Monday, August 10, 2015
The $oka Gakkai Cash Cow
"The Bequethal of the Golden Utterance to the Direct Successors" -- Nichiren Shoshu doctrine
Certainly, it has been golden for the Nichiren Shoshu, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars from the utters of the Soka Gakkai cash cow.
"There is a difference if one chants the daimoku while acting against the intent of this Sutra". -- Nichiren
Interfaith, a narcissistic billionaire master in the seat of the Law, and an intimate business relationship with the largest defense contractor in Japan IS acting against the intent of this Sutra.
Hey Jim, how many SGI members lost everything or died in the Tsunami?
From: jimcu...@aol.com (Jim Celer, Midwest bureau CHIEF for SGI "Living Buddha" magazine):
"The slanderous acts of Nikken and his followers in Indonesia have driven the Buddhist Gods from the country.
At least 30 NSI active members were badly affected by the social unrest. Some lost their stores and businesses. Some lost their houses or other property. Mobs invaded some of their homes, looting almost everything, including the Gohonzon and butsudan. Worse, one NSI member's Gohonzon was burnt. a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter of one family in Bintan Island were killed by their own employees while the son-in-law was in Jakarta participating in the Vesak Day ceremony. This incident has shocked not only the Indonesians, but was also widely reported in Singapore. So far we have only received 1 report of incidents directly affecting our members." -- Jim
"Daisaku Ikeda is the reincarnation of Nichiren Daishonin" and "Nichiren inscribed the DaiGohonzon"
Practicer #1: In May of 1972 Geroge Williams announced to a small group of us at the Malibu Training Center that "Daisaku Ikeda was the re-incarnation of Nichiren Daishonin." BTW....this was in front of Ikeda. This announcement occurred just after D. Ikeda handed me a glass of water to pass around to those that were there, and before, he handed me a pack of cigarettes to pass around.
SGI leader Soren: What's the difference between you saying that, and if I were to say "Nichiren Shoshu physically tortures people" with no specific proof?
Practicer # 1: Or that Nichiren inscribed the DaiGohonzon.
SGI leader Soren: Gee, you really CAN'T see any difference between the two, can you?
Practicer # 2: You fail to see the sameness of the two.
Difficult to believe and difficult to understand
"With full understanding of Shakyamuni’s teachings, the four great voice-hearers said, “This cluster of unsurpassed jewels has come to us unsought.” They represent the world of the voice-hearer that is within ourselves. The Buddha stated, “At the start I took a vow, hoping to make all persons equal to me, without any distinction between us, and what I long ago hoped for has now been fulfilled. I have converted all living beings and caused them all to enter the Buddha way.” Shakyamuni Buddha, who has attained perfect enlightenment, is our own flesh and blood. His practices and the resulting virtues are our bones and marrow. The “Treasure Tower” chapter of the Lotus Sutra says, “He who is capable of guarding the Law of this sutra will thereby have offered alms to me and to Many Treasures. . . . One who guards this sutra will also have offered alms to the emanation Buddhas who have come here adorning and making brilliant all the various worlds.” Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, and the Buddhas of the ten directions represent the world of Buddhahood within ourselves. By searching them out within us, we can receive the benefits of all these Buddhas. This is what is meant by the following passage: “If one listens to them [the preachers of the Law] for even a moment, one will immediately attain supreme perfect enlightenment.” The “Life Span” chapter reads, “It has been immeasurable, boundless hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, millions of nayutas of kalpas since I in fact attained Buddhahood.” Shakyamuni Buddha within our lives is the eternal Buddha since time without beginning, who obtained the three bodies more than numberless major world system dust particle kalpas ago. The “Life Span” chapter states, “Originally I practiced the bodhisattva way, and the life span that I acquired then has yet to come to an end but will last twice the number of years that have already passed.” He was speaking of the world of thebodhisattva within ourselves. The bodhisattvas, as numerous as the dust particles of a thousand worlds, who emerged from beneath the earth, are the followers of the Shakyamuni Buddha present in our lives. They follow the Buddha just as T’ai-kung Wang and Tan, the Duke of Chou, served as ministers to King Wu of the Chou dynasty and later assisted his son and successor, the infant King Ch’eng; or just as the Chief MinisterTakenouchi supported Empress Jingū and later her grandson Crown Prince Nintoku as a highly valued minister. The bodhisattvas Superior Practices, Boundless Practices, Pure Practices, and Firmly Established Practices represent the world of the bodhisattva within ourselves. The Great Teacher Miao-lo says: “You should understand that one’s life and its environment at a single moment encompass the three thousand realms. Therefore, when one attains the Buddha way, one puts oneself in accord with this fundamental principle, and one’s body and mind at a single moment pervade the entire realm of phenomena.” (True Object of Worship)
Nichiren Shoshu's Evangelical Christian argument
Evangelical Christian: If there is even a one in a billion chance that Jesus was the son of G-d, if he is and you reject him, you will fall into hell.
