Part 2: Will My Problems Ever Go Away?
Buddhability
SGI-USA
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This month, we’re doing a short series about how to put the power back in your hands. Today’s episode is about the potential in your problems.
Resources:
Challenges Can Fortify Our Growth and Happiness
“What It Means to Hear the Buddha Vehicle,” The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, vol. 2, p. 743)
July 2020 Living Buddhism, p. 56
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Moeko Fukada Teter
Marko Bajkovic
Immaculate Mutebi
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| 0:00.0 | From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford, and this is bootability. |
| 0:06.5 | The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us. |
| 0:18.7 | If you were to stumble upon a genie in a bottle today and that genie gave you three wishes, |
| 0:25.6 | what would you wish for? I'll give you a minute to think on it. You could wish for material things like a mansion or maybe an unlimited designer wardrobe, maybe fantastical things like the power of |
| 0:40.5 | invisibility or teleportation, or even things like a happy family, an end to inequality, |
| 0:47.7 | or to just never have to work a day in your life. Whatever you might wish for, I think it'd be rare for anyone to wish for more |
| 0:56.5 | problems. Who wouldn't want a life of ease and relaxation, right? Unfortunately, that's not the |
| 1:04.6 | world we live in. And when you think about it, a life of complete ease could feel a little boring or even empty. |
| 1:14.9 | SGI Nitroon Buddhism is a practice for daily life. |
| 1:18.8 | And in daily life, we have problems, no matter who you are. |
| 1:23.4 | You could live in a mansion, but with a family you can't stand. |
| 1:28.0 | Whether we like it or not, there's no escaping problems, at least not in the long term. |
| 1:34.1 | So how can we live with our problems and even use them to give our lives deeper purpose and joy? |
| 1:40.9 | This is part two of our three-part series on putting the power back in your hands. |
| 1:46.9 | Today is all about the potential in our problems. |
| 1:54.5 | A young Michael Jordan tried out for his high school varsity team during his sophomore year. |
| 2:00.5 | You'd think that this NBA superstar would have easily high school varsity team during his sophomore year. You'd think that this NBA superstar |
| 2:03.0 | would have easily made the varsity team, but you'd be wrong. Instead, he was placed on the junior |
| 2:09.7 | varsity team while a friend of his made the varsity. That day, he went home and he cried. He accepted the JV spot and decided to work as hard as he could to hone his skills, |
| 2:23.5 | like he practiced every morning in the school gym before classes. |
| 2:28.0 | He was so determined not to get cut a second time. |
| 2:32.1 | So the summer before his junior year, he finally made it onto the |
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