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The “karma” concept is often misunderstood, even in Asia, where the term came from long time ago, and where this word is related to their own culture. Karma is always seen as a negative thing and was used to justify sad moments of our lives. Present sufferings are due to actions done in the past.

When people think they are guilty for a sad situation, most of them fall into a feeling of impotence. This is a distortion of the real meaning of Karma in a Buddhist context. Accepting your karma is not living with a guilty feeling and without knowing what bad causes we have made in the past. Accepting your karma is having great self-confidence to rule your own destiny and the trust to make it the best destiny on every moment.

In simple words, “karma” means “action”. Is about how the universal causality principle works and its similar to the scientific definition. Scientific theories, like the one stated by Isaac Newton, supports the cause/effect principle “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This is a very familiar phrase. The difference between material causality and the Buddhist karma principle is that Karma can´t be seen or measured. Your Karma includes spiritual aspects that can´t be seen like the feelings of happiness or suffering, the goodness or cruelty.

In 1993, Daisaku Ikeda, President of The SGI talked about 2 visions:
The Buddhist concept of causality differs from material causality theory according to the modern science. It keeps a predominance on the natural and objective world: a world dissociated of the subjective human worries. Causality, form the Buddhist point of view covers a wider angle that includes the human existence. For example: let´s suppose that an accident or disaster occurs. The material causality theory will identify and describe how the accident happened but it will not explain why certain individuals were involved. In fact, the material causality theory forbids this kind of questions.

In contrast, the buddhist notion of causality is exactly about these kind of disruptive questions. Originally, the Sanskrit word “Karma” meant to be “work” and it was associated with “doing” or “making”. In the Buddhism, the karma can be created in 3 levels: trough the thoughts, the words and the actions.
Of course, in your karma, actions has higher impact than words. When we express our thoughts with words, we create more karma than when we only think about them. Likewise our words and our actions are originated on our mind, they have a high influence.

The karma could be considered as the hearth of our personality, the deeper trends stored on the deepest level of our lives.
The deepest cycles of causes and effects extends beyond the present existence. These causes will set the way in which we are born; and they are continued beyond our death. The purpose of Buddhist practice is to elevate our basic life-tendency to reach our supreme human potential in this life and beyond.

An old buddhist text exposes.” If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present” (“The Opening of the Eyes,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin).

As all the things, the karma is flowing constantly. We create our own present and our own future through the decisions that we make in every moment. The teaching of the karma does not encourage the resignation but empower us to become protagonists our lives.

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Buddhism is the name given to the teachings of a Buddha. Buddha is a sanskrit word that means “enlightened”, a human being enlightened with the true about the life and the universe.

As a difference with other major religions, buddhism is not a about a divine revelation. All starts when a man, through their own efforts, discovered the ultimate true inside him and taught all people could do the same. In that sense, buddhism does not mean only a learning from a buddha. Is more than this, is a knowledge that allow us to reveal our own nature of Buddha, to develop our innate enlightened condition, or Buddhahood.

The Buddhism began in the north of the India with a man called Shakyamuni or Siddharta Gautama, who lived about 3,000 years ago.  In his vision, all the people, even if they are rich or poor, experiences inevitable pains. Shakyamuni called this “The four sufferings; birth, old age, sickness and death.”  People are born in a world where they can´t  avoid the grief and frustration. They suffer the pain and humillation of the illness and growing old, and for the consciense of their own mortality.

Fundamentally, the four basic sufferings are related to what Buddhism calls the truth of impermanence, everything is forever changing and does not stay the same even for a moment. People in this world suffers seeking wealth, power, status or love, which by their own nature they are destined to change. As opposed to other doctrines, Shakyamuni seek the solution for this problem inside his own life and profethized in the Daishitsu Sutra that 2,000 year later, the true Buddha will be born and he will reveal the Universal Law to all the humanity. His desire was to be born again in that epoch to meet the true Buddha.

So, in Japan in the XIII century Nichiren Daishonin was born. He strictly complied with all the prophecies in the teachings of Shakyamuni whit their own life, day after day, revealing to the humanity the Law of the Life (Mystic Law) in a way that all people could practice.

Nichiren invoked the law of life “Nam myoho renge kyo” for the first time in April, 28th of year 1,253  and his reason for coming to this world was to merge that Law in a physical object of devotion for all the humanity. This object is the Dai-Gohonzon.

The Buddhism, as other greater religions, tries to set the humans free from the sufferings, joining them with the ultimate truth or reality of life.  Western religions tend to personify this truth as a God, or anexternal power  higher than the people, higher than you and me, in which we should trust. Before searching a superior kingdom, the Buddhism is to look for happiness inside us!   The human Being is the central point of the Buddhism, The human being has all the unlimited potential to manifest Buddahood. The Buddhism consider this as center of our own life. 

The law of life (Mystic Law), which Buddhism postulates was not created by someone, but is eternal and is the ultimate reality inside the life of all human beings.  Thus, the Buddhism states that the people have the state of Buddha inside them and they are likewise capable to reveal their own Buddha nature.  In this manner , Buddhism provides the key for the equality of all the people and it focus on the reverence to the dignity of life. 

It is important to note that the Buddhism never has been spread with the sword neither used as justification for the war or other atrocities.  Because all the people are interrelated, one person cannot enjoy the true happiness or enlightment separated from other.  Through the buddhist practice, people can understand sacred state of their own life and other people life.  So this reading suggests us to teach the buddhist practice to other people, so they can know the ultimate true too and achieve happiness and liberty, transforming gradually the world in where they live to a better one.  The double goal of the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin is to achieve the buddahood, and at the same time to make efforts benefiting other people.

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