The Workers Hold Life and Death in Their Hands

The Workers Hold Life and Death in Their Hands *Dojeon 8:70

1 “You hold within your hand the word saeng(生), which means ‘to save life’—is now not the autumn, in which humans fulfill the will of heaven and earth? My work shall be accomplished through three stages of change.

2 The work of heaven and earth rests at the divide between life and death. Our ceaseless struggle is the work of three meals a day for all.

3 Our work is to survive when others die and to flourish with glory and prosperity when others merely survive.”

 

In Sangjenim’s truth, only the culture of mutual life-giving and life-saving is possible. Only if others live well can one also thrive; people can live well only if all do so together. If a single person lives well, will others allow this situation to continue? The culture of the past was a culture in which one lived life by trampling others. Sangjenim proclaimed, “Through Me, everything shall begin anew.” Although the world of the past was dominated by the principle of mutual conflict and domination, thievery and destruction will spontaneously disappear in the coming world, in accordance with Sangjenim’s proclamation, and a new culture of mutual life-giving and life-saving will be established instead.