People say if life were easy then it would be boring… may be they are right. Life provides one with tough problems and challenges, no matter who you are.

   A story famous among Buddhists tells of a practicing member who went to see an SGI leader for encouragement about a particular problem he was having. However, before he could even begin to explain his circumstances, the leader pointed to a large oak desk and asked him to lift it.

   Bewildered, the member replied, “There is no way I can lift that desk. It is too heavy.” To which the leader responded, “The problem isn’t that the desk is too heavy. The problem is that you are too weak.” His point, of course, was that our ability to win is not determined by the size of our problems but by the strength of our life force.

   When you feel overwhelmed by your own life, rather than focusing on finding a different set of....