Unleash your infinite potential to achieve unshakeable happiness
Around 1277, Nichiren Daishonin wrote a letter to one of his followers, Shijo Kingo, who was upset with his lord when his lord, threatened to move Shijo Kingo and his family to a distant province.
In a writing titled “The Eight Winds,” he encouraged his disciple Shijo Kingo not to succumb to eight influences that obstruct our Buddhist practice, called “the eight winds”. More often than not, we get swayed by external circumstances and get trapped in the web of these “eight influences”