Prozac, where is my prozac?

                                     SGI NEWSLETTER / AUGUST 1995 Page 74 

     

Extract of a speech by Daisaku Ikeda, 3rd July 1995. 

    

"Those who abandoned their faith and betrayed their fellow members were people who exploited the organization for their own ends while avoiding any real hard work themselves.  They never truly exerted themselves strenuously in propagation, in activities for kosen-rufu, in giving individual guidance, or in promoting publications. Instead they used the SGI merely to satisfy their own egos.  In the end, they became deadlocked and brought about their own ruin.  Because they failed to make earnest efforts, they did not grow, nor did experience the true joy of faith." 

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"Those who abandoned their faith and betrayed their fellow members were people who exploited the organization for their own ends while avoiding any real hard work themselves." 

We were similar to New York public school janitors?

"They never truly exerted themselves strenuously in propagation, in activities for kosen-rufu, in giving individual guidance, or in promoting publications. Instead they used the SGI merely to satisfy their own egos." 

I should have gone to two thousand meetings [instead of one thousand]. I was wrong too, in not strenuously giving personal guidance to everyone. Those poor people chanting the Daimoku and the Lotus Sutra to a Gohonzon and reading the Lotus Sutra and Gosho not being privy to Ikeda's [or my guidance]. How sad! As far as promoting publications, again, president Ikeda is correct. I didn't insist that my dog have his own personal subscription to the World Tribune and my cats didn't have one for the litter box. My ego too was satisfied. Cleaning the toilets in the Kaikans, especially President Ikeda's personal toilet, was particularly satisfying. 

" In the end, they became deadlocked and brought about their own ruin." 

Writing this from my hut in the mountains of Oklahoma, without a toilet and running water proves the good President correct.

"Because they failed to make earnest efforts, they did not grow, nor did  experience the true joy of faith." 

Thank goodness for prozac.