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Sunday, June 15, 2014

"Fundamental darkness"

Listening to SGI leaders, you would think that fundamental darkness is all that Nichiren talked about. Actually, there are only ~ ten phrases, "fundamental darkness"; two phrases, "fundamental delusions", one phrase, "possessed by devils"; and zero phrases, "fighting evil", zero phrases in ~ 1500 pages of writings. 

Shakubuku, on the other hand is mentioned, deconstructed, and analyzed by Nichiren at length, in many dozens of writings. "Break and subdue" is one translation of shakubuku, another is "forceful practices", and still another, "to refute." Nichiren rarely performed the forceful practices towards his own believers. Compare this to SGI leaders who are drunk on power and ego.

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