Carp Sermon 3rd of March 2013

1. Foundation Day:
How To Make A Change

3. Foundation Day:
How To Make A Change

4. Foundation Day
• Holy wine ceremony (including the
confession and resolution)
• Mother declaring the start of Cheon Il Guk
• Receiving the blessing again (my 4th
wedding!)

5. Foundation day
• The big question now is how do we make
use of this opportunity that has been given to
use?
• What are we going to do, starting from now?
• How are we going to be different?
• What changes do we need to make?
• To manifest cheon il guk we need to start
with ourselves, and more specifically our
minds

6. • “The mind is its own place, and in
itself can make Heaven of hell, and
hell of heaven.” – John Milton

7. Me, 7 years old

8. My life situation growing up
1. Parents have always had a bad relationship
2. My Mom got physically and mentally ill and
was unable to take care of us for many years
3. Our family struggled financially
4. Bullied in school from 1st grade to 9th grade

9. Beliefs I held because of this
• About myself
– I am weak
– I am incapable
– I am unlovable
– I am a failure
– I am a bad person
– My thoughts and feelings are not important
– I have no value
– I am not a confident person
– I cant do a lot of things
– I have to comply to what other people want me to do

10. Beliefs I held because of this
• About others
– Everyone else is smarter then me
– They are better then me
– I will never be able to have what they have
– Other people live happier lives then I do

11. Beliefs I held because of this
• About life in general
– Life is scary
– Life is miserable
– Life is hard
– I am a victim of my circumstances and there is
nothing I can do to change that

14. Freedom
Stimulus to Response
Choose
Freedom
Past to Future
Choose
Freedom
Cause to Effect
Change

15. Eckhart tolle – The Power of Now
Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything
outside the Now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible
for anything to happen or be outside the Now? The answer is
obvious, is it not? Nothing ever happened in the past; it
happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the
future; it will happen in the Now. What you think of as the
past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now.
When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory
trace - and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a
projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as
the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now.
Past and futureobviously have no reality of their own.

16. Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
“ - Let me ask you this: can you be free of your mind whenever you
want to? Have you found the "off" button?
- You mean stop thinking altogether? No, I can't, except maybe for
a moment or two.
- Then the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with
it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if
you were possessed without knowing it, and so you take the
possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning of freedom is the
realization that you are not the possessing entity - the thinker.
Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you
start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness
becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast
realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny
aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that
truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from
beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”

17. Next, Changing limiting believes
• While conditioning can have a strong impact on our lives, we
are not determined by them.
• There are three widely accepted theories of determinism:
– Genetic – Because our nature is coded in our DNA and we
have certain character traits from our ancestors we are
the way we are and we can or cant do certain things.
– Psychic – Because our upbringing determines our
personal tendencies, and the emotional pain that we felt
at a young age is remembered, we are the way we are
and we can or cant do certain things.
– Environmental – States that factors in our present
environment are responsible for our situation, such as
relatives, the national economy etc.

18. Free your mind!

19. Changing limiting believes
1. Identify them and where they originate
2. Recognise that you can act despite of them
3. Replace them with the positive opposite
and start saying these to yourself over and
over again (affirmations)
– “You become what you think about most of the
time.” – Brian Tracy
4. Act!

20. The two most common limiting
beliefs/fears
• I can’t - The fear of failure
• I have to - The fear of rejection
• The worst one is a combination of both
• I can’t but I have to or I have to but I can’t
Example: public speaking

21. Love
• You cannot truly love others unless you love
yourself
• We should have received perfect love from our
parents but didn't. Childrens love = self love
• It starts by recognising that you are part of God,
that you are his son or daughter and because of
that you have incredible value and you deserve love
• You need to think of and treat yourself accordingly

22. Make the present a great place to be
• Gratitude about the past and present
• Optimism about the future
• Do loving actions

23. Create a new vision for your life
• Based on the principle as a map
• Based on your deepest values
• Based on what you love to do
• Based on leaving a legacy and having an
impact on the world

24. Sun Myung Moon
Your choice of occupation should not be based on just your talents
and interests. Whether you become a fire fighter, a farmer, or a soccer
player is up to you. But what I am referring to transcends your occupation.
What kind of life will you lead as a soccer player? How will you live
as a farmer? What is your objective in life?
To set your objective is to give meaning to the life you will lead.
If you are going to be a farmer, then you should set your objective to
test new agricultural methods, develop better species of crops, and help
eradicate world hunger. If you are going to be a soccer player, then set
a meaningful objective such as to heighten your country’s image in
the world or to establish soccer camps that will nurture the dreams of
economically deprived children.
To become a world-class soccer player takes incredible work. If you
do not have a definite purpose in your heart, you will not be able to
endure the difficult training required to reach the top. Only if you have
an objective will you have the power to maintain your course and live a
life that is a cut above those around you.

25. How to find out what you truly want
in life

26. Set goals in every area of your life!

27. How to set goals
• Written
• Present tense, I am, I have, etc.
• Positive
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable and realistic
• Time bound

28. Make a plan and act on it
• Make a list of everything you can do to
acheive your goal
• Order the list in priority
• Stick with the highest priority task until it is
complete and then move on to the next thing
– do the worst first!

29. You need others to help you grow
• Get feedback from family and friends
• Get blessed
• Have children
• Be humble but balanced
• We dont always see ourselves clearly so
other people’s feedback is valuable

30. Change Yourself, Change The
World