"Nichiren" Buddhist contradicts Nichiren Daishonin: "Nichiren is the Original Buddha" 3

An SGI member once arrogantly wrote me: 

<< "...It would be no small matter if those who slander me were to incur no punishment from Heaven in their present body. So those deities [who fail to punish them] will not only be destroyed throughout past, present and future, but even now are surely being called upon to account  to the Buddha for their actions.  And when that happens, it will be no fault ofNichiren's! Rather, by siding with those priests who slander the Law, they are summoning disaster upon themselves."    MWV 5, pp 203.... Observe Mark! >> 

Let us see who in fact is a slanderer and who is a votary of the Lotus Sutra so that we may be able to make a prediction as to our respective fates: 

Another SGI member wrote:: 

>>It is a world where laity is always second or third class--where Nikken is the biggest dog of 'em all and you can never be more than a toy poodle.>>

That's why Nichiren Daishonin pointed his disciples to The Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni of the Juryo Chapter of the Lotus Sutra as our Parent, Teacher and Sovereign and to the Law, thus to avoid any confusion as to whom and what we should follow. 

"Demonstrating ten great mystic powers the Buddha (Shakyamuni) transferred Namu Myoho renge Kyo to the four great bodhisattvas" (Ibid pg 77) 

Who transferred Namu Myoho renge kyo to the four great bodhisattvas? Nichiren Daishonin? No. The SGI? No The Kempon Hokke? No. 

"Shakyamuni is the original teacher for all people as well as their soverign and their parent" (MW vol 1, Admonitions Against Slander, pg 166) 

Who is the original teacher for all people? Ikeda? No. Your territory chief? No. Nikken? No? Nichiren Daishonin? Not even Nichiren Daishonin. 

"Shakyamuni is the father, soverign and teacher of all other Buddhas and all gods, of the whole assembly of men and heavenly beings and of all sentient beings." (MW vol 1, Letter to Nikke, pg 257) 

Who is the father, teacher and sovereign of all sentient beings? Ikeda? No? Danny Nagashima? No.Nikken? No. Nichiren Daishonin? Not even Nichiren Daishonin. 

"But because of this book by Horen, this Senchaku Shu, the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni is forgotten." (MW vol 2, Rissho Ankoku Ron, pg 23) 

Honen sounds like the Nichiren Shoshu and the SGI members to me. Who forgets Shakyamuni and replaces him with Nichiren Daishonin? SGI and NST priests, leaders, and members. 

"One should know that the Enlightened One, the Buddha, is a Great Teacher for all living beings, a Great Eye for them, a Great Pillar, a Great Helmsman, a Great Field of Plenty." (MW vol 2, Opening of the Eyes, pg 77) 

Not Ikeda, nor Nikken, your territory chief, not even Nikko or Nissho. 

"The doctrines that the Buddha taught over a period of fifty years number eighty thousand...The eight years during which he preached the Lotus Sutra he called the time when he 'now must reveal the truth'.  Thus Taho Buddha came forth from the earth to testify that 'All that you have expounded is the truth,' and the Buddhas that are emanations of the Original Buddha gathered together and extended their tongues up to the Brahma-heaven in testimony." (MW vol 2, Ibid, pg 79) 

Very clear, no? Only the Fuji schools and their adherents could ever be so blind as to mis-identify the Eternal Original Buddha. 

"The Buddhas of the ten directionss gathered in assembly, Shakyamuni Buddha announced that 'all of these are emanations of my being." (MW vol 2, Ibid, pg 141) 

                           
and 

"When Shakyamuni Buddha revealed that he had gained enlightenment in the far distant past and had since then been constantly in the world it became apparent that all the other Buddhas were emanations of Shakyamuni." (MW vol 2, Ibid, pg 149) 

Yes, Yakushi, Amida, Dainichi, Mahavairochaina and even Nichiren Daishonin (admitting that he is a Buddha) are emanations of Shakyamuni. But YOU deny the teachings. It is you who replace the Master of Teachings Lord Shakyamuni of the Original Doctrine with Nichiren Daishonin. It is YOU who does not practice according to the preachings. 

"Since the Buddha of the Juryo chapter is revealed as the eternal Buddha, it follows that the great bodisattvas such as Monju and Miroku and the great bodisattvas from other realms are in fact disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha." (MW vol 2, Ibid, pg 150) 

And the even greater bodhisattvas such as Anryugyo, Jogyo, Jyogyo, Nichiju, Nikko, all the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, Tientai and. Nagarjuna are disciples of Shakyamun Buddha of the Juryo chapter but not them [SGI and NST] ? Why? Because they have been misled by evil teachers such as Daisaku Ikeda. 

