True Parents’ Message and News English Version No. 27

天一國 4年 天曆07 August 2016 Article One

A Turning Point in the New Revolution in the Culture of Heart

By Lek Thaveetermsakul

s we experienced the fourth anniversary of True Father’s universal seongh- wa, we could feel that Heavenly Parent’s providence in the Cheon Il Guk era based on True Mother’s leadership is coming to a turning point, and a new revolution in the culture of heart is blossoming as we move toward the real- Aization of Vision 2020. I truly believe that the absolute unity between True Mother on earth and True Father in the spirit world has brought about the unity of heaven and earth and opened a gateway between the spirit world and physical world through which the power of True Father’s seonghwa and a cosmic, substantial Pentecost can manifest through True Mother here on earth. This will bring about a great revolution in the culture of heart and the rapidly expedite Cheon Il Guk’s realization. Based on True Father’s last wish for us to fulfill the heavenly tribal messiah mission and True Mother’s initiative to expand this mission work throughout the world, we have experienced a break- through in the expansion of successful heavenly tribal messiah activities in Asia and in Africa. We can also now see the potential for continuous growth in FFWPU membership and Cheon Il Guk citizens. This comes through not only our members’ sincere efforts and investment but also through the mobilization of the heavenly spiritual world, which caused a change of environment for witnessing on earth. To expand the good environment for witnessing and the restoration of Cheon Il Guk, True Mother initiated the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace through UPF. With the momentum from the great success of these inaugurations in all our regions, the role and mission of UPF as the Abel UN gains substance. To prepare future leaders, True Mother continued to invest love and care in young people by sponsoring the twen- ty-one-day Global Top Gun Workshop for more than a thousand participants. They took part in the Seonghwa Cultural Festival and in her launching of the revolution in the culture of heart by inheriting the heavenly heart of filial piety and becoming the light of the world. This great event brought about transformation in the participants’ hearts and created a sense of being one great family. The Seonghwa Cultural Festival was so beautiful, magical and heart moving. The magical manifestation onstage of True Father descending and True Mother ascending with a beautiful chandelier representing Heavenly Parent appearing signified the start of the new revolution in the culture of heart on earth. True Mother is committed to finding ways through ICUS to solve global environmental problems and restore nature to its original state. Her great vision and mission is to create the beautiful original heavenly garden of Cheon Il Guk in Cheongpyeong, as a visible model of heaven and a holy land for all humanity on earth, to be expanded to the entire world, realizing the kingdom of heaven on earth. At this year’s Cheon Il Guk Leaders’ Assembly, with reports of the development and potential of the thirteen key strategic nations plus Korea, Japan and America, the atmosphere was one of great excitement, expectation, hope, determination and unity as never before for the advancement and the realization of Vision 2020. We can already see systematic changes and development in our movement to a higher dimension during the past four years under True Mother’s leadership. In my experience in Thailand, breakthrough in the heavenly tribal messiah mission followed victory over the twenty-one-year course of national persecution in 2011. Great development occurred with the expansion of success- ful heavenly tribal messiah activities, opening the way to expand UPF and FFWPU activities to the national level with the cooperation and support of local and provincial government officers and religious leaders. This kind of phenom- ena is happening and spreading throughout many nations in Asia and even across continents to nations in Africa. This is truly like a new cosmic Pentecost in the Cheon Il Guk era. With our heart of filial piety to Heavenly Parent and True Parents and our unity with True Mother’s heart and wish for the realization of Vision 2020, in absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, we can all become one and together we can overcome all barriers, create miracles and achieve victory for Vision 2020.

Dr. Thaveetermsakul is a Cheon Il Guk special envoy to Thailand. True Parents’ Message and News

www.ipeacetv.com 天一國 4年 (天曆) 7月 August 2016 CONTENTS

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Article One G lobal youth 02 A Turning Point in the T rue Parents’ Messages 30 A Nationwide P ilgrimage for New Revolution Youth Seeking Heaven 04 in the Culture of Heart The Seonghwa 34 Peace Road 2016 Ceremony

T rue Children’s Messages ca o litions for peace 07 10 Our Spiritual Legacy To Honor 38 The IAPP and Nepal’s from True Parents Father’s Life, Search for Development We Must Complete and Peace

T estimony Our Responsibilities 16 The Intricacies of Love c onservation 18 Overview of the Events 44 Our Lovely Planet in the Throes of Fever

S eonghwa Memorial Pictorial 20 Major Events Festival to Commemorate the 4th Anniversary of the Universal Seonghwa of Sun Myung Moon, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind true Parents’ Messages 1

The Seonghwa Ceremony

These passages are the entirety of Cheon Seon Gyeong, Book 11, Chapter 3, Section 2.

4 True Peace ecause Unification Church share God’s love and dedicate our love. You cannot form bonds with members know that there is a love to him or her. For this reason, I others if you do not have a loving and spirit world, they are not declared the Day of Victory of Love. caring heart. You should even em- B afraid of dying. In the Unifica- Because love triumphed over every- brace death itself; otherwise, you tion Church, a funeral is called the thing, the ceremony is called the cannot form a relationship with God, Seunghwa Ceremony. It means to Seunghwa Ceremony. who governs the world beyond death. ascend nobly to heaven. The Seungh- In the Unification Church, we call a Without transcending death, you wa Ceremony is about ascension. To funeral the Seunghwa Ceremony. Our cannot enter God’s world of love. You inaugurate it, I had to rejoice more birth, the Holy Wedding Ceremony need to rise above the fallen realm; over the death of my son than I did at and even the end of our life are to be otherwise, you cannot find love no the birth of my sons and daughters. I offered to God. The complete fruit of matter how eagerly God awaits your had to experience the joy that God these is the Seunghwa Ceremony. arrival. Where there is hope, there is would have felt had his princes and However, you have no idea what an love. To have hope for the spirit world, princesses been born to him. If this embarrassment it is for a person to be you need to love, which will enable did not come to pass, my son could given a Seunghwa Ceremony and you to overcome even death. That is not have crossed over the hill of honored with many flowers if they why in the Unification Church, a death. At the place where he died, we, lived a careless life and did as they funeral is called the Seunghwa Cere- his mother and father, had to offer a pleased. Therefore, knowing the mony. It signifies breaking through prayer to celebrate the victory of love, Principle, we should lay our founda- Satan’s wall straightaway and ascend- that is, of his having achieved libera- tion by living in accordance with it. ing to heaven. tion. That is why, when Heung-jin Though Heung-jin passed away Throughout your life, you should passed away, I did not shed even a alone, I blessed him on earth on the have nothing to be ashamed of in single teardrop. Because he had a long fiftieth day after his passing—just as front of your wife or husband. You way to go in the next world, I held the on the Pentecost fifty days after the should be able to say, “I have kept Unification Ceremony for him. passing of Jesus, the one hundred and true to the tradition of safeguarding twenty believers gathered in the God’s pure lineage, in order to be- Seunghwa and Seonghwa Upper Room were filled with the Holy queath it to my descendants. I have A three-year course that to be estab- Spirit, as recorded in the biblical book lived my life according to the tradi- lished during the forty-year period of of Acts (2:1–4). With that, I made up for tion of building the kingdom of the restoration of Canaan on the all the incomplete work that Heung-jin heaven, where God desires purity, world level. Through this three-year would have done during his lifetime. I and now I am departing. I am coming course, we needed to reach the con- could not shed tears as I sent him on. I to you, my Father, and I entrust my- clusion. The second year was the most also made Mother pledge not to ex- self to you.” With that, the commemo- dangerous. It was the most difficult press sadness in front of Heung-jin ration of your death will be called a time. That is why, at that time, Heu- when he departed for the spirit world. Seunghwa Ceremony. ng-jin passed away and I went to If I had not prepared the way for him People do not know what it means prison. As the leader who had been at the time, he would have gone to the to die. They think it is a sorrowful shouldering responsibility for heaven spirit world in tragedy, like other occasion, but it is not. Death is a and earth, I was very serious. Satan people. He would then have had no transition from a lower-dimensional was the one who caused what had relationship with Jesus or the world of world to a higher-dimensional world happened to Heung-jin. Therefore, I the blessing amid a spirit world rife by crossing the bridge of love. That is first conducted the Unification Cere- with divisions. That is why I named why the Unification Church calls mony, then the Seunghwa Ceremony, his departure the Seunghwa Ceremo- death Seunghwa. To die is to ascend and then because I had to send him ny. That ceremony I conducted was to a higher dimension. It is possible on as my victorious son, I did not the original Seunghwa Ceremony. only through love. shed any tears until Heung-jin passed At Heung-jin’s Seunghwa Ceremo- A funeral in the Unification away. This is a dream-like story. ny, no one was allowed to shed tears. Church is called a Seunghwa Cere- However, in this world, things are This was especially so for True Par- mony. Since it is a ceremony of seung- actually happening just as I prayed ents. Later, in the United States, only hwa (ascension), you should not hold and just as I said. Unbelievable events after they received the report from on to the deceased and cry. When the are taking place. Korea that the Seunghwa Ceremony spirit of the dead person sees you cry When Heung-jin went to the spirit had been performed joyously, they over him or her, that spirit will world, I held the Unification Ceremo- shed tears of blessing as they bid him lament. He or she will say, “The ny and declared the Day of Victory of farewell. In this way, the history that people’s ignorance is a rope that ties Love. had been divided in tears was me down and prevents me from The love of the Parents treads on brought together in harmony with going on my way.” Since we know Satan’s world and overcomes death. tears. Therefore, no one should shed these things, we in the Unification That is why, as I viewed Heung-jin tears during a Unification Church Church call it a Seunghwa Ceremony. during the three days before his Seunghwa Ceremony. If tears are “Seunghwa” means soaring glorious- passing, I could not shed any tears. shed, the deceased cannot go the way ly to heaven. With the power of love, Even in the presence of our dead sons he or she is supposed to go. you should lift the deceased up. or daughters, we should be able to There is no hope without a heart of Instead of pulling the dead person

