"The point is simply whether or not it conforms with the
Monday, June 1, 2015
Why doesn't SGI Komeito or SGI's UN NGO demand a Fukushima health toll report?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/the-fukushima-health-crisis/
Are they cowards or is their "engaged Buddhism" nothing but a mirage?
Are they cowards or is their "engaged Buddhism" nothing but a mirage?
66% of California under extreme or exceptional drought
The protective Buddhist deities have left California because of the Soka Gakkai and its Zen governor, Jerry Brown. He, Danny Nagashima, Ian McIlraith, Linda Johnson, Gerry Hall, and Al Albergate can alleviate the drought by converting to Nichiren Lotus Sutra Buddhism and renouncing Zen and the Soka Gakkai.
SGI "Buddha" Orlando Bloom throws a punch at Justin Beiber
"Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly cheered when Orlando Bloom threw a punch at Justin Bieber. Though TMZ broke the news of Orlando Bloom and Justin Bieber's alleged altercation in Ibiza, Spain, on Wednesday, new developments are still coming to light.On Thursday, an "eyewitness" from the scene, former Spanish journalist Anastasia Skolkova, told The Mirror that Leonardo DiCaprio was also present at Cipriani — and he reportedly cheered when Bloom attempted to sock Bieber. "It was amazing," Skolkova told The Mirror. "Everyone stood up and started watching like it was a show and clapping... DiCaprio was flipping out." TMZ's original report claimed that onlookers clapped when Bloom attempted to punch Bieber. According to Skolkova's account, DiCaprio was sitting at Bloom's table in the restaurant when the fight occurred.The fight allegedly occurred after Bieber reportedly told Bloom that Miranda Kerr, the model from whom he is currently separated, "was good," thought to be a sexual reference."- - Meghan DeMaria
Then, in order to show what a great Bodhisattva he is, he travels to Liberia to wash the bodies of ebola victims like Mother Theresa and the lepers of India....NOT
Boo hoo..."Her heart was closed to him [D.Ikeda]. And this troubled her."
A Journey of Self Discovery
By D--- B-------
Soka Gakkai World Tribune
September 15, 2000
Shin'ichi chose Toda as his mentor at their first encounter as depicted earlier in the book. It is important to note that the disciple chooses the mentor. A mentor does not recruit disciples or say, "Follow me?' We must see the greatness in the mentor and decide for ourselves. Bly states:
He took out a pen and drew a straight line with a point in front of it like this:
By D--- B-------
Soka Gakkai World Tribune
September 15, 2000
Expectations- we can't avoid them. Whether we try to live up to them or not is up to us. One of the things we hear in the SGI is that we should reply to President Ikeda's expectations. As children, we strive to live up to our parents' expectations, to reply to their love for us. If we are lucky enough to have teachers who care, we strive to live up to their expectations. In becoming adults, we leave the realm of our parents' expectations. As the American poet and author Robert Bly says in Imn John, we search for a "second father" or "a second king."
Once we leave the realm of our parents' expectations, whose expectations do we live up to? Our own? Our friends? We tend to set our expectations just within the limits of our comfort zone and do not realize our own potential or genius. It is the mentor who sees the greatness in us that we don't see our- selves who spurs us beyond our self prescribed boundaries. Bly says that through a mentor "a hint will come to us as to where our genius lies. "A mentor helps us "rebuild the bridge to our own greatness or essence."
As Bly explains, living up to the expectations of a mentor is not about pleasing someone else or feeling burdened. It is about the process of self-discovery through the mentor-disciple relationship. President Ikeda, as a mentor and teacher, is encouraging us to realize our potential.
In early Europe, craft guilds were opportunities for youth to leave the realm of their parents and apprentice under master craftsmen and become masters themselves as masons or carpenters. In the artists' studios, students would paint some of the less important background scenes. Under the guidance of masters of various fields, youth developed their skills.