"All these beings are discples of Shakyamuni Buddha. Since the various Buddhas themselves are emanations of Shakyamuni Buddha, it goes without saying that their disciples must be disciples of Shakyamuni.  And of course the various deities of the sun, moon and stars, who have dwelt in the world from countless ages in the past must likewise be disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha." (MW vol 2, Ibid, pg 152) 

Absolutely every last being that has existed, exists, or will exist is a disciple of whom? Nichiren Daishonin? No. Nichiju Shonin? No. Nikko Shonin? No. Shinkei Marcheso? No. Daisaku Ikeda? No. I'll give you a hint, The Original Eternal Buddha. Who is that Paul? Why don't you say it. the Daishonin certainly wasn't stingy in his praise of this Buddha? Why is your master? Why are you? 

"The Lotus Sutra is nothing other than a scripture that reveals that Shakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment at a time even more distant than gohyaku-jintengo." (MW vol 2, Letter to the Priests of Seicho-ji, pg 268) 

Long before any other being, the Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment and then taught all the other beings the sum of his Supreme Enlightenement which is Myoho renge kyo. 

"Now the votaries of the Lotus Sutra are the children of Shakyamuni Buddha." (MW vol 3, Ibid, pg 49) 

         
Not the children of Nikken, Ikeda or even Nikko. 

"The Lord Shakyamuni assembled Taho Buddha as well as the other Buddhas, who were his own emanations, from throughout ten directions and left one great medicine-the five characters of Myoho renge Kyo-for the people of the Latter Day." (MW vol 3, The Munadala of the Mystic Law, pg 58) 

Who left us the medicine? The SGI? Ikeda? Nichikan? 

"Lord Shakyamuni treasured this Gohonzon in mind...He revealed it in the Juryo chapter..." (MW vol 3, Reply to Nii-Ama, pgs 64-65) 

Who revealed the Gohonzon? Nichiren? No. Ikeda? No. Nikko?  No. Nikken? No. Nichiju? No. Shakyamuni Buddha revealed the Gohonzon. 

"Shakyamuni Buddha, the World Honored One, declared, 'I am the foremost throughout the threefold world." (MW vol 3, Ibid, pg 176) 

Nichiren Daishonin points out that Shakyamuni declared, "I am the foremost throughout the threefold world". Ikeda declares Nichiren foremost but really means himself. Nikken declares himself foremost. The ignorant among the SGI members declare themselves foremost. Are you counted among the ignorant members of the SGI? Can I be counted among them? Think about this carefully. 

"However, they are alike in that they all abandoned Shakyamuni Buddha," and in the next paragraph it states, "If there is anyone among my followers who is weak in faith and goes against what I, Nichiren, say, he will meet the same fate as did the Soga family." (MW vol 3, The Supreme Leader of the World, pg 237) 

There are countless examples in the SGI and Nichiren Shoshu of the Daishonin's teachings on punishment. Nichiu developed white leprosy. Nikkyo burned up in a conflagration while his entrails remained. President Ikeda's firstborn son died of a bleeding ulcer. In this day and age that is nearly unheard of! Mr. Kasahara's firstborn son died from a massive brain injury. George Williams children are sociopaths. A top SGI senior leader was killed in the early eighties when a snow plow ran over his car. Another, in Detroit, died when a heavy metal stage hook took off the top of his skull. A men's division bagpiper was killed and mutilated by the Manson family on the way back from bagpipe practice. Bill Vogel and Brad Nixon are other examples. The list goes on and on. 

"They are monks and nuns by virtue of the Lord Shakyamuni." (Ibid, pg 65) 

Nichiren, Nikko, Nissho, Nichiju, Nikkyo and Rev. Kubota, for example, are monks by virtue of Lord Shakyamuni.Those who abandon Shakyamuni can not even be considered monks and are no better than beasts. 

"There are three reasons why Shakyamuni Buddha rather than any of the other Buddhas has a relationship with all the people of the world of the saha world.  First of all, he is the World Honored One, the soverign of all the people of this saha world... 

         

The second reason is that Shakyamuni Buddha is the father and mother of all the persons in the saha world.  It is proper that we should first of all pay filial respect to our own father and mother... 

         

The third reason is that Shakyamuni is the original teacher of all persons in the saha world." (Ibid, pgs 65-66) 

Perfectly clear, no? 

