The Search For Enlightenment

As I mentioned in a previous post, we can use our problems to make us stronger, by turning poison into medicine.

Nichiren Daishonin said that ‘from sickness arises the mind that seeks the way’ meaning that when we are in Hell, we are in exactly the right place to find our way out of the situation that is causing our grief.

The darker the Hell, the greater the motivation can be to take action to improve the situation.

We can all relate to this in one way or another. Imagine a situation or problem, that had to get worse and worse, so bad, before you took action to put it right.

Let’s use a perfect example, J.K. Rowling, you know, the author of the Harry Potter books. She was almost destitute when she started to write the first book, and maybe, though it is supposition, it was that dire position that gave her the life-force she needed to make a start. Her success took her from being on welfare to being a millionaire within five years.

By chanting, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, we can raise our life-energy and that changes our life-state, making us feel better and more able to think rationally about the problems we need to solve.

So next time you are down, so down there is no way up, remember that you are in the perfect place to completely transform your life.