Simon wrote:
I have been chanting for almost 19 years, but right now i've reached a stage where I have been seriously contemplating suicide, and I truly need a fellow practioner's great & truly storm breaking experience of success.
To all non Buddhists, to people wanting to wish me well, etc THANK YOU. But i still wish to hear from fellow members."
Thank you so much,
Simon xx [From 4 years] ago on Yahoo Answers
Not one SGI member responded to Simon's question. I will respond with a question and an answer.
Question: How it is possible that after 19 years of chanting an SGI members could be so despondent as to contemplate suicide?
Answer: SGI is not real Buddhism, least of all the Lotus Sutra Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. It has no power to create the joyful life states of Buddha or Bodhisattva. Many SGI members have serious psychiatric problems, especially major depression requiring psychoactive pharmaceuticals or therapy. SGI Australia even has a well publicized and ongoing symposium for members with depression
I promise you that after 90 days of a sincere effort to master the faith and practice of Nichiren Daishonin based on the Lotus Sutra [not Ikedaism], your sadness will disappear like dew in the noon day sun.
>> Many SGI members have serious psychiatric problems,--"
ReplyDeleteWe're in Mappo-- so a safe bet is ALL have illnesses the mind-- 84,000 kinds that only a buddha can cure..
<<" especially major depression requiring psychoactive pharmaceuticals or therapy.--" <<"
As a psychiatric RN with over 25 years of observing the effects of psychoactive [pharmaceuticals-- and one who extensively researched this scourge, I advocate caution in believing the psychiatric version of illnesses of the mind--
>>" SGI Australia even has a well publicized and ongoing symposium for members with depression "<<--
This I would call , a "default" to secular teachings because the SGI does not propagate the Buddha's true teachings.
Encouraging people who have lost hope is the work of a bodhisattva--sharing in the suffering of another, being present and validating their suffering is a starting point, but without strong faith in the Lotus Sutra, such efforts are quite daunting.
>>"I promise you that after 90 days of a sincere effort to master the faith and practice of Nichiren Daishonin based on the Lotus Sutra [not Ikedaism], your sadness will disappear like dew in the noon day sun.<<"
Yes! This is 100% true--!!
~Katie
i promise you that if u pull your head out of ikeda's ass...tell the shoshu they are full of shit and walk away with your head held high, u will begin to feel such better and your head will begin to clear. cults make people nuts !!
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