         

"For this reason, all the persons in this saha world of ours, if they detest the sufferings of birth and death and wish to have an object of veneration to which they can pay respect, should first of all fashion images of Shakyamuni Buddha...and make these their object of worship." (Ibid, pg 69) 

Not images of the Daishonin, Nikko, Amida, Nikken, or of Ikeda. Not even those most sublime images we may form in our own mind, save for one. Which one might that be? 

"Shakyamuni Buddha our father and mother, who is endowed with the three virtues of soverign, teacher and parent, is the very one who encourages us, the people driven out by all the other Buddhas, saying, 'I alone can save them'.  The debt of gratitude we owe him is deeper than the ocean, weightier than the earth, vaster than the sky. Though we were to pluck out our two eyes and place them before him as an offering until there were more eyes there than stars in the sky, though we were to strip off our skins and spread them out by the hundreds of ten thousands until they blanketed the ceiling of heaven, though we were to give him our tears as offerings of water and present him with flowers for the space of a hundred billion kalpas, though we were to offer him our flesh and blood for innumerable kalpas, until our flesh piled up like mountains and our blood overflowed like vast seas, we could never repay a fraction of the debt we owe to this Buddha!" (Ibid, pg 71-72) 

We owe our greatest debt to Shakyamuni Buddha as did the Daishonin. As the leader of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, Nichiren Daishonin (Jogyo) knew perfectly that Shakyamuni is the Master of Teachings and the person to whom we owe our deepest gratitude and allegiance. If we are Bodhisattvas of the Earth, we should follow the example of our leader Nichiren Daishonin, not the poor example of Ikeda, Nichikan, or your joint territory chief. 

"Japan and so on to the whole of Jambudvipa should uniformly take the Master of Teachings Lord Shakya of the Original Doctrine as the Object of Worship". (Hoon Sho). 

Nothing could be more clear. If you wish to practice the Daishonin's teachings rather than some inferior teaching, you should take Lord Shakya of the Original Doctrine as your Object of worship and chant Namu myoho renge kyo. 

"I have dedicated my life to Shakyamuni Buddha and the Lotus Sutra, extending compassion to all living beings and rebuking slanders of the Law."  (MW vol 5, A Sage and an Unenlightened Man, pg 107) 

     

The Daishonin dedicated his life to Shakyamuni Buddha not to Tientai, Dengyo, or Dozenbo. Why dedicate your lives to Nichinyo, Nikken, Nichikan, or Ikeda?. 

     

"When Shakyamuni Buddha in the clouds above the Sacred Mountain, in the mists of Eagle peak, summed up the essence of the doctrine and entrusted it to the bodhisattvas of the earth, what do you suppose that  teaching was? It was nothing other than these five characters, the essential law;" (Ibid, pg 110) 

       

Therefore, to  whom do we owe our most sincere gratitude? To Shakyamuni Buddha, of course. 

         

"I Nichiren, humble person though I am, have recieved Lord Shakyamuni's royal command and come to this country of Japan." (MW vol 5, The Pure and Far Reaching Voice, pg 143) 

       

The Daishonin received the royal command of Lord Shakyamuni not the command of the commoners Makiguchi, Toda, Nikken or Ikeda. 

       

"Shakyamuni Buddha is the lord of all buddhist teachings, the leader and teacher of all human beings." (Ibid, pg 143) 

       

Not clear?

       

"And among the Sutras, the Lotus Sutra is a manifestation in writing of Shakyamuni Buddha's intent; it is his voice set down in written word." (Ibid, pg 147) 

       

Whose intent? The SGI's? The Kempon Hokke"s? The Nichiren Shoshu"s, SGI's, Nichiren's? Nichiju's? Tientai"s? No. The intent of Shakyamuni Buddha. 

         

"Shakyamuni Buddha and the written words of the Lotus Sutra are two different things but their heart is one.  Therefore, when you cast your eyes upon  the words of the Lotus Sutra you should consider that you are ,beholding the living body of the Buddha Shakyamuni." (Ibid, pg 147)    

So, everytime you slander Shakyamuni Buddha, you are slandering the written words of the Lotus Sutra, the Gohonzon and Namu Myoho renge kyo. This is why those people I mentioned suffered divine punishment, not for any worldly misdeeds. 

       

"However the Buddha recognizes each character as a golden Lord Shakyamuni.' This is the meaning of the statement that '[one who is able to hold this Sutra] thereby holds the Buddha's body'.  Those who practice Buddhism but adhere to distorted views destroy this loftiest of Sutras." (MW vol 5, Reply to Soya Nyudo, pg 164) 

The worst transgressors are Ikeda and Nikken along with their followers. 