August 2016 5 members of the Unification Church will be known as a “wonjeon.” To enter the wonjeon means to find our way to the original palace within our mother’s womb. Where is your won- jeon? It is the inside of your mother’s womb before you were born. From the moment your father’s sperm met your mother’s ovum, although one was small and the other large, they breathed together, clung to each other and lived in joy. They dwelt together, holding on to each other and giving each other a boost. You need to pass through the ideal of that wonjeon. In the word wonjeon, the character "jeon" (殿) means house. It is the same character as the “jeon” in “gungjeon,” meaning “palace.” You are to find your way to the origin within God’s ideal, which down, you should lift him or her up. moment, others should congratulate existed before your mother’s ovum The Seunghwa Ceremony began you as much as they desire and then met your father’s sperm and you were with Heung-jin. The meaning of send you off. In that moment, they born on earth. “victory of love” in the Day of Victory should shed tears of joy, not tears of Do you know what a mortuary of Love is being victorious over death sadness. Every person has eternal life. table is? When a person dies, before through love. Other people’s mothers Compared to the span of eternity, the the body is placed in a coffin, it is would be overwhelmed with sorrow, period of three days after death is washed clean and prepared. Before writhing and wailing with deep shorter than a second. So the question the body can be moved into a coffin, it emotion, but Mother was required is, Why should you feel sad about it? is placed on the table and washed not to shed tears. We needed to hold If you lament during that time, your clean. Unless someone can unite in his ceremony within three days of his prospects for eternal life will vanish. heart with the deceased at that place, passing. We had to proclaim victory How dreadful is that? It is so true. It is the body cannot be placed in the over death. It is on this basis that we a time when people should shed tears coffin. Who is supposed to carry out can hold the Seunghwa Ceremony in of joy, not tears of sadness. This this task? It should be done by the the Unification Church. It is a ceremo- seonghwa refers to laying out the person who loved the deceased the ny of going beyond death and on- body of the deceased for three days most. The garments for the deceased ward to joy. Those who go through and offering devotions for his or her should be prepared with care in the Seunghwa Ceremony can easily passage into the spirit world. I have advance, and the deceased should be cross over all the valleys in the spirit changed the term Seunghwa Ceremo- dressed in them before being sent off. world. ny to Seonghwa Ceremony. The “cerements” are the garments The word “death” is sacred. This that the body is dressed in when word should not evoke sadness and The Wonjeon Ceremony placed in the coffin. A representative, anguish. That is why I announced Members of the Unification Church loyal friend, or filial son or daughter that I changed “seonghwa” to “seong- overcome fear of the spirit world. I should receive the fabric for the cere- hwa.” The character “seong” (聖) have no fear of death. The Fall ments and sew them. If the deceased means to be sacred or holy. We brought about death, so religion is to go to the kingdom of heaven, to a should no longer use “seung” (昇), should create the realm of resurrec- good place in the spirit world, he or meaning “to ascend.” “Seonghwa” is tion. Based on the Day of Victory of she should have upheld the tradition a term I have coined. The previous Love, we could begin holding the of a loyal patriot and loyal subject. A word, “seunghwa,” did not clearly Seunghwa (ascension) Ceremony. Korean funeral has this type of signif- reflect the sacredness of death, so I Also on that condition, we could call icance. The place where the Unifica- rectified it and announced that it is the burial site the wonjeon, which tion Church buries its dead is not now “seonghwa.” The moment of means “original palace.” It is not called a graveyard but a wonjeon. To entry into the spirit world is the time about dying but about direct passage liberate heaven and earth, we should when you enter the world of ecstasy to the kingdom of heaven. This palace desire to be buried in such a place. and victory. It is the moment, after is a link from the earthly nation to the The wonjeon refers to the original your life on earth has bloomed and heavenly nation. That is the meaning palace. It is not a place where just borne fruit, when you embrace the of “wonjeon.” There is no religion in anyone can be buried. Only those fruit of your life. It is a moment that the world with anything like it other who have been martyred or whose comes only once. That is why you than the Unification Church. life was on a comparable level can be should rejoice in that moment. In that The place of burial for deceased buried there.

6 True Peace true Parents’ Messages 2

To Honor Father’s Life, We Must Complete Our Responsibilities

True Mother’s address on August 19, the fourth anniversary of True Father’s seonghwa

August 2016 7 espected dignitaries from beyond the tribe, going beyond the ry of the providence of restoration, home and abroad, ambassa- nation and expanding to the world, which God had led! dors for peace, beloved bless- the providence is moving forward. Raising the people of the chosen R ed families and other mem- Asia, Africa—all thirteen regions— nation took four thousand of those bers from around the world, I love are alive with the fire of tribal messi- years. Having paid with various you! As you saw in the video, during ah efforts. All people on earth must conditions of indemnity, God raised the third anniversary of True Father’s hear testimonies to True Parents. the people to the level of a nation. On ascension, we told True Father we Only by knowing about the True that foundation, God sent his only would fulfill our responsibilities on Parents can all human beings find begotten son, Jesus. Yet Mary, who earth. “Father, please ascend to the hope. This is the fulfillment of each was a central figure, and the family of eternal resting place. Please comfort human being’s inherent wish. Zachariah, the family of Joseph, the Heavenly Parent, who has been lonely This is also Heavenly Parent’s Jewish leaders, the people of Israel— until now. Become an offering and dream; however, for six thousand they were all ignorant of Heaven’s become free. Please ascend to Heav- years, as reckoned using the Bible, all providence. enly Parent.” Do you remember that? human beings have suffered under Until then, countless human beings Satan’s domination. Human beings had been born on earth, but after four Afire with hope and activity have a strong yearning for heaven, thousand “biblical years,” for the first Our responsibilities on earth—what yet remain ignorant of how to find time in history, God sent his only are those responsibilities? They are to heaven. begotten son, the person he referred testify to True Parents, to love True to as “my son.” That being the case, Parents, and to convey True Parents’ The long hard path the central figures should have em- wish to all 7.3 billion people, so that This is because for a fallen human braced Jesus, the Messiah. They all 7.3 billion people around the world being to go directly to our Heavenly should have prepared the requisite can be aware of that wish. Are you Parent was not possible. A condition environment for Jesus; however, we doing that? of indemnity was required. How know the outcome. They failed in We have organized thirteen re- difficult must it have been, how fulfilling their responsibilities. That is gions based on their languages, and painful must it have been, that fulfill- why Jesus was crucified. On the cross, various events, such as tribal messiah ing the indemnity condition required Jesus said he would come again. activities, are taking place. Going six thousand years through the histo- What would Jesus do on his return?

8 True Peace tribal messiahs. Go beyond the tribe. Ahead of his time Go beyond the nation. Reach the Looking at this reality, True Father world. Establish a foundation on the worked in South America to resolve world level for True Parents. This is the issue of future food security and the status of blessed families world- resolve the climate change issue. wide. Right now, through the world’s Father said that we must apply these thirteen regions, this work in taking principles to solve humanity’s prob- place. lems. For decades, he led the history In addition, this year during Foun- of the providence. dation Day, we launched the parlia- People concerned about humani- mentarians association. In July, mem- ty’s future have provided many good bers of our movement in Nepal opinions, and they have identified launched the International Associa- many of the issues. However, when it tion of Parliamentarians for Peace, as comes to solving those issues, when it well as Peace Road, the great journey comes to providing viable solutions to linking humanity and peace. More those issues, the experts have not than a hundred and forty nations been able to do it. One cause is the participated in Peace Road, and with superpowers’ self-centeredness. Until the founding of the parliamentarians now, civilization has developed association, in each nation, virtuous science based on destruction, science men and women will be participating, that focuses on war. warmly welcoming these initiatives. Therefore, I want to revive the International Conference on the Unity Finish the year strongly of the Sciences. All issues afflicting The final launching of the Interna- the world must be resolved, because tional Association of Parliamentarians God originally created our beautiful for Peace will take pace in December. world with an ideal in mind. Effort Until that day, these initiatives will and a movement must develop to continuously take place. When we restore the world to its pristine state. look at these initiatives, the hearts of Experts and scholars must take the people all around the world yearn to lead and support this great initiative. go toward the realization of global That is how they can earn humanity’s peace, but no one has known how to trust. He said he would host the marriage reach that objective. Therefore, they Therefore, I want to restart the supper of the Lamb. What does that must wholeheartedly participate, ICUS conferences as the center of mean? That refers to the realization of support and happily join the Family academic, scientific studies. Through Heavenly Parent’s wish and the inher- Federation for World Peace. the media, I want to educate the ent dream of all human beings. Hu- masses and the population. I also man beings dream of finding True Remaining obstacles want to engage in work that can bring Parents, because only through True True Parents’ dream and every hu- about tangible results. Parents can human beings return to man beings inherent wish is to realize We all saw a beautiful performance being God’s true children. one family under God. However, on this stage today. In that perfor- today’s world is filled with various mance, one thousand two hundred Be heavenly tribal messiahs issues—religious conflicts, racial second- and third-generation Unifica- By their own effort, fallen human conflicts and territorial conflicts. All tion Church members from around beings cannot return to being true these conflicts stem from self-centered the world participated. They are the children of God unless True Parents actions. Furthermore, since the Indus- future leaders of the unification lead them. Fallen children cannot be trial Revolution, the livelihood of movement. Even though their lan- born anew into the kingdom of God; most people has changed. Economic guages and cultural backgrounds therefore, for the first time in six prosperity, material prosperity has may differ, they know True Parents, thousand years based on the founda- been achieved. Second, third, and and they can unite. Therefore, we will tion of the Korean people, the only fourth superpowers have emerged. realize Heavenly Parent’s dream and begotten son and only begotten Rather than focusing on the posi- True Parents’ dream and all humani- daughter were sent, and they hosted tive points, instead of focusing on the ty’s wish without fail. Until that day, the Holy Wedding and became the future, many problems are arising. we will march forward—we must True Parents, for whom humanity has One of them is climate change. If march forward. yearned for so long. humanity is to survive, the Earth Today, on the fourth anniversary of Therefore, what path must these cannot be laid to waste. Most import- True Father’s ascension, let us em- people of Korea choose? All of you in ant, in terms of material things, are brace this great mission in our hearts. blessed families, who have received sunshine, water and air. These are Let us make a firm determination that the blessing ahead of others, please decreasing; climate change is affect- we will realize it! This is my request fulfill the responsibilities of heavenly ing these. of you.

August 2016 9 True Children’s Messages

Our Spiritual Legacy from True Parents

Sun Jin Moon, international president of FFWPU, read hoondokhae as a starting point to interacting with Global Top Gun Youth Workshop attendees, aged fourteen to twenty-four, on August 2. What follows are some excerpts from the two hours she spent with them.

C learly, FFWPU International President Moon connected deeply with her audience.

10 True Peace Early on, Sun Jin nim told the audience, "No podium, today. If you're on the ground, I'm on the ground."

oday, I brought True Fa- kind. Even when we were growing True Parents’ love and feel it deeply in ther’s autobiography to do up, we never saw our parents. True our hearts…. hoondokhae from.... Last Parents were always doing their night, True Mother talked public mission. We were raised by Following hoondokhae Tabout what it meant to be True Par- brothers and sister who were young Is there anything that came out of this ents, the course she had to go members. So, in many ways we didn’t chapter that anyone has a reflection through and the course that True get that parental connection. I am on or wants to make a comment on? Father had to go through to pave the sure many of our brothers and sister Yes, brother in the front, and where way spiritually so that all your par- here, because your parents are mis- are you from? ents could join, be reborn and engraft sionaries, working hard for the sake Mr. Sousei: Japan [Speaks in Japa- to the true olive tree. All of you are of the world, they were not able to nese, summarizes in English] I think that miracle; when Mother was give you this kind of parental love. a filial heart toward heaven is needed talking about six thousand years of Does anyone have that kind of experi- to be a true child. human history, when Heavenly ence here? Yeah? Show of hands… Yes, absolutely; he is absolutely Parent was searching for his children, There is no shame here; we are just right. Even the official name True each one of you is that precious gift, all one family. So if you haven’t re- Mother gave this workshop [참부모님 you are that amazing child that True ceived that love or if you have re- 주관 HJ천원 특별수련, True Parents’ HJ Parents have been waiting for, Heav- ceived that love, you know how Cheonwon Special Workshop]… I’ll enly Parent has been waiting all precious is it. Right now, as we are tell you a little story: True Mother throughout history for…. one family sharing together, if you came to Hawaii and she was saying, know a brother or sister who hasn’t We need true families; we need true Amidst hoondokhae had that kind of love, show them children. So, she took “Hyo,” which “True love cannot be learned in any more love. Give them that kind of you know… Hyo Jin oppa, Hyo Jin place other than in the family.” That is love if you know what it feels like. nim, is the eldest son. True Mother a powerful paragraph. I am sure That is the power of passing down had fourteen children. Hyo Jin nim is many in the second generation here this legacy of love. We are here all the eldest son and his name means struggled in your family life too, together to support each other, not to “filial piety.” And, then, all the way to because many of your parents, like judge each other but to uplift each the youngest daughter, Jeong Jin. Her True Parents, have taken the path of other so we can all get to the point name means “heart.” So Mother indemnity for the sake of human- where we can receive God’s love and wanted to include the whole span of

