Response to Anonymous

1. AnonymousAugust 24, 2017 at 4:24 PM

   Dear Mr. Rogow, You are not a Buddhist, if you are (???), then, indeed, you should be reproached by your teachers! You sir are behaving like an arrogant cad. I also would like to note that I use the word "sir" with you sparingly. I am not a member of SGI: any person who truly believes in any of the numerous Buddhist schools/practices is taught not to speak such offensive talk as you have here. You are no better than those that you criticize and disparage, and you appear not to be a good example of a Buddhist. From reading your banter and your negative criticism you, in fact, appear to be worse than those whom you insult. Your attitude and demeanor are a turn off to anyone wishing to become a Buddhist. I am a long practicing Buddhist and your rhetoric is a turnoff. Your discourse sounds the same as any other evangelical hypocrite proselytizing and proclaiming that their teaching is 100% correct whilst everyone else is 100% false. Shame on you for your non-Buddhist attitude and demeanor. Stop discouraging people from seeking the way.

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   Mark RogowAugust 25, 2017 at 5:45 PM

   You sir couldn't withstand for a day the trials and tribulations that Nichiren and his disciples have withstood for many decades. You have no idea the proper attitude for a Buddhist, particularly, a votary of the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra teaches:
   
   Also, Sariputra,
   
   (1) to the proud, arrogant,
   (2) lazy, and indolent,
   (3) to those who reckon in terms of "I",
   Do not preach this scripture.
   (4) To the ordinary fellow of shallow perception,
   (5) Profoundly addicted to the five desires,
   (6) Hearing yet unable to understand,
   Also, do not preach.
   (7) If a man not believing,
   (8) Maligns this scripture
   Then he cuts off all Worldly Buddha-seeds.
   (9) Or, again, he may with contorted face,
   (10) Harbor doubts and uncertainties.
   You are now to hear me tell
   Of that man's retribution for his sins:
   Whether the Buddha be in the world,
   Or whether it be after his passage into extinction,
   (11) There shall be those who malign
   Such scriptures as this one
   And who, seeing that there are readers and reciters,
   And copiers, and keepers of this scripture,
   (12) Shall, in disparagement, deprecation, (13) Hatred,
   And envy of them,
   (14) Harbor grudges against them,
   The retribution for these men's sins
   You are now to hear:
   These men, at life's end,
   Shall enter the Avici Hell.
   
   To loudly proclaim the Lotus Sutra and therefore to close the door to the Avici hell for countless beings over countless lifetimes is the practice of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra. The benefit is unimaginable. Now go away sonny because you have absolutely nothing to offer the people of Mappo steeped in the Three Poisons.