Nichiren Shoshu member: If there is even a one in a billion chance that the DaiGohonzon is the sole Gohonzon inscribed for the sake of all mankind, if it is and you reject it, you will fall into hell.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
The SGI and Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism of malignant transformation
There is a Middle Way between Funeral Buddhism and the Nichiren Shoshu Soka Gakkai "Buddhism" of Malignant Transformation, a Middle Way between stagnation and uncontrolled growth. It is the Way of Nichiren Daishonin.
The "Buddhism" of Malignant Transformation refers to the SGI, NST and some other more or less rapidly growing heretical Nichiren sects and there are many parallels to malignant tumors of the highest, lowest, and middle grades. I will limit this discussion to those tumors of the middle (NST) and highest (SGI) grades.
Some tumors, though growing slowly, are able to sustain themselves (NST), thus sometimes killing the host (society) regardless of the treatment (refutation and rebuke) and sometimes entering into a symbiotic relationship with the host. On the other hand, many high grade tumors may or may not be eradicated by intense treatment such as surgery (outlawing the SGI heretical sect and their doctrines, for example).
Fortunately, the most malignant tumors (SGI), those with the most uncontrolled growth, sometimes outpaces its ability to sustain itself and it eventually either dies out on its own or is very amenable to early radiation and chemotherapy (refutation and rebuke), thus sparing the host (the individual and society). On the other hand, sometimes these latter fast growing tumors spread so rapidly that there is a rapid decline and death of the host, for example the misfortunes that have plagued Japan for the last seventy or so years.
Now, thanks in no small part to the efforts of the excellent physicians, the true disciples and believers of Nichiren, the two NST metastasis of Nichiren as True Buddha and the Transmission through Successive High Priests have been nearly eradicated and society is being spared further assault. The excellent surgeons, be they independents or members of orthodox sects, are also in the process of carefully removing the liver metastasis of Oneness of Mentor and Disciple and the brain metastasis of SGI Interfaith. The Buddha's body is looking better and he will now be able to tend to to his land that SGI has nearly succeeded in destroying.
True disciples and believers of Nichiren have been growing slowly and steadily like normal healthy tissue for the past 700 years. Jewels are rare while rocks and tiles are everywhere. Those who practice Nichiren's Middle Way Buddhism are the jewels of the Lotus Sutra.
