The next question is, where did God, the King of wisdom and the Center of everything, place the origin of true love, ideals, happiness and peace? In the subject or the object? There are two positions, subject and object. There are two kinds of relationship: subject for object, and object for subject. As the Creator, where would God place the elements of the ideal? God had to think hard about where to place the origin of true love, ideals and peace. Should He place it in the position where the object serves the subject, or in the position where the subject serves the object? If He placed only one side in a position to live for the other, then humans would do the same and the road to unity would be blocked. You must know this. Then what was the way to unity and the origin of peace? God set up a principle whereby both God Himself and true human beings live for others. Therefore true love, true ideals, true peace and true happiness cannot be found except in the position of living for others. Human beings have not understood this basic principle of creation. What kind of people are true parents? They are people who were born for their children, they live for their children and they die for their children. In this way true ideal parents come about, and true parental love is actualized. Parents become their children's center of peace and standard of happiness. On the other hand, where is the standard of true filial piety? It is exactly the other way around. True children are born for their parents, live for their parents and die for their parents. They become their parents' ideal children, children of true love, and objects for happiness and peace. Here we can suggest one common formula: only through living for others can the conditions be set to bring about true love, ideals, happiness and peace.
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