How to Get Benefits by Practicing

How to Get Benefits by Practicing

Strong determination is essential when praying to produce benefits.

  

"I will make it no matter what" This kind of strong conviction you have to have when you chant. First you have to determine like "I will solve this problem with this practice" and then chant. Once you take this attitude, your wish comes true without fail.

  

For example, you want to cross a river, but you cannot find any bridge across it no matter how hard you try to find one. How can you handle this situation? You first determine, "I will cross a river no matter what" and then pray. I am sure you will soon find a bridge. No matter how far you are wandering to find one, you will not be able to find it. Because no bridge exists. But once you determine, "I will cross the river no matter what with chanting", you can do it for sure. This is faith.

  

Chanting does not always equal to praying. WD members like to have Daimoku Tozo. Sometimes they chant for 10 hours. But if they chant only with obligation or in style, they will not get any benefits. You have to chant with determination to get benefits.

  

Since your leader tells you that we have Daimoku Tozo, so you go there and chant without thinking any specific goal. You cannot get any result from this kind of attitude basically you have to chant to the Gohonzon at your place. Even when you chant with others, you have to clear your determination to chant. Chanting itself should not become a aim or goal, or a part of activities.

  

Excerpt from Summary of Guidance by Soka Gakkai Vice President Hajime Kawai, 1996