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You can, if you acquire and use the right tools to dump the nonsense people spout all day long because they heard it on TV, or got it txtd, or IM'd or youtubed, or facebooked or kindled, or emailed by someone who knows no more than they do.
To be happy, you neeed to get aligned with reality. That reality is that all of us can be vastly more than we are.
The way to do that follows.
Winning is Better than Frustration
By Generalist
Win in your challenges. End frustration. Change Your Worlds- the Inner world. The Immediate world, The Outer world
You can build your worlds in the style you like, or rebuild if there has been a crash. This doesn’t mean just your perceptions or Inner world. Even people who have their immediate world- their capacities for personal organization and accumulation together, and whose health is great, are living in an outer world that is chaotic, unstable, and has way too much greed, anger, and stupidity. Some of that misery even threatens human progress.
The power of intention focused with the right mental tools is amazing. What Isaac Newton did for gravity, the Japanese monk Nichiren did for all of life.
700 years ago, he already knew that after all assumptions are discarded, these few simple truths remain. I have listed the main points and the words in Japanese. They are capitalized for clarity.
1-Things are always changing, yet the underlying realities common to all life do not change. KYO
2-Causes produce effects. Sometimes this is not obvious because of the time lag between cause and perceived effect. RENGE
3-Life is both physical and non-physical. MYOHO
4-Humans have the ability to focus their minds and achieve great results. NAM
For example, cell phones, google Earth, and GPS to which we are so accustomed would be impossible without satellites in orbit. Yet, they could not be placed there by using the astronomy and physics that existed before Isaac Newton developed his laws of motion and gravity. His formulas are the basis of rocket science. This is an example of difficult and complex methods being replaced by elegant recognition and previously unachievable results being realized through the process of cognitive enhancement. There is no magic in it, just mental clarity.
Nichiren’s method works for life, whether people believe in it, or not. A person just needs to try it for a few minutes a day for 100 days. It is so high octane that it takes years for people to discard their disbelief, even when they get phenomenal results in their life by reciting the formula -Nam Myoho Renge Kyo- and joining with others who also use the method.
It's one thing to be smart and frustrated; it is another to decide to try an extremely effective method of arranging your worlds in a better way. Unfortunately, most people feel safer with contemplating than with learning something new and working toward results. Winning is better than frustration.
Source(s):
My own experiences: phenomenal changes as a result of reciting the formula and working with the SGI for peace, culture and happiness. Caution, translation difficulties and cultural usages tend to cause many people to regard awakening to reality as a religion because it is called Buddhism. The original documents show that neither Shakyamuni, nor Nichiren, intended people to rely on a power beyond their own capacities for enlightenment.
http://www.sgi.org , http://www.sgi-usa.org