You were born of your parents. So, who are your first object-partners? Your parents, aren't they? The first words I spoke when I was a baby were Mom and Dad. What more could there be? The parents I called were the parents in the original position. That's interesting. Everyone, call your parents a thousand and ten thousand times. Try to find the taste of your parents. The taste is everlasting. If you call your parents, wouldn't they answer? They are meant to answer. This is the nature of the subject-object relationship. If there is an absolute object, there is also an absolute subject. Since this is a basic rule, the parents are meant to answer your calls, and that will make both you and your parents happy. If you call your parents a thousand times and there is no answer, would you be happy? The same can be said about seeking God. You must live with God like a young child spending time with his parents. (29-138) When you think about a family, you cannot judge it as good just because of good environment or a nice house. On the contrary, even if the environment is bad and the house is shabby, still if you make it a place for peaceful living and connect your standards and everything in your life to it, that is a good family. The heart of the parents and children is to live for the sake of each other. This becomes the basis for judging happiness in our daily lives. Why is that? Because it is the one and only love relationship of parents and children which nobody can invade. (29-17) The relationship of heart between parents and children never changes or fades as history goes on and the days go by. It will get stronger day by day and as time goes by; rather than fade, it concentrates. When a son sends a message to his parents, or vice versa, that message seems to be a stimulus to fulfill all hope. (51-71)
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