The Point of Victory
A fragment from the series of lectures given by Richard Causton, former SGI-UK General Director, in 1992-3 on the 26 Admonitions of Nikko Shonin.
When Sensei says "We have won our victory" with such complete conviction, one understands that he is talking about what he knows through his daimoku. Sensei has always said that if we have a great challenge, we have to go to the point of victory first. As he describes in Volume 10 of "The Human Revolution", he was able to learn this himself when Mr Toda gave him the enormous challenge of bringing into the movement of Kosen-rufu well over 100,000 people in a space of 8 months in an area of Japan called the Kansai. He could not believe it was possible, but he battled with himself in front of the Gohonzon, and he chanted daimoku until it became a reality in his mind. "Of course I can achieve this great target; because the power of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is limitless."
When one breaks through like that in attacking a great problem, you have gone to the point of victory first. No matter what the problem may be in your life that you're challenging, once you have reached that point of victory and you know without a shadow of doubt that you are going to win, then, through the wisdom of your Buddhahood, the way to achieve it in the reality of your daily life will flow quite naturally into your mind.