August 2016 11 all the children because to create a filial heart is the most important task that all of us have. That is the wish she had. If you think about it, True Mother and True Father had to pay the indemnity for Adam and Eve, and it took six thou- sand years to restore the position of true parents—the husband and wife level. Now imagine that our responsi- bility is to be restoring Cain and Abel and become true children under True Parents. What happened to Cain and Abel? Do you know? They fought, right? Cain killed Abel. It turned into a battle. That is the start, where we need to realize that the way we can serve each other is to love each one of our broth- ers and sisters. We need to be doing the opposite of what went wrong. True Parents taught the way to have a true marriage, a true blessing. We have to create the culture of what it means to be a true family, and love each other, not compete with each other, not beat each other down, but 1 lift each other up and care for each other, become one in heart and one in mind to bring joy to our parents, because Cain killed Abel. That must 1 Sun Jin Moon responds to a question from a young man near the stage. have brought so much suffering to 2 Questions came in Japanese and in English. Heavenly Parent and to their parents. 3 She encouraged questions and answered each one thoroughly. This is not what we want to do. We want to create a system where all our brothers and sisters in the world start God too, may not have felt that com- True Mother understands that treating each other with love, care, plete love and protection. everybody in the growth stage can go kindness, forgiveness, compassion, It is only through family that we through suffering but she wants to goodness—all the virtues that True can heal this pain. It is only when we make sure to protect and raise the Parents teach us. It starts here, so be learn (as in this chapter, where Father next generation of children to not good to each other. If you see people says that when you realize that God is have to suffer as much. How can we struggling, please help them. Are the center, is your eternal parent, and connect to a higher level of love and there any other reflections on this that unconditional love never changes) understanding in brotherhood and “true family” passage from Father’s that whatever void you feel in your sisterhood and in the parent–child hoondokhae? We are getting a lot of heart, whatever love you didn’t get, relationship? How do we raise these wisdom. No matter what age you are, you can replace that with God’s love. children to surpass and go beyond, you have tremendous wisdom to So, it is absolutely important to connect survive and not struggle at that level? share. Remember, you are the divine not only with your physical parents, in This is why the workshop and this true children of True Parents. Don’t this life with a parent–child relation- kind of family teaching is important. doubt that in yourselves. ship but all of us here need to get in I want to get the brother in the touch with the spiritual legacy that back. Thank you, your name? Yes, brother in the back you all hold because of our True Par- [(Paraphrased): Are you able to spend ents. Get in touch with that spiritual Ju Young Okaf time with your family?] Absolutely! legacy—beyond what we experience I am originally African, but I live in Family is everything. We didn’t have in our own families, in our own lives the “sunshine state,” Florida. My True Parents raising us. In many but which touches the life of Heavenly question: Do you have suggestions for ways, I’ve seen each of my brothers Parent—at that kind of level. This is how we can reach out with love and and sisters suffer through that kind of what True Mother knows. She raised encouragement to those in the second chapter where there is loneliness and all fourteen of the True Children and generation whose parents were busy pain and a void in their hearts. I’m that was not an easy course. Many, doing mission work and who did not sure many of you, because your many things in the True Family… You feel love? parents were doing the mission for see so much suffering. Ju Young, that’s a good question. I

12 True Peace can only give words of encourage- So how am I standing in front of person I have felt in my life and I have ment based on what I’ve experienced. you and talking to you today? How is gone through. I felt lower than a dog We understand that there are many in it that I am saying we need to have many times. Not what in the second generation… I’m like forty hope? America you call an underdog but years old now. A long, long time ago, It is because True Parents never below a dog. Because of the illnesses I in the seventies, we were growing up gave up on me. At every point in my had, I wasn’t able to have children— as blessed children in America. Way life—my parents, my family, my an even bigger failure, especially in before your time, there was a lot of husband—all these people never gave our movement, where we are sup- persecution in the 70s because True up. So it comes to the point when you posed to have families and I can’t Father and True Mother had just realize that you feel gratitude for that, have children. come to America and there were not and you don’t take love for granted From all these things, you feel like many Asian people there. There was and you don’t think about what a failure. I can’t do this and I’m not racism. Everybody we grew up with you’re lacking but you start focusing good enough to serve True Parents. was white. So we went through a lot on what you have. Because what you Then, three years ago, when Father of persecution, also because we were focus on becomes your reality. I could passed away... In my whole life, I had physically True Parents’ children. At sit here and say, Oh I wasn’t loved. I just been working on how to repay or that time they thought Father was a wasn’t nurtured. Oh I was beat up. rebuild or to work on the things I cult leader. Many people would We grew up in a makdaegi [stick for could not do. Mother said, You know, persecute all of us, growing up, say- inflicting punishment], an indemnity Sun Jin, I need you to help me, right ing, Oh, your Father is a cult leader, a culture, being put down because I’m a now. Father passed away and there moonie. Go home, you Asian person. girl. Can’t do anything. When I was are many problems in the family. I So much hate and so much suffer- young I was very overweight, picked have no one; I need you. ing and we didn’t have our own on, called a nerd. Asian… All these Me? I am so unworthy; I can do parents to go to. We didn’t have things that would put a person down. nothing to help you. I felt, I can’t do anybody to comfort us or to lead us or I never had good health. I had this, Mother. I don’t have the ability. I guide us. Many blessed children we cancer. Every kind of illness you can am so fearful. I am so anxious. I have grew up with had the same experi- think of that makes you less than a so much hurt. ence. We saw not only our own fami- ly members but other blessed chil- dren suffer a lot, go through a lot of persecution.

Discover your own faith It is difficult to find your faith and your trust and your strength in God when you feel like the whole world around you is coming on your shoulders and not supporting you. When I think of that and when I think that (as you’re saying) many blessed children feel disconnected and are not able to feel love, I think we have to find love through our faith. That is the best advice I can give you. Only faith, only something higher than what you are going through, is going to pull you out of whatever darkness or heaviness is pulling you down. And that faith—no one can give that to you but yourself. You have to find that light in yourself to be able to pass through all the dark- ness. I am forty and I could not find that light for the majority of my life. I’d be the first person to admit that I’m not perfect. I am probably the least equipped in my family to be number one, to be in this position, serving True Parents. Many things I could not do—like even public speaking. I couldn’t speak in front of a crowd. I was so nervous, felt so much anxiety that I couldn’t breathe. 2 3

August 2016 13 that answers some of your question.

Finding True Mother [My name is Sato Moridae. What can I do in order to become one with True Mother’s heart?] True Mother’s heart, like she was saying, absolutely loves you and what you can do is become—like our brother was saying here—a filial son or daughter to True Parents. So, just as we were talking about loving each other in true families, living for each other and saving the world, you start loving True Mother and bringing her comfort when you find your dreams and you use those dreams to bring glory and goodness to True Parents and the rest of the world. If you can bring that back to her as children, that is going to be the victory not only for True Parents and Heavenly Parent, but for each one of you. As our brother was asking, how do we connect to True Mother and bring her happiness? Do you think she wants you to be unhappy, to think Sun Jin nim's husband, In-sup Park and her sister-in-law, Prof. Yeon Ah Moon, listen from the main floor. you are a failure, to not live your dreams but to suffer? No, she wants you to be joyful, find your dreams, thrive, grow and go beyond what you She said, No, I need you and you fallen person—someone who hasn’t think is the limit, to reach all the can do it because I believe in you. achieved that level of growth that our people in the world with the potential Whatever you have been through, True Parents have, perfection as True for greatness that each one of you has. throw it aside. Just know that True Parents… Everything that you need Please, try to find that. No one can Parents love you, and we need you to know that can help you in your life take that path but you…. and you can do it and you are our path or to help others with suffering As True Mother said yesterday, daughter. or struggling is in these holy books. each one of you has a unique gift. This is the kind of advice I would So the more you study, the more you Everyone is different. You have differ- give to anyone that feels they have not will realize. The more you start to ent talents, different dreams. How do been given enough, that they are understand who True Parents are, the you engraft those dreams to True lacking in something. If True Mother more you will begin to value your life Parents? You live what you love. You can say that to me, the least of the and your parents and how amazing find your dream; you excel at it and least, the lowest of the low, if she can each one of your parents is, too. I urge you offer it to True Parents and the say, I believe in you; I need you… She you, because it is by studying True world. That is how you change the needs all of you just the same. Parents’ lives that I came to value my world. Some of you may be athletes, All of you are true children. She own life. I didn’t know the value of musicians, artists, scientists. Whatev- needs all the other true children that my life because I didn’t know True er field of study you enjoy, please have left her. They all need to come Parents. This is the real important excel in it. Once you get to the place back. Somehow, we all need to grow starting point. Find your history. Ask where you have reached the top level, and be able to restore ourselves and to your parents how they joined. Ask the master level, offer it up to True build our faith. them why they joined. Connect to Parents and offer it up to your broth- them in a parent–child relationship ers and sisters. This is the amazing Discover your history because that is going to be the great- network we will have in the future, The best thing I started doing when I est legacy you get, because actually when all of you grow to live your first got this mission was each of your parents is a saint. They dream. These dreams are going to be hoondokhae. Doing hoondokhae overcame many, many struggles. what changes the world. became like my lifeline. This book They separated themselves complete- So, please find that, especially you right here and all the books that True ly to try to come to live for the sake of young people. Father always said that Mother has as holy books, from those the world; this is a saint. So, learn this is the best time of your life. you will learn a path that no regular from your parents and in this work- You’re in school right now. You are person, who is a person like me or a shop learn from True Parents. I hope figuring out what you like and you

14 True Peace The dance portion of the program saw all the young people on their feet and moving in rhythm to the music.

enjoy what you are good at. Invest In the kind of family life we grew ual perfection. You know, mind–body your heart and soul in that and know up in, there was a lot more fighting unity is number one. This is some- that through whatever you choose to than loving, a lot more competition thing that I started getting into just do, if you love it, you are going to than sharing with each other. Every- three years ago—with Father’s seong- bring True Parents joy. Please excel body was pushed to be the best. To be hwa—I started becoming a yoga and do great things with your lives. the best, you had to be better than teacher. This is when I first learned That is definitely a way to make True everybody else and put everybody how, individually, to perfect even my Father and True Mother and your else down. We grew up in that kind own mind and body. But the thing parents proud. of environment. If we had True Par- that made me understand True Par- Now, I’m going to go with the ents taking care of us, I am sure none ents and love was being married to brother in the back because he had his of that nonsense would have hap- my husband, because through his hand up before, with the glasses. pened, but because they were serving love I was able to feel: Oh my gosh! a higher purpose, serving to save the This is so amazing that someone Hello. What’s your name? Cain children of the world, we could love me this purely. [Andrew Olsen… from Texas: I like weren’t able to understand who True I had not experienced that in my how you point out that if we chal- Parents were. No matter how many life—such a kind husband, a good lenge our limitations, pass any barri- Divine Principle workshops I went to, husband, a loyal husband who just er, we can go forward with our all I heard was the Fall, indemnity, supported and loved me, no matter dreams. My question is, How long you are never good enough, you have what. This is what the love of a family, did it take you to realize your parents to fight evil, you have to cut this part the true love of a spouse, the true love were the True Parents?] of you away. It was a kind of violent of True Parents, is—unconditional A long time. I am like forty years way to grow up, thinking everything love. You can find that anywhere old now. We have been talking about is a battle and Satan is going to attack through each other. We can practice this from the beginning. We grew up me everywhere. So where do we find unconditional love with each other. in an environment with a void, like love? Where do we find True Parents? We are doing that now. No matter no love, a lot of pain and suffering, so How do I connect with God? what you go through, I am going to I couldn’t understand. I would hear It took many years, a tremendous love you. No matter what you strug- lectures and Divine Principle, every- amount of years. I would say that the gle with, I am going to love you. I am body talking about true love, but I thing that changed my life was the not going to give up on you. This is never felt it. I never felt that somebody blessing. I think that, individually, I Heavenly Parent’s love, True Parents’ loved me. did not have the tools to find individ- love.

