The seat of Purity

There are two main ways to change the world. One is a pen and the other is a sword. The pen means thought and the sword means power.

That is to say, The two ways are that one change people with ideas or the other change people with power.

If you want to change the world by power, you let people shed a lot of blood. There is oppression and violence. But It is the inherent power and voluntary power that changes the world through thought.

We wield power in principle. The principle is the sword. The sword makes a lot of blood and leads to violence.

However, the power of thought is not by principle. It is the power of thought that changes this principle.

So our country has emphasized the power of literature, not strength of weapon from ancient times. We have made light of the strength of weapon. We emphasized that the power of literature was superior to that of weapon. So the politician was a man who was fluent in literature.

But there are still groups that are trying to move the organization with absolute power. There is a lot of corruption here and there is oppression. But people tend to be deceived by it.

Anyone with knowledge and good ideas will challenge and seek change this oppression. Even if it is not easy, power is defeated, but idea is left forever.

I hope that the right ideas and values ​​permeate organizations with absolute power and change them.

Good consumption

Have you heard about good consumption? There is a cafe that I drink a cup of coffee and another one to others. There is also a photo studio that gives a neglected class of people the right to take pictures. In Germany, there is a "Sharing Refrigerator" in the whole of Germany. Although the economy is difficult, these places are increasing.

In Adam Smith's 1776 edition of <The Wealth of Nations>, it was not because of the benevolence of the owner of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we can expect to have dinner, but because they value their own interests. Economic activity is said to happen because of selfishness. From this point of view, good consumption is a strange behavior that can never be understood. It is to take economic damages and to do good act. This is because there is a psychology that pursues unselfishness and fairness on the basis of our humanity. The time has come to want to express the value of one's self in small actions. Human wants to pursue the public interest rather than his own interests, it appears in consumer sentiment. Even if the economy becomes difficult, this kind of psychology causes a lot of warm things in society. Good consumption is now popular. Ethics and values ​​have become important. Good consumption became consumption trend.

If we pursue you and our public interest, we will survive whatever the economy may be.

The ones who this era requests are “the good persons”.

What is the good?

What kinds of person can be called “good man”? Today, If you heard that you are a good man, that did not always mean the praise of you. There are some reasons that the good man does not mean good word.

In Korea, the good man is regarded as the person who has no own view and no own character and less ability and no something special and no power to have. Extremely some people consider the good man as the hypocritical person. Thus, the most appellative texts in Korea tell us to be selfish and to be colorful-mined person and to love self as much as one likes and to go out from the good man complex.   

Indeed, when young man and woman love each other, a woman is easy to feel drawn to bad man and also a man is easy to feel drawn to bad woman.

But usually we think the good person is like that, for example, the person making a room for the aged in a bus, serving for the poor people, helping others, sacrificing himself for others, and telling his fault honestly.

Most people regard these kinds of things as great. But ironically they want my man or my girl to be selfish to others. Because sacrificing and being honest seem to be harmful and seem to be foolish and seem to be less usable for this world.

Ironically we have the moral in our instinct that the good man must get well and the bad man to do wrong to good man must be punished. So, The story of the drama, the movie, the fairy tale, and the novel have contents like this. We call this the ideal of reward virtue and punish vice. This is human nature.

As I told, human nature is complex to know all. The person to be so good to others cannot be recognized, This is reality. There are so many cases in real for the good not to be led to successful life. The condition of success is determined not by moral, character, virtue and value but by the ability to solve the problem.

Usually the good man is lack to reject other’s ask and to express himself well and to tell his opinion powerfully and to resist an improper requirement of others. There are so many cases for good man to be unhappy in his life. This world has so many bad people to make bad use of the mind of care and sacrifice of good persons.

So, Lest the good should be led to unhappiness, the good persons must enhance their ability to express their right and insist. But if the ability is slightly different, it is desirable for good man to be praised and to be succeeded. 

The good is the competiveness in this era

The era have changed. These days, the good means the powerfulness. You know You Jae Suk, a famous comedian in Korea. He is well known to be kind and humble for others. Korea do not have any other person to be so much successful as You Jae Suk. This tells us that the good is powerful thing for success. The value of honest, humbleness, self-sacrifice is so scarce that we can acknowledge it as great. We feel that the value becomes the standard of success.     

