Good morning. I hope you are well today. This is Yukihiro Shima of Oubaitori.com, with my Morning Daimoku journal. Today I would like to talk briefly about karma.
Good karma and bad karma together
Our karma includes both good karma and bad karma; together, they make up our karma. Each of us has accumulated karma: the karma we have created in this lifetime, and the karma we created in past lifetimes.
We may understand a little of the karma from this lifetime, but the karma from our past lifetimes we cannot know at all. Yet without question, that karma, too, is part of what has made our present life what it is.
Why don’t things go the way we hope?
Why don’t things go the way we hope? Why don’t they work out? I believe our karma shapes our temperament and our character — the tendencies of our own lives.
And as for why we keep repeating the same things, there is what we call destiny. Karma and destiny — that is what it comes down to.
Knowing I am not yet perfect
I, too, chant daimoku and try to live each day with all my effort — at least, that is what I intend. But I know that I myself have not reached a state anyone could call complete or perfect.
So when people around me look at me, they may think, “I can see he’s trying hard, but still…”
Transforming destiny, achieving human revolution
The reason I keep chanting daimoku is to transform my destiny and to carry out my human revolution. Transforming our destiny means that our karma, too, can be transformed. And it means carrying out our human revolution.
So as long as we don’t give up on ourselves, by chanting daimoku each day as part of this struggle to transform our destiny and achieve human revolution, we can feel a part of that change in our own lives and keep improving. Our own lives are revitalized. I am determined to believe in this and see it through.
Let’s Daimoku! Thank you, and have a wonderful day.
Bloom your own way, at your very best.
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