Julian and the entire SGI is puffed up with arrogance

"Demonstrating ten great mystic powers the Buddha  transferred Namu Myoho renge 

Kyo to the four great bodhisattvas" (Ibid pg 77) 

   
Somebody transferred something to you Julian. As much as you wish to think 
it is the power of your own efforts, there is one cause and one effect that 
only Shakyamuni Buddha was capable of extracting through his own efforts..... 
Myoho renge kyo. 

 "People can attain Buddhahood in two ways: By meeting the Buddha and hearing 
the Lotus Sutra, or by believing in the sutra even 
though they do not  meet the Buddha." 

    
You don't really believe the Lotus Sutra Julian. You defer to the 
commentaries rather than to the Sutra itself. 
         . 
 "The Juryo chapter reads: "The time is limitless and boundless -- a hundred 
thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand nayuta aeons since I in fact attained 
Buddhahood." Present within our lives is the Lord Shakyamuni who 
obtained the three enlightened properties of life before gohyaku-jintengo, the 
original Buddha since time without beginning." 

   
 Sorry Julian, not you or Ikeda or your members or your leaders are this 
buddha. you can continue to announce it till you are blue in the face or 
continue to deprecate the messengers of the Nichiren faith on these boards but 
you are just fashioning the shackles that will prevent you from receiving the 
fruit of the Buddha's teachings. 

"You who are my disciples, take this to heart! The Bodhisattvas of the Earth 
were the first disciples of Lord Shakyamuni when he attained enlightenment in 
the remotest past, yet they were not faithful to him in India" 

    
 Why are we disciples of the Original Buddha Shakyamuni and no one else and 
not the other way around? Why don't you think about it?  If we were Perfectly 
Enlightened, of what use would we have for a master? Of what use did Nichiren 
have for a master if he were Perfectly Enlightened? 

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

"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) 

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

"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) 

"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) 

"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) 

 "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) 

"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) 

   We are emanations and disciples of Lord Shakyamuni. Why? Think about it. 

"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 
decties 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) 

   Ditto. 

"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) 

    

"But Shakyamuni [by bestowing upon us the character myo] has granted us as many 
benefits as if we ourselves had fulfilled all the practices of the six paramitas.  This 
precisely accords with his statement, "Now this threefold world is all my domain, the 
living beings in it are all my children." (MW vol 3, Letter to Nichimyo Shonin, pg 48-49) 

       J
ulian would like to think that he grants himself these many benefits. 
This is what the SGI teaches. Unfortunately it is not what is taught in the 
Nichiren faith. The Nichiren faith is superior to the SGI faith? Why? Because 
it is founded on reality and not pie in the sky wishful thinking as exhibited 
by Julian, Ikeda, Jim, Kathy and others. 

    
Note also, "bestowing on us", not what we have realized for ourselves. 
Sorry that Julian has more faith in the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu and even 
the Zen teachings than the teachings of the Nichiren faith. 

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

     
But Julian and the SGI want so bad to be the father they are willing to trash 
the Nichiren faith do so. This is what is frightening about Harsh, ikeda, 
Julian and the rest. 

"All that you (Shakyamuni Buddha) have expounded is the truth." (MW vol 3, Ibid 
pg 51) 

      
Not what Mark or Julian or Nikken or Ikeda expound. 

"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) 

     
You are at best an emanation or disciple of Shakyamuni Julian. I am 
satisfied with my status,. You are attatched to your ego and the ego of Ikeda 
and the rest of the SGI. 

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

MW vol 3, pg 79.  The selection of the Time-directly under the title is 
written: Nichiren, disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha. 

"Yet it was not I, Nichiren who made these important pronouncements.  Rather it 
was in all cases the spirit of Shakyamuni Buddha that had entered into my body. 
 And at having personally experienced this I am beside myself with joy." (MW 
vol 3, Ibid, pg 171) 

     
You and I may one day be as fortunate as Nichiren. Until then, a bit of 
humility and a touch of reality would be in order. 

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

    
 Not you Julian. 