According to the report about the education, the students to be taught the community, service, care, sacrifice can be more successful than the self-centered students only to study.

In cases of my nephews, some are bad for studying and some are good for studying. But I love some nephews to be bad for studying because they have humanity. Even though, they entered a jerkwater college, jokingly because they drank so much jerkwater.

 The most important thing I want to tell is that they got a job in popular workplace in Korea to be so difficult for even a man of ability to enter. They came over the discrimination and prejudice in our society and went through them.

The secret that this can be possible is the score of interview. The crucial point of interviewers is the humanity of interviewee. The key point of the questions is the power to communicate, the ability of empathy, and the experience of social service.  

Now, we think that the persons who even have high quality in career and certificate are not attractive, in case that they have less humanity. Because they cannot be suitable for organization needed to have long persistence.

Some Korean parents always say that we must raise the quality and career and ability of our children, as if these are their responsibility.

However, they don’t think that the good humanity is amounts of power. Can it be ease for someone to have such kinds of humanity? The conception of ability comes to be changed. The suitable persons are prior to able persons.

Corporal Punishment

Is it necessary for education or Is it a violence?

Thinking about the Corporal punishment

 These days I see the news on Internet media like this. That is, a grandmother and a mom beated their 3 aged daughter ruthlessly on the purpose of corporal punishment and they made her die. We call this not as corporal punishment but as violence and mistreatment.

What is different from corporal punishment and violence? I consider again the corporal punishment happening between parents and children, teacher and student..

    In my country, South Korea, the corporal punishment is prohibited by principle. As doing so, It is limited only to inevitable case. But this is the controversial problem in this country. It was reported that a teacher left a student out in the cold on the purpose of punishment. Most people think this as mental violence. They form public opinion about corporal punishment.

The premise of corporal punishment is full relationship of affection

   I think the corporal punishment is necessary and the whip of love is possible. But the corporal punishment must be done only if the relationship of affection and trust is built among them. Then the victims can look back to them and do not feel it as a violence.  And the care must be followed after corporal punishment. We can not grow as upright person if we don’t have lesson from our parents and our teachers. But only if they take care of their victims after punishment, they will not become twisted beings. Otherwise they remember it as a violence.

In fact, it is reported that the child who has the deep relationship and intimacy with mom will get a less stress.

From my experience, as a baby sitter in church. Infants who are taken good care from their mom are healthy. Because infants have deep dependent relationship with their mom, their mom embrace and feed them after punishment.

Even elementary students can turn back from their error easily because of their intimate relationship with their mom and teacher. But middle school students and high school students can go across easily and they feel the punishment as a violence because of their weak relationship with their teachers and parents. .

As reflecting my school life, I remember that the punishment from the teacher who had deep concern about me made me turn back and feel good. But I remember a teacher whose nickname was a crazy dog. He beated his students without reason. He beated his students by the reason that they did not wear slippers in the limited area and they do not line up rightly and they do not look forward, even if they line up rightly. He beated them ruthlessly.

I feel fear and shame whenever I remember the crazy teacher.

The significant thing of the right punishment is that the heart of attacker must be painful as much as victims suffer.  

When I was a middle school student, Our class, most students did wrong to a female teacher. I don’t remember the contents of wrong doing. But I was impressed by her response to us. She punished us by beating with her both palms over our both palms. Then, both of attacker and victims are hurted. I was painful by just one beat. But she did more than 30 times because our class consisted of 60 students, as I remember. How painful her palms are! We, our class, observed her palms swelling up redly. The she said to us, “when I beat you and you feel pain, I also feel pain”

Most students agreed with her and lowered their head and kept silence. Her palms swelling up told us something to our heart. She got hurted more tens of times than us.  

One day, she came to die by accident. When our middle school held a funeral in the ground, all students shed tears. It seemed to me the wave of tears and finally the sea of tears.

The teacher went over to heaven with our love which was proven by our tears how we love her and how we respect her.   

