The teachings of the Nichiren Shoshu and SGI are nonsensical and fabrications. Those of you who believe in these teachings have been misled. The basic tenets of your sects can not be proven with Nichiren's criteria of the Three Proofs yet you persist in your blind belief without evidence. Do you think that there will not be repercussions for going against the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Nichiren Daishonin?
The schism between the Nichiren Shoshu and the SGI is "divine" punishment (cause and effect) for your mistaken beliefs. The dysfunctional lives that many of you are leading is specific and individual punishment. Life flashes by in an instant. We don't even know if the breath we are taking will be our last. Nichiren Daishonin teaches, "It is better to live one day with honor than to live to a hundred and die in disgrace." When "the roaring tiger of death" approaches, will you be embarrassed and taken to task by the thousand Buddhas or will you proudly exclaim, "I am a follower of the Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni and Nichiren Daishonin" and peacefully pass?
I thought people's lives were to be judged on the content of their own lives, not on who they followed. What you just said there sounds much like this:
ReplyDelete"Mr. Toda also used to say, 'When you go to Eagle Peak, you should proudly declare, "I am a disciple of Josei Toda, the leader of kosen-rufu."' He told us to remain confident and assured even in the interval between this life and the next." May 2012 LB, 33
"Isn't my experience at death from my own merits? The experience of our buddhahood is what is important and works to transform us. Mr. Ikeda places Mr. Toda and himself on a high pedestal - we call to them after death? For ETERNITY? Hey, Mr. Ikeda says wonderful things, but he's asking for a lot."
Sound familiar?
The content of one's life is vast and profound. We don't live in a vacuum. To deny leaders and followers in any and all fields of human endeavor and the repercussions/retributions of such thoughts, words, and actions is to greatly limit the human and even non-human condition. Those followers of Adolph Hitler led to the destruction of their land. A herd of elephants follows their "wise" [experienced] matriarch in order to find water. Those who follow Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin attain Buddhahood and lead other's to do the same.
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