"When I was about to be beheaded, the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni took my place." 
(MW vol 3, The Supremacy of the Law, pg 199). 

"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) 

     
Will you meet the same fate as they? Will I? 

"I have been ceaselessly praying for your sake to the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni 
Buddha and the gods of the sun and moon." (MW vol 3, Ibid) 

      
Not praying to,Ikeda and the SGI. 

"Our teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha." (MW vol 4, The Learned Shan-wu-wei, pg 64) 

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

   
 Not by virtue of their own power. 

"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) 

   
Why is Nichiren making a distinction here between Shakyamuni and the people 
or do you think that he is not making a distinction here? Do you think you are 
equal to the Gohonzon while slandering the Lotus Sutra and the teachings of 
nichiren by replacing them with an inferior teaching? 

"I alone can save them." (Ibid, pg 69) 

    
So said Shakyamuni Buddha in the Lotus Sutra. Did Nichiren try to refute 
this point? Then why do you? 

"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) 

"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) 

     
You Julian are so stingy and arrogant you can only muster thanks for 
yourself. 

"All that you [Shakyamuni Buddha] have expounded is the truth." (MW vol 4, 
Teaching, Practice and Proof, pg 120) 

"First, in Japan and in the entire world, the object of worship should 
uniformly take the Master of Teachings Lord Shakyamuni of the Original Doctrine 
as the Object of Worship"( Repaying Debts of Gratitude) 

"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) 

     
No need to do as Nichiren did according to the SGI and Julian. 

"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) 

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

     
But Julian thinks he is equal or above Shakyamuni and is therefore stingy 
with his praise to the World Honored One. He rather praise his own achievments 
while downplaying those of the Buddha. Why? Becuase this is the SGI way. 

"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) 

      
But Julian's Enlightenment is Perfect. What need does he have to gaze at 
the living body of Shakyamuni Buddha? According to him, he is the perfect 
manifestation of the living body of the Law? The root cause of his arrogance 
and stupidity is that he gazes not at the living body of Shakyamuni but the 
living body of the greatest slanderer(to date) in Mappo. Is there any doubt why 
he has developed the delusions he has? 

"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) 

      
Those with distorted views are the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu 

"The Son of Heaven utters not a single word in vain' and 'the words of the 
Dharma King contain no falsehood'.  A wise ruler will never 
lie, even if it should bring about his ruin.  How much less would Shakyamuni 
Buddha ever speak falsely!" (MW vol 5, Good Fortune in ThisLife, pg 185) 

       
That is why Nichiren never said about Shakyamuni's Lotus Sutra, 
Shakyamuni said this but meant that. That is why the Kempn Hokke never says 
either Shakyamuni(in the Lotus Sutra) or Nichiren says this but meant that. 

"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) 

     
We too will be perfectly endowed but for the moment, we are imperfectly 
endowed. That is why we practice the Buddhism of the sowing so we can become 
perfectly endowed(not that we already are). 

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

     
But Julian says Mark is mistaken not to think that he is the foremost 
sage. Julian is not even the foremost sage in Devonshire let alone the Saha 
world. 

"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) 

     
Here, is not Shakyamuni predicting the advent of the Nichiren Shoshu and 
the SGI who distort and misrepresent the teachings? 

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

"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) 

    
Because Original is first, the Four Great Bodhisattvas are the disciples of 
Shakyamuni. And then Julian and then Mark and then Ikeda, and then...... 

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

     
Julian and the SGI is like Ajatashatru who would displace their own 
father. The difference is that Ajatashatru has already renounced his earlier 
erroneous beliefs while Julian believes ever more and even attempts to 
propagate them further. 

"The Shakyamuni of the Juryo Chapter has never been depicted in any mountain 
temple or monastery anywhere." (Ibid, pg 63) 

    
Why depict or praise Gohonzon, "I am Gohonzon", according to Julian and the 
SGI. 

"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) 

      
No one more so than Ikeda and the SGI. 

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

"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) 

     
Not owing to ourselves and our less than Perfect Enlightenment. 

