Topic for discussion from Anticult: SGI cash-4-karma

Ikeda wants people to follow the person. Ikeda. 

It seems every single sect or cult works in this fashion. It doesn't work to get people to follow an idea or even a group, they need to be trained to follow a PERSON. 

And like Ikeda, it doesn't matter if they have never met the person, but its personality marketing. 

There must be psychological reasons that this works, to make followers subservient and obedient to the Master. 

The human brain must be wired-up to go into submission to an Alpha authority figure, like primates in a troupe. 

So that is all Ikeda has been doing, its how he manages and "leads" his followers. Its not up to them to think for themselves, but to follow his thinking. 

Of course in the west, he has had to conceal this, and they use the term Mentor for that, when in fact Ikeda is the old-school Master with absolute authority. 

this is another reason why SGI is such an absurd affront to Buddhism. 

It really functions as the opposite to Buddhism, in slavishly following a charismatic leader, chanting for a new Mercedes, getting fake SGI Karma-points for converting others to SGI, getting fake SGI karma-points for giving Ikeda all of your cash...cash-4-karma.... 

It just goes on and on, its so incredibly absurd. 

But Ikeda knows many humans want to chant-for-miracles, which is primitive wishful thinking trying to escape the human condition, and Ikeda has made billions by exploiting this human vulnerability.