The corporal punishment happens in our ordinary life, no matter how it is prohibited by principle. We must recognize that the punishment must be done not on the purpose of logic, duty and principle that you must be punished because of your wrong doing but on the purpose of turning back from errors. And we must recognize that attacker feel not triumph but pain. The most important thing is that attackers give it to victim’s heart that they also feel pain when they punish.

As doing so, love and trust will grow our children to be better and matured persons.  

The thing that is necessary for the modern people is

“the consolation”

We all need the consolation from somebody. We are near to death, if we do not be consoled by somebody. There are many people that have much trouble with failure, frustration, loneliness, and hurts, though our appearance seems to be good. Somewhere they shed tear, sigh deeply, cry out, and resent the world with the bowl of cuss word. Some of them think suicide extremely.  We are taught that we must endure in severe evaluation and cold treatment and must judge completely and rationally by the analysis of reality.

But there are two kinds of persons. The one is rational, cold and realistic, the other is warmhearted, kindhearted, and hopeful.

I want to tell my own experience with mom a year ago. Then my mom was 81 years old and came to sick, She didn’t eat and sleep. Finally the great fear of death went over to her. Although she also was a Christian and believe in the kingdom of Heaven, she felt uneasy like a child.

I took her to the hospital, but the doctor was so cold that he was done just by prescribing medicine. My mom asked the doctor piteously, “Can I get well?” but the doctor gave her cold reception. From then on, my mom searched for the another hospitals owning famous doctors. She wanted me to take her to them. I had no choice but doing as she wanted. But the most doctors was so cold that they just examined and prescribed medicine. I felt bad that she looked so unesay. Then, I was hurted by the doctors, although I already knew that most doctors were just like that. They think that they have to be rational, cold and intelligent. I got angry about it. But I was helpless, and prayed to God, “God, my mom is terribly sick, my mom is uneasy, she needs just one hopeful word and trust in you, I am helpless. She need help from the doctor. So I hope that we can meet the one doctor that can tell a lie just for his patient.”

And finally we went to the one hospital that my mom discovered in the newspaper. The doctor in there was so kind that he said, “you will get well, see a sunshine everyday for thirty minutes and do exercise and write the Bible,” as even giving us Bible card. He was a Christian.

From that day, my mom got better and better, she saw sunshine everyday and ate well and did exercise and wrote the Bible. I thought that my mom could live to the age 100, as seems to me.

It caused not the good medicine. My mom got well because of just one word, hopeful and console from doctor.

What is the cold judgement about reality? We already knew that. That is, “we all die, we run to death, we have no possibility”

But If we are Christian, how could we say? The answer is that “the world is worth to live, because God loves you. God has plan toward you”

I saw a certain famous instructor doing a lecture on TV,  She said to young people, “Be beaten, Be beaten with glaring eyes, you must be taken blows well, And you will be succeed”

I felt sad that the reality took beating and hurting, ignoring and being despised for granted. But I thought that that kinds of person must be a monster which would destroy humanity, even though he came true his dream. So, that is the reason why our society became severe and severe.

If we, Christian, become the very one of the consolation, our society will get warmer and warmer, clearer and clearer.  

Someone said the message of hope and consolation could make people weaker and weaker by giving an impossible expectation. It was just like “hope torture”.

Which one can make people hurted and weakened?  

Would I say this if it weren’t that bad? Some people open their wallet to consolation and sympathy. That is called as “the marketing of consolation,” that means to earn the money by bring cheer to some people. Those people spend money in gaining a cheerful word from the late night restaurant and cart bar.

In order that some guesthouse and hair shop try to manage their shop, they use this kind of marketing, they said, “Hurted people, come to me, It’s free”

Then, hurted people get consolation and cheer from them for free, And they will come back to them and they will become a regular customer of them, through such kinds of course, their business must be flourish. Isn't it a good idea?

If we are a Christian, we have to be a doctor of soul.

Someone said to me,

“Hey, pastor, you must do such kinds of thing, You must be kind, but you must know the reality. I am a stronger man than you, I am a man who already endure it.”

I said,

“Please don’t say that, How hard you are to survive! We both get hurted from that kinds of words. There are the way to endure it easily, the word and the act to cheer us up. Which kinds of person do we have to be?”   

