The "actual proof" of the Soka Gakkai and SGI is "value destruction", not "value creation".
We've already noted how the Soka Gakkai destroyed hundreds of years of Japanese culture through their "hobobarai" (destroying objects from other religions) policy during the early decades:
Even in Japan, the Soka Gakkai has actively DESTROYED Japanese culture. This is such an important topic that we have several articles and discussions about it:
More on how the Soka Gakkai destroyed Japanese culture
More on how Soka Gakkai/SGI aims to destroy culture
The Soka Gakkai/SGI's actual goal is to destroy society via erasing and destroying culture
My view why Soka Gakkai destroys Japanese culture?
A Japanese Soka Gakkai tragedy
As Dr. Ramani was explaining here:
all the human potential lost through this subtle denigration of a person's ability and capability - the novels and screenplays never written, the music that would never be composed, the voices that would never be heard - all because the narcissist wanted to KEEP that person from leaving. From becoming confident enough and successful enough TO leave. Source
We already have several accounts of how SGI involvement robbed people of their potential - here's a memorable one:
I was in for 19 years. For about ten of the 19 years I did so many activities as a Unit Chief, District Chief, YMD Chapter Chief and YMD Headquarters Chief, even in medical school and residency. Today I am a general practitioner. Were it not for so many activities, I would have been an interventional cardiologist, trauma surgeon, or board certified ER doctor. All were within my grasp but Kosen Rufu was my first priority. Don't get me wrong, I still worked for four years as an ER doctor and had some very lucrative jobs and helped many patients but I never realized my full potential as a physician thanks to the stupid SGI activities. Source
The SGI robbed the world of an interventional cardiologist, trauma surgeon, or board certified ER doctor.
And how many SGI members fail to achieve their dreams and goals?
Then there are the unrealized dreams.
Shortly after the temporary Community Center opened on Park Avenue and 17th street (1979?), I went to a Young Men's Division meeting on Saturday. The purpose of the meeting was to make our personal determinations for the future and to present them to Pres. Ikeda.
Like HE cares ~snort~
We wrote down one or two line determinations in a binder-type book, one after the other. The meeting opened and to my surprise, every determination was read. I was uplifted by the determinations, they were so lofty: US senators; judges; congressmen; doctors; lawyers; artists; musicians; and a few teachers, for Kosen Rufu, for Sensei. Final encouragement was given by Mr. Kasahara. The jist of what he said was to chant and do lots of activities and we would all realize our dreams without fail. At the end of the meeting, I'll never forget, this Japanese senior leader going around and shaking hands very vigorously, saying, "Ah!, future senator, future congressman, future doctor, for President Ikeda, neh?"
Never for yourself. Never for the world. Ikeda is everything or your entire practice is nothing.
After the meeting, I'll never forget the animated conversation I had with my best friend at the time. I'm sorry if he reads this post and is offended but it is very instructive in terms of the truth of the SGI. He determined to become a US senator. He told me he applied to become one of the "Who's Who" of American Youth, and he determined to do so and was encouraged by his leaders to do so, so it would happen. It mattered nothing that he had accomplished little outside of the SGI. He even held on to his dream of becoming a US senator for a time. He had attained the level of YMD headquarters chief, but he could barely hold on to a job for more than several months at a time, let alone finish college. He says he's doing great, but to me, the SGI is just a fantasy land of broken dreams.
You will see replies to this post that this was an isolated example but if we delve into the historicity and the actuality of things we will see that of the ~ 150 young men at the meeting it would be safe to say that 120 stopped practicing with the SGI alltogether, during the last 29 years. That leaves somewhere around 30 who continue to practice. Of those 30 how many have gone on to achieve a modicum of success (actual proof being touted by the SGI as the only reliable proof of a teaching)? How many have gone on to become senators, congressmen, judges, doctors, lawyers, accomplished artists or musicians, noted scientists, teachers, etc? To my knowledge not one has gone on to become a senator, congressman or judge. Perhaps one or two has gone on to become a doctor or lawyer and there were conceivably a few who had gone on to become respected teachers, artists, scientists etc. But out of this handful of "succesful" people, how many realized their determinations from that day in 1979? From what I've witnessed, the "actual proof" attained by these SGI practitioners was actually worse than the "actual proof" attained by those that stopped practicing or by a similar cohort who never practiced. For example, take any group of 150 highly motivated young men. One would expect that at least ten to twenty percent would go on to realize their determinations. But through the SGI faith and practice, probably less than five percent realized their dreams. However many (or few) there are, this is hardly the universal actual proof that the SGI espouses.
The bottom line is, there is no actual proof in the "Buddhism" of the SGI, reguardless of how persuasively and aggressively the practitioners would have you believe. They have distorted the teachings of the Original Eternal Shakyamuni Buddha, the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin. How could they demonstrate actual proof? Source
All those highly motivated, idealistic young people spent the entire sum of their motivation and idealism on SGI - accomplishing nothing for themselves or society. Here's another case study of a highly motivated, idealistic young person who attained high leadership levels within SGI but never accomplished her own goals in life.
SGI simply burned their potential to ash, and the world is the poorer for it.
This happened to me as well - after I left one systems analyst position, I was offered another (without having to send out a single resume). Sounds "mystic" so far, right? Well, the salary was less than 1% more than what I'd been making at my previous position; someone with my skills and experience could easily have expected a 15% - 25% salary increase over the previous position. BECAUSE I was in SGI and completely brainwashed about the "benefits" of the nohonzon and "protection of the Universe", I decided that this was the "right" job that the Universe had sent into my life - and I took it, without trying to negotiate for better compensation because I felt that would be "disrespectful" to the Powers That Be that had seen fit to deliver this "great benefit" right into my lap. I'd been indoctrinated to believe that the best way to get more/better "benefits" was to be supremely grateful for every good thing, however trivial, on the same premise that, if you were visiting a friend, you'd get much better results if you said, "Thank you so much for the tea - it's really delicious! Do you think I might have another cup, please?" instead of demanding "MORE TEA NOW!!" That's the example given in the indoctrination I received. So I lived in fear of offending the nohonzon, the Universe, the shoten zenjin, everything! This is the result of SGI's fear training, which a great many former SGI members report experiencing.
So in my case, I lost that potential for improving my own circumstances and advancing my career in the normal manner - because of SGI.
And let's not forget how SGI membership destroys individuals' social capital, depriving them of the very natural opportunities and support that normal human relationships would have provided. SGI members become poorer in every sense from their SGI involvement - those that do well do so in spite of SGI, not because of it.
This is the same argument made for more funding for parasite control in Africa - there, so many lives are robbed of their potential by parasite infections that this is cited as the main reason for the rampant, chronic poverty across subSaharan Africa.
The SGI is just another kind of parasite that sucks away its hosts' lives. Its effect is ANTI-value-creation.
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