Ikeda is the Wall Street fake Buddha by Anticult

es, a real Mentor is terrific, but SGI-Ikeda is not a mentor. Its impossible. 

You have to personally know your mentor, and deal with them personally for a long period of time. 

And a mentor doesn't charge you money. 

Ikeda is not the only one to exploit this. 

There are all sorts of groups that popped up with "Coaching" as a fake "mentor", and they charge you hundreds of dollars an hour, often to persuade you to buy more products! A total scam. 

This is where SGI-USA got the idea, from management consultants and marketing consultants they hire. They know that in the USA and west, people are against the Master/slave relationship, that seems to be more accepted in the east. People in the west find that offensive generally. 

So the SGI-USA marketing consultants told them to change the wording to Mentor. 

But anyone exercising common sense knows its impossible to have a 'mentor" of some billionaire like Ikeda who you will never meet, who is trying to sell you things, and wants you to give him all of your money, like Ikeda does. 

So in reality, the word mentor as used by SGI-USA is simply psychological propaganda. 

But Ikeda knows that psychological personality marketing is how to hook people into a sect/group. 

People don't identify with a Group, like SGI in total. 

There seems to be a need to identify with a personality. 

So SGI just like every other giant cultish group, uses the Master/Follower system. 

Humans seems to want to identify with a big personality at the top. 

Of course, all of this is the opposite to Buddhism. 

Whatever happened to no-self and nothingness? 

SGI says forget that crap, and chant for more money, a bigger house, and everything the Buddha rejected, according to the legend of the Buddha. 

Ikeda is the Wall St fake Buddha...the SGI Buddha says...'Greed is Good'. 

If SGI were intellectually honest, they would in fact admit that they are against classical Buddhism, and are not in fact Buddhists by any stretch of the term. But SGI-USA are experts in reframing words, and the meaning of words. 

SGI-USA are masters of propaganda and persuasion, and have gotten much better over the years, as they used to be very crude in their tactics, and are now much more subtle initially.