THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEKING GUIDANCE

THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEKING GUIDANCE

So many of you say you rarely go for guidance. “I know what they’ll say; ‘chant.” I want to encourage you to change that attitude.

  

The purpose of guidance is to send you back to the Gohonzon with a new attitude. We can’t always do that for ourselves because we are too close; just like the part [of the Gosho] about the eyebrows. We can’t see it. And, we think we already know what they are going to say...chant!

  

One of my leaders said, “The act of opening our life to another human being is the cause to cut the karma in half.” We need each other. We need at least a minimum of one good friend; someone you could share your most painful dirt with, and it’s OK, you know that person will never reject you. We need somebody who can always help us stay on the straight and narrow. We can’t see our own negativity until we are so off-track that to come back takes tremendous effort. If we are just one step off, it’s much easier.