SGI Gajokai ["Teeth of the Castle" or SGI security]
The bathroom fixtures in Ikeda's personal community center apartment, in the old New York Community Center, were golden, very shiny like his life condition. The carpets were incredibly plush like the floor of Nichiren Daishonin's hut, two inches thick. Of course, the furniture was the finest most comfortable money could buy and nobody used them. This is where your donation money goes. Certainly it doesn't go to the non-salaried Gajokai.
This one picture surpasses all of the SGI "direct to member" solicitation videos and makes full financial disclosure by SGI administrators a moot point.
ReplyDeleteWhere goes your SGI donation money?
Member's donations are flushed down a sacred golden commode-- which is far superior to just flushing your hard earned money down your own porcelain toilet!
From the golden commode-- straight to video production of direct to member solicitation infomercials !!!
~Katie
Seriously, and more to the point:
ReplyDelete"The Roots Of Good Fortune"( WND vol 1, p. 1103)
"Again, even if one does no harm to others, and honestly strives to make offerings, there will be cases in which one does not attain Buddhahood. To illustrate, if one plants good seed in a bad field, the seed itself will be ruined, and one will in turn suffer loss. Even if one is sincere, if the person to whom one makes offerings is evil, those offerings will fail to produce benefit, rather, they will cause one to fall into the evil paths."
The SGI actually solicits financial contributions from its members,and promises they are making a cause for their own financial gain! Yet, even though the teaching in the Gosho quoted above , makes it clear that one should know to whom [an for what] he/she is contributing $$, SGI guards their financial status and admonishes members who inquire about the disposition of their donation money.
Outrageous!
~Katie
outrageous!!!!!!!!
DeleteDonating money to the SGI is cause for regret.
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