In The Human Revolution, the character Shin'ichi Yamamoto, representing a young President Ikeda, left the realm of his father's expectations and entered into that of his mentor in life, Josei Toda. As depicted in the book, Toda visits Shin'ichi's father one day and asks, "Will you entrust Shin'ichi to me?" After contemplating Toda's character, and acknowledging Shin'ichi's feelings for Toda, his father consents. Toda exclaims: "How splendid! I, Toda, will be entirely responsible for Shin'ichi. Please set your mind to rest" (vol.6, pp. 106-08).
Shin'ichi chose Toda as his mentor at their first encounter as depicted earlier in the book. It is important to note that the disciple chooses the mentor. A mentor does not recruit disciples or say, "Follow me?' We must see the greatness in the mentor and decide for ourselves. Bly states:
"We can each ask ourselves: Is there anyone we know or have heard of who possesses true greatness? If so, we should leave with him or her"
Early in my youth I faced a huge test in my relationship with President Ikeda. I loved him from the first and considered myself his disciple. But I was very young and had no clue about the obstacles that I would face in the future.
After a particularly severe set back in my life, I felt that I had failed as a disciple. Before I realized it, I was overcome with negativity. "I have failed him;' I thought. And my heart broke. I had to think deeply about what he really meant to me. What is a disciple? What does a mentor think about a disciple?
I came to understand that I had a very shallow view of the mentor-disciple relationship. When I realized that President Ikeda's belief in me, his belief in my potential, was unconditional, I was able to pull myself out of the depths of that hell.
One reason I like the book The Eternal City is because the mentor-disciple relationship between Bruno and his mentor, David Rossi, is tested. Although he believed himself to be a strong disciple, Bruno is forced to wrestle with doubts over his relationship with his mentor.
In his case, he was faced with doubts about the character of his mentor. In my case, I was faced with doubts about my capacity as a disciple. Bruno was also forced to examine his relationship with his mentor on a deeper level. Malicious and false accusations about Rossi had come to Bruno's attention while he was in jail. He asked himself: "Really, what kind of man is he? What do I really know about him?" Through profound contemplation, he awoke to the true character of his mentor and dispelled his doubts. He came to understand what his heart already knew.
In my own examination of my relationship with President Ikeda, I realized that, by assuming that he would give up on me or be forever disappointed in me, I was discounting his capacity and compassion. He doesn't expect that we won't stumble at times, but he does expect that we will stand back up and carry on.
We can get focused myopically on what others think of us. "He doesn't believe in me;' or "She doesn't like me," or "I wasn't appointed this position because they are against me." But we are all comrades in faith, standing shoulder to shoulder, not front to back, following our mentor, President Ikeda, not one another.
Many years ago, I happened to be in Tokyo when a journalist was interviewing President Ikeda. TIns reporter was marveling at the extensive organizational powers of the Soka Gakkai. As he was asking President Ikeda how he had achieved this, the reporter started describing the typical organizational pyramid - all the members at the bottom and layer upon layer of leaders up to President Ikeda at the top. President Ikeda stopped him and said that is not how he views the Soka Gakkai.
He took out a pen and drew a straight line with a point in front of it like this:
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He explained that the line represents all the members of the Soka Gakkai and the point is himself. There is no separation between President Ikeda and each member. He is no closer to top leaders of the organization than he is to the newest member. There is no one between our mentor and us. When we obsess on our organizational position or the opinions of others we are viewing ourselves in that mythical pyramid. President Ikeda has said that he writes so much because one to one dialogue can only reach so many people. I believe that is why SGI-USA General Director Nagashima says that President Ikeda wrote the July 21 poem' "Soar Into the Vast Skies of Freedom! Into the New Century" to each of us. President Ikeda doesn't write for a mass audience. I think he feels he is indeed writing to- touching- each of us. I heard the mentor disciple relationship explained once as the mentor being like a transmitter and the disciples like receivers. President Ikeda is always transmitting. It is up to us to receive the message.
Several months ago I heard a young woman describe her struggle with the mentor-disciple relationship. She was devoted to her practice, to kosen Rufu and her members. She was acting as a person of the same mind as the mentor. But although she respected President Ikeda and thought he was "a great guy" as she put it; her heart was closed to him. And this troubled her. She was frustrated by the fact that she "just didn't get it." This was some thing she pondered through many prayers.
