When we have joy, we should realize that true joy is to live along with the Buddha. We should practice harder and not wallow in earthly pleasures. We can make earthly pleasure a starting point for true joy.

Thus, while living in this world with suffering and joy, we live along with the Buddha and Nichiren Shōnin. Living with religious joy rising out of the suffering and joy in this world is called Jiju Hōraku; this is receiving joy of the Dharma by oneself. As we are living in this defiled world of reality with our defiled bodies, we are living along with the Buddha in this Pure Land. It is this joy of faith that is the resolution of our sufferings.