"Only the Lotus Sutra represents the wonderful teaching preached directly from the golden mouth of Shakyamuni Buddha, who is perfectly endowed with the three bodies." (MW vol 5, Letter to Myomitsu Shonin, pg 196) 

         

Shakyamuni is not just the Manifest Body, but also the Bliss Body and the Dharma body (Namu Myoho renge kyo.). Therefore, everytime you slander Shakyamuni Buddha, you slander Namu Myoho renge kyo. 

       

"Shakyamuni, the Lord of Teachings, is the foremost sage in the saha world." (Ibid, pg 199) 

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Who is the foremost sage? Let me hear you declare it? If you say Ikeda, you will fall into the hell of incessant suffering faster than Honen. 

"As we see from these passages of scripture, Shakyamuni, with his Buddha eye, observed the situation that would prevail at the begining of the Latter Day of the Law.  If, when the age has arrived, there were to be no persons of the type the Buddha describes then the World-Honored One would be guilty of false and baseless talk. [And if that were to be the case, then] who would put faith in the theoretical and essential teaching of the Lotus Sutra, and in the doctrine of the eternally inherent Buddha Nature." (MW vol 6, Reply to Lord Hakiri Saburo, pg 40) 

       

Where does the doctrine of universal Buddha-nature, the SGI is so fond of expounding, derive? Repeat and believe what Nichiren Daishonin teaches and you might be spared a fate worse than Honen's. 

       

"Shakyamuni summoned the four bodhisattvas and entrusted them with the five characters of Myoho renge Kyo." (MW vol 6, Rebuking Slander of the Law, pg 60) 

       

What does anyone need Nikken or Nichinyo for? They should drop dead from shame for even intimating that someone, anyone must rely on him. Ikeda too, for promoting the SGI version of the master-disciple relationship and for promoting the SGI above Shakyamuni Buddha, should drop dead of shame. 

"We see from the Sutra that only these four bodhisattvas had been the disciples of Shakyamuni, the Lord of Teachings, since the remote past." (Ibid, pg 62) 

       

And that is why those of us who put our faith in the Lord Shakya of the Original Doctrine can also be counted among the multitude while you and your master are counted among the slanderers of the Lotus Sutra 

"The sons will disseminate the Law of the Father." (Ibid, pg 62) 

       

Whether you realize it or not, everytime you teach Namu myoho renge kyo to another, you are disseminating the law of your father Shakyamuni. If you slander your father, you are as good as killing him. You are committing one of the cardinal sins. You are committing another of the cardinal sins by altering the teachings and thus creating disunity. 

     

"The nation of Japan today has turned its back on the Lotus Sutra and cast aside Shakyamuni Buddha." (MW vol 6, Letter To Ichinosana Nyudo, pg 99) 

       

Just like the pitiful SGI and Nichiren Shoshu. 

       

"Shakyamuni Buddha is the Parent of all living beings in this world." (Ibid, pg 100) 

       

That  includes even the lowest beings such as those who benefit from their father's Law yet deny and denounce their father(the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu believers). 

"The Lord Buddha Shakyamuni is the enlightened teacher for all living beings in the country of ours.  It is thanks to our teacher that we can understand who our parents are.  It is owing to Shayamuni that we can distinguish black from white." (Ibid, pg 100) 

       

We remain deluded by denying Shakyamuni Buddha, by failing to put our faith in Lord Shakya of the Original Doctrine. 

"It will be hard indeed to find anyone who can preach the Lotus Sutra just as it teaches in the Latter Day of the Law of Shakyamuni Buddha." (MW vol 6, Three Tripitaka Masters, pg 118) 

     

This is certainly the age of the Buddha Shakyamuni as the Daishonin states in On The Buddha's behavior: "Shakyamuni lives today; this is the age of the Buddha" --Nichiren Daishonin (On the Buddha's Behavior) 

"The Tathagata Shakyamuni, seated in the tower adorned with seven kinds of precious gems, entrusted the five characters of Myoho renge Kyo to Takahashi Nyudo." (MW vol 6, Reply to Takashi Nyudo, pg 124) 

         

And to us. The Buddha Shakyamuni entrusted us with the Five Characters. You either don't realize it or you deny it. Say it, Shakyamuni Buddha entrusted us with the Five Characters of the Daimoku. Not Ikeda. Not The SGI. 

     
"Were it not for Shakyamuni, the lord of teachings, how could such blessings as these be bestowed." 

