Today's "daily encouragement" from SGI cult leader Daisaku Ikeda:

"According to Buddhism, health is not a condition in which we merely escape negative influences. It is a highly positive, active state in which we hold ourselves responsible for such influences, in which we face and try to solve various problems—not just our own but others’ problems, too."

Let me repeat that: We hold ourselves responsible for such [negative] influences

So okay, I get cancer. Negative influence, right? Apparently I'm held responsible for this cancer.

Let's define the word "responsible." One definition states that it is "having an obligation to do something"...

Soooooo I'm obligated to do something with this cancer. Alright.... I think I'm going to choose to go to a doctor and probably follow whatever they tell me to do. The medicine will work or it won't. I'll try to have a positive attitude, as it's scientifically proven that being positive brings better results in health than being negative.

That definition doesn't really seem to make sense here...

Another definition of "responsible": "being the primary cause of something and so able to be blamed or credited for it."

AHA! SO I CAUSED THE CANCER!? Is that what you're telling me Ikeda? I did something to be blamed for my terrible misfortune, huh? Well fuck you, dude.

And on top of being blamed for getting cancer, I now have to also try to solve "others' problems, too"!?!?

Why am I solving their problem if they are RESPONSIBLE for it? Wouldn't that be doing them a disservice to not let them solve THEIR OWN problems?

Make up yo damn mind you crazy motherfucker.