Monday, June 26, 2023

From Explaining the Causation of the Ten Worlds by Nichiren with brief commentary

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"Nowadays there are few people who are guilty of the five cardinal sins, but a great many who commit the ten evil acts. Sometimes you m...
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Soka Gakkai French Connection

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  Soka Gakkai's French Connection J apan Times Weekly Nov. 4, 1995 A strange thing happened at Fumihiro Joyu's first press conferenc...
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Do not be sorry you don't lead an easy life, it is the path to Buddhahood.

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  One of the problems is that we lack imagination. Buddha's and Nichiren's lives were extremely hard but the SGI and others talk abo...
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Friday, June 23, 2023

SGI doctrines are distorted and lead to delusion

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Buddhas as we are? SGI member:  "Present within our lives is the Lord Shalyamuni who obtained the three enlightened properties of life ...
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Jeffrey Ourvan author of The Star Spangled Buddhist and director of the Toda Institute says,

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"Trying to learn Buddhism without a teacher is, perhaps, like trying to learn to play the piano well on one’s own." Response: Who ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Nichiren is a disciple of the Buddha in his True Identity

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"The Great Teacher T’ien-t’ai was a disciple of the Buddha in his transient status. But I, Nichiren, am a disciple of the Buddha in his...
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In most cases it is the Buddha’s own disciples who will destroy this Buddhist Law

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"Because they fail to understand this principle, scholars of the Tendai school, looking at the interpretation that takes the earlier su...
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Several pasages from On the Protection of the Nation

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"Answer: Rather than give my own answer, I will report what the Buddha himself has said of such a situation. The Benevolent Kings Sutra...
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Nichiren on "those disciples of his" unable to avoid disasters

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"But I will say no more of these matters. In the case of my own disciples there are also those who may have difficulty avoiding disaste...

Proof that there are slanderers who chant and embrace Myoho renge kyo:

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"How great is the difference between the blessings received when a sage chants the daimoku and the blessings received when we chant it...
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Monday, June 12, 2023

The Specific and the General Transmissions of the Law

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  Nichiren on the General Transmission: "Answer: In this passage, Shakyamuni Buddha explains that he is entrusting to the Bodhisattvas ...
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Sunday, June 11, 2023

A passage from The Embankments of Faith

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  "There are many degrees of slander: shallow and profound, slight and heavy. Even among those who embrace the Lotus Sutra, very few up...
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The Universal Salty Taste

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   The Universal Salty Taste THERE are six kinds of flavors. The first is subtle, the second, salty, the third, pungent, the fourth, sour, t...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

SGI and NST members, repeat after Nichiren...

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  "Shakyamuni Buddha is the father, sovereign, and teacher of ALL the other Buddhas and ALL the gods, of the whole assembly of human an...

A passage from the Lotus Sutra

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“Those who are capable of embracing the Lotus of the Wonderful Law relinquish their claim to the pure land and out of pity for living beings...

The Lotus, represents the true intention of the Buddha

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"Question: The Flower Garland school propounds the doctrine of the five teachings and declares all the other sutras to be inferior, and...

Did Daisaku Ikeda's body suffer shame? What about those in SGI or NST who embrace their aberrant doctrines? What about those who support their aberrant doctrines?

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" Question:  Why should one discuss the relative worth of the various sutras? Answer:  The seventh volume of the Lotus Sutra states: “A...