"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) 

     
How prophetic!!!! 

"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) 

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

     
Julian, Ikeda and the SGI, all puffed up, thinks we bestow these blessings 
on ourselves. 

"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) 

"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 various other sects were founded by bodhisattvas or teachers in the period 
after the Buddha had entered Nirvana.  Should we now turn our backs upon the 
Buddha's decree and follow the sects established by the bodhisattvas and teachers?  
Or should we ignore the words of the bodhisattvas and teachers and follow the sect
 established by the Buddha." (Ibid, pg 176) 

        
This is exactly what Julian does either out of ignorance or becuase he 
hates the votaries. 

"Now the Latter Day of the Law, is the time when the seven characters of Namu 
Myoho renge kyo-the heart of the twenty-eight chapters of the Lotus Sutra that 
Shakyamuni Buddha who had achieved enlightenment 
in the remote past, along with the bodhisattvas Jogyo, Muhengyo and the others 
is to propogate-will alone spread throughout the country." (Ibid) 

     
Perfect time to cite the High Priests but all Nichiren mentions is "the 
others". We are all potentially others as long as we don't distort the message 
as the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu 

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

      
Julian thinks the messenger is the originator of the message. Nichiren is 
absolutely not mincing words here. No secret teaching is being inferred and his 
position as well as ours in relation to Shakyamuni is layed down clearly. 

"Therefore, the words of this Sutra are indeed the very soul of  Shakyamuni 
Buddha.  And since every single word constitutes the soul of the Buddha, 
Shakyamuni Buddha will protect persons who practice this Sutra as though he 
were protecting his very own eyes.  He will accompany such persons just as a 
shadow accompanies a body.  How then could the prayers of such persons not be 
answered." (MW vol 7, On Prayer, pg 34) 

   
This is perfectly clear and infinitely more clear than the mistranslated 
words of the Nichiren Shoshu and SGI translation of Reply to Kyo'o. 

"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) 

"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) 

"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'...This passage represents the ultimate 
purpose for which Shakyamuni appeared in the world, the secret Law that he 
attained in the place of meditation." (Ibid, pg 70) 

"In the Latter Day of the Law, other than the envoy of the Thus Come One, there 
can be no one who understands and produces this passage as proof of the Lotus 
of the Entity." (Ibid, pg 70) 

     
Since the Nichiren Shoshu, the SGI and Julian do not understand this 
passage they are not the envoys of the Thus Come One. 

"The way in which the Lotus emerges from the muddy water is used as a metaphor 
to explain that when the Thus Come One joins the multitude of listeners, seats 
himself on a lotus in the same manner as the various 
bodhisattvas and expounds on the unsurpassed wisdom of the Thus Come One 
and on the enlightened state of purity, the various voice heavens, hearing 
this, are able to obtain the secret storehouse of the Thus Come One.  Second, 
the words Myoho renge signify the lotus opening up.  (This is a 
metaphor explaining that) ordinary beings, though exposed to the Mahayana 
teachings, are timid and fearful in mind and incapable of taking faith in them. 

Therefore the Thus Come One 'opens' or reveals his Dharma body in its purity 
and wonder, awakening in them the mind of faith." (Ibid, pg 71-72) 

"In the entire land of Jambuduipa, there has never before been a hall or pagoda 
that produced the image of Shakyamuni Buddha of the Juryo Chapter of the Lotus 
Sutra.  How could such an image fail to appear now." 
(MW vol 7, The Unmatched Fortune of the Law, pg 160) 

"But he revears Shakyamuni Buddha and puts his faith in the teaching of the 
Lotus Sutra.  Hence he is like a snake that grips a jewel in its mouth, or a dragon 
that bears sacred relics on its head.  A wisteria vine by Twining around a pine, may 
climb a thousand meters into the air and a crane, because it has wings to rely upon, 
can travel ten thousand miles.  It is not their own strength that allows them to do 
these things." (MW vol 7, On The Urobon, pg 172-173) 

     
"It is not their own strength that allows them to do these things."