No one could ever believe that companies like Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citi, GM could ever fail. How could SGI fail? Even brainwashing can just go so far when there is no food on the table. The SGI vice presidents might even have to work for a living.
Why did companies like Lehman GM, and, for all intents and purposes, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Bear Sterns etc. fail? There are two principle reason, greed and errors. The SGI is a greedy, tribelike organization who makes many mistakes with respect to the Dharma and instead of correcting their mistake they sink ever further into heterodoxy. The SGI will fail...or it will be taken over and reorganized. It is incapable of the self reflection, discipline, and insight, necessary to right itself.
Then there is the concept of the failed state. Who would have thought the Soviet Union would ever fail (so quickly), broken up into a shell of its former self?
Could an entity like the Nichiren Shu take it over? Could there be a revolution from within? There will be a lot of layoffs and restructuring. SGI will not have the same appearance, nature, and entity.
It will be a hot, sad mess when Ikeda dies, especially since there is no firm leader or heir to take his place. Hopefully would be an opportunity for major reform within Nichiren Buddhism as a whole.
ReplyDeleteas it has really been ...money and manipulation will take his place. he is already gone for 5 years.
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