Then one night as she was standing alone out under the stars at the Florida Nature and Culture Center, she had an awakening, a realization. It was a matter of trust It wasn't President Ikeda; it was her ability to open her heart to him. Her father had been a very respected professional, but behind closed doors he was an abuser feared by the family. She realized that this was the "wall" between herself and President Ikeda. All other chanting and prayers had led her to see this and suddenly she "got it" and tears began to flow down her cheeks. Her receiver was turned on.
When a mentor touches our hearts, when we are confident that he truly cares for us, we are motivated to reply to his expectations.
How could you not want to reply to someone who says to you as he once said to me:
"Tell me what I can do for you. I will do anything for you" and mean it with all his heart.
Buying Respect For Ikeda
Dear Barbara:
You certainly have generated a lot of interest from the Soka Gakkai; two Vice General Directors, Ian McIlraith and Bill Aiken. I applaud you.
Ghandi, King, and Ikeda are all controversial men. I will leave aside Dr. King for the moment. The Dalits [untouchables], the oppressed peoples of India of whom I had contact through the editor of the Dalit Voice, VT Rajshekar, are certainly not impressed with the Mahatma [Ghandi]. Those million people who died in the forced March of 1947 too, would not be impressed. According to the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin, good intentions are fraught with unintended consequences when not based on the Lotus Sutra and the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha (Enlightenment).
It was only Shakyamuni Buddha, in the entire history of India, who had the Dalits best interest in mind. Buddha taught that one becomes a Brahmin through virtue, not through birth. Ghandi was too embroiled in the teachings of castism, to have been anything but a pawn of the Brahmanical power brokers.
Daisaku Ikeda is a pawn of the power brokers of the Club of Rome and their new world order while the Lotus Sutra teaches that peace and security in this life and a fortunate birth in the next is realized through the One Buddha Vehicle. The socio-political strategies of such men as Ghandi, Ikeda, and King, are doomed to failure.
I might be remembered as the Dengyo of the modern era
"I do not know whether the Great Teacher Dengyō’s inner enlightenment was inferior or equal to that of Nāgārjuna and T’ien-t’ai, but I am convinced that, in calling upon all Buddhist believers to adhere to a single doctrine, he showed himself to be superior to Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu and to surpass even Nan-yüeh and T’ien-t’ai." -- The Selection of the Time
Everyone whether wise or foolish should chant Namu Myoho renge kyo, not Nam Myoho renge kyo.
Is there a a direct correlation between SGI's incorrect pronunciation of the Mystic Law and their incorrect faith?
"And when the two characters for namu are prefixed to Myoho-renge-kyo, or the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law, we have the formula Namu-myoho-renge-kyo." Please note that SGI's faulty translation states, "we have the formula Nam-myoho-renge kyo". Since we know that Nichiren never, not once, wrote Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. we can conclude that SGI's tranlsation of the Opening of the Eyes is faulty and deceptive. So too is their chanting of Nam Myoho renge kyo. Even were we to give them some credit for chanting the truncated Daimoku, Nichiren teaches, it is correct faith which is most important and their faith is even more incorrect than their pronunciation of the Mystic Law. Is it any wonder that there is an association of incorrect faith with an incorrect pronunciation of the Daimoku? I think it is a direct correlation.
“What an occasion for rejoicing!"
