On Leading

[To the Europeans] Are you confident that you can replace the present leaders in your countries? Would you prefer to go back to your nations right after the training course; or would you want to visit the mobile teams in the States? The U.S. has 50 states, so if you spend three days in each state, that means that you would have to spend almost half a year. Why don’t you think of visiting the New York center, helping the mobile teams there, instead of visiting 50 states?

Those who have already left for the front line missed opportunities for flower selling and witnessing, so I am thinking of bringing them back sometime in the future to have them go through those things. Everybody and anybody has to go through those things. The American members who came right in the beginning of this training session hold up your hands please. I count sixteen. Is that all?

Now for Alan Wilding, as I see, you have many good qualities and a good brain, but once you are involved in a thing you become too involved and are apt to lose your balance. I want you to hold yourself back sometimes so that you will be stable in going. If you are overwhelmed too much by what you are doing and forget about other people, then you lack the quality of leadership. You have keen observation and are keen in every other way, so sometimes try to be dumb. Am I describing you right? Yes. You are a handsome boy. If you are too concerned about yourself, that’s not right. In order to become a qualified leader, you must be more concerned about the members under you than yourself. Take care of them as you would your own children. Right in the midst of temptation you must be like a rock. You must never waiver. You must be able to put things in order in the way you think, say things and act out things. Are your parents alive? Haven’t you grown up in a family where there have been conflicts? You must try hard to be harmonized with other men. You have distinct likes and dislikes. Eradicate those things and try to like and love everybody. Canada needs a leader right away. You are the only one who has gone through the training course. But before your taking charge of all of Canada you must go through pioneering work. What other major cities are there besides Toronto? Would you like to go to Montreal and open a center there? [Yes.] Then I want you to work really hard to win more members than they have in the Toronto family.

On Lecturing

The sixteen American members will have fulfilled your 40 days training — the whole thing will be completed by the tenth of June. Those who will not have passed the examination will have to come back some other time. Try your best to pass the examination. You have heard the lectures many times. Master is sure you can study with the Study Guide, and before long the Divine Principle book will come out. The Divine Principle book will have some 600 pages or more. In the Japanese family we have many members who try to memorize the books. Some of them know exactly what is on each page. Among several members, they encourage each other and test each other and tell what is on what page and what portion of the page (“upper right corner, middle,” etc.) If you repeat reading the book, you must memorize the whole thing. If you keep reading the book, you will be touched by the story, and then you can give dynamic lectures to other people.

Atmosphere

I like the way Mike Warder delivers his lectures. You must be able to grasp the nature of the lecture, so you must practice how to write on the blackboard, make charts and things like that. But try not to write too much, because its time consuming. Sometimes you feel it is necessary for you to write things on the blackboard for the newcomers, but this is not necessarily so, because the newcomers are apt to be distracted when you write too much. It is better for you to look into the eyes of the people rather than write. You must know how to handle the atmosphere of the whole group. If you notice someone dozing off in that corner, you can walk to that side and people will feel strange that you are walking to that side. That person can feel your observation of him and come awake. In the public speech you can even pound on the table, but in using gestures you must try to do it naturally. There are many ways possible. You can employ jokes and sometimes even play pantomime in describing God. Let them figure out who or what you are describing. In that case you can hold the audience, and you must be keen in catching their response.

Sense objections

You must know that among the audience, there are people who would feel like objecting to what you are saying. Then, what would you do? Don’t wait until that person raises questions and shouts and screams and goes against you. That will break the whole atmosphere. Before he does that, you must attack him by giving your own testimony or another's testimony, by saying “When I first came to this movement, I was skeptical of this point, that point, etc. I was really mad at the lecturer, but then the thought came into my mind that such and such thing really happened, and I was so moved to tears that I had a revelation,” and so on. Then he will realize his situation. That can stop a person from questioning. You will see his eyes change. The spiritual war is won by the skill of the lecturer.

If you write too much, your own attention is focused on that, and you want to make sure you are spelling right. You cannot give a lecture heart to heart like that. Mike Warder was in such a hurry he would do this and concentrate on his board work. People will either think its amusing, funny or strange. Then you would distract their attention. Why not make the chart simple, and don’t try to write too much. Try to make everything appear normal, then peoples attention will not be distracted. You can even make a quick line sometimes to make an arrow. In making circles too, you can do it quickly. But since you are writing you should write so that everybody can understand. When you deliver a speech or a lecture, some very interesting things are happening. In the spiritual sense, its something like an electrical current going around through the lecturer. Everybody's response will be different. Ten people may listen, and there are ten ways of response — like a broadcasting system.