We already know the cold judgement. Humans have no possibility. We run to death. That is reality. But we, Christian, have a secret that can come over this reality. So our words must be different from the words of severe world. Do we have to give a cheerful and hopeful message to people who have pain from so many hurts?   

Even Jesus needed consolation and love. He got big consolation from a certain woman, Maria and He came to win from the horror of death and despise and ignorance and alienation. Did it a small thing to Jesus, because He is a divine being? He was hard and afflicted as we are. Even Jesus needed love and consolation. The heroes and powerful persons and the strongest man in the world needed love and consolation from somebody. The small thing from warm-hearted woman, that is, the overflowing love shedding tears gave a power to Jesus that could come over all things.    

If we, Christian, become the love, the hope, and the consolation of people who are crying out, shedding tears alone and drunken by a glass of beer and thinking suicide, Our world will become so sound and healthy that no one has trouble in pain, hurts and poor. The cold and severe world must be so beautiful. I hope so with all my heart.  

Who is the true storng man? 

The true strong man is the one who focuses on the eye level of the weak person.

What is the echics of the strong man? This words remind me the memory with my brothers, when I was young. I am the lastborn of 4 brothers and sisters.  Then, although I am female, I like playing with two brothers. The big brother is more 5 aged of me and he is tall and strong. but The little brother is more 2 aged of me and he is small and short-ass. One day, we played a boxing match. The big brother fighted with the little brother. The judgement was me. The square ring was a rectangle-shaped padded cotton bedding. If a person got out of it, he got to lose.

Then, to me, so little girl, the height difference is big so much as the game was impossilbe. I, as judgemment command my big brother to keel dwon half. I think the big brother as the storng man and the little brother as the weak person. It seemed to me unjust. When my big brother keel down half to my little brother, the height comed to be equal. I announced the start of the game, The funny game was started. As laughing, they beat each other. My big brother was beaten more but he smiled and laughed, It was the first time that I saw such a man who was laughing, although being beaten. I knew that the big brother lost intentionally. So, sometimes the little brother won the game, sometimes the big brother won the game, I don't remember who is the the victory or defeat. But we enjoyed the game, all things are good. It is a happy end.

So I think the ethics of the strong man is like this. That is, the fit to the eye level of the weak person. as if my big brother keel down half to my little brother so as to eye to eye, The strong man took charge of the weak point of the weak person. 

But this cannot happen to this cruel world of adult. It was the just happening, when I was young. It is the fortune only that the strong man does not blame like these, "Your weakness is due to your illiterate, your lazyness".  It is the fortune only that they do not beat the weak person instead that they were lost intentionally. They beat and beat, just like this reason, "You dare to challenge me, or you will be storng through this training. But I think the person to survive in this condition comes to be monster, that is, something destroyed humanity.

The true stong man is generous-minded person to be pleased with others.

The true strong man is the person who makes others pleased. And the ture stong man is the person who is not to ignore and look down on the weak person. 

The thinking that we are the storngman comes to be too much pride. We do not distinguish between strong man and weak man exactly. These days the weak persons can be more strong through the way of the solidarity.  

One summer day, I met a aged who seems to be thin and eat something dirty on the street. Then I was worried about the aged person because something that she ate seems to be dirty in this hot summer, it.must be caused to a stomach disorder.

So I gave the money to her, said, "don't eat that, buy something for lunch." but she rejected me firmly, and said, "don't do that, I don't get something from begging".

Then I was surprised, but the more surprised thing that the aged earn the money by selling the wastepaper and buy candy  for the little child on the street and pleased him and they enjoy them together. From then on, I respect her. She is the ture strong person who try to be pleased with the more little person. Even if she was treated as worthless. 

Who is the strong man? Who is the weak person?. The true strong man have in mind to be pleased with others. We usually think that the strong man is the person who has the power and honor and money. But we think again who is the true strong man.

I feel these days that the consideration of weak person decrease more and more. Just seeing that the anti-refugees seniment grows more and more in Europ and Trumph president in America accept the anti-emigration policy.  The reality becomes dreary. The nations in the world becomes selfish, as the jungle.

I think it is the time that the consideration of the weak person have to be made a subject of discussion.

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