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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Censored from posting or commenting on Facebook and not alone. This is to be expected of true votaries in Mappo

Murrysburg Bodhisattva has also been threatened by SGI top leader, William Aiken, I believe. The Eagle Peak blog, along with a mere spattering of individuals, reveals the truth of the Lotus Sutra and teachings of Nichiren based on The Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma, the Mahayana Nirvana Sutra, and the authentic writings of Nichiren, particularly, his Five Major Works. As the Nirvana Sutra teaches,

"In the defiled times of the latter age, those who slander the correct teaching will be as numerous as the specks of dirt in all the lands of the ten directions, while those who uphold the correct teaching will be as few as the specks of dirt that can be placed on a fingernail."


The Lotus Sutra Chapter 13 teaches,

We beg you not to worry.

After the Buddha has passed into extinction,

in an age of fear and evil

we will preach far and wide.

There will be many ignorant people

who will curse and speak ill of us

and will attack us with swords and staves,

but we will endure all these things.

In that evil age there will be monks

with perverse wisdom and hearts that are fawning and crooked

who will suppose they have attained what they have not attained,

being proud and boastful in heart.

Or there will be forest-dwelling monks

wearing clothing of patched rags and living in retirement,

who will claim they are practicing the true way,

despising and looking down on all humankind.

Greedy for profit and support,

they will preach the Law to white-robed laymen

and will be respected and revered by the world

as though they were arhats who possess the six transcendental powers.

These men with evil in their hearts,

p.233constantly thinking of worldly affairs,

will borrow the name of forest-dwelling monks

and take delight in proclaiming our faults,

saying things like this:

“These monks are greedy

for profit and support

and therefore they preach non-Buddhist doctrines

and fabricate their own scriptures

to delude the people of the world.

Because they hope to gain fame and renown thereby

they make distinctions when preaching this sutra.”

Because in the midst of great assemblies

they constantly try to defame us,

they will address the rulers, high ministers,

Brahmans, and householders,

as well as the other monks,

slandering and speaking evil of us,

saying, “These are men of perverted views

who preach non-Buddhist doctrines!”

But because we revere the Buddha

we will bear all these evils.

Though they treat us with contempt, saying,

“You are all no doubt buddhas!”

all such words of arrogance and contempt

we will endure and accept.

In a muddied kalpa, in an evil age,

there will be many things to fear.

Evil demons will take possession of others

and through them curse, revile, and heap shame on us.

But we, reverently trusting in the Buddha,

will put on the armor of perseverance.

In order to preach this sutra

we will bear these difficult things.

We care nothing for our bodies or lives

but are anxious only for the unsurpassed way.

In ages to come we will protect and uphold

what the Buddha has entrusted to us.

p.234This the world-honored one must know.

The evil monks of that muddied age,

failing to understand the Buddha’s expedient means,

how he preaches the Law in accordance with what is appropriate,

will confront us with foul language and angry frowns;

again and again we will be banished

to a place far removed from towers and temples.

All these various evils,

because we keep in mind the Buddha’s orders,

we will endure.

If in the settlements and towns

there are those who seek the Law,

we will go to wherever they are

and preach the Law entrusted to us by the Buddha.

We will be envoys of the world-honored one,

facing the assemblies without fear.

We will preach the Law with skill,

for we desire the Buddha to rest in tranquillity.

In the presence of the world-honored one

and of the buddhas who have gathered from the ten directions

we proclaim this vow.

The Buddha must know what is in our hearts.


Nichiren writes,

"The fourth volume of the Lotus Sutra says, “Since hatred and jealousy toward this sutra abound even when the Thus Come One is in the world, how much more will this be so after his passing?" (LS Chapter 10). And in the seventh volume, referring again to the time “after his passing” when things will be much worse, the Buddha says, “After I have passed into extinction, in the last five-hundred-year period you must spread it abroad widely throughout Jambudvīpa." (LS Chapter 23) So we see that the hatred that abounds after the passing of the Buddha will come about in the last five-hundred-year period when Myoho-renge-kyo will spread. And immediately following the above passage, the Buddha warns of dangers from “evil devils, the devils’ people, heavenly beings, dragons, yakshas, and kumbhānda demons.”

and

"Answer: I refer you to the passage in the “Never Disparaging” chapter that states, “He would say to people, ‘I have profound reverence for you.’... Among the four kinds of believers there were those who gave way to anger, their minds lacking in purity, and they spoke ill of him and cursed him, saying, ‘This ignorant monk.’” The chapter also says, “Some among the group would take sticks of wood or tiles and stones and beat and pelt him.” And in the “Exhortation to Hold Firm” chapter it says, “There will be many ignorant people who will curse and speak ill of us and will attack us with swords and staves.” These passages imply that one should preach the Law even though one may be reviled and cursed and even beaten for it. Since the sutra so teaches, is the one who preaches to blame?"