Dozing

Those who doze off are not with a sense of responsibility, because they have grown under a leader who doesn’t have the sense of responsibility. (Pointing, to someone in the audience found dozing) Who is your leader? Were you raised in a family where you had brothers and sisters? Your parents were not strict enough? Either your parents spoiled you with love or you were too strong not to be influenced by them. Dozing off means that you don’t know how to be polite. By dozing off you can influence other people in bad ways. Sooner or later you are going to give the lecture, and if you stand on the platform and look at people and some are dozing off, would you like that? After dozing off, when you wake up you must at least feel ashamed, then you cannot doze off again. The law of indemnity would tell you that if you doze off when the lecturer is giving his lecture, then when you give the lecture, many people will doze off. How do you like that idea? When the water is muddy upstream, the water downstream must be muddy too. So, if you as the leader would have that kind of laxness, your members will be influenced like that.

Even now, as always, Master feels ashamed when he fails to keep time to attend any place. You had better not come to the lecture if you are not sure you will be wide awake through the lecture. Every misconduct of yours will defame your family, your leader, your friends, you neighbors. I saw you dozing off very often. When you doze off, remember that that’s the channel for Satan to reach you. Do you understand? If you are on the platform you will see three or more dozing off, and it will be contagious. Then, you have to stop that condition. As a lecturer, you must wake them up before going any further. As a leader, you must be able to move the hearts of the people. So, if you are not alert, enthusiastic or with ardor in everything, you can never move the hearts of the people — that’s what you must remember.

Shed tears

If you are supposed to become a good artist, you have to repeat painting pictures. There is no other way but practice. Repeat and practice the lectures so you can be a good lecturer, but knowing how to move the hearts of the people is more important. The more you shed tears in giving the lecture, the more you can move the hearts of the people. First you must shed tears for your own sake in repentance. Then for the sake of the members. Why is it so? It is because man fell and the central figures had to shed tears, and through the way of tears we reach back to the original status — cleansing ourselves. Right after Adam and Eve had been driven out of the Garden of Eden, they began to cry. The tears came first after the fall, so in the course of restoration too, we must reach God in tearfulness and in repentance. Have you ever been so serious as to cry for, the sake of God, for the sake of yourself, and for the sake of your members? Have you ever wept for the sake of your nation — for the world? You must know that God has been tearing all through history for the sake of His lost children. In the parable when the shepherd has lost one sheep out of one hundred, he feels loss and sorrow, and goes out in search of the lost one. If you give the lecture with tearful eyes, that’s the only way you can reach out to the peoples' hearts.

A giving heart

I want to advise you in something, Michael Warder. You have a good brain and so you are going to be a good lecturer, but don’t ever stop at that point. After that you must have heart. A man with a keen sense of observation and good brains is apt to be critical. You may lack sympathy, and you must also have warmth. Before criticizing or analyzing a person try to embrace him as a whole, embracing his advantages and disadvantages too, and then analyze or criticize him in such a way as to be able to correct his mistakes. When you give the lectures, it means you are giving the words to them, and in that case you must become the incarnation of the words. After the lecture you must have the person feeling like coming to you for consolation and advice. You are honest, and you must try to be equipped for those things. Intellectual people are apt to calculate and think in such a way as to expect a return from each action. But if you don’t lose things first, and give out things to him, you cannot get it back or have more things returned to you. The quality of leadership is very simple: you want to give out unconditionally or at least give out more than the person will give you. Then he would feel like coming back to you with more things. Then, when other people don’t mind about him and are sympathetic to him, then you look for the loneliest person and try to warm his heart. You would sit up the whole night forgetting to sleep and eat because of that person. Don’t ever tell the persons who are in need of you that “This is my breakfast time and I am sorry that I have only five minutes to talk with you.” Know how to grasp the time and think “for this person, this is the only moment I can give him life, or else he will die.” You must feel that urgency. that’s what you are lacking. So, I want you to bear that in mind.