My name is Tsuji and I am a YMD member in Chuo ward, Kobe city. It has been one year since I joined the Soka Gakkai. Today, I would like to share my experience with you. In May 1998, I injured my back, and my right foot became very swollen and very weak. A doctor at a general hospital diagnosed my as having a hernia of an intervertebral disc, I was hospitalized right away. I spent six months in a long-term rehabilitation because surgery though it would cure the problem quickly, would p resent the danger of paralysis to the lower half of my body. During the long rehabilitation period, I was thinking of my fiancée who had died of liver cancer nine years before, and my mother who died of the same disease a year before. I was determined to live with a strong mind.
I went back to work and everything seemed fine for a while. However, in July 1990, I became extremely ill at work again. I had a splitting headache and my boss took me to a hospital. I was diagnosed as having a tumor in my frontal skull. The neurosurgeon said that without immediate surgery it would become fatal. Five days later, I went trough an operation. Everything was successful, and I soon went back to work. One month later, in September 1990 Miss K. whom I had promised to marry, died. She had chronic bone marrow proliferous leukemia which took her life in six months. How can these cruel things keep happening to me. I really felt I had a tragic destiny. Furthermore, before I was even able to recover from the shock, I became seriously ill again. This time the same tumor was growing in the medial part of my brain. I felt deeply depressed, and pessimistically thought that “I am going to die soon”. I wanted to see someone. Suddenly, I remembered Mr. Ikeburo whom I had met at a class reunion eight years ago.
I called him that night. He sounded very happy to hear from me and promised to come to see me within a couple of days. On October 10, he came with his wife and child. I told him what had been happening to me. Then for the first time, he told me about his Buddhism. He said, “If you wish to win in life and against sickness, this is the only way! Because of his enthusiasm and sincerity, I decided to entrust my life to him.
On December 4, 1990 I enshrined the Gohonzon in my home. At the end of the same month, the younger sister of Miss K had become ill. It was from acute lympha tic leukemia. I desperately wanted to shakubuku her and did my best but she would not listen and passed away five months later. I too, was suffering from acute pains in my chest, head and stomach. I went to a doctor and had a complete checkup. He found that I was in the early stage of leukemia. I told Mr. Ikeburo about my illness. He said, “You have to fight to cure the illness. The only way is to challenge chanting for 10 hour Daimoku everyday”. I started from that day. I continued chanting for three days with the determination that “I will fight in revenge for those three precious people I’ve lost. I will overcome this sickness no matter what. I will never lose! By the end of the third day I felt much better. My condition was rather stable for the next two months when suddenly I experienced an extreme pain in my back and legs. I went to see a doctor, and he said: “You are now in the middle stage of a regular leukemia”. Immediately I was hospitalized. I requested a private room and there did gongyo and chanted Daimoku sincerely. Mr. Ikeburo and his wife came immediately to see me and I promised them to attend a discussion meeting. I was able to get permission from the hospital and at the meeting I gave a determination that “I will overcome this illness without fail”.
Two days later, something strange happened to me. I wasn’t feeling well in the morning and went to the bathroom. I threw up first green then black-red, and then a white milky colored liquid. The amount could fill a bucket. The doctor examined it and said it was “melted cancer cells of leukemia”. I was examined, three days later, and no sign of leukemia was found. The doctor said, “I just cannot believe this. I have never seen a case like this. It is so unbelievable that I can talk to you like this”.
A week later I was discharged completely recovered. Because of my faith in this Buddhism, I was able to change the impossible to possible. I was able to overcome leukemia that took many precious people from my life. The sense of appreciation to the Gohonzon fills my entire life. Two weeks later, the doctor told me something unusual. He said, “Your body is producing an anti-cancer substance. Your bone-marrow fluid is reacting to the leukemia virus quickly, and is melting and removing them”. My body was producing an anti-cancer vaccination! I went to the tombs of my mother and my loved ones to report what had happened. I told them, “I took revenge for all of you. Thank very much, mother for giving me life. I will do my best and live happily for your sakes”. Later the doctor asked me to donate my bone-marrow fluid to save a patient who was suffering from bone-marrow leukemia. The procedure is to make a three-quarter of an inch hole in my back and extract liquid with a large syringe. He told me that the patient was a high school girl. I felt very sorry for her, and accepted the request with the determination that I would save her with my bone-marrow fluid soaked with abundant Daimoku. She endured the long-hour surgery that was very successful.
A few days later, the doctor called me and said, “We have be examining, your bone-marrow. It has so much energy and life force that it is increasing very rapidly and is becoming more effective and stronger everyday. It has helped us complete a new machine. We named it Anti-IITLV-1 non-antibody FST-Tsuji-I”. Six days later, two more bone marrow transfers to young girls performed. Before the surgery, I encouraged the girls and told then to chant “Nam-Myoho-renge-kyo” in their minds. I kept chanting for them and the six-hour surgery was successfully completed. All of their leukemia cells were destroyed.
They were able to leave the hospital in complete recovery. By saving the three girls, I realized the greatness of my mission. I decided to report my experience to President Ikeda and wrote a letter to him. Later, his guidance appeared in the Seikyo Shimbun entitled “The relationship between the cure of cancer and the mind”. I took this as his encouragement to me and determined to make it my life-long guidelines. Further reports came from the doctor regarding the new medicine. They discovered that the medicine finds and melts poisonous substances as soon as it enters a human body. Its power has also been increasing. It was further found that the medicine was effective against the collagen disease as well. They decide to name it Anti-HTLV-I non-antibody FST Tsuji-2-B.
Thus, events that I have never dreamed of continue to happen. I pledged to the Gohonzon that if my body can benefit other people in the world, I will happily donate my body. Looking back, I remember suffering from the hellish condition before I met the Gohonzon. Then I was given a second chance in life through the Gohonzon and now, I can save other people who are suffering from the illness. President Ikeda said, “Healing power exists within a patient him/herself. The greatest of such power is the will to live”. I am determined with the firm confidence that I will complete my mission to save others who are suffering from the illness, while fighting for the sake of kosen-rufu, even by giving my own life. A few minutes ago, my doctor called me and said that three girls who received my bone marrow are now producing their own “new” bone marrow, which is similar to mine .
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