“What an occasion for rejoicing! Though born into an evil age that is stained with the five impurities, we have been able to see and hear the true words of the one vehicle. We read that a person who has planted roots of good fortune [under Buddhas] equal in number to the sands of the Hiranyavatī or the Ganges River is able to encounter this sutra and take faith in it. Now you have aroused the mind that rejoices in faith. Thus without a doubt, just as a box and its lid fit together, so will your own faith evoke the Buddha’s compassionate response, and the two will unite as one.” -- Nichiren
Bolognese alla Gakkai is unfit for human consumption
Let us start with cause and effect and let us end there too. Let us also talk about change. Let us say we want to cause an effect (goal). I’ll pick an effect. You are a manager of a large and busy restaurant so lets introduce a memorable spaghetti sauce alla bolognese. The goal is a delicious bolognese sauce. For those who don’t know, a bolognose sauce is a garlicky, tomatoey, thick meat sauce with a touch of cream. To make a memorable sauce, first of all we have to start with the finest ingredients: Vine ripened plum tomatoes, fresh garlic, a ground meat mixture of the finest beef and sausage. Fresh mushrooms, peppers, onions. Carrots for sweetness. Fresh picked bay leaves, oregano, rosemary, parsley, kosher salt and fresh ground pepper. Extra virgin olive oil, sweet cream, and the finest cooking wine. A grating of truffles.
We saute the garlic in the olive oil till just before it turns brown, then we add the peppers, onions, mushrooms and carrots and in a separate pan we brown the meat in a little olive oil. While the meat is browning we add our spices to the vegetable saute and then, in a minute or two we add the peeled tomatoes and cooking wine. We turn down the heat a bit and add the golden browned meat mixture. We stir the sauce with a wooden spoon every fifteen minutes for the next 6 or 7 hours and add a little more wine and water to achieve a slow reduction. We add the cream and the grated truffle mixture, and continue to stir every fifteen minutes for another hour or two. at the same time we are preparing the home made paste. Boil the water and put the home made pasta in the boiling water for 3 minutes. We drain every drop of water from the pasta, add butter and pour our magnifico sauce over the spaghetti. Finally we add the grated aged cheese, a mixture of parmagiana and Romano cheese from Parma Italy. We pour ourselves a glass of Barolo and we go to town while sopping up the sauce in fresh baked Italian bread.
We have made a meal to die for. We have followed the recipe of the masters of Italian cooking.
Now I give you another scenario. We take Delmonte stewed tomatoes, garlic salt, a ground meat mixture of possum and raccoon, mushrooms, carrots, onions, etc. that have been lying in the refrigerator for two months, throw it all into liquified Crisco lard, add Mad Dog Twenty-Twenty a touch of tobasco sauce, and buttermilk and stir for fifteen or twenty minutes. Put it over overcooked Ronzoni Spaghetti and add some grated Velveeta cheese. You call this “Bolognese” sauce. You accompany the meal with white bread and beer that has been opened three days ago.
You can not separate the means from the ends when even making a meal. How can you separate the means from the ends when creating Kosen Rufu? What the SGI has done to Nichiren Lotus Sutra Buddhism is to make it virtually unrecognizable to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and protective deities although grossly it contains, tomatoes [SGI twisted Daimoku], meat [rancid SGI Gohonzons], and inferior cheese and spices [SGI doctrines]. You may call both bolognese sauce [Lotus Sutra Buddhism], but the Buddhas and bodhisattvas can tell the difference. There is no possibility of positive change in SGI or the result of Kosen Rufu with a recipe that so dramatically differs from Nichiren Daishonin's true recipe. Even were they to add fine ingredients to the slop they created, it would be unfit for human or heavenly consumption.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
SGI's cloning strategy. What's next, channeling Ikeda?
"WADA So when we consider how to actualize the oneness of Master and Disciple in everyday life, we should consider, "If I were Sensei, how would I think about this?" or, "If I were Sensei, what would I do about this?" I think that our taking action that President Ikeda would take is, in one sense to actualize the oneness of master and disciple.
TANIGAWA If we truly with to reach this point, we must read President Ikeda's guidance repeatedly. We must get to the point where we can't distinguish between our own speech and action and what we would do if we were the SGI President. It's incorrect for us to put our opinions about how to behave over what we believe President Ikeda would do. It's even worse to act without thinking about what President Ikeda would do. This is not acting as a disciple." -- Seikyo Times, August, 1990, p. 45 in an article entitled "Dialogue and Democracy."