August 2016 15 Testimony

The Intricacies of Love A reflection on Sun Jin nim’s talk to young people

By Kim Kayoung

ove is somewhat strange. Even though I cult to express this in words, but it felt as if we had had never seen the True Children while truly become one in heart as brothers and sisters growing up in Africa, I still remember centered on our elder sister. looking at videos on the True Family with When a student asked how he could help strug- Ladmiration and love. Even though French was the gling friends, she said that we can only find the language I spoke back then, “Country Roads,” an answer to such struggles from something above us, English song that the True Children loved singing, if I properly recollect what she said. She gave exam- took a special place in my heart. Having grown up ples from her life—how she hit rock bottom and in the church and with members alone, I never had how she could find her way out only through the opportunity to learn outside secular songs nor Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Her instant found interest in them until I came to Korea at the answer and its wisdom showed me how close to age of eighteen. I have tried to learn different popu- God in heart she is and that she is continuously lar songs ever since, but I believe “Country Roads” endeavoring to be one with God; more than any- is one of the few songs I can sing from memory and thing, I could feel she was a person of the heart. is a song that will always pop up first in my head, a She shared many life stories based on the ques- song I sing to my daughters when I try to put them tions she received from participants. I was truly to bed. I always find this facet interesting. But it is able to feel the great many difficulties she experi- true. enced and the breakthroughs she had and how Though I unconsciously always admired the much love she had for True Parents, the True Fami- True Children, it also true that I never truly had the ly and all of us. chance to know them in person. I have to confess that some of the news I heard later about them Finding a deep connection greatly shocked me. Some shook me so badly; I One story brought me to tears. She spoke of a time experienced anger for days, not wanting to under- she found herself alone with Father in an elevator— stand them. I came to terms with what was hap- the only time in her life; how leaders and people pening, coming to the realization that the True who attend True Parents had always surrounded Children also have their portion of responsibility. I Father, making it impossible to spend time with only hoped that they are able to indemnify and him alone. I could see how public a life True Parents rectify any mistakes while on earth, our only had led and how sorry they must have been to the chance to redo anything. True Children for not raising and guiding them directly in life. I just could not imagine how what Sincere and frank guidance must have been like for the True Children. My In this sense, Sun-jin nim’s message opened a parents were missionaries, and members always completely new level of heart and love in us. Her surrendered us. However, we still had opportuni- words came from deep down in her heart and were ties to have one-on-one talks with my parents, full of wisdom, experience, and her love for all which I confess has been of such great help in my those present on that day. I could sense Sun-jin nim life of faith. Had it not been for my parents, I won- wanted to have a heart-to heart talk with everyone der where I would be wandering today. Imagining there, and that’s exactly what happened. It is diffi- that the True Children had no such opportunity

16 True Peace broke my heart. I realize that we, the Cain children, beautiful message, Satan certainly ended up chal- had taken away all the love they were also sup- lenging me; I stumbled, almost gave in to the temp- posed to receive. tation to be proud and self-centered, but thanks to It broke my heart, but I was able to grasp with a Heavenly Parent and True Parents, I was able to get bit more depth how difficult it must have been for out of that hell of self-centeredness. the True Children, not having True Parents to After we listened to that song, she then led us in directly guide them and give them counsel and a few upbeat but beautiful songs. By then everyone love. had been so moved that we just all stood up and Sun-jin nim then led everyone in meditation. She danced in unity. This dance was not simply danc- helped connect the heart-to-heart atmosphere of ing to a song; it was a dance of unity under God’s unity in the room to Heavenly Parent. The medita- love and sibling love. tion focused on finding the divine light in us. Until I truly thank Sun-jin nim for this special gather- now, I took meditation lightly, but I realized that ing and hope she can arrange many similar gather- when done centered on Heavenly Parent, it was ings in the future. My hope is that we can embrace

The writer in her three-generational home with her parents-in-law, her husband and their two children

powerful spiritual exercise for the mind, which one another, regardless of past mistakes—mistakes could help us become more spiritually aware. I we have all made, and truly love one another. True hope I am able to pursue meditation when time Parents have led their entire lives for our sake and allows. the public’s sake. I think it is now time for us to tell After meditation, she played us a music video True Parents it is okay to embrace and love the True titled, “Humble and Kind,” by Tim McGraw. After Children in front of us and that our love will al- focusing on my divine light, the message in the ways be eternal. song just hit home. I listened to that same song for a whole week after that. Interestingly, trying to be Mrs. Kim works in the Office of Planning and Coordination humble and kind in rhythm with the song and in the FFWPU International Headquarters.

August 2016 17 Testimony

Overview of the Events

Director-General Cho Sung-il gave this presentation to a monthly meeting of all personnel in Hyo Jeong organizations.

told us, “To be frank, the seonghwa festival should be a twenty-four-hour festival. So on that day, for the entire day, we must give glory to our Heavenly Parent and True Father, and we must start anew.” Thus, the first part of the seonghwa festival com- prised the ceremony and the second part the cultur- al performances.

Radiating love We worried, but from the beginning, we saw the US, Japanese and Korean teams had invested much preparation in their cultural performances. Apple Heaven showed us the culture of heart embodied in their performance with the True Grandchildren. What followed, the Food is Love Festival, moved all the world’s members. True Mother, having tied back her hanbok with a belt, mixed bibimbap with our thirteen regional presidents. She personally scooped out the bibimbap and bestowed it on three families. Everyone felt her motherly heart. n preparing the seonghwa festival, True Moth- er gave us the theme, “Heart of filial piety Regional dances toward Heaven, becoming the light of the In the second part, throughout the afternoon, our world.” Thus, we sought harmony and a start- regions, Asia, South America, Africa and the Greater Iing point to be the light of the world as we inherited China, gave cultural performances showing off their True Parents’ filial piety toward Heaven. I believe regions’ character. The Little Angels, which has True Mother absolutely succeeded in doing this. played a providential role since 1963, gave an hour- We set up the Pledge Service offering table for long performance. Celebrity singers performing True Father’s seonghwa in the same manner as we songs loved by True Parents touched our endless had many times in the US, when he was alive. Later longing for True Father centered on True Mother. that day, to honor all his legacy, the celebrations Next, True Mother bestowed holy items and began. You must have felt, too, that the participants through Korean Maintenance Foundation’s sponsor- and the fifty thousand people watching witnessed a ship, she was able to directly give gifts to members. revolutionary event in the culture of heart. The key point was our directly experiencing, in the first part Exuberant music of the celebrations, our Heavenly Parent and True From 7:30 in the evening, after the Moon Hyojin Father in the spirit world and True Mother on earth Music Festival, the Hyo Jeong Music Festival took completely united as they lead the providence. place. This performance focused on the youth in the Two months before the event, True Mother had twenty-one-day workshop. They had a DJ and a

18 True Peace break-dance team. They’d based their performances paring it to the Pentecost. Director Kim Jinchun of on Hyo jin nim’s songs so members of all ages could the Cheonbeob Won spoke of “Administrative unite with them. For the last performance, at methods of Cheon Il Guk for the sake of establish- around eleven o’clock, True Grandchildren, Shin- ing the Ideal World.” These were surprising and chul nim, Shin-heung nim and Shin-yeon nim, enlightening. came onstage and sang. True Mother was with us, watching over the whole event from the skybox. Parliamentarians Ten days after the seonghwa, West Africa opened a Providential milestones chapter of the International Association of Parlia- Beyond the festival were many important develop- mentarians for Peace (IAPP) in Burkina Faso. Parlia- ments, such as the dedication of the Sunhak Insti- mentarians came from all but one West African tute of History Building, which also holds the nation. From twenty-four countries came 122 parlia- Supreme Council, PeaceTv and other offices. It will mentarians, five chairmen or vice chairmen, ten play an important role. Mother had visited it eight ex-presidents, six ministers and six village chiefs. times before the ceremony. Seven TV stations covered it. West Africa’s inaugu- The celebratory banquet covered the Seonghwa ration of IAPP reminds me of when elder-brother Festival and the building dedication. Mother asked Hyo Jin attended True Mother as they toured Afri- Western leaders, Dr. Walsh, international president ca. The leaders there recall her message now. The of UPF; Bakary Camara, regional president for East leaders share her views on the many problems in Africa; and Jack Corley, regional president for Eu- their nations and problems such as global warming. rope, to speak. Each testimony was distinct and offered True Parents the glory. I felt that foreign Peace Road leaders follow True Parents’ providence just as Peace Road has firmly taken root. Nations around Korean leaders do. the world (140) signed on; fifty have participated so After a one-hour break, the Cheon Il Guk Lead- far. Young workshop participants came to Imjingak, ers Assembly began. The thirteen key strategic surprising the nation on such a hot day. Through nations shared their strategies for national resto- our children, we were able to set a foundation. The ration by 2020. Korea, Japan and the US did as well University Student Symposium at the National but with a focus on contributing to global resto- Assembly also made an impression on society. ration. UPF, WFWP, the Wonmo Pyeongae Founda- tion, and the International Martials Arts Federation Youth development for World Peace reported on how they will help the Another topic of interest is True Parents’ Special HJ thirteen key strategic nations. Workshop. True Mother presided over the opening We felt united. Korea, Japan, the US and the and closing ceremonies and over the whole twenty- FFWPU International Headquarters reported on one-day Global Top Gun Youth workshop. She gave their respective seonghwa [burial] cultures. The them much love. Cheon Il Guk Leaders Assembly was also a time to For the first time, they received completion address false rumors in order to accurately distin- certificates given in True Parents’ names. The stu- guish these from the positive truths of the provi- dents can keep this forever and their parents may dence as we move forward. feel moved to renew their own efforts. During their closing ceremony mother gave us Scholars convene the message, “ You are the heroes who can under- No sooner had the Leaders Assembly finished stand True Parents’ hearts and accomplish the when the Inauguration of the Cheon Il Guk Acade- desire that Heavenly Parent, True Parents, and my of Arts and Sciences began. This featured some humankind are longing for.” Now, these students as important presentations. Ye Jin nim read her thesis, heroes can go forth to restore the world’s 7.3 billion “Understanding God through Heavenly Father and people. They have set off to the field with the vision Heavenly Mother.” She sincerely explained God’s of becoming the best in each of their home areas. dual characteristics and the importance of True Through this Seonghwa Festival, Heavenly Mother’s work during this age. At the end, she Father and True Father in spirit world and True confessed that she was still lacking in areas and Mother here on earth, united as one to move the almost came to tears as she explained the heart we providence. Now as Mother has told us, we must should have as we attend True Mother. expand our environment. Dr. Selover spoke on the significance of True Parents’ Holy Wedding, and Dr. Wilson spoke of Director-General Cho heads the FFWPU-International Head- True Mother’s activities after the Seonghwa, com- quarters.

