’s mind and body is that eternal origin. Then who could separate a man and woman who are born of God and who attain that peace? Who could tear apart their completely united family? Who could pull apart a perfected man as plus and a perfected woman as minus who totally attach themselves to each other with the force of God’s love? The foundation of such a family in which all are rooted in the love of God, the source of all power, has yet to appear on earth. (160-264, 1969.05.17)
2 Religion addresses life-and-death issues for individuals. These are issues such as: “Will I die or will I live?” and “How will I find the criteria for mind- body harmony and freedom in the mind-body relationship?” This is because liberation of the society, nation and world comes only when individuals have found their place of liberation, their right to freedom and self-governance. This is the only way that avoids contradictions of logic. But how can you possibly find freedom within, while your mind and body are constantly fighting? (187-119, 1989.02.05)
3 Humanity desires a peaceful world. Yet even after hundreds of millions of years there is no peace. For fallen people, peace is not possible. Who is the owner of peace? In order for a family to be peaceful the mother and father, who are the owners of peace, have to teach their family members the origin and contents of peace and how to put these into practice. We will not find eternal peace until this happens.
Did our human ancestors find peace? Adam and Eve became enemies. You who have received the blood of those enemies endure constant batdes between your body and mind. Why did your body and mind start fighting? The fight began because the original source of peace was lost and destroyed.
How could people who have not found the criteria for peace between their body and mind find peace in the world? People who fight are expelled from their family, their nation and the world. Today, with the entire human race battling between mind and body, how can anyone go to the kingdom of God? No matter how much you focus on the mind, you will not get there. The purpose of religion is to bring unity between the body and the mind. (347-225, 2001.07.05) |