"One can eliminate such tragic incidents by practicing with SGI!!!!" -- SGI cult propagandist
From: SGI Steven Sonoda website
NIKKEN BOKOKU-4:
Mr.M is a city council representative of Maebashi-city. He was originally a Komei party member, but later he left Soka Gakkai and joined Hokkeko. Tragically, his third son died on 3/9/98 at the nearby hospital!!!! The son took several days off from school because of his cold. Since his cold didn't get better he was hospitalized. Next day he was found dead from an unknown cause!!!!! (a rumor from the hospital worker says that it might be a suicide!!!!!) His first son died young from drowning. His second son has not been reliable to him in any way!!! His shock was enormous!!! One can eliminate such tragic incidents by practicing the true teachings which can only be found today in Soka Gakkai and SGI!!!! -- Kachiyuke
Some questions for Danny Nagashima or one of his Vice General Directors
Could you please explain why awakened SGI Buddhas, the leaders responsible for children activities, are required to have a background check with the SGI legal division and must follow a strict set of guidelines such as never finding themselves alone with a minor? Are there bad Buddhas in the Soka Gakkai? Would a Buddha ever harm a child? Do Buddhas require and follow precepts in order to manifest the behavior of a Buddha or is the SGI faith and practice powerless to create Buddhas? Thanks in advance.
Nichiren on why SGI is so screwed up
"If the source is muddy, the stream will not flow clear; if the body is bent, the shadow will not be straight." -- Nichiren
With the Nichiren Shoshu rather than the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren as source, of course SGI is screwed up.
Put on your tin foil hats boys and girls
"Ex-General Director had also repeatedly shared since the year 2008 in youth prayer meetings and dialogues that Singapore must strive to be the true model organisation for worldwide Kosen-rufu. He also arrogantly made the following remark to belittle senior leaders in Japan. He mentioned that the Japanese senior leaders were born close to Sensei in this lifetime because they did not receive strict training from Sensei in their past lives. In retrospect, we are born far away from our mentor because we had received strict training from our mentor in our past lives." (Source: Reader’s Personal Findings)
"We are insignificant beings unless we follow Sensei" -- Dick Powell SGI cult member
"Fearlessly following Sensei with an open heart and a seeking mind is in fact our ticket out of hell, for all eternity. His life epitomizes the essence of what Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism is all about, in all aspects. That's why I will always respect and follow him. Like the story about the fly that can travel a thousand miles by clinging to the tail of a thoroughbred horse, You and I are both insignificant beings who nevertheless have the potential to attain enlightenment in this lifetime by simply following Sensei." -- Dick "Wiley Bad" Powell proud 40 year SGI member
"For me, I realized that the most important thing is to not have a counterfeit practice. I realized that spiritual death means not having a true practice that is directly connected to the mentor." -- Greg Wolpert of the SGI Board of Directors singing the praises of Daisaku Ikeda
"It is thanks to OUR teacher that we can know who our parents are; it is owing to Shakyamuni Buddha that we can distinguish black from white." -- Nichiren Daishonin singing the praises of Shakyamuni Buddha.
Do you seek Sensei [Taisaku Ikeda] or Shakyamuni Buddha Chas?
Mark
Do you seek Sensei [Taisaku Ikeda] or Shakyamuni Buddha Chas?
Mark
Why follow those who make so many errors?
Excerpts of High Priest Nikken's Lectures in Shinyo Magazine issue 20...
"The Dai-mandala, the true object of worship, is in the depths of the Lotus Sutra in the Chapter of the Treasure Tower."
Even the lowly HBS priests and reverends know that the Gohonzon was revealed in the Eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra from the fifteenth to the twenty-second chapters and especially in the sixteenth chapter. At best, in the 11th Chapter, the Gohonzon is apprehended like the first light of the sun before rising from behind the horizon. Having made such a fundamental error, my question is, why follow anyone other than Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin, least of all the Nichiren Shoshu High Priest and Daisaku Ikeda?
"No worshiping baby Buddhas here" -- SGI YWD Candysnaps
"And on another occasion the little retreat where I was living, where I had enshrined a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha as the object of devotion, and where I stored the texts of the various sutras, was attacked and destroyed, and the statue of the Buddha and sutra texts were not only trampled upon, but thrown into the mud and filth. And a scroll of the Lotus Sutra, which I had placed in the breast of my robe, was snatched forth and I was mercilessly beaten over the head with it. These heinous crimes were carried out not because of any ancient enmity harbored against me or because of any offense I had recently committed, but solely because I worked to propagate the teachings of the Lotus Sutra."
