At work, if you are appointed as a manager or director, there is a definite set of duties and an amount of responsibility that need to be taken care of. Also, there is a limitation when it comes to accomplishing this responsibility. It is not something you can do forever. It is restricted to a certain time period. Then, how much can be accomplished in the time period? When you estimate your lives to be seventy or eighty or around 100 years, the question concerns how much can be accomplished within a century's time. But how do you go about doing it? If you want to put in the same amount of dedication as someone else, if the other does ten hours, then you too must do ten hours. However, if you try to do it more quickly than the other person, you will accomplish more in hours. In order to do this you need an increased effort. Similarly, if you have ten hours, but you want to accomplish sooner, what must you do? You must invest an increased effort and dedication. So you must save every moment and throw all of your dedication into it. If you are a person who lives with the feeling that even a moment can decide victory or failure, then your days will be bright days. In receiving an appointment and completing your mission, there is always a time period. When you build a house, you have to prepare a comprehensive plan of how you are going to build that house and as to when you will have it finished. Just as one has to start building under a specific plan, you receive a mission under a specific place before you start. If you have started that mission, you must finish within the allotted time. In regards to completing within the given time frame, if you can complete more than the plan within the time frame, it will be worthy of commendation. If you do a more complete job than the plan required, that is not normal. It was done abnormally. What does that mean? It was possible because the person's effort and dedication was increased. If you do it according to the plan, there will be no problems: Anyone can do that. However, not everyone can do more than in the plan or reduce the amount of time needed. So, what is the privilege that someone who is appointed can have today? This privilege has a fixed volume, and an established time with which it must be completed. This is something anyone can do. The privilege received by an appointed person cannot be interfered with by anyone, even the planner. It must be an absolute authority. If you worked together with someone for ten hours and slept together, you would have shared many thoughts. Also, when the suffering and dedication that you put into your job gets doubled through someone else, the results that are realized through the other person are going to be given the highest honors by the cosmos. As long as only these kinds of people remain, the world will last forever, that is, if someone with a higher standard does not appear. In athletics, before someone breaks an established record, it seems as if that record will remain forever. Therefore, you must plot the course set for that record. As an appointed person, this is inevitable. If you are able to complete the task assigned to you in the available time, you can win a medal and high commendations. This is your mission. It is a direct mission. If it is a job that an individual can complete, it is wrong for two people to do it. When you receive a prize, two people can't receive that prize. When seen from this view, the person who received the command wants to accomplish it centering the responsibility on himself. Interference from anyone is disliked. This is because you have individual authority. You cannot forget that you have such a serious authority. What am I going to do? What kind of person am I going to become in front of my people? What kind of person will I become before the world and before heaven and earth? This type of heart has not been instilled. A person without this heart has no qualifications to be appointed. It is in order to understand these things that questions such as in philosophy and religion arose. An appointed person with a subject's authority does not like to receive interference. However, if an absolute being who is able to interfere appears, then the person will receive interference. When today's people say, "Love me. Love me forever," it ends only in words. In order to become a person who can love from the absolute position, you must love before even asking for love. If it is returned from the object's position, it becomes an absolute standard. When seen from this viewpoint, you have all abandoned your lives to become chosen. That is something that absolutely no one can interfere with. Even God cannot do anything about it. Whether in the past, present or future, absolutely no one can interfere. That is because unless in front of the absolute standard an absolute objective standard is established, it cannot be extended through the levels of the individual, tribe, nation and world. Through knowing this very well, you should fulfill your mission. The larger the scope of the appointed duty, the larger the amount of time that is allotted for it. There are instances of giving ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years or ten generations worth of dedication within the period of one generation. The question is whether or not you can give that kind of dedication.
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