Scott Adam's "Dilbert" blog had a post about this story today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Which prompted this response from me:
Nichiren Buddhism postulates that we do indeed affect reality around us with our "mind," in the widest sense of that word. The concept is called "esho funi" or the oneness of life and environment. The concept that supports that is "ichinen sanzen" or the "life moment" or "mind" of the individual.
The collection and interaction of our individual "minds" or "life moments" with the environment produce the greater environment, which can be described with such terms as "society" and "natural world," primarily.
One legendary account of the power of the human mind is the ancient Chinese story of "General Stone Tiger." The general's mother was eaten, the story goes, by a ravenous tiger. Single-mindedly determined to kill the culprit, he set off through the forest and encountered, at a distance, what seemed to be the profile of a tiger. He quickly drew his bow and buried an arrow deeply in the figure.
Upon close examination, he discovered that he'd shot his arrow deep into a rock that resembled the form of a tiger. No matter how hard he tried afterward, he could not repeat the feat.
Another account, from ancient China, again from a time of war. An emperor was trying to put down a rebellion, but his army needed to cross the Yellow River to attack. It was late fall, and the scout who saw the river discovered it was not yet frozen, which it needed to be for the emperor's army to cross. Reporting back to the emperor, the scout was afraid of telling him the river wasn't frozen, so he lied. The emperor so implicitly believed him, however, that when he and the army arrived at the riverbank the next day, the Yellow River had frozen over.
Nichiren Buddhism teaches we each have this tremendous, universe-moving power within us and can tap it through daily chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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