Saturday, June 30, 2018

Why was Daisaku Ikeda NEVER able to convert his parents?

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Because they know his true nature as do we, his spiritual parents.

SGI is something other than Buddhism bu Greg Dilly

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Sign this paper!, recite this pledge!, do the ceremonial handshake!, flash your gang hand sign!  Human beings are tribal to their core....

Refutation of Soka interfaith

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The Soka Gakkai rationalizes their interfaith practices by the following two passages from the writings of Nichiren: "People can a...

Certainly Soka Gakkai is not a cult!

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No, Certainly Not a Cult! A cult is a group of people who... • Give total and unquestioning loyalty to a leader as a living deity or ...

The trembling bunny rabbits of Mappo

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Woe is me. Poor defenseless SGI is under attack! On E-sangha, the SGI members complained relentlessly to the moderators because Robin B...

"Protecting the mentor is performing unrivaled service for the Lotus Sutra" -- Daisaku ikeda

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Suda: I understand that Mr. Toda also exerted himself with great determination in protecting first Soka Gakkai president Tsunesaburo Makigu...

True Cause with no beginning and SGI's arrogance

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Something may now be inherent but wasn't always inherent. An example is a gene that has been introduced into a genome and begins to sel...

Their constitution and ours

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SGI Canada's Constitution:   http://constitution-sgic.org/ . Nichiren followers' Constitution:  http://www.rk-world.org/publicati...

How sick! "Pure suffering" taking my little girl to the amusement park"

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"Faith equals daily life" -- SGI's meaningless cult slogan and it's real meaning... "President Ikeda has no private...

Always thinking of SGI mentor

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"The prophecies of the Thus Come One recorded in the scripture, when viewed in the light of the Buddha’s true intentions, never contai...

The great power of faith in the Lotus Sutra or the great power of faith in Sensei?

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Listening to a recent Gakkai study lecture, I came upon this Gakkai ruse... Nichiren said something about the remarkable effect of the grea...

The only memory of your present life in this human world

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"Since the remotest past up until now, you have merely suffered in vain the pains of countless existences. Why do you not, if only thi...

Nichiren on sacrificing your life for the Lotus Sutra

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"None of you who declare yourselves to be my disciples should ever give way to cowardice. Neither should you allow concern for your pa...

"Let us control the free speech rights of corporations" -- SGI member Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says,

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“Corporations control the patterns of thinking” and "We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-cal...

Contrast and compare

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"Little Abdul, lets chant Namu Myoho renge kyo with those men." -- follower of Nichiren....  "Little Abdul, lets s...

The Mount Sumeru of Subtle Enlightenment

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"As for these three important things, it is not that Nichiren said it. It was the spirit of the Tathagata Shakyamuni that entered my b...

Inconspicuous benefit and the conspicuous benefit of the ability to survive

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There are two types of benefits in chanting Namu Myoho renge kyo, inconspicuous and conspicuous. Referring to inconspicuous benefits, Nichi...

Nichiren on performing the peaceful practices among disciples and believers

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"Bodisattva Fukyo in the past, saying that all beings have the Buddha Nature and if they keep the Lotus Sutra, they will certainly att...

The boy Snow Mountains

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"Though old and young alike dwell in the realm of uncertainty, it is part of the natural order for the elderly to die first and the yo...

Maudgalyayana

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"By the Great Good of the Venerable Maudgalyayana's believing in the Lotus Sutra, not only did he become a Buddha but his father a...