Your Power Within: Faith, Transforming Karma, and Your Right to Happiness
This is one of my many favorite quotes by my mentor, Daisaku Ikeda — one of the greatest influences on who I am today.
Happiness is the right of each individual. We create it for ourselves. Though we may employ various means to realize happiness, we already possess what guarantees real happiness and that is faith.
Therefore, to discard one’s faith and stop practicing is like throwing away one’s “right to happiness,” your faith, and become winners in life.
To launch a rocket into space requires far more energy and thrust than an ordinary airplane needs to take flight. Now, in the evil age called the latter day of the law, people’s minds and society have become polluted.
Simply trying to lead a normal life amid the harsh realities of our society will not be enough to break through and change your negative karma. We need the energy and thrust of a rocket blasting into space to break through our karma. The source of this great power is the mystic law.
In other words, we can tap this power by exerting ourselves in chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
— Daisaku Ikeda February 2024 Living Buddhism
