SGI leader: No. HAI
SGI member: How high?
SGI leader: Can you give an experience at the next Area meeting?:
SGI member: Ok. How about the time I went to Atlantic City and lost all my money. I had to beg the toll man to let me through the Lincoln tunnel. I chanted to myself and he let me go through. Then I went home and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and spaghetti, ketchup, and canned peas for two weeks.
SGI leader: Did you learn anything from the experience?
SGI member: Yes, to always leave toll money in the car and stock up on food before I go to Atlantic city. I also thought about what Sensei would do in my situation.
SGI leader: You did?
SGI member: He would call his chauffer to bring him another bag of Zaimu.
SGI leader: You certainly have done a lot of human revolution.
SGI member: Like Zapata?
SGI leader: No. Like Sennichi Yamamoto.
SGI member: Who dat?
SGI leader: That is Sensei's fictionalized name in his book, The Human Revolution.
SGI member: Oh yeah, I forgot. We read about him last year, the year before that, the year before that, and the year before that. There were no battles or anything except with that old priest Ogasawara. Sennichi roughed him up pretty good.
SGI leader: Of course there are no battles except with the Dantos, the Kempon Hokke, and the Nichiren Shu. This is a battle with yourself, a battle to follow Sensei no matter what, like he followed his mentor, President Toda.
SGI member: Like Simon Bolivar says?
SGI leader: More like Simple Simon says: President Ikeda says do this, President Ikeda says do that, President Ikeda says do this, and President Ikeda says do that, and you do it. But if your heart and mind says do this or do that, don't do it.
SGI Member: You mean if President Ikeda says, Nichiren is the True Buddha, and President Ikeda says, only recite the Hoben-pon and Jiga-ge sections of the Lotus Sutra, and President Ikeda says, only believe in the Nichikan Gohonzon, and President Ikeda says, touch your nose, and President Ikeda says touch your left shoulder, you do it. But if you feel like chanting the entire 16th Chapter, or if you feel compelled to revere Shakyamuni as the Eternal Original Buddha, or if your tushy itches, you don't scratch it because President Ikeda didn't say to touch your tushy.
SGI leader: That is overcoming your negativity and your ego. That is human revolution!
SGI member: Now I understand. Sennichi threw that old priest, Ogassawara, into the pond because President Toda said to throw him in. I bet President Ikeda would tell us to throw Rev. Nagasaki of the New York temple into the Hudson river.
SGI leader: That would be too good for him. But first you have to clean President Ikeda's toilet in the President's room.
SGI member: But no one has been up to that room in 12 years.
SGI leader: President Ikeda says to keep his toilet clean because you never know when he might show up.
SGI member: Hai!
SGI leader: Heil
Okay, TWO things: "Simple Simon" and "Simon Says" are two separate things. "Simple Simon" is a nursery rhyme:
ReplyDeleteSimple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware.
Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Indeed I have not any.
Simple Simon went a-fishing,
For to catch a whale;
All the water he had got,
Was in his mother’s pail.
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.
"Simon Says" is a game where everyone has to do what "Simon" (the leader) commands.
TWO: I have some lovely QUOTES for you!!
“Even if the General Director is wrong, you must also follow.” – MD Senior Leaders.
True disciples, meanwhile, are ones who follow the mentor’s teaching, who never forget that this most profound aspiration is in fact their own, and who—convinced from the bottom of their hearts that this is so—launch into action in accord with the mentor’s instructions. LB Jan 08, p54
"Follow Sensei and the Gosho and Soka Gakkai And stop listening to you own interpretations with arrogant minds."
WARNING!! Have your barf bags at the ready, and if you have the stomach for it, here is the official SGI song, "I seek Sensei" O_O
"I don't seek the Law", in other words O_O
Sensei we pledge to follow your path Video
AT ANY MOMENT, IKEDA COULD SAY, "STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY - THIS IS AN INCORRECT AND UNACCEPTABLE FOCUS."
