AVOIDANCE OF COMPLICITY by Graham Lamont

                  





















Myomanji head temple of the Kempon Hokke sect

To avoid complicity (yodozai), do not give religious offerings to 

other sects or religions or receive the religious offerings from those 

who do not accept the above doctrine and do not attend the 

services of other sects.

PROOFS:

"If there are bhikshus, bhikshunis, upasikas, upasikas, who put forth 

coarse, evil words and blaspheme the True Dharma, and creating 

this grave karma, never repent and have no penitence in their 

minds.... in that True Dharma they never have the mind to guard, 

spare, erect or establish but disparage, attack, slight and belittle and 

have many errors and faults in their words.... these also one names, 

'heading towards the way of the icchantikas.' Only excluding classes 

of icchantikas such as these, if one donates to the remaining ones, it 

is to be praised" (Great Parinirvana Sutra 10: T.12.425a-b).

"If they are blasphemers, one ought not to abide together with them 

and likewise not approach and be intimate with them; if one 

approaches and is intimate and abides together with them, at once 

one heads toward the Avici Hell" -- Jurinkyo Sutra (Sutra of Ten 

Wheels) "Chapter of the Multitude of Good Appearances" 

(T.13.704b, cited  at Nambu Rokuro dono gosho, STN, v. 1, 487;

Chu Hokekyo, v. jo, 2-79).

"Although nourishing (yashinau) the monks of the various sects of 

the Tendai, Shingon, and others of the present age outwardly 

appears, indeed, to be good [karmic] roots, inwardly it is a great evil 

surpassing even the Ten Evils and Five Rebellious [Sins]" (Chie 

bokoku gosho, STN, v.2, 1130).

"Only one should exclude and put away the blasphemous offerings 

of those of the Shingon, Zen Sect, Nembutsu and so on. For 

example, they are like adhering to and reverencing the Emperor 

Shakra [King of the Devas or Gods] while exalting and esteeming 

the asuras [the enemies of the Gods]"(Jomyo shonin gohenji, STN, 

v. 2, 1300). -- Graham Lamont