Your [SGI's] Buddha is too inexpensive by maltz

The so-called Buddhist Sects that proclaim, "I'm a Buddha, you're a
Buddha, we are all Buddhas" are in for a rude awakening.  It is like,
"Barack Obama is president, Barack Obama is a human, I'm a human,

I am President."  We have the potential for becoming president. 

Shakyamuni Buddha cultivated all manner of  practices in former
lives and all kinds of Dhyana samadhis. He practiced giving, morality,
patience, vigor, and  wisdom, too. In his life as Shakyamuni Buddha,
however, he still had to undertake ascetic practices in the Himalayas
and sit beneath the Bodhi Tree where, finally one night, he saw a
bright star and awoke to the Way. To say nothing of six years, you
haven't even sat in the Himalayas for six days or six hours. And you
claim to be a Buddha? That's too much of a bargain. Your Buddha is
really too inexpensive. So those who say that they are buddhas are
shameless, brazen, and outrageously impudent. 

"Never-slighting Bodhisattva" never looked down on anyone. When

he saw the Buddhas, he bowed. When he saw Bodhisattvas, Arhats,

Bhikshus, Bhikshunis, he also bowed, and he said, "I dare not slight

you, for you "WILL" all become Buddhas. To slight you would be to

slight the Buddha." He was completely genuine, without the slightest

trace of falsehood. As a result, he was reviled by Bhikshus of over-

whelming arrogance. "You don't understand anything about Buddha-

dharma," they said, "and yet you go about makingfalse predictions".

They screamed at him and they beat him. 

When he bowed, they kicked him. They even kicked his teeth out! Under
these circumstances, most people would have certainly discontinued the
practice of bowing, but instead of giving up, Never-slighting Bodhisattva

began bowing at a distance. He bowed and, without waiting for the person

to come near him, he quickly ran off. Such was the practice of Shakyamuni

Buddha in a former incarnation as Never-slighting Bodhisattva. 

Shakyamuni Buddha did not become a Buddha overnight. He practiced

the six perfections and the ten thousand conducts through many lifetimes

to.arrive at the teaching for quickly becoming a Buddha, Namu Myoho

renge kyo.The sons and grandsons of demons are now the members of 

the various so-Called Buddhist Sects who shamelessly say, "Everyone is

a Buddha." 

Their speech is deviant and their practice is crooked. People who think
they are the Buddha do not recognize the Buddha. This is like declaring
yourself Emperor or electing yourself President. Without an election or
loyal supporters, no one will recognize you. 

In Buddhism, people like this are certain to fall into the hells, because they
think that they are Buddhas. Instead of cultivating, they create offenses.
They use the Buddha's name to cheat and swindle people. "I am Buddha,
and so are you," they say, "now follow me." They devise schemes to cheat
the world.

Don't take it lightly; it's no game. It's more dangerous than sleeping while
embracing a land mine. People who act this way are destined for the hells.

There are roads to the heavens,
but you don't walk them;
Hell has no gate,
but you barge right in 

Another verse goes: 

One confused transmits that confusion;
In one transmission, two misunderstand. 

The teacher plummets into the hells;
His disciples follow. 

When the disciples of our current Buddhist teachers arrive, their teacher
asks, "What are you doing here?" "We're your students", they say, "and of

course we want to follow you." "But you've made a terrible mistake. This

is hell". "Oh no" the students cry. "Why have you led us here?" "I don't

even know how I got here", he cries. "But now it's too late now. I can't get

out." 

Pathetic, isn't it? Not only the teacher but all of his disciples are like fish

trapped in a net. When will they get out? No one knows. No one has a

solution for their problem. This is what happens when you claim to be a

Buddha without recognizing the Buddha or understanding the Dharma.

Such is the retribution incurred.