BUT HE DOESN'T.
Read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers/comments/42di6e/remember_follow_the_law_not_the_person/
The mentor’s life will be lived out by the proof shown by these disciples. SGI
"How precious is the SGI! How much must we give our lives to protecting this wonderful organization!"
"We" spelled "Y-O-U", in other words O_O
"To protect the SGI and SGI members is to protect humankind." Ikeda
"Disciples strive to actualize the mentor's vision. Disciples should achieve all that the mentor wished for but could not accomplish while alive. This is the path of mentor and disciple." Ikeda
You never get a vision of your own. You should not even WANT one.
Read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers/comments/2xxycx/a_classic_example_of_ikeda_contradicting_himself/
"Mr. Makiguchi, our mentor, once said: Teachers must not instruct students with the arrogant attitude of 'Become like me!'" - Ikeda, March 1993 Seikyo Times (now "Living Buddhism" magazine), p. 26.
ReplyDelete"Mr. Makiguchi insisted that the constituent members of a body or organization must direct the actions of the leaders." Ikeda
"The true worth of a leader rests on one thing: How many people you have fostered to carry your vision forward." Ikeda
"Disciples support their mentor and his vision using their unique abilities. They are not passive followers of the mentor; in fact simple followers are not good disciples because they do not adequately seek ways to use their own individual talents to help realize their mentor’s vision. Good disciples protect and promote the mentor’s vision, with which they identify." SGI
What of "Become Shinichi Yamamoto", "I will become Shinichi Yamamoto", and “Reveal your true identity as Shinichi Yamamoto” , that being Ikeda's pen name for himself as the protagonist in his fawning hagiographic and self-glorifying novel series?
"It's a very fake and poisonous unity, Daisaku. Inspiring for you, maybe, but not for anyone else." - tsukimoto
Read more at https://www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers/comments/2xy53b/ikeda_and_controlling_people/
'We are struck by the way the senior youth leaders explained the goal of 100,000 youths: "Our goal is to create a solidarity of '100,000 Shinichi Yamamotos' rather than the mere increase of membership. What refreshing words!"' SGI
Doesn't this indicate we're supposed to be trying to turn into someone else, into Ikeda?
An abusive group, parent or partner cannot accept that you may have different goals, tastes, desires, opinions than he/she/it does. You are supposed to be one with him/her/the group --- think, feel and want what they do --- and put NOTHING ahead of them.
He is wildly unrealistic in his expectations – which legitimizes his subsequent abusive conduct.
The narcissist claims to be infallible, superior, talented, skillful, omnipotent, and omniscient.
His thinking is dogmatic, rigid, and doctrinaire. He does not countenance free thought, pluralism, or free speech and doesn’t brook criticism and disagreement.
He demands – and often gets – complete trust and the relegation to his capable hands of all decision-making.
He forced the participants in his cult to be hostile to critics, the authorities, institutions, his personal enemies, or the media – if they try to uncover his actions and reveal the truth.
He closely monitors and censors information from the outside, exposing his captive audience only to selective data and analyses.
The narcissist’s cult is “missionary” and “imperialistic”.
The narcissist sees enemies and conspiracies everywhere. He often casts himself as the heroic victim (martyr) of dark and stupendous forces. In every deviation from his tenets he espies malevolent and ominous subversion. He, therefore, is bent on disempowering his devotees. By any and all means.
The narcissist is dangerous.
Whenever any religious institution’s message is more about its wonderful leaders than about the spiritual path itself — walk away.
Read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers/comments/6tynvs/sgi_unity_necessarily_results_in_losing_your_own/
"The idea that there is only one master is a completely new idea, not a vision inherited from a master. It simply suits Ikeda to imply that he is the master of all." https://www.reddit.com/r/sgiwhistleblowers/comments/5kyp4b/the_idea_that_there_is_only_one_master_is_a/
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