It is not completely untrue that we and we alone are the source of our problems, at least, in our immediate environments. For example, I read today, :
"Put a messy person in a neat organized environment and it will be messy in no time.
Put an organized and neat individual in a messy environment and it will be clean and organized likity split."
Yes, it was our karma to be born in this Saha realm and to encounter Namu myoho renge kyo.
However their are also evil societies and retched environments that only massive shakubuku will change. The time is not quite right for billions to chant Namu Myoho renge kyo but i suspect, the time is rapidly approaching. Faster than I even imagined five years ago.
However, that everything derives from the mind is a type of Yogacara and is basically untrue. For example there are six causes of Illness taught in Buddhism and Karma is but one of the causes. Yogacara basically derives from the Flower Garland Sutra, the third most profound Sutra. It teaches, “The mind is like a skilled painter.” Life is a bit more complicated than our causes, or even our karma.
As we read in Gongyo, "only a Buddha with a Buddha can exhaustively penetrate the Reality of the Dharmas". The Three Realms of three Thousand Realms in a Moment of Thought proves that what the Buddha said is true:
The Realm of the Individual, the Five Aggregates: Form or Matter, Consciousness; Feeling or Conception; Perception and memory; Mental formations or Volition. It includes, for example one's power and influence.
The Realm of Society, all the billions of people's Five Aggregates and their power and influence.
The Realm of the Environment's Five Aggregates, for example, the Gohonzon's Five Aggregates, its power and influence. This is the most difficult Realm to understand.
There is a panoply of the Three Realms. In short, there are both causes and conditions, our own and not our own.
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