"The True Word school, among others, attempts to destroy the Lotus Sutra. It is essential to refute the True Word teachings..."-- Nichiren Daishonin
The most important True Word teaching is Guru Yoga. The most important Guru Yoga Masters today are Daisaku Ikeda, High Priest Nichinyo, and the Dalai Lama. Their teachings must be refuted.
Unfortunately, the True Word teachings and Guru Yoga has infiltrated the Nichiren Shoshu and the Soka Gakkai. This is another reason that I refute them every chance I get.
Unfortunately, the True Word teachings and Guru Yoga has infiltrated the Nichiren Shoshu and the Soka Gakkai. This is another reason that I refute them every chance I get.
There is a very interesting explanation regarding Nichiren's "early" disdain for True Word teachings". Here is a quote from J. Stones's ." REVIEW ARTICLE- Biographical Studies of Nichiren". Here is a quote referencing this source:
ReplyDeleteTAKAGI Yutaka ¢… Ì. Nichiren: Sono kõdõ to shisõ Õ¥—du‘{o„`
[Nichiren: His actions and thought]. Nihonjin no kõdõ to shisõ Õû^
u‘{o„` 4. Tokyo: Hyõronsha, 1970. 280 pp., including bibliography,
chronology, and index.
"A particular strength of this study, relative to the fourth point
above, is Takagi’s thoughtful reconstructions of the events of Nichiren’s
youth. While he modestly notes that these are no more than surmises
based on a few fragmentary data and Nichiren’s later reflections,
they are plausible and Nichiren’s hostility toward Pure Land practices, which appears in his earliest writings. It is virtually certain that, as a novice at Kiyosumidera²˜± in Awa Province, Nichiren was taught to chant the nenbutsu ç[- and also studied Pure Land teachings—probably Tendai Pure
Land thought rather than the exclusive nenbutsu, which he would not
have encountered until later. His teacher at Kiyosumi-dera, Dõzen-bõ
Š3Û, was a nenbutsu practitioner, and Kiyosumi-dera itself is thought
to have had ties with the Yokawa precinct of Mt. Hiei, which transmitted
the Pure Land teachings of Genshin è= (942– 1017). Why, then,
should Nichiren so early on have developed an aversion to this
extremely widespread practice? Takagi notes that Nichiren came to have doubts about Pure Land practice even before arriving at his ultimate
conviction in the exclusive truth of the Lotus Sðtra and suggests
that these doubts may have had their basis less in doctrinal issues than
in the experience of witnessing the painful death of some Pure Land
practitioner close to him. The manner of one’s death was widely
understood at the time to be an index of that person’s post-mortem
fate, and a peaceful death was deemed a sign of attaining having
reached the Pure Land. Jõdo teachings stressed that a good death and
subsequent birth in the Pure Land were possible through chanting
the nenbutsu, which was frequently employed as a deathbed practice.
According to the medieval hagiography Nichiren Shõnin chðgasan
Õ¥î^icg, Nichiren rejected the nenbutsu teachings during the
period of his youthful studies in Kamakura when he learned that, contrary
to the promise of such teachings, the Pure Land master Dai’a
Ø% had died in agony (Nichiren Shõnin denkishð, p. 87). While no evidence
exists to suggest any historical connection between Nichiren
and Dai’a, Takagi argues that witnessing something of this sort in his
early years might well have engendered Nichiren’s original doubts,
doubts that would have then gained intellectual reinforcement as his
doctrinal studies progressed. In support of this hypothesis, Tagaki
notes that Nichiren’s later writings make several references to agonizing
deaths suffered by Pure Land devotees and, by contrast, to calm
and dignified deaths that occurred among his own followers. "
I note that Nichiren's observations regarding the "actual proof" that the Lotus Sutra was NOT upheld, taught and followed does accord with our times. We cannot help but notice that the destruction of humanity we are witnessing world wide, is in concert with the "widespread propagation of SGI/Shoshu"-- How can they fail to notice the obvious signs? How can SGI/Shoshu NOT appreciate that they have provided nothing but evidence that "evil doctrines are being propagated"?
~Katie