Nichiren on turning one's back on Shakyamuni Buddha [as does the Soka Gakkai]
"Here I, Nichiren, would like to raise a very important question. The being known as the Buddha is the ruler of the threefold world, the teacher, the sovereign, and the parent of the great heavenly king Brahmā, the devil king of the sixth heaven, Shakra, the gods of the sun and moon, the four heavenly kings, the wheel-turning sage kings, and all other rulers. All the rulers of the threefold world are apportioned their general territories and special territories by this Shakyamuni Buddha, and through him they become rulers of these lands. Therefore Brahmā, Shakra, and the others all fashion wooden statues or paintings of this Buddha and pay reverence to them.
If even for an instant they should turn their backs on him, then the Lofty Terrace upon which Brahmā stands would collapse, Shakra’s palace Joyful to See would crumble, and the crowns of the wheel-turning kings would fall to the ground."
"Oooohhh what a slanderer. He has four Gohonzons" -- SGI Dodo bird member
Nikko Shonin had four Nichiren Gohonzons.
No Nichiren inscribed Gohonzons possessed by Nichiren Shoshu Taisekeji
"Furthermore, Nikko did leave four authentic Nichiren Omandalas at Kitayama Honmonji where he spent the rest of his life. Those Omandalas were eventually given to other Nikko lineage temples: Myokakuji in Kyoto, Honnoji in Kyoto, Honmonji in Kyoto, and Hokkeji in Kagawa Prefecture. On these, Nikko wrote: “Hanging it up in Honmonji, one should make it the esteemed jewel of the Latter Age.” The reference to Honmonji is most obviously to Kitayama Honmonji and not to Taisekiji. It is also odd that Taisekiji, the other temple founded by Nikko and claimed to be the location of his main lineage by the Nichiren Shoshu, did not receive any of these authentic Nichiren Omandalas. That by itself proves nothing, but it is a curious comment on Nikko’s attitutde towards Taisekiji. Some have suggested that he left Taisekiji and founded Kitayama Honmonji because he did not want to entrust the future of his (really Nichiren’s) teachings to the family of Nanjo Tokimitsu who controlled it as their family temple. In any case, Nikko’s grave is at Kitayama Honmonji and it is oriented not towards Taisekiji and the alleged Dai-Gohonzon, but towards Nichiren’s grave at Mt. Minobu."
Nichiren answers all your questions about Shakyamuni Buddha
Who transferred Namu Myoho renge kyo to the four great bodhisattvas?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is the original teacher for all people?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is the father, teacher and sovereign of all sentient beings?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is the Original Buddha?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
"We are emanations of whom?"
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
We are disciples of whom?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who attained Enlightenment in the infinite past and has been teaching Myoho renge kyo to all beings since that time?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who left us the medicine?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who revealed the Gohonzon?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is the foremost being?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Thanks to whom may one become a monk or a nun?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
The Gohonzon is an image of what?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
To whom do we owe the most gratitude?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
What and whom should be the object of Worship?
"Namu Myoho renge kyo and Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
To what and whom should we dedicate our lives?
"Lotus Sutra and Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who entrusted Myoho renge kyo to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who received the royal command of Shakyamuni Buddha?
"I"(Nichiren Daishonin)
Who is the leader and teacher of all human beings?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Whose intent is Myoho renge kyo?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is the foremost sage?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
From whom does the doctrine of universal Buddha-nature derive?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is the most filial of the Buddhas?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who is it that alone fulfills the three functions of Sovereign, Teacher and Parent of all mankind?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Who originally became enlightened to Namu Myoho renge kyo in the infinite past?
"Shakyamuni" -- Nichiren
Could any SGI member answer this question?
Since the inscription down the center of the Gohonzon is NAM MU MYO HO REN GE KYO, why do you chant the Daimoku differently?
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