August 2016 19 Seonghwa Memorial Pictorial Major Events Festival to Commemorate the 4th Anniversary of the Universal Seonghwa of Sun Myung Moon, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind

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August 2016 21 Musical Offerings by Region

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August 2016 25 Seonghwa Anniversary Morning Pledge Service

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1 True Mother, attended by Sun Jin nim, lights the holy candles, early on the morning of the fourth commemoration of True Father's seonghwa at the beginning of the Pledge Service 2 True Family members, some of whom have traveled great distances to attend the commemoration 3 True Mother , wearing green, a color she recently spoke of a representing hope 4 Jeong Won-ju, chief of True Mother's Secretariat, read the hoondokhae verses 5 Dr. Seuk Joon-ho, director of the Cheon Jae Won, offering the prayer 6 Dr. Yang Chang-shik, True Parents' special envoy to North American and South America, led three cheers of og mansei. 7 The crowd of members that had come to begin the fourth commemoration of True Father's seonghwa responded with loudly with cheers of og mansei 4 5

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1 True Mother receiving flowers from Jeong Won-ju, chief of True Mother's Secretariat. 2 True Mother speaking at the banquet celebrating the Seonghwa Festival and the dedication of the Sunhak Institute of History Building 3 True Mother awarded those with more than forty years of mission work 4 Ryu Gyeong-seuk, president of FFWPU-Korea speaking at the banquet 5 Cho Sung-il, director general of the FFWPU International Headquarters was the master of ceremonies during the banquet. 6 Dr. Thomas Walsh, president of UPF, gave his insight into the Seonghwa Festival 7 Pres. Camara, of our East African region testified about the Seonghwa Festival. 8 Pres. Corley of our European region also testified about his experience. in the seonghwa festival. 9 Rev. Kathy Rigney, the Cheon Il Guk special envoy to Africa, at the victory banquet 2

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August 2016 27 Conference on the Hopes and Dreams for One Korea

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1 True Mother speaking about the unification of her homeland 2 Julia H. J. Moon, chairwoman of the Universal Cultural Foundation 3 Kim Jong-seo, vice-president of education in Seoul University 4 Seong Dae-seok, chairman of the Association of Korean Journalists 5 The hall was crowded: Korean relations of deepened interest recently 5 6 True Mother spoke candidly to the conference attendees.

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The 2016 Interreligious Peace Cup

Cheon Il Guk Academy of Arts and Science

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1 Ye Jin Moon gave a presentation at the Inaugural event 2 Professor Yeon Ah Moon, president of the Womens Federation for World Peace International 3 Cho Gwang-myeong, Head of the Cheon Il Guk Academy of Arts and Sciences 4 Dr. Kim Jin-choon, Chairman of the Beob Won 5 Dr. Akifumi Otani, Director of the Unification Thought Institute in Japan 6 Dr. Tyler Hendricks, past president of the Unification Church of America and of the Unification Theological Seminary 6 7 7 Dr. Andrew Wilson, professor of Scriptural Studies at Unification Theological Seminary

August 2016 29 Global youth A Nationwide Pilgrimage for Youth Seeking Heaven

1 Young people feel the deep heart absorbed by the Rock of Tears as they touch it and recall True Parents' anguish. 2 Posing in front of a statue Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and a plinth with a Koran on it representing Muhammad at Cheon Bok Gung 3 Praying at Ocean Resort 4 The young pilgrims visit the Paju wonjeon 5 Listening to the FFWPU Headquarters staff member who takes care of properties speak about the church in Cheongpa-dong where True Parents’ Holy Wedding took place 6 Visiting our church in Yamok, which is regarded as the beginning point of the ocean providence.

These young people, many from far-away nations, are delving into the roots of their faith in Korea.

30 True Peace Young people feel the deep heart absorbed by the Rock of Tears as they touch it and recall True Parents' anguish.

n August 3, the Global Top For staff member, Shinyoung headquarters church. Korea has al- Gun Youth (GTGY) Work- Chang, it was her first time going to ways had a headquarters church. In shop participants got up Paju Wonjeon. “I had no idea it was so the early days, it was the one where O bright and early for the large,” she said, “and that there are True Father gave the Sunday sermon. first day of our pilgrimage to historic already ten members of True Parents’ After some development, they also and sacred holy ground sites located family resting there. Having hun- have a church headquarters, which is throughout Korea. Since there are so dreds of us there at once made the an administrative office building. The many of us, we split into two groups experience more profound than it headquarters church has changed and charted separate courses. could have been otherwise. There are many times over the years. Two still Group One started with Cheongae many paths and levels, very beauti- exist in Cheongpa-dong. We visited or “Blue Sea” Garden in Yeosu, the fully landscaped. The entire experi- the older one, which saw many historic location of which True Parents select- ence felt like a true pilgrimage of moments in the unification movement, ed as the central location for the ocean faithful people paying their respects. from some of the first educational providence in Korea in January 2003, “Being an older second-generation workshops about the Divine Principle after an extensive search. During Unificationist, I cannot but cry when to the engagement and Holy Wedding their stay there, the GTGY partici- it comes to Hyo Jin Moon. This is was ceremonies of True Parents, as well as pants visited the local church and my first time greeting him at his the birth of several of their children. True Father’s hoondokhae room. resting place; Young Jin Moon as well. The group in Busan visited the Group Two went to Paju Wonjeon, I said a little prayer at both graves, Beomnaegol Memorial Hall, built to Cheonbok Gung, and then to asking them to please watch over around the outcropping where True Cheongpa-dong. Our guide knew so their younger brothers and sisters at Father and one of his earliest disci- much of the history, and shared about this time and show them each how to ples, Kim Won-pil, built a hut out of when True Parents spent their days connect to True Mother’s heart. What mud and cardboard, in which True there. touched me most was individuals Father completed the original manu- Paju Wonjeon is a Unificationist who took the initiative to stop and script for the Divine Principle. burial ground located in the city of pray alone.” A few minutes’ walk from the Paju, Gyeonggi Province. The approx- At Cheonbok Gung in Yongsan, memorial hall, we came to the Rock imately half a million pyeong (rough- Seoul, participants again had an op- of Tears, where True Father as a ly four hundred acres) of land was portunity to pray on their own. True young man and later True Parents donated by Lee Shin-shil, a Presbyte- Parents officiated its dedication cere- together, offered intense and tearful rian who joined the unification move- mony in February 2010. Cheonbok prayers of devotion to realize God’s ment in the 1960s. Gung serves as the FFWPU-Korea will for humankind. Connecting to

August 2016 31 Pilgrims following in True Father's footsteps at Mungyeong Saejae, which Father and his companions passed through on their course south from North Korea

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August 2016 33 Galob l youth Peace Road 2016 The following was adapted from a report to True Mother about the culmination of Peace Road 2016 at Imjingak, South Korea.

n Tuesday, August 16, students from sixty-three nations came together to O participate in the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) Peace Road at the Imjingak Pavilion, in Paju, Gyeo- nggi Province. Imjingak is just 4.5 miles (7 km) from the South Korean side of the four-kilometer Military Demarcation Line, which has sepa- rated North Korea from South Korea since 1953. Imjingak is a place close to the hearts of those whose families fled North Korea. The elderly still come to perform their ancestral rites as they look north toward their hometowns. For students from sixty-three nations to have chosen Imjingak as their meeting place is novel. This place symbolizes Korea’s broken heart over the long separation between the people of North Korea and South Korea. These young people have walked or ridden bikes to demon- strate their own longing for Korea to be whole again. This attracted Korea’s major media outlets, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) and It was scorching hot that day. In the background is the altar and incense-burning area for aged Koreans to Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), who make offerings to their ancestors as the look toward the place of their birth, North Korea. along with lesser-known media

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The large urn is used to burn incense when making offerings for one's ancestors. In honor of those North Koreans who have suffered and are suffering today, the group bows their heads in prayer. organizations reported on the event. and received flower leis from distin- the participants. Holics, a K-pop The success of the event would not guished guests. The riders gave group gaining popularity in Korea, have been possible without the partic- testimonies of their experiences. A also gave a performance celebrating ipation of the one thousand two Japanese and a Korean university Peace Road. hundred young people from the student along with an American Mr. Jeong Tae-ik, president of the Global Top Gun Youth Workshop. professor, Alan Hokanson, spoke. Council of Foreign Affairs welcomed At the Imjingak Peace Road event, Professor Hokanson said, “Here at everyone. “Today at this event, the Mr. Jeong Tae-ik, president of the Imjingak, where I can see North fact that young people representing Council of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Yoon Korean land, I feel deeply saddened sixty-three nations from each region Hu-deok and Mr. Lim Jong-seong, by the separation on the Korean of the world have come here to Imjin- both members of the South Korean peninsula. Sixteen nations fought gak, a symbol of the separation of National Assembly; Mr. Hong Seung- with the UN Forces at the time of the North Korea and South Korea, to pyo, president of the Gyeonggi Tour- Korean War. Based on Vision 2020, if promote the reunification of Korea ism Organization; Mr. Lee Hyeo- a hundred and sixty nations from and world peace is significant. I am ng-yeong, vice-president across the globe participate in this positive that each step and pedal you FFWPU-Korea; Mr. Kim Yeon-cheol Peace Road event, the unification of take here as you walk or cycle near director of Unification Research North Korea and South Korea can the DMZ will add to the foundation Institute; and other distinguished become a reality.” Following this, for the reunification of Korea. I find guests participated. In addition, in everyone climbed up to the highest great hope in the future world as I each Korean city the Ambassadors for point along the barbed-wire fences at look at all of you who are participat- Peace Councils organized Peace Road Imjingak and sincerely wished for ing in Peace Road.” events and the UPF branch managers the reunification of the two Koreas. participated. Connecting to True Mother Entertainment Mr. Song Kwang-seuk, president of The cyclists’ entrance Performances were a way to celebrate UPF Korea, received the Peace Road The event began as cyclists from the success of Peace Road 2016. First flags that had traveled across the around the world, who had set out on young blessed children from Korea world to Imjingak from representa- bikes from Busan on August 9, came danced to “Song for the Day of Unifi- tives of Korea, Japan and the United onstage and participated in a wel- cation.” Next, a group of FFWPU State. He, in turn, passed the Peace coming ceremony. They cycled members from overseas performed Road flags and an offering of ten around the crowd of young students, an African dance to the song “Waka thousand origami cranes from coming to a stop in front of the stage Waka,” which raised the spirit of all UPF-Japan, representing their wish