       

But the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu deny Shakyamuni his rightful place, as father, teacher, and sovereign to all mankind, promoting other teachers. Fearful [for you and the masses of beings that you convert]. We will die teaching you the truth. You should throw out those priests and  leaders who advocate Nichiren as Eternal Buddha or themselves as teachers, not Shakyamuni Buddha your orriginal father and teacher. No one comes close to Lord Shakya as a teacher. Why waste your time with other lesser spiritual teachers and advisers? Go directly to the source. 

       

"The Hokke [Lotus] sect is the sect founded by Shakyamuni." (MW vol 6, How Those Initially Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood, pg 175) 

       

That is why Nichiren Daishonin declared he never founded any sect. He deferred to his teacher, as all men of humility should emulate. But not Ikeda, Nichikan, Nichiu or Nikken. They are egoists of the highest magnitude. And you would hope to derive happiness and humility from worshipping their Gohonzons? You are deluding yourselves. 

         

"Therefore [the sect based on] the Lotus Sutra is known as the Buddha-founded sect and is also called the Hokke Sect."  (Ibid, pg 175) 

       

The SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu throw out the Lotus Sutra because they deny what is taught therein. So, though it may not be evident, only we can be numbered among those of the Buddha founded sect. It is also evident that the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu can never be numbered among the Buddha's sangha. 

         

"The various other sects were founded by bodhisattvas or teachers in the period after the Buddha had entered nirvana....." 

     

Nichiren Shoshu, SGI, Shingon, Zen, Ritsu, Pure Land, Tibetian, etc. 

     

".....Should we now turn our backs upon the Buddha's decree and follow the sects established by the bodhisattvas and teachers?" 

       

Like the SGI and Nichiren Shoshu, and suffer a fate worse than Honen? 

"Or should we ignore the words of the bodhisattvas and teachers and follow the sect established by the Buddha." (Ibid, pg 176) 

       

You would be wise to ignore the words of Nichiu, Nichikan, Nikken,Toda, Makiguchi and Ikeda. Conversely, you would be wise to take to heart the words of the Daishonin. 

         

"The messenger of the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni has twice been paraded through the street." (MW vol 6, A Father Takes Faith, pg 242). This is self explanatory. 

"Because Shakyamuni expounded the Lotus Sutra in order to repay the debt of gratitude he owed to his father and mother, Taho Buddha, who had come from the land of treasure purity, praised him as a Buddha of true filial piety. And the Buddhas of the ten directions assembled and declared him to be the most filial among all the Buddhas." (MW vol 6, OnFilial and Unfilial Conduct, pg 290) 
     

Who is the most filial of the Buddhas? Hint, "most" is an absolute. 

       

"The various Buddhas [other than Shakyamuni], since they are known as World Honored One, may be regarded as Sovereigns.  But since they do not make their appearance in this saha world, they are not teachers.  Nor do they declare that '...the living beings in it (this threefold world) are all my children'.  Thus, Shakyamuni Buddha alone fulfills the three functions of sovereign, teacher and parent." (Ibid, pg 43) 

        
Who alone fulfills the three functions of Sovereign,Teacher, and Parent? Hint, "alone" is also an absolute. 

               

"The Shakyamuni Buddha who lived in a past even more distant than gohyaku-jintengo-became enlightened to the Lotus that is the entity of the Mystic Law. Thereafter, in age after age and lifetime after lifetime, he declared that he had attained the way and he revealed the fundamental principle of wisdom and reality." (MW vol 7, The Entity of the Mystic Law, pg 67) 

       

Who originally became enlightened to Namu Myoho renge kyo in the infinite past easy? Ikeda? No. Nikken? No. Not even Nichiren Daishonin. 

       

"In this passage, Shakyamuni Buddha explains that he is entrusting to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, his original disciples, the five characters of Myoho renge Kyo which is the essence of the Lotus Sutra.  Shakyamuni, who attained enlightenment countless Kalpas in the past, says elsewhere, 'By now the original vows that I made have already been fulfilled.  I have converted all living beings and caused them to enter the Buddha way'(ibid pg 72). 

This is absolutely clear easy. There is no other way than one way to interpret correctly this passage or the other absolutely clear passages cited above. It is as the Daishonin explained when referring to the following passage in the Lotus Sutra in Chapter Ten: "Infinite thousand myriad kotis are the sutras I preach, whether already preached, now being preached, or to be preached in the future; and among them all, this Law -flower sutra is the most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand." Even if one were to preach some other sutra in the future(for example the Taisekaji preachings that Nichiren Daishonin rather than Shakyamuni is the Original Eternal Buddha,) it could never happen that the teachings in the Lotus Sutra may be superceded. 

       

With your happiness and future enlightenment in mind 

                 

Namu Myoho renge  kyo