Communication

Hyo Jin Moon October 21, 2007 Belvedere 7:00 am

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Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo Jin nim and Yeon Ah nim and offer a standing bow.

Hyo Jin nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage.

Today's topic is Communication.

I need a haircut. Right? It looks like I'm wearing a helmet.

Did your parents read you stories when you were young to put you asleep?

Did you have that experience? If you did, was that important to you?

What if the opposite happens? (Pointing toward a brother) Hey man, do what you got to do. Make the best with you got; do what's right.

And I'm known for making short statements (Laughing) but some times when you're a little kid, when your daddy or your mommy reads you a story, that's important to you. Why? That is nurturing; that's the way we grow in body mind and spirit.

What you are saying might not mean anything, might not be significant, but just the action in itself, that adds the value that can guide you into the direction that ultimately any parent would want the child to go.

You know, you kind of have to look at communication in a spherical way. What I mean is that you have a forward and backwards; you have to have some kind of historical background and tradition and think about putting emphasis on that, and future thinking, outward thinking, and balancing the left and right, whatever. On a reality level, for lack of a better term, liberalism and conservatism; and up and down, God and selfishness.

You have to build from there, and hopefully, as you try, the sphere gets bigger, as you blow more air into the balloon, so to speak. Love is elastic so it's like the balloon that doesn't pop. Although it has boundaries, it will expand and it shouldn't pop. It won't pop, theoretically.

The most difficult thing for me is being humble. I jokingly always say "A humble man is nobody other than a person who knows how to keep his arrogance to himself." It's very difficult.

The things that make vertical work are things