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for Korean reunification, to Cho pating in Peace Road, even in this hot Sung-il, director-general of FFWPU weather, constitute the path to the International, who received them as a reunification of North Korea and representative of True Mother. These South Korea and world peace.” symbolized gratitude, as members Director-General Cho gave words offered the honor and result of their of encouragement. He said, “Not long Peace Road experiences to True ago in the Philippines four thousand Mother. people marched for twenty-one kilometers and in Japan they biked Congratulations for more than four thousand kilome- National Assemblyman (NA) Yoon ters for Peace Road. 2 Hu-deok congratulated the riders and All around the world people are marchers by saying, “Today is a hoping for the unification of the historic day because we have assem- Koreas. I believe that to the degree unification before the DMZ tour bled here. From Imjingak to Gaesong that we sweat today, the realization of began. City in North Korea is only twen- the unification of North Korea and Though there were some difficul- ty-two kilometers. Through Peace South Korea and the world will come ties at the DMZ Peace Road at Imjin- Road, I hope our cheers for the reuni- nearer. Let us all march forward with gak due to the scorching heat, which fication of North Korea and South passion.” had been a factor in South Korea for Korea will spread and travel across the preceding few days, the young the North Korean territory. NA Lim Symbolic peace gestures second- and third-generation mem- Jong-seong, who had also participated Afterward, representatives of the bers were very sincere throughout the in the recent UPF International Lead- foreign students from sixty-three event. It was an important providen- ership Conference in Nepal, gave nations recited a pledge for peace. A tial time in which they could see with high praise, saying, “I give my con- ceremony to cut, symbolically, the their own eyes the separation of True gratulations to the Korea DMZ Peace DMZ barbed-wire fence took place Parents' homeland as they walked Road. All of you here today are true and many people signed the Peace and biked along the DMZ. This is also ambassadors for peace.” Road banner. Students then released the nation of their faith, which caused Mr. Hong Seung-pyo the president doves, symbolizing peace, followed many to think deeply as they experi- of the Gyeonggi Tourism Organiza- by more cultural performances. ence this for themselves. tion added, “All you who are partici- Finally, everyone sang Tongil” for After the event, NA Lim and the

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1 Riders about to receive certificates of completion to round off the number of kilome- promote peace has great significance. for their investment in drawing attention to the plight of the two Koreas. ters. They began on Seoul’s Yeouido I have conviction that this Peace Road 2 Even under the hot sun, young people enter- Island and cycled forty kilometers to event held today with civilians, and tained the many people, including a large Incheon's Nampo Dam to conclude other events all around the world, contingent of media personnel. their trip having traveled a grand will play a big role in the future of the 3 The riders that made the final exertion from Busan to Imjingak were awarded leis by the total of seven hundred kilometers. unification of the Koreas and world important political and social figures that were at peace. the event. DMZ Peace Road Testimonies Han Ki-hoon, chief of NA Lim Mr. Jeong, president of the council of Jong-seong’s secretariat: To be honest, foreign affairs, a former Korean I was the only person in NA Lim's president of the Gyeonggi Tourism ambassador to Russia: I would like to secretariat that opposed his participa- Organization discussed sponsoring express my regards to the Unification- tion in this event, but his determina- an international event in the city of ist organizations for their work for the tion to participate was very strong. I Gwangju in Gyeonggi Province reunification of North Korea and felt that in his position as a member of similar to our DMZ event. They South Korea. At this time, with high National Assembly it was important would invite our young foreign tensions between the countries, most for him to treat each religion the students. groups that began with the goal of same. Thus, I felt that NA Lim's par- reunification have stopped their activ- ticipation in a Unification Church The last leg ities, but FFWPU has not stopped; it event could cause problems. Never- After singing “Urie So Wonun Ton- has even increased its activities. theless, after participating in the event gil,” we heard some testimonies from Especially this year, the Citizens today, I felt that this was an important participants. Some of the young Federation for the Unification of occasion for the sake of the unifica- second-generation members said it North Korea and South Korea has tion of North Korea and South Korea was very difficult and they had even been working with the UN and has and world peace. In the future, if any considered quitting, but in the end, received a favorable response from more events arise that are held by the they all worked hard together and the UN. Sixteen nations participated Unification movement and you invite were able to finish. They even made in the Korean War, and even after the NA Lim, I will be the first to agree to the determination to participate again ceasefire, we have maintained close and support our participation. next year. relationships with those countries. After the event, the Peace Road That is why I feel that the proposal to bikers did a final stretch, essentially build a fifth UN office in Korea to UPF-Korea contributed this article.

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THE IAPP AND NEPAL’S SEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE

Mt. Everest

38 True Peace t their July 28–31 Interna- devastating Gorkha Earthquake on tional Leadership Confer- April 25, 2015, that killed more than ence in Kathmandu, Nepal, nine thousand people and caused $4 UPF launched another billion dollars of direct economic chapterA of its International Associa- loss (repair or replacement costs). tion of Parliamentarians for Peace One of many indirect areas of eco- (IAPP). This is a wonderful opportu- nomic loss is the decline in tourists nity for UPF to continue its great visiting the country. Tourism ac- THE IAPP work of demonstrating the value of counts for 8 percent of the economy our True Parents’ vision of one family in the Federal Democratic Republic under God to a people with desperate of Nepal. needs. Nepalese parliamentarians AND NEPAL’S will have the opportunity to interact Severe living conditions with their counterparts from other What is life like for the average Ne- parts of the world, from other nations pali? We could look at the 2014 Hu- whose governments have also en- man Development Index, which the dured similar long periods of contin- UN released last December, but SEARCH FOR ual political tumult and instability but sometimes less direct sources are have managed to rise above their better at getting to the heart of a difficulties and create a calmer politi- matter. A 2014 article on an avalanche cal atmosphere in which their people that killed thirteen Nepali climbing might find hope. The more we learn guides on Mt. Everest stated, “a lead DEVELOPMENT about remote Nepal, the more likely mountain guide earns as much as we are to feel compassion for her $6,000 during the three-month climb- people and send out prayers for the ing season. The monthly average success of the Nepalese chapter of salary of Nepalis is $48.” I A PP. Forty-eight dollars a month is AND PEACE very little, but let us take a closer Economic difficulties look at those that earned the higher A feisty old American woman, Eliza- figure: these guides are the famous beth Hawley, lives and works in Sherpa, which literally means “of Nepal. When she came to the country Tibetan origin; akin to a Tibetan.” as a foreign journalist, she thought Sherpa live on the high southern she would stay for two or three years. slopes of the Himalayan Mountains Fifty-six years later, she remains in in Nepal. Their work involves much Kathmandu. She has never climbed more than guiding wealthy clients any of the high mountains Nepal is from Base Camp to the summit of famous for, but for all these years, she Mt. Everest or another Himalayan has recorded the success of those that peak. Before the season begins, they have reached the summits any of climb to great heights to position “more than 340 significant Nepalese ropes, ladders and other climbing peaks.” She uses her journalist skills aids to help their clients, who might to confirm or dispute claims of suc- pay $30,000 to $60,000 to ascend Mt. cess by asking many questions and Everest. A person with more knowl- interviewing others who would likely edge in the subject included “stock- have seen a group as it reaches the top ing camps, shuttling clients’ gear, of the mountain in question. Miss food, tents and oxygen up and down Hawley records, too, the deaths of the mountain” in a list of Sherpa climbers and guides. She adds the chores. data to the Himalayan Database, which has records of climbs going Reward divided by risks back to 1905. An understanding of what these Naturally, Mt. Everest, the world’s Sherpa are willing to go through to highest peak, attracts particular gain this higher income provides attention. For the first time in more further anecdotal evidence of eco- than forty years, the Himalayan nomic conditions among the common Database records that no one people in Nepal. Apa Sherpa, one of climbed to Mt. Everest’s summit in only two people who have climbed 2015. The last year without a summit Everest twenty-one times, explained record for Everest was 1974. This is in a Washington Post interview, “We of course is in part because of the are way behind in education. There

August 2016 39 A Little Angel hugging Bidhya Devi Bhandari, president of Nepal

are no other options to meet our most A perilous occupation fishermen, pilots who deliver goods basic [needs]. Regardless of all the Outside did more, though, than and people throughout the Alaskan risks involved in climbing the moun- simply describe one Sherpa as a wilderness (bush pilots) and US mili- tain, the Sherpas do it…. People climb disposable man. Outside put into tary personnel in Iraq (2003–2007). (He Everest once in a lifetime to experi- context the very high risk of death notes that the Center for Disease ence the adventure. Things are differ- that follows these Sherpa—as if it Control and Prevention considers the ent for us. We keep on climbing more were their own shadow—every job of a commercial fisherman the than once because we have to do it. I moment they are on the mountain for most dangerous non-military job in climbed Everest the first sixteen times the only ninety days a year during the US.) By comparing groups with an to support my family.” which they will earn $2,000 a month. equal number of people, he can show Outside magazine (outsideonline. Mr. Shafer’s article looked at deaths how high the risk of death is for an com), which covers topics appealing by nationality among mountaineers. individual person in each of these to outdoor sports enthusiasts, in- At the time he wrote it, ten Ameri- hazardous jobs. He writes, “A Sherpa cluding mountaineering, ran an cans, seventeen Britons, seventeen working above Base Camp on Everest article by its senior editor Grayson Indians, eighteen Japanese and seven- is nearly ten times more likely to die Schaffer on the profession of Sherpa ty-two Sherpa had lost their lives than a commercial fisherman… and guides, titled “The Disposable Man.” climbing Everest since 1922. Another more than three and a half times more It tells the story of forty-three-year- article on Outside’s web site, “Everest likely to perish than an infantryman old Sherpa guide, Chhewang Nima, Deaths: How Many Sherpas Have during the first four years of the Iraq who had reached Mt. Everest’s Been Killed?” by Jonah Ogles, pro- war.” summit nineteen times. On October vides a broader understanding of the 24, 2010, on a peak near Everest, risks the Sherpa guides have to con- An extreme job hazard while connected by rope to another tend with. Ogles’ article includes a Looking at the circumstances from Sherpa, Chhewang was hammering comparison of annual fatality rates of this perspective, Ogles concludes that a pointed stake into a small shelf of Sherpa guides with workers in sever- for the wealthy clients who are pay- ice and hardened snow. Abruptly, al other notoriously dangerous occu- ing for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, the shelf beneath his feet separated pations. taking on this high degree of risk may from the mountain and Chhewang Some of these occupations employ be rational. The Sherpa, though, Ogles plunged to his death. Both men many thousands of people and some a sees as daily employees in a service would have died in that instant if much smaller number. In this study, industry. He concludes, “As a work- something had not cut through the Ogles compared how many workers place safety statistic 1.2 percent mor- rope connecting Chhewang to his would die in a year among groups of a tality is outrageous.” His article also fellow guide as he hurled through hundred thousand Nepali Sherpa covers other gruesome realities. the air. guides on Mt. Everest, commercial Among those that did not die as