"Sensei fights just like Krishna"
Sensei is a God just like Krishna:
Krishna and Arjuna at Hahabhrat
By Deepak
When I joined some three years ago, chanting against Nikken seemed strange, because in Indian society and Hinduism itself, there are so many streams and thoughts existing side by side that Indian people are very tolerant, by and large. In fact, Shakyamuni is considered to be a Hindu independent thinker, who after being profoundly affected by the inherent suffering in life sought ways of living a happy life. So I was really confused on how to chant for Nikken's destruction.
Then, while chanting one day, I remembered the story of Mahabharat (a story of a battle between two branches of a family — Kauravas and Pandavas). The Kauravas (100 in number) cheated Pandavas (five in number) of their kingdom. The climax came with the battle of Mahabharat. In this battle Krishna (God himself) fought on the side of Pandavas. When asked whose side are you fighting for, Krishna replied, "I am on the side of the Dharma."
He had no qualms about taking up arms fighting with all his might, using strategy, politics, everything at his disposal, to defeat the Kauravas, because they embodied adharma (evil) in their views and actions.
Krishna was very clear. In fact, before the battle started, the two armies faced each other. Lord Krishna was Arjun's chariot driver. Arjuna lost his nerve and cried to Krishna, "All who I am facing are my brothers, uncles, teachers ... my own people who I love and respect".
Krishna replied "They are who you say they are, but they are on the side of adharma, irrespective of what their reasons were. And your foremost 'kartavya'(duty) is to fight adharma. And in any case, they are your relatives only in this life."
So to me, Nikken is definitely adharma. Nichiren Daishonin made it his prime duty to refute evil and false beliefs and today Sensei fights Nikken single-mindedly and uses all his resources — dialogue being the foremost — I think it is my duty to also refute the evil of Nikken. Because, basically, his actions hurt rather than help people — they do not take people closer to the Gohonzon. Nikken's practice is only to serve his own ends. In this world everyone is doing that.
Who is there who takes any pain for others? It is only Sensei and the SGI who I see as an beacon of compassion and strength in our times. I am sure there must be others, but definitely not Nikken. Lots of people start with the right intentions, but get influenced on the way by easy circumstances, wealth, or power.
Sensei fights just like Krishna and the Daishonin, and he teaches us just like Krishna taught Arjuna. The most important reason why he fights Nikken because Nikken uses the same Gohonzon to cheat and mislead people. His deeds by themselves may not seem great and he may appear as any other misled person who needs to be corrected compassionately, however, the consequences of his deeds are far reaching.
I can save a person bent upon committing suicide by asking him or her to chant. Conversely I can destroy a person by destroying his or her faith. That is why kosen rufu is a huge responsibility. Despite my shortcomings and weaknesses I am trying to commit myself to Kosen-rufu — that is why my benefits and protection are great. I am trying to accomplish Kosen-rufu in the Latter Day of the Law!
More difficult than throwing Mt. Sumeru.
Deepak
Only the Lotus Sutra can get us out of this 1000 year war.
Our weapons keep making IS stronger. Barack Hussain Obama to blame? The Iraqis? The Republicans who got us unto this mess? Doesn't matter. Only the Lotus Sutra can get us out of this 1000 year war.
Some posts for discussion and dialogue
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/the-sgi-is-destructive-cult-by.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect_17.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect_19.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect_21.html
More SGI members respond to my post, SGI is a Destructive Cult by Definition:
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2013/05/soka-gakkai-member-reply-to-post-sgi-is.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2013/05/more-sgi-stupidity-and-my-reply.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect_17.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect_19.html
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2012/05/robin-nichiren-buddhist-of-ikeda-sect_21.html
More SGI members respond to my post, SGI is a Destructive Cult by Definition:
http://markrogow.blogspot.com/2013/05/soka-gakkai-member-reply-to-post-sgi-is.html
The religion based on the Lotus Sutra is the true religion of peace
"The problem isn't the book [Q'uran] its the reader" -- Tariq Ramadan Islamic scholar
Nonsense. The Q'uran is flush with violence. There are no words, not one word in the Lotus Sutra, that exhorts believers to kill, not even a mole cricket. Believe in the Lotus Sutra and peace will become real. The religion based on the Lotus Sutra is the true religion of peace.
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