Friday, January 23, 2015

SGI teachings are not even similar to Nichiren's

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"If you are a devout Christian, i don’t mean to offend you by posting this. Actually, i don’t consider true Buddhism to be a religion....

An open letter to Daisaku Ikeda -- Arthur James Vidato

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https://nagabuddha.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/an-open-letter.pdf

"There are no priests in SGI"

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Italian SGI leaders [responsabili] are known as "Ministers of Worship".
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A critique of SGI's Burton Watson translation of the Lotus Sutra

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Burton Watson translates a passage from Chapter 21 of the Lotus Sutra as follows: "At that time the Buddha spoke to Superior Practic...
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Receiving the benefit of the greatest treasure

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"The two ways of practice and the resulting virtues of Shakyamuni are inherent within the five characters of Myo-Ho-Ren-Ge-Kyo. If we ...

The two types of wisdom

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"There are two kinds of wisdom, correct and perverse.  No matter how wise  a person may appear, if his  assertions are warped you  sho...

"The mentor disciple relationship is the very heart of the Lotus Sutra" -- Daisaku Ikeda

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"Do not put faith in traditions handed down orally." -- Nichiren Daishonin

Those who accept Soka Gakkai too yield to their devilish nature and foolishness

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"The translators of the newer versions of the sutras  learned about T’ien-t’ai’s doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment ...

Be free

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The eyes of the Buddha have perfect vision. Ikeda glasses are not necessary. No intermediary is necessary. Be free. Spread the Law and the ...

"The Victorious Future of Mentor and Disciple" or The True Heart of the Smiling Backstabbers of Soka

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"The Victorious Future of Mentor and Disciple" by Daisaku Ikeda SGI Eternal Mentor I can see Those who are like demons Millin...
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Soka Gakkai Italia: Indigo a deeper blue [of fascism]

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http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2403/1/WRAP_THESIS_Foiera_2007.pdf

The Lotus Sutra itself chooses heir disciples, not the SGI, Kempon Hokke, nor Shamon Tsuchiya

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"Among the disciples of the school of Nichi-ju, nobody should be chosen, directly or indirectly, as an heir disciple. However, anybod...
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Nichiren advances the principle of Transmission Through the Sutra Scrolls. not transmission through mentor/disciple

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"Usually teachers are persons. However, trustworthy teachers do not exist in the Latter Age; so there is much evidence of regarding th...
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Shinichi Yamamoto is one sharp dude!

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From the The Human Revolution Vol. IX, Readings for September 2007 "Spark" pp. 1167-1168 "The Kempon Hokke school was fo...

I just can't understand SGI [actually I can through the eyes of Nichiren but not through the eyes of an unenlightened worldling]

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For example, SGI features failed mediation expert Mari Fitzduff on their Ikeda Center website. She was [is?], among other things, a mediato...

"I am Myoho renge kyo" [well maybe]..."I am Soka Gakkai" [no]

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"I am not an official spokesperson for the SGI " Terms of use The use of this website constitutes agreement with the foll...

SGI creates a new term for non-duality

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"Non-positionality." This describes perfectly what SGI stands for... nothing.

SGI's get out of jail free card

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No Soka Gakkai member or leader beneath Vice General Director may take full responsibility for their words. No one save Ikeda and the top s...

How Soka Spirit parasites are removed from the body of the Buddha

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Soka Spirit[s] are parasites engorged with the blood of Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin. Filled with vainglorious declarations and...

I can refute nearly every assertion of each and every SGI scholar and sympathizer as easily as a hot knife cuts through butter

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http://www.iop.or.jp/Journal24.html Particularly the assertions of Matsuoka, Kowada, and Anderson. Try me if you dare.