"When I meet you, I don't ask: "Are you keeping faith?" The reason is that I take your shakubuku for granted. What I really want to ask you is how your business is, whether you are making money, and if you are healthy. Only when all of you receive divine benefits do I feel happy. A person who says "I keep faith; I conduct shakubuku" when he is poor - I don't consider him my pupil. Your faith has only one purpose: to improve your business and family life. Those who talk about "faith" and do not attend to their business are sacrilegious. Business is a service to the community. I will expel those of you who do nothing but shakubuku without engaging in business." (Murata, pp.107-8)
This sums up SGI's ideas of faith and morality: Make money. Be successful. The ends justify the means. Leaders can rattle on and on about humanism, compassion, justice, standing up for what is right...but President Toda told the world, back in the 1950's, what SGI is really all about. -- Tsukimoto
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