Change is extremely difficult on a personal level or on a collective level. Look at the Catholic church ,it just doesn't seem capable of joining the forward movement of human society . Our own organisation , as a collective , remains open and forward thinking but individual members who have been practising for a long time are unable to let go of out of date ideas that worked 20 or 30 years ago. To believe that our practice makes us special is a serious mistake and divides us from the rest of the spiritual community .
           I heard an experience of a member who has been practicing for a long time and it was centered on the fact that he had two surgeries which went extremely well because he is a practising Nichiren Buddhist . He found the right docter , was diagnosed quickly etc.He was protected because of the Mystic Law. I went through exactly the same thing before I started practising with the same results. What's the difference ?