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Thursday, March 1, 2018

Many SGI leaders are miserable, exhausted, and overstressed

"What I object to is how SGI is constantly glorifying this workaholic, go-go-go overscheduled lifestyle. Linda Johnson, for example, gave a speech about how she has this very busy job as a prosecutor, going to court herself and supervising other lawyers -- and then she also has two demanding positions in SGI. If that's what she wants to do, fine, that's her choice. What I dislike is that this is held up as an example to the rest of us -- we should be doing the same. Well, I don't want to! I would like to have a personal life, time for hobbies and friends, time to stop and smell the roses! When I tried to explain this to my leaders, their attitude was that I was being selfish and lazy, content with a narrow little life. 

Nonsense! I work quite hard at my job and at home -- but I also consider it important to have balance in my life. I have seen many SGI leaders who are miserable, exhausted, and overstressed -- and their families suffer too from their overinvolvement with SGI. Even if I loved SGI, that's not for me. It's not a healthy way to live." -- Tsukimoto

Nichiren too realized this:

"But for your person as a householder the essence is for you to chant 'Namu Myoho renge kyo' with no other thought and also make offerings to the monks. And also, if it is in accord with the sutra text, one should also 'expound it according to one's strength,' shouldn't one?" [Reply to Lord Matsuno] 

The key here, I think, is "according to one's strength". It doesn't read, "according to the strength of another". SGI changes Nichiren's teachings for their self serving ends. They are not "Nichiren Buddhists", least of all "The One True Nichiren Sect". Shameful. SGI is a bizarre parody of Buddhism.

6 comments:

  1. SGI is the antithisis of the Middle Way.

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  2. Sgi is a prosperiity scam. It is a new age pyramid scam

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  3. Law of attraction, bullshit. So many people get their life blood sucked out. Others live in a magical thinking world on the edge of oblivion

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    1. Yet, how arrogant they are. They are a pitiful bunch.

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  4. Problem with bullshit dale carnagie/ new age "power of positive thinking" is that ikeda is dead, most of japan is so radionucleided , that people are sick beyond help, america and japan are falling to pieces from overconsumption, overpopulation and becoming radioactive/chemical sewers. Working harder, flying everywhere simply makes the pollution wors3 and the chronic illness worse.

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  5. 100 %. What do we do about it? Chant and remonstrate. What do you think?

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