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Three Cents Column by Director Bong
Three Cents Column by Director Bong of RGO 24! 'Although I am lacking and my writing is only worth as much as 'three cents...' I share the Sunday messages and interpret them with 'the language of the world.''
The wisdom to reduce, the wisdom to not do something.
‘Cancer’ is the most threatening disease to mankind nowadays, and its Chinese character (癌) literally means a mouth (口) that eats as much as a mountain(山) load of food. That is, [cancer] is caused by overeating. It tells us that excessive eating is one of the greatest threats to our life. Therefore, ‘restricting our (diet)’ is necessary.
It is the same for a business organization. Professor Sanjay Khosla said that a leader’s true competence is revealed when a company goes through the process of restructuring (laying off employees). Usually when running a business, one cannot help but add more businesses that could bring you [more] money (the seduction of more). However, the excessive expansion of a business, in most cases, becomes a serious mistake that makes the original business, which was strong, come to ruin. That’s why the wisdom to reduce, the wisdom to not do something (the wisdom of less) is necessary. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, which was going out of business, the first thing he did was a drastic reconstruction of its product.
Genghis Khan built the largest contiguous empire in history. He kept [someone named] “Yelü Chucai” by his side. Yelü Chucai was an exceptional, vigorous adviser and administrator who had insight into the reason for the creation of the world, Heaven, Earth, and humans, and he operated [his control] of the world accordingly. He left a very famous quote:
“Gaining one benefit is not better than getting rid of one harm. Producing one job is not better than not doing one work.”
In order to gain one thing, you must let go of another one boldly.
This is an episode that happened when Sima Guang, who was a Chinese historian, scholar, and high chancellor of the Song Dynasty, was very young. In a village, a little boy fell into a huge clay water pot and was floundering to get out. People came and panicked, saying, “What should we do to take him out?” “Bring a ladder!” “Bring a rope!” While this was happening, the child was about to drown. At that time, young Sima Guang picked up a big rock next to him, and he broke that huge clay water pot boldly.
The idiom yeom-il bang-il (in order to gain one thing, you must let go of another one boldly) came from this story. This idiom makes us think deeply about which things we should smash and throw away boldly in exchange for something really important.
True wisdom that makes us advance toward Heaven
This week’s message taught us clearly which things we should smash, get rid of, and destroy. This great Word makes us clean and perfect by giving us the courage and wisdom to cut off unrighteousness boldly.
“I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy--myself.
Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, just as the sunset fades,
my spirit may come to you without shame.”
This prayer of the Sioux Indian Tribes, who used to reside in the prairie region of North America, is inspiring even to us who live today.
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