1. Preparing for the Il Shim Ceremony

2. Choosing to Become a True Son or Daughter of God
Topic 1
Choosing to Become a True Son or Daughter of God

3. Choosing to Become a True Son or Daughter of God
Building a Relationship with God
Prayer
Faith and Experience
A Real Sense of God’s Presence

4. Choosing to Become a True Son or Daughter of God
Learning about our Identity as “Second Generation”
To whom do I belong?
Receiving True Parents in my heart
Inheriting the lineage and receiving the ‘baton’ from my parents

5. Fallen Nature and Original Nature
Developing your character is like weeding and nurturing your inner garden
Transform yourself with love and care

6. Fallen Nature and Original Nature
Being Selfish and Mistaken
Loving and Understanding as God Does
Being Insecure and Irresponsible
Confidence in being God’s Child; Rejoicing in Being Loved

7. Fallen Nature and Original Nature
Being Bossy, Rebellious, Arrogant
Giving and Receiving freely and properly
Complaining, Blaming
Doing great things – Being an Inspiration to Others

8. Summary Divine Principle1
Failure to Love Others from God’s Standpoint
Being Selfish 2
Being Irresponsible
Leaving One’s Proper Position 3
Reversing Dominion
Being Rebellious 4
The Multiplication of Evil
Stirring up Trouble

9. God’s Great Love for Us!
The Prodigal Son

10. He lost his way and ended up in misery
What is the purpose of our lives?
How does a human being become happy?
What is your goal?
To embody God’s love?

11. God’s Love Comes to Us in the Three Great Blessings
Fulfilling them brings happiness to us because it’s according to our original mind (goodness)
Ignoring the purpose of our life leads to emptiness and suffering (evil)
Living against this ideal leads to abuse and addiction – in an attempt to artificially fill the void meant to be filled by True Love

12. What does this mean in reality?
Multiply Good
Develop your skills and talents
Reading
Writing
Sport
Art
Speaking
Inventing and Creating
Making Friends; Celebrating
Worshipping, Studying, Caring
Recreation in Nature
Personal Grooming
Homemaking; Cleaning, Cooking, Building, Repairing, Sewing, Childcare
Music and Dancing
Entertaining guests with heart
Enjoying togetherness
This is shimjung (togetherness) culture
These activities awaken the senses & give happiness

13. What does this mean in reality?
Multiply Evil
Neglect your Original Nature
Neglecting your health and appearance
Laziness
Smoking
Drinking alcohol and takig drugs
Too much TV/Movies/ Video games
Poor quality diet (‘junk food’)
Superficial and distant relationships
Poor quality entertainment (also ‘junk’)
Pornography
Dating
Premature sexualisation of relationships
This is a destructive culture (at best, superficial)
It deadens the senses after over-stimulating them

14. How Much is Too Much TV?
According to Dr. Nick Baylis (Scientist of Well-being at Cambridge University) in his book “Learning from Wonderful Lives” chapter on “What can slow our progress” pp :
“Television should be a nutritious meal we share together, not fast-food we gulp down addictively so as to anaesthetise our hunger for activities and relationships missing in our real life.”
* more than 2 Hours a day is too much
* It is “Illusion Learning”
* Too much T.V. paralyses the brain,
body and ambitions

15. Transformed into a True Olive Tree
“Did your birth take place under the true parenthood or the false parenthood?”
“Externally, a bud on the false olive tree looks just the same as one on the true olive tree – in fact, it might even look a little better, since it receives so much nourishment.”
Can we penetrate all the thousands of years of customs in the satanic world and bring a revolution? from “True Parents and I” June 15th 1986

16. So… it’s time to: Give the thumbs up to positive, shimjung lifestyle!
Carefully discern what is good and what is evil, and decide to dedicate to the good!
Enjoy being part of the solution to societies problems