Carlos Vigoa - YMD Zone Leader

When I started my practice people always told me that the faster way to change my karma was through contributions to the mystic law that include time, money, and concrete action. However, I thought, how come can I contribute if I don’t have even have a penny? I never forget 2003; I had been chanting for 6 months to buy a car. One night something changed in my heart, I felt this tremendous desire to use my car for Kosen-rufu. I thought if I had a car I could do more activities and can go to the community center, which was far from my home. The very next day I found the car that I was looking for (price, year, mark and even the color); also I was able to get the money as well.
It is amazing how everything changed after I made the determination to use the car for Kosen-rufu. I realized the most important thing is the heart. When I determined to support the SGI-USA with my contribution; my life totally changed. The challenges became the source of continually having victory after victory in my life. I would like to end with this writing from Nichiren Daishonin,

“In view of all this, your sincerity in sending a gift of five strings of blue duck coins whenever the opportunity arises truly entitles you to be known as one who propagates the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra in Japan. As first one person, then two persons, then a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, and then all the people throughout the country come to chant the Daimoku, before you know it, their blessings will accrue to you. Those blessing will be like the drops of dew that gather to form the great ocean, or the specks of dust that pile up to become Mount Sumeru” (WND, P. 672).

Carlos Vigoa
Young Men’s Division Leader
Southeast Zone