There is no greater honor than to be censored, slandered, banished, exiled, or to be attacked with swords and staves

11 comments:

  1. Nichiren writes:
    "IF one does not touch the sleeping lion, one will suffer no anger. If one does not plant the pole in the stream, one will raise no waves. And if one does not reproach those who slander the Law, one will undergo no hardship.
    'If even a good monk sees someone destroying the teaching and disregards him, failing to reproach him . . .' If you have no qualms about the word “disregard,” then all may be fine for you at present, but you may be certain that later you will fall into the hell of incessant suffering!

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  2. "all these things i have done solely to repay a debt i owe to my parents, the debt i owe to my teacher, the debt i owe to the three treasures of buddhism, and the debt i owe to my country. for their sake i have been willing to destroy my body and to give up my life, though it turns out, i have not been put to death after all."(wnd728) note: nichirens teacher was shakyamuni and the lotus sutra. if one trades their comfort for the lotus sutra they will surely attain buddhahood in this lifetime. these are the teachings. if one trades for anything else, it will only lead to regret. this has been most peoples experience. don't blame the teachings , blame who you choose to follow.

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  3. Brain dead fools. Sgi. Aiken. The usa politicians. The will start ww3, this year. Use nukes next year. By next summer, most of us will be gone.

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  4. Far, far too profound for the Sgi/Nst and its lying band of merry men and women. not many people left who remember what NSA/SGI taught in the 60's to the middle 70's. Just prior to it becoming Ikedaism.

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  5. Buddhism is about spiritual growth and especially the lotus sutra. Social media is about capturing peoples personal information to make money off it. So you become trapped in rats mazes with landmines of controversy and drama, in the fishbowl of social media. It is a false sanga. This is a good site in many ways. More neutral and spiritual than the past. Some people here are recovering and healing from spiritual hurt, from the past so i understand some of the old feelings here. Thanks dr Rogow.
    Drugs, alcohol, cults, manipulations, manipulative politics, greed, negative addictions, bring out the dark side in human nature. If you chant with healing, compassion, love, peace, empathy, goodness, respect in mind, the rewards will be fruitful

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  6. Things are coming apart at the seams in this phoney country and culture. Thngs like Facebook are the last place to be. The aiken thing is deranged and crashing

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  7. sad but true....Sgi no longer adopts a Lotus Sutra view but instead, so they have an easy practice, they have adopted a christian view. this is why the heavenly deities have abandoned and the spirits have run rampant.

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  8. It is strange that ikeda is dead and, so many of his followers, act like he is alive. He was not a good or great person, to begin with, he was a very shallow, small man. Somehow he was able to ruthlessly climb up and appease his backers, while leading the organization.
    The people around him, that he used to get power. The machine that kept the publications sent out, the public image network going, the sychophants loyal, the money flowing, the films made. The money gathering apparatus depended on big lies, incredible hype and constant manipulation. The big illusion of something and someone so small and shallow manipulated to look bigger.
    This is there is all there is left of many places, like japan and the west. A big house of cards that is falling down exposing the pathetic, evil creatures and vampires that have pushed our lives and the world so far out of whack. Money, avarice DRIVE pathologically-fake reality . Reality IS driven by uncaring monsters and their disgusting front men. This is what is destroying the world. Incompetent old, creeps like Donald Trump and Joe Biden, wouldnt exist without their backers and the mechanisms of the large amounts of money and energy put into manipulation . The monsters that rule are sick and damaged. The world is really close to ecoside and the monsters dont care sseem to be so preoccupied with their schemes they are willing to accelerate world death with war and nuclear war

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  9. No posting for several days.

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  10. The world is so screwed

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  11. I wish there could be a spiritual intervention now. The world is at th3 edge of destruction and there is so much cruelty

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