40 True Peace The head table at UPF's International Leadership Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal

guides, “many Sherpas were disabled Soon after the quake, a young An ambitious individual by rock-fall, frostbite and altitude-re- engineer called Bipin Gaire set up Through History of Nepal, by Daniel lated illnesses like stroke and edema.” Bhukampa, which rallied engineers to Wright, a physician who worked at From what these Sherpa and their help assess the structural safety of the British Residency in Kathmandu families endure just to make a living, buildings free of charge. One posting (1866–1876) we learn of another signif- we can begin to appreciate the hard- on the group’s site reads, “Can we do icant figure, Jung Bahadur, whom the scrabble lives that the millions of little things for our respected senior British knighted in 1857 for having low-income Nepalis lead. citizens? Housing should be a funda- led troops against and defeated Indi- mental right of every citizen and our an “mutineers” fighting the British Human resources history—senior citizens—deserve Raj in Hindustan. Jung Bahadur came Of course, bright young people, likely [housing] more.” into the world in 1817, one of seven from wealthier families, are able to sons of a Nepalese official. When find ways forward in Nepal as they The struggles of governing young, he entered the military. For are elsewhere. The ingenuity and Some individual rulers stand out in some time, he was the personal atten- verve of Nepalese youth made a Nepalese history, and just as in the dant of a young prince, so he was able difference when their nation needed political world of most countries to make connections within the royal them desperately, soon after the 2015 today, people have conflicting views court. By 1843, the year his uncle, earthquake hit. As República, an on these powerful figures. Long ago, Matabar Singh, became Nepal’s prime online Nepalese media outlet de- three kingdoms in the Kathmandu minister, Jung Bahadur had reached scribed it, “Organizations could Valley—Kathmandu, Patan and the rank of colonel. subscribe to alerts about remote Bhadgaon, all of which remain im- As prime minister, Matabar Singh locations that had still not seen any portant cities today—had had acrimo- expressed his anxiety to others about rescue because dozen of youths with nious relations for centuries, when Jung Bahadur’s influence on the royal laptops in front and phones vibrating the ruler of Gorkha came from hun- court and within the army. Mean- in synchronization with the [still dreds of miles away and conducted a while, noting that Jung Bahadur had quaking] ground underneath, laid out twenty-five-year military campaign ingratiated himself to one of the a ‘quakemap’ from a temporary lab until he had conquered them all. kings’ younger wives, a queen who they had set up outside their office.… Gradually he united them. This ruler, held great sway over the royal court, Within an hour of the first major jolt, Prithvi Narayan Shah, chose to move Henry Lawrence, a representative of Bibeksheel Nepali—a youth run the capital of his kingdom to Kath- the British government to Nepal, political initiative, was on the mandu. All Nepalese kings (called described Jung Bahadur as an intelli- grounds at Teaching Hospital, setting shahs) up to modern times descended gent military expert who despite his up a help desk to assist and manage from Prithvi Narayan Shah, who died youth was “profoundly versed in the victims there.” in 1716. intrigue.”

August 2016 41 Dr. Thomas Walsh, president of UPF, addressing the audience at the ILC at which Nanda Kishor Pun, vice-president of Nepal at the IAPP inaugural event IAPP was launched in Kathmandu, Nepal

Darkness descends completely powerless as did all the In 1955, Nepal became a UN mem- On May 18, 1845, expecting to meet kings that followed him. They were ber. King Tribhuvan died that same the king, Matabar Singh entered a feeble figureheads, kings in name year and his son, King Mahendra room in the palace, where someone only. They did not rule Nepal, the ascended the throne. In 1959, Nepal shot him dead and then threw his prime ministers did. The post of adopted a multi-party political system body out a window, whereupon it prime minister became hereditary. under a new constitution. A year later, was dragged behind an elephant The post did not go from father to after elections had been held, the king and left on a riverbank. On Septem- son, because Jung Bahadur did not reneges, shutting down the govern- ber 14, Gagan Singh, a friend of the want his family to risk losing this ment. Two years after that, govern- queen’s, was shot and killed while at powerful position by making it ment was allowed but without politi- home performing religious devo- possible for a vulnerable child to cal parties. When King Mahendra tions. The queen blamed her ene- inherit the post. Instead, he ruled died in 1972, his son, King Birendra mies within the royal government the country as prime minster first allowed multi-party politics again. and pushed the king to gather them and then his brothers did, one by (The objection to political parties all for a meeting to uncover her one. When their sons became adults, might be because progress is hard friend’s killer. The meeting occurred from oldest to youngest, those males when every small group in the coun- at the Kot, a large building near the in the next generation were prime try has a party representing their palace. Jung Bahadur, his body- minister. This went on, generation special interest. Currently Nepal has guards and his brothers, all with after generation, for more than a more than a hundred and twenty guns, joined the queen and her hundred years. Members of this parties.) In 1980, in response to a party of similarly armed men. They familial ruling system had the title public referendum, the King Birendra were waiting when the noblemen “rana,” and in English, we call them disallowed parties again. In 1990, arrived. Whether they had planned “the ranas.” huge street demonstrations, known as it or they had overreacted to some Jana Andolan, the people’s move- emotional spark, Jung Bahadur and Stepping toward the light ment, led to King Birenda allowing a his mob killed dozens of noblemen In the early 1950s, restive political democratic constitution once again. and many more men of a lower rank, figures agitated for democracy, spark- perhaps more than a hundred. This ing a movement that eventually The Maoist uprising was the Kot Massacre. ousted the ranas and reinstated King A few communist parties exist in Tribhuvan. The king set up a govern- Nepal. This trend toward local adop- The prime ministerial coup ment in which he was head of state tion of these foreign ideologies began In the wake of this, Jung Bahadur but he did not allow political parties. in the 1940s when Nepalis fought maneuvered so that the king became He was the sole ruler. alongside Indians in their struggles to

42 True Peace Jose de Venecia, the recently elected chairman of the IAPP, was the first to sign the conference declaration.

end British colonialism in India (1858– Dahal took part in some SAPI session. 237 parliament members. Anote Tong, 1947). Nepal has a Marxist Leninist In his own words Mr. Dhakal the longtime president of the Republic Party and even the Nepal Workers explained another signal event in the of Kiribati and Sunhak Peace prize- Peasants’ Party, which adheres to Nepal’s difficult political history: “On winner spoke. North Korean Juche Ideology. In 1995, June 1, 2001, at Narayanhity Royal On August 10, Jose de Venecia Jr., Maoists began an armed revolt, the Palace, twenty-nine-year-old Crown longtime speaker of the House of primary goal of which was the end of Prince Dipendra killed ten members Representatives in the Philippines, the monarchy. A shadowy figure, of the royal family, including his visited the Nepal’s new prime minis- whose nickname was Pachandra, “the father, his mother, his sister, his broth- ter, Pushpa Kamal Dahal. De Venecia, fierce one,” led what was essentially a er and three paternal aunts, before who brokered a peace deal with the civil war that claimed more than shooting himself. He died three days Moro sixteen thousand lives. Pachandra, later. Officially, Nepal’s State Council Islamic Liberation Front is likely to whose real name is Pushpa Kamal had named Crown Prince Dipendra have the compassion and insight Dahal, came down from the moun- king as his father’s successor. On his necessary to see ways the IAPP can tains (voluntarily, by government death, the late king’s younger brother, serve the people of the Nepal in helicopter) in 2005. A peace accord Gyanendra was named king.” finding stability and development. ended the insurgency in November SAPI was part of the peace process 2006. when massive protests broke out over True Mother’s love King Gyanendra’s autocratic rule. True Mother expressed her deep love SAPI, Nepal Parivar Dal Gyanendra today is a private citizen; for the Nepalese people by sending Nepal Parivar Dal (Family Party) is a Nepal no longer has a monarchical her daughter-in-law Yeon Ah Moon to political party led by Ek Nath Dhakal family. deliver her speech and the Little (32) who was the FFWPU national Angels to express Heaven’s deep leader and head of UPF in Nepal. In IAPP-Nepal grace and love for people. The Nepal- government, he was the Minister for UPF held an International Leadership ese people have endured much and it Co-operatives and Poverty Allevia- Conference in Kathmandu beginning seems the IAPP is an instrument of tion beginning May 2012–March 2013 on July 28. K. P. Sharma Oli was the Heaven and of True Parents deep and since December 2015, he has been guest of honor. Only three days concern for peace in Nepal and the Minister of Peace and Reconstruc- earlier Mr. Sharma Oli had resigned throughout the world. tion. Among his early efforts, he set as prime minister and the Nepal’s up South Asian Peace Initiative, based president had approved the resigna- on True Parents’ teaching and utiliz- tion. Four cabinet ministers attended A TPmagazine staff member contributed ing UPF resources. Pushpa Kamal the founding of IAPP-Nepal as did this article.

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OUR LOVELY PLANET IN THE THROES OF FEVER A nonscientist wrote the following based on some of the many papers scientists have written for nonprofessionals on climate change, which is an issue True Parents have repeatedly emphasized.

Part of the commemoration of True Father's seonghwa was the World Climate and Environment Forum 2016,sponsored by the S egye Times, because concern for the environment is part of True Parents' eternal legacy.

