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TaitenAndProud
Hey, remember how every August used to be Shakubuku Month, and we'd be expected to state a numerical goal for how many people we planned to "help get gohonzon"? I always hated that - referred to it as "body count." How could I possibly know whether this practice would fit someone else's life or not?? One time, my YWD Chapter Chief came over with this Japanese girl I'd never seen before in tow. Japanese girl couldn't speak but about 12 words of English. When I expressed my concerns about "body count", she said something like, "Shakubuku...people...makes them happy!" Yeah, okay hon. Whatever *eye roll* It always struck me as fundamentally disrespectful, to declare a goal of how many people we would convince to want to change to be more like us.
Let me make sure that I understand you. Are you saying that the government should decide which religions can and cannot exist within society? Please correct me if I am wrong.Quote
I might if I knew nothing of the history and prophetic nature of the Mahayana Mahaparanirvana Sutra which was composed 800 years before the Muslims and Rajputs slaughtered 20,000,000 pacifistic Buddhists in India. The passages cited by Nichiren derive from this Sutra. Is "never again" a philosophy only appropriate for the Jewish people? Had the Buddhists of the Middle Ages taken to heart the passages from the Mahayana Mahaparanirvana Sutra, the third most horrific holocaust in the history of the world [after Stalin's slaughter of his own people and Mao's Cultural Revolution] might not have occurred. The priests and laymen of the other sects were not much better than the Muslims and Rajputs in persecuting Nichiren and his nascient group of believers. What