How do we cope with life in this troubled world?
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If we are fortunate, we are fit and healthy, as are our children and relatives. If we are fortunate, we have adequate, or surplus, financial means, we are occupied in interesting ways, and surrounded with loving and supportive family members and friends. We have nothing to fear about the future of our jobs, our homes, our health. But who is that fortunate? Or, if someone is that fortunate, how can they be sure that their good fortune will not one day run out?
The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin teaches that our experience of life is not the responsibility of an external, all-powerful being. Rather, this philosophy starts with the individual. Each person has – in broad terms – similar attributes. We wake and sleep. We eat, drink and have bodily functions. We talk and we listen. We have the potential to fight and to love, to create and to destroy. Buddhism teaches that in the heart of every person there is incredible potential, which for the most part remains hidden. As we will see later, this potential is likened to a lotus flower.
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