Changing One’s Karma

What is the Sanskrit origin of the word "Karma"?

• Action

• Reaction

• Destiny

 What is the term used to describe the accumulation of negative causes from past lives?

• Happiness

• Destiny

• Suffering

• Success

What is the result of accumulating positive causes from past lives?

•  Peace and happiness

• More negative karma

• Greater suffering

• Increased ignorance

How does Buddhism view the continuity of life?

• Past → Present → Future

•  Future → Past → Present

• Present → Past → Future

• Present → Future → Past

When do causes created in the past start showing in the present?

• Immediately

• In the distant future

• When appropriate conditions arise

• Only in the next lifetime

What is the implication of not being able to preponed or postpone karma's effect?

• We can escape all effects

• We are at the mercy of destiny

• Effects can be controlled at will

• Effects are random and unpredictable

What is considered the most evil cause in Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism?

• Disbelieving and slandering the correct teaching

• Believing and spreading the correct teaching

• Ignoring karma completely

• Creating negative causes

How can practicing Nichiren's Buddhism affect the retribution of negative karma from past lives?

• It has no effect on past karma

• It accelerates the manifestation of negative karma

• It enables receiving negative karma in a diminished form

• It completely erases past karma

What is the significance of the quote, "Iron when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword,"

• It emphasizes the importance of physical strength

• It highlights the power of meditation

• It symbolizes the transformation of challenges into strengths

• It suggests the futility of change

According to the Lotus Sutra, what do Bodhisattvas choose to do despite their good fortune?

• Avoid challenges

• Be born into specific scenarios

• Refuse enlightenment

• Reject their mission