Regarding SGI leaders like Chas on Google Groups ARBN who criticize members who practice martial arts because martial arts oreginated from Zen: Now Soka University holds Karate tournements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6H9D_L00Y; Besides, Nichiren supported his samurai believers like Shijo Kingo. I'm sure Kingo knew all the various Zen derived martial arts of his day. He NEVER criticized Kingo for his profession. The Lotus Sutra stated that thanks to the Lotus Sutra, even Devedatta eventually attained Enlightenment but not a martial artist?
SGI are prestoopniks. That's Russian for criminals.Biden is terrible. I stayed in the Ukraine, after Chernobyl. It is collapsing . Many sick people. The same is happening in Japan since Fukushima. The right are mostly racist Mad-dogs. That won't fly in any coalition. Liberals are not leftists. They are centrists and irrational neoliberals.
ReplyDeleteIt will take something like what happened in China or germany, to nationalize banks and, form a new economy not based on financialization, to change things. Something planned and, with a concerted mandate. A concensus of change w a coalition and hopefully not any bloodshed.
The problem is, how fragile and tenuous the USA is. Many reactors, are on the verge of failure in the USA. When they go, it will be a full-blown extinction event. I saw half a town, in a usa nuke sacrifice zone, die of cancer.
Japan and the Ukraine are collapsing from the health costs of cancer, birth defects, other health problems from the ongoing extreme nuclear catastrophes, that occured there . The USA is very close to that .
The landscape is not cut and dry or black and white. It's a slippery slope with, three, or 4 interconnected crossroads, w the possibilities, of multiple deadly outcomes .
1. The crossroads of climate-change, industrial and nuclear poisoning,
2. politics, Banning started this nihilistic early road to extinction . So far little to no rational leadership w this variable
3.Infrastructure problems collapsing societal cohesion. There probably will be a reactor meltdown.
Some of the ignorant right will disconnect from their Dunning-Kruger effect of the ignoramuses and manipulators. Maybe a coalition is possible, to help stop the ongoing fatal radioculide dementias and poisonings. The march to nuclear war and Oblivion.
4. The march into complete societal economic, and environmental breakdown
Will occur if there is extreme civil unrest and people become too crazy and unhealthy
Anonymous, please see my latest post. I also have two questions for you.
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ReplyDeleteIs this not Mappo, the Latter Day of the Law, the Latter Degenerate Age? It brings tears to my eyes when I think of the world of my children and grandchildren and all children and all species. Yes, we are witnessing extinction events. In pre-lotus Sutra Buddhism, this is known as Samsara. Fortunately, I often see the Land as the Buddha's Land where evermore people will chant Namu Myoho renge kyo, many out of desperation. I believe that this is not the only advanced civilization that earth has experienced. There were possibly a half dozen advanced civilizations that died out in earths 4 billion years and there will be others. Thanks to the Lotus Sutra, Namu Myoho renge kyo, the Gohonzon, and the Eternal Buddha, where and when we choose to be reborn, we will enjoy the fruits of Enlightenment. We will benefit ourselves and society. I choose to be reborn in Mappo with my family and friends, many of whom don't yet chant Namu Myoho renge kyo, in this civilization or another.