Tag: Ancestors

Do Not Behave Shamefully in Front of Your Parents’ Graves

If you do anything that deviates from the right meaning of love, your ancestors will personally come after you and reprimand you.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 583

    All things of this world will pass away. Our families, nations, and even the world itself will pass away. Ideologies and philosophies will pass away. What will remain? It is the hope with which we can fight and win over death. Without such a hope, we might as well call ourselves failures in life.
    On the other hand, there is a group of people who, from their birth, reject all hopes that secular people desire and all humanistic things, and live embracing the heavenly hope, an eternal hope.
    Heaven made limitless efforts to enable humanity, living with their earthly, humanistic hopes, to go over the peak of death with a new hope and to live with regard to the eternal world. Therefore, people who live a life of faith should not live embracing earthly hope, but should live dreaming of the eternal world of hope that can even conquer death. (6-43, 1959.3.22)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1095

    There is some element of truth in Christianity’s ban on the performance of ancestral rites up until the present day. This rite should be offered to God and the True Parent of all humankind. The ancestors in the spirit world should originally have been served by us. However, due to the Fall, this has been prohibited until the present time. In the age of restoration, because you have received the Blessing, you should attend your ancestors from now on. (223-210, 1991.11.10)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 13. Ancestral Rituals for Blessed Families

13.1. Laws on ancestor worship were originally part of heavenly law.

Summary:
If you deviate from the true meaning of love, your ancestors will personally return to reprimand you, making it essential to honor them with proper order and deep respect. In traditional Korean culture, the firstborn son of the eldest son holds the ultimate authority; he stands at the head of all ancestral rites above all other relatives, and he alone dictates the exact time of the memorial service. The deceased ancestors must adjust to this designated time on earth to receive their offering table, reflecting Jesus’s principle that what is unbound on earth is unbound in heaven. Furthermore, if you were genuinely pious to your parents while they were alive, you do not need to perform elaborate ceremonies or visit faraway burial grounds after their passing; instead, you can simply keep their picture in your home, celebrating and attending to them as if they were alive. While Christianity historically banned ancestral rites because humanity was disconnected from God due to the Fall, the current age of restoration and the Blessing empowers families to freely attend and elevate their ancestors once again.
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Bequeath The Way of Attendance to Succeeding Generations

It will be a nation where you can attend the King and sing praises for the eternal reign of peace and prosperity.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1892

    I caught one black fish yesterday, but you cannot imagine how strong this particular one was. This amazing fish even cracked open a shellfish and ate it. In fishing, the moment that requires the most careful attention is fishing for black fish. You know crabs, right? When I cut the crab and put it on the hook as bait, a black fish comes and eats it away. It will come to eat and quickly go away. It is miraculous. When there are many fishing rods with bait placed in the water, these black fish come and eat the bait without you even noticing them. (217-208, 1991.6.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1028

    When you give sermons on Sunday, you must be serious. If I were you, I would not get any sleep. How could one sleep? Giving a sermon is like giving an injection in order to save other people’s lives. It is the same as giving a rejuvenation shot. We need to give members one week’s worth of medication and rejuvenation shots. You must lead from the serious position of a doctor who gives a shot to a patient who is on the brink of death. That is why when you go to the podium; it is like going to the place of execution. (75-176, 1975.1.2)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Summary
To establish a true reign of peace, you must live a life of unconditional love that honors your nation even more than your ancestors did, ensuring you are never a source of shame to your lineage. The Unification movement fully embraces the tradition of honoring ancestors, instructing members to visit graves with the same deep respect they would show to God, repent for past shortcomings, and hold annual memorial services on the anniversaries of their passings. Performing these bowing rituals and preparing food tables in a room with True Parents’ picture is a holy, liberating act rather than a sin, as it shifts secular ancestor worship into a heavenly tradition centered on True Parents and the divine lineage. Because Korea is considered the eldest son nation whose historical focus on genealogies aligns with heavenly law, following these practices allows families to secure the rights of a chosen people and create a royal domain where succeeding generations can transition directly into heaven.
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You Are Historical Reincarnations Wearing the Face of Your Ancestors

The long course of history was intended to eventually create one person, yourself.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 488   

When people get married, they say they will love each other until they die. In saying this, one can either just say, “I will love you until I die (Juk-dorok sarang-handa)” or draw out the first word, “Ju-u-u-u-u-k…” for ten years, a hundred years, or a hundred million years, and then say the rest, “…dorok sarang-handa.” Which would you like better? Would you rather just hear it Chapter 7 • The Love of a True Husband and a True Wife 489 simply as, “Juk-dorok sarang-handa”? The young women here, how about some answers? You would be happier if your spouse says, “Ju-u-u-u-u-k” for say, a hundred million years, and then “dorok sarang-handa” than if he just said, “Jukdorok sarang-handa.” The more drawn out it is, the better. If a husband meets his wife and says, “Ju-u-u-u-u-k,” and ten years later, he says again, “Ju-u-u-uu-k,” and then says “Juk-dorok saranghanda” after he passes over the age of fifty. If only he can do it, she will say she loves him beyond measure. This is how it is. She will like him, even if he has a big belly and waddles when he walks. (37-25, 1970.12.22)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1624

