Transforming Karma

Transforming Karma

  

"Then, is there a way for us to change our karma and realize happiness? The answer is yes. Nichiren Daishonin revealed the means by which we who live in the Latter Day of the Law can change our karma. This means is none other than chanting daimoku to the

  

Gohonzon and teaching others about the True Law. This way of life represents the greatest possible good and accords with the law of life itself; it is the only way to attain a state of eternal happiness and abiding joy."

  

"Buddhism clearly teaches that those who uphold faith until the end will transform the negative effects of past causes, experiencing them in a lightened form. That is, we can completely change our negative karma from the past — karma that might ordinarily have taken many cycles of birth and death and long, excruciating eons of suffering to gradually eradicate — and attain Buddhahood in this lifetime."

  

"So even if we encounter obstacles or persecution in the course of our practice — even when it seems that life is an endless succession of hardships — we must never abandon faith. Encountering difficulty is a chance to transform our karma. From the perspective of the eternity of life, our sufferings in this life only last for an instant. We are striving to attain happiness that endures for eternity."

  

Source: Chapter 1 —Westward Transmission, The New Human Revolution, Vol. 3, Pg 53-55