I'm not supprised on their lack of proceedure. SGI will give guidance
to members to chant diamoku, if you have issues with someone else, but
they treat their own members and leaders differently. They say never
give up on helping a member to grow and develop inspite of their
negativity or their issues with you, but they don't follow their own
guidance. SGI has become a religion of "do as I say and not as I do"
policy. Whatever happened to Pres. Ikeda's "New Renasaunce"? We've
gone into the "Dark Ages" of religeous authoritarianism. SGI accuses
the High Priest of saying that members cannot attain enlightenment
without his approval, yet SGI demands that members follow Pres. Ikeda's
guidance no matter what. You won't get benefit, if you don't follow
Pres. Ikeda's guidance. That sounds the same as "you won't attain
enlightenment without obeying Pres. Ikeda's guidance". Sometimes you
want to lead your own life, but you are forbidden. You have to be
monitored periodically with home visits to get you back in line.
If you are a long term member, you no longer have a choice. Your are
required to have leaders home visit you to "encourage" you to follow
Pres. Ikeda or be labeled an outcast. I seriously think that SGI's
issues with the Temple will never be resolved, because the Temple is a
reflection of what SGI is doing. To be a good member, you have to be
blind to that. Leaders want to pry into your life to know everything
that you think and do. Do they keep a database on your life? Why do
they get upset when you want to keep certain things private? If you're
not asking for guidance, they want to pry into your life, so that they
can force guidance on you. Everyone has faults and weaknesses and I
don't like leaders talking about me behind my back and gossiping. Don't
ever think you have privacy after you get guidance!!!! Whatever you
reveal during guidance becomes your reputation.
SGI doesn't excomunicate, they just have the men's and young men's
division follow you around, if you go to a large assembly to be sure
that you stay in line. Their eyes are on you. They are like the
"Gakkai Police Division" to discourage you from going to large
activities. SGI wants the temple members to return to SGI, yet when
your participating sincerly in activities, some leaders will use you for
their own purpose and say it's for kosenrufu. If you complain about
mistreatment, those leaders are not replaced, they are promoted; because
they "kiss ass" to their leaders, but jerk you arround. Then you are
told that its your own karma. Yes, faith equals daily life or its more
like daily life equals faith. SGI has become a bureaucracy that is no
different than the big corporations that have their own internal office
politics. Rather than being an example to members of how to live a life
of compassion, they take steps to protect their own asses.
Pres. Ikeda has written guidance in SGI publications that leaders should
treat their members with respect. Yet I have heard many times that
Pres. Ikeda has yelled and scolded his subordinate leaders in front of
other leaders in the same room. He mistreats them for kosenrufu and not
follow his example. Oh, but he is our example of the Buddha's behavior.
Once in a large meeting, General Director Danny Nagashima told us of how
Pres. Ikeda yelled at him at a special dinner for high level leaders.
I've heard of Pres. Ikeda yelling at former General Director Mr.
Williams questioning his loyalty of supporting him and then Mr. Williams
was fired and now SGI slander's his name.
Don't count on SGI being an example of faith, because if you have
problems with them they will say it's your karma. Keep chanting no
matter what and you will get the life you create. Likewise, SGI will
get the life that they are creating. I'm sure the remaining leaders are
chanting to resolve all these issues too. SGI is not there yet; so
you'll just have to put up with it until SGI is perfect. Who needs
members to do Human Revolution, when you've got leaders that jerk you
around? -- S
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I cannot believe there is someone who has had the same experience(s) that I have
had .Ive often thought/said whats really the difference(priesthoodVSSGI?)Why
does everything have to impinge on a home visitation opposed to just getting
guidance and even then many times a member in good standing will delegate
another member who you may hardley even now or who has been less than cordial to
you call you out of the blue and start their own pitch thus adding insult to
injury. In my case Ive observed that when we finally got our own center It didnt
take to long to notice a Private country club mentality take place. Members will
often times be more than glad to get you to meetings that are right in youre
neighborhood but it seems only a select few get to "go to mecca" and provisions
are made for them but yet often times you get a startled look when youre seen by
someone who acts surprised to see you there.In another case Ive recently
befriended a newer memberwith whom I share similar obstacles/demons but its
been hard to connect becausethey fear of letting to much be known for the "database"
youre referring to. That person lives close to me and its been like pulling teeth because
were not encouraged to just get together outside of an activity and chant. Im glad that
you are continuing to chant and encourage us to do so.I appreciate you're candor
and that you're still chanting . Please keep expressing youre thoughts. -- CP
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Yes, I know exactly what you mean by "Private country club
mentality". When they asked for Mens Division volunteers to do
traffic control, I would readily volunteer. I did it many times as a
Group Leader and as a District Leader and I was in good standing. I
had asked many times of my leaders and the Youth Division leaders to
give me or sell me one of the blue jackets that identify me as one of
the volunteers, but they never gave me one. Near our Kaikan there
was a small street and I was instructed not to let members park in front
of the neighborhood houses and so I prevented many members coming to the
meeting not from parking there. However, some close "buddies" of my
MD Area Leader parked there and they treated me like I didn't know what
I was talking about. My Area leader came out and told them that I
was doing the traffic control, but he didn't support me and tell them to
move their cars. Instead, he told me to go inside to the meeting and
when I came out after the meeting, his ''buddies" still had their cars
parked in the street that I had all the other members avoid. I think
the word that best for this type of inside group is "clique". The
type you hear of in high school. The type of exclusive group that
you may never be apart of. My MD Area Leader has his own special
support group of non-leaders that he socialized with and to whom he gave
special organizational privileges . I wouldn't be supprised if this
happens quite frequently in many parts of SGI. We are all supposed
to be equals, but this is not the reality of the organization. -- S
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