By chanting Odaimoku, reciting and studying the Lotus Sutra we can achieve release from suffering. As we change our lives we also begin to change our environment. Further as we change those things, we provide examples to our friends and relatives, we show them how it is possible to also become happy. Again, we do this not by avoiding negative events in our lives, but by facing them head on, by enduring the lesson, so to speak, and learning what causes suffering and what causes happiness. Day by day, we persevere and we strive. It may seem insurmountable in the moment of experience but as we look back we can definitely see changes taking place.