44 True Peace here is something special Earth’s stratosphere impede meteorites. Most meteorites about nature. When we The higher up you go into the next burn out in the mesosphere. One leave our homes or offices layer, the stratosphere, the hotter it notable exception entered Earth’s and traipse through some becomes. Meteorologists say that the troposphere on February 15, 2013, at Tsemi-wilderness area, it seems so fact that the temperature changes in Chelyabinsk in Siberian Russia. The familiar, as if we are returning to our opposite directions in layers that abut sonic boom the meteorite produced primordial home, yet it differs drasti- one another as you rise above Earth shattered an estimated 93,000 square cally from the environments we are adds much to our atmosphere’s stabil- meters of glass. It left more than 1,500 most accustomed to. Nature smells. ity. The stratosphere extends from people injured. Seventy went tempo- Nature smells of decay, the decay of approximately the ten-kilometer level rarily blind and some people were dead or dying plant and animal to an altitude of fifty kilometers instantly “sunburned.” Usually, the matter. Yet, we fill our lungs with this (thirty-one miles) above Earth. mesosphere protects us from this. scent of humus and are refreshed. Overall, ozone, which is a gas, is Nature resuscitates. Emotionally, it rare in the layers of our atmosphere. The thermosphere seems, we exhale. Into that natural Ninety percent of that ozone is in the Beginning about ninety kilometer up atmosphere, we somehow expel the stratosphere. Ozone is an odd form of and extending to between five hun- pain that can arise from human oxygen (O2) that comprises three dred and a thousand kilometers interaction and from inner disap- oxygen atoms. Ozone (O3) is benefi- (three hundred to six hundred miles) pointments. cial in that it absorbs much of the is the thermosphere. “Thermo-” is a Nature is asymmetrical. The trees, ultraviolet sunlight before it reaches prefix meaning “heat.” The heat not in rows, rows within blocks, Earth. Ultraviolet light can cause skin increases the higher up you go in the within districts, each tree with a cancer and damage our eyes. In thermosphere but levels off. The number. No. Trees are everywhere, absorbing that ultraviolet sunlight, lower portion of the thermosphere is and everywhere random. The ground Ozone heats the stratosphere. (Ozone known as the ionosphere. Solar radia- is uneven, unpredictable, even dan- that appears nearer Earth, in our tion has ionized the atoms that make gerous, but without intent to endan- troposphere, is harmful—toxic to up the sphere, stripping the atoms of ger. All around us, the world is dap- human and plant life.) an electron, leaving them positively pled with shade. The stratosphere is dry. The few charged. For this reason, radio waves Nature moves. Creatures emerge clouds that form in the stratosphere from Earth bounce off the ionosphere, from beneath the undergrowth, dart do so over the poles. Airplanes avoid aiding radio communication, as the from behind trees, swiftly disappear turbulence and dense clouds in the signals bounce around the globe. The over a ridge or into a hole or suddenly troposphere by flying in the lower heat in the thermosphere ranges flit through the skies above us. portion of the stratosphere. You may between -120° C (-184° F) and 2,000° C Though wholly different from where recall having looked out a small oval (3,600° F). Despite these extreme we live, in nature, we are home, again window at what seemed an ocean of conditions, the International Space a child clutched against its mother’s clouds beneath an airplane’s wing. Station orbits Earth in this layer of our bosom. atmosphere. We ought not lose sight of what is The mesosphere Beyond the thermosphere is the precious to the human soul. This layer extends from fifty kilome- exosphere, which rises to ten thousand ters above Earth to eighty-five kilome- kilometers, six thousand miles above Blue skies ters (fifty-three miles) above the Earth. The air is so thin at this point Surrounding Earth is a marvelous surface of our beloved planet. The that some scientists do not consider multilayered atmosphere. According higher you rise, the colder it becomes. this region part of Earth’s atmosphere to the US National Weather Service, Being warmer, the atmosphere nearer but just the beginning off the vast what distinguishes one layer from the bottom is thicker, thick enough to essential emptiness of outer space. another are “thermal characteristics [temperature changes] chemical composition, movement and density.” We are most familiar with the troposphere; here in the troposphere, we live, raise families, fly kites and ride in airplanes. The troposphere is the layer that begins on Earth and rises (with some geographic and seasonal variances) to ten kilometers (32,800 feet, 6.2 miles) above planet Earth. The atmosphere within the tropo- sphere is moist, and thus clouds form. The higher up you go into the tropo- sphere, the colder the air is.

August 2016 45 Just imagine! We currently know seats and other parts of the car interi- spheric concentration of carbon diox- of no other living creatures existing in or absorb the heat energy that the sun ide in 2005 exceeds by far the natural what seems an infinitely vast uni- emits and then radiates that heat back range over the last 650,000 years (180 verse, while Heaven has seen fit to into the car’s “atmosphere.” The most to 300 ppm) as determined from ice wrap our planet safely within this important factor is whether the car’s cores.” (We will return to ice cores complex, protective, multi-layered windows are open or closed. momentarily.) atmosphere. This is very similar to the mechan- CO2 recently reached a density of ics of global warming. The sun heats 400 parts per million in our atmo- Considering sources the Earth and everything that we have sphere. Apparently, this is having a Satellite-based instruments that have built upon Earth, all of which radiates terrible effect on our climate, but 400 been measuring the heat energy heat back into the atmosphere. The key parts among a million parts is noth- emitted by the sun [S] since 1978 difference is that nothing similar to ing like a car window or a layer indicate a slight decrease in heat over closed windows occurs in the atmo- within the atmosphere. If these mole- those years. In your hometown, the sphere around Earth. cules do not form a shield, how do temperature may fluctuate depend- greenhouse gases trap heat? ing on the season and time of day, but Like a pinball machine Some heat never “bumps into” a our planet’s overall temperature does The various gases in our atmosphere greenhouse gas molecule and passes not fluctuate in that way. Yet, the have different characteristics. Some without interruption into outer average global temperature [AGT] are impervious to infrared energy space. When heat energy does en- (taken from all over the Earth’s sur- (which we perceive as heat). These counter a greenhouse gas molecule, face) has been increasing roughly gases do not interact with infrared the gas molecule absorbs the heat from the beginning of the Industrial heat energy emitted by Earth. Heat and then radiates it out again, per- Revolution (1750). The AGT is a com- energy simply passes by these gas haps in a different direction than it bination of the energy received from molecules as it rises through the had been traveling. Some of that the sun [S] and the heat energy radi- layers of our atmosphere and escapes re-released heat does escape into ated [R] by the Earth into our atmo- into outer space. outer space; some (having lost mo- sphere, which wraps around Earth Other gases (now called “green- mentum) lingers in the atmosphere like a blanket. So if S + R = AGT and house gases”) absorb heat energy. or it encounters another greenhouse S is decreasing while AGT is increas- According to an Intergovernmental gas molecule that absorbs it and ing, we must attribute the increase in Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), releases it again, as if it were bounc- the temperature of the world we live “Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most ing around within a pinball ma- in to R, the heat radiating from our important anthropogenic greenhouse chine. In this way, heat is unable to planet. gas.” (“Anthropogenic” means “not escape Earth’s atmosphere. Being occurring naturally but occurring wrapped in this atmosphere, Earth’s Open the window! because of human influence on temperature rises. Many of us have experienced opening nature.”) the door of a car parked on a hot day Why is carbon dioxide the most Paleoclimatology and feeling the ferocious heat of the important greenhouse gas? Because it Scientists know what air was like escaping air. At times, we fear for our has increased so rapidly since the many thousands of years ago, be- health and will not enter the car’s Industrial Revolution began. “The cause it is still here on Earth. Even atmosphere until enough of the heat global atmospheric concentration of many thousands of years ago, as has escaped the vehicle. Pets and even carbon dioxide increased from a snowflakes fell, piled one upon anoth- small children have met their deaths pre-industrial value of about 280 parts er and froze, some gaps existed. Those in that super-heated air. per million (ppm) to 379 ppm in gaps have held the air trapped in its In a parked car on a hot day, the 2005,” IPCC explained. “The atmo- original composition ever since. In some places, such as Antarctica, scientists are able obtain ice “cores,” using a highly sophisticated hollow drill bit, remotely similar to what a carpenter uses to drill a large hole through a door to install a door han- dle. When the carpenter finishes drilling through the door, the hollow part of his drill bit has a wooden “plug” inside it. This plug is similar to the “core” of ice that scientists are able to extract from specific depths in the ice, which formed at specific ancient times. The scientific field covering the study of climate in the distant past is paleoclimatology.

46 True Peace Terminology Jazeera’s Lowana Veal, “Permafrost dismisses efforts to reduce global We often read of “global warming” soils contain vast amounts of carbon, warming by claiming that lowering and “climate change.” These are nearly twice as much as is currently the average global temperature by different but related concepts. “Global in the atmosphere. As the permafrost one degree Celsius would require warming” refers to the fact that thaws in a warming climate, the soil shutting down the global economy for multiple scientific institutions have decomposes and releases carbon to forty years. been “taking Earth’s temperature” the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and and recording it for more than a methane.” Serious games hundred years with similar results In 2008, the US government added Some people think that Game Theory, and one clear trend: the physical the mighty polar bear to its Endan- developed in the 1940s for the US Air planet we live on is gradually warm- gered Species List, not because it has Force as a way to analyze deci- ing. “Climate change” is a term for been overhunted but because the icy sion-making, can explain climate-sci- what is happening in many local world in which it thrives is melting ence skeptics. The sub-set of Game areas. Noticeable changes are occur- and they expect it will melt further. Theory they apply to denial of climate ring in the general state of the weath- When the director of the US Fish and science is the Prisoner’s Dilemma, er, which includes temperature, the Wildlife Service proposed that the which deals with collective action degree of rainfall and wind velocity. polar bear be listed as endangered, he between parties that do not have Reasonable people who study these alluded to the possibility of starva- similar interests. areas in depth have concluded that tion, because “Polar bears use sea ice The Prisoner’s Dilemma follows a the Earth’s increased warmth is as a platform for many activities scenario. Person A and B have been wreaking havoc on the climate, which essential to their life cycle, especially arrested for a crime they have com- we experience. hunting for their main prey, ice seals.” mitted. If neither one confesses, they These and other developments will each go to jail for thirty days. If Feverish ailments were quite unexpected, though of Person A confesses and Person B does True Mother has told us, “Problems course, some anxiety about the physi- not, Person A goes free while Person are occurring externally that we cal environment has been a constant B goes to jail for ten years (or vice cannot solve; they are happening in throughout history, and we have versa). If both confess, both go to jail the world today. The planet itself has better access to information nowa- for three years. contracted a deadly fever because of days. Years ago, some bad news went Dealing with climate change global warming. We are in an anxious unreported, and some reported bad requires making some hard, unpopu- situation where we do not know what news did not reach as many people. lar decisions. People will lose jobs in is going to happen next. Should we some industries that contribute to just stand aside and watch from the Naysayers global warming, or companies will sidelines? What should we do?” Some prominent political figures in a have pay great sums of money to In 1989, news of the effects of few developed countries say that make changes in areas such as how climate change were occurring in “climate change” is a hoax. This they produce energy or how they only the most vulnerable locations. situation has several facets. Scandals manufacture products. The govern- On a visit to Tarawa, Kiribati, that in the scientific community over ment may have to raise taxes to pay year, Bob Hawke, Australia’s prime plagiarism, producing results to fit a for necessary modifications to reduce minister, said, “You only have to be paying sponsor’s expectations or carbon emissions. Products may cost here to see that you don't need much falsifying results for personal gain more. of a rise in the oceans and you're have eroded the image of scientists To make members of the opposing talking about ‘Goodbye, Kiribati.’” generally. This is a pity. The selfless political party be seen as the “bad Nowadays, we hear quite unex- efforts of most scientists and their guy” and pay a political price for pected news with what seems in- pure quest for truth and understand- voting for legislation or treaties that creasing frequency. In huge Russia, ing made them role models for young help lower greenhouse gases, these 1.78 times larger than China, people people. A few have sullied this image. “deniers,” refuse to acknowledge what rightfully have a sense of confidence. Nevertheless, it is hard to under- seems increasingly clear. Under these Certainly, rising water levels are not a stand why these political figures circumstances, the skeptics are confi- threat, but other effects of global would not at least recognize that dent those in the other party will warming have occurred, seemingly global warming ought to be watched prevent the disasters and those in the overnight. In Siberia, the part of as potential danger. Instead, they other party will be the only ones to Russian that is mainly in Asia, huge make brash statements and appear as pay a political price of alienating some sinkholes have appeared. The land if they have stepped into David’s voters and sources of political fund- beneath the surface soil had been shadow to face off with Goliath. In ing. If true, isn’t this highly cynical permafrost, frozen for centuries or this way, they have exerted influence. view of the world exactly what True longer. Suddenly it is melting. As the One politician suggested that global Parents’ vision of one family under land beneath the surface contracted, warming is just a scheme cooked up God meant to counter? as the frozen soil defrosted, the land by unelected bureaucrats so that they above collapsed. As Sarah Chadburn, can add staff to the government’s This has been contributed by a TPmagazine from the University of Exeter, told Al environmental department. Another staff members.

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