Hello everyone!
Do you know that problems are opportunities to grow your faith?
Asai Sensei instructed us that the eight winds are the eight types of environments that agitate and move our minds and taunt our faith.
The eight winds are :
- Prosperity
- Decline
- Honor
- Dishonor
- Praise
- Slander
- Pleasure
- Suffering

Let’s see what happens when we apply these eight winds to our faith.
For those who stand firm in their faith, they will not to be affected by the eight winds. No matter what happens, keep chanting Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo.
Now we have finally met the True Buddha Nichiren Daishonin who teaches us how we can gain Unbreakable Happiness called Jobutsu.
However, if our faith is weak, we will not be able to receive good luck.
Even though you chant Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo, if you have
“give-and-take faith,” (when you receive good things, but immediately stop if something bad happens to you), Shoten Zenjin (The Force of the Universe) will not protect you.
For example, striking a bell with a large wooden hammer will be heard many miles away. but poking it with the tip of a toothpick will make no sound, right?
Say you lose your job, and all your money is gone. What will happen?
You become so anxious and worried that you forget that you have been believing in Gohonzon-sama and Nichiren Daishonin. This is not absolute devotion.
Such weak faith will get you nowhere!
Whether you have money or not, your intention is to gain Unbreakable Happiness. Facing your obstacles with strong determination, will result in wondrous merit and good fortune!
