The following is from a speech at a leaders training course in Nagano, Japan, on Aug. 15, 2005. It can be found in The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, chapter 8, installment 3, pp. Daimoku is the wellspring that enables us to face illness and transform it into an opportunity for human revolution. But being ill doesn’t mean one has to be unhappy or that one can’t take action for kosen-rufu. The Swiss philosopher and educator Carl Hilty said, “Sickness is … just a passageway to a higher step in life.