    You need to understand that there is no one on earth who would not be devoted to parents who are willing to suffer and carry the cross for their children forever, and give such parental love that the world and even God Himself would exclaim, “You are much better than I!”? Wouldn’t you want to be in such a position? If you live with a heart of gratitude for the life you are leading at present, even after giving everything you have over many years, yet always keeping His thoughts in your mind, then God Himself will praise you. If children live with such an attitude toward their parents, husbands toward their wives, wives toward their husbands, the family toward the nation, and the nation toward the world, how splendid that world will be! When that happens, God will not want to stay in the spirit world. He will quickly descend to the center of the human world and dwell here, recommencing the work of creation so that everyone can live abundantly. (215-243, 1991.2.20)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 12. Rituals in the Life of Blessed Families

Summary:
Human beings were originally born with a deep spiritual bond to God’s Pledge and must live and die by its words, reciting it every Sunday with their families as a powerful declaration that cuts off all connections to Satan’s world and clears away the week’s mistakes. True Father explains that traditional Korean ancestor worship and Confucian customs closely match heavenly law, making it essential for members to lovingly care for their ancestors’ graves, plant trees, and clean their hometowns to honor their lineage. Because every individual is a historical reincarnation who carries the faces of countless generations, human beings are the ultimate fruits of a long history that worked for hundreds of thousands of years to create them. Ultimately, by maintaining deep devotion to both the family Pledge and their ancestors, members establish a strong foundation of goodness that allows God’s laws to firmly take root on the earth.
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Your Ancestors Can Now Inspire and Reprimand You Toward Heaven

The era has now arrived in which, by Your attaining control over the nations that connect together all of struggling humanity, they can become Your tribe

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1590

2.10. Congratulatory Declaration of True Parents’ Cosmic Victory
June 14, 1999, Seoul

    Heavenly Father! On this day, June 14, 1999, at quarter past one in the afternoon, the historic moment has come when the proclamation of the victorious cosmic liberation in the names of the True Father and True Parents can be made standing here before You. Also the declaration of welcome for the victorious True Parents representing heaven and earth can be made, based on the Congratulatory Declaration of the True Parents’ East-West (Global) Victory on May 30.
    I am aware of the anguish long-harbored deep within Your heart, which could not be dissolved by anyone in the past. Every moment of the sad history of sin committed in front of You ever since the time of the first ancestors is buried inside Your heart. Continue reading “Your Ancestors Can Now Inspire and Reprimand You Toward Heaven”

Rev. Moon’s Teachings Are Essential

I am teaching these things not because I know them, but because I accomplished them, and gained victory over them.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 759

    What is the purpose of life? We need to think about this issue again. The source of our life does not come from us. Thus, the purpose of life certainly does not belong to us alone. No one would object to the idea of being happy in life. No one would reject a dazzling life. Yet the reality is that none of us is free to live in that way. Still, each of us wishes to have pride in ourselves, to live freely with respect to our own will, and to be remembered accordingly. These intersecting elements all can be found within our hearts. (7-178, 1959.9.6)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1239

    God exists with dual characteristics. These dual characteristics are positive and negative, the former represented by the man, Adam, and the latter by the woman, Eve. The children are thus a combination of the two of them. In this way, according to God’s ideal, the first, second and third generations are formed. Out of the three generations, it was the generation of Adam and Eve, the second generation, where the problem occurred.
    Adam and Eve did not become one in God’s love. If they had, they would have formed a love relationship in which God could dwell. They also would have established the standard of love through which God could have naturally formed a relationship with Adam and Eve’s children. This would have been the Blessing. (32-239, 1970.7.19)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 6
Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
Chapter 3

True Parents and the Spirit World

Section 2. True Parents and the Building of the Kingdom of Heaven

2.2. Building the Kingdom of Heaven and the unification of the physical and spirit worlds

    Since they have equal value, the spiritual and physical worlds can now rise above, descend below, or go to the left and right in relationship. No matter how the directions of front and back, or left and right may interchange, the age of the realm of love, cosmic love, can now begin. This will perfect the spiritual and physical worlds. We call this the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in spirit world. It is the realm of liberation for everything. Do you understand what I am saying? (301-236, 1999.5.2) Continue reading “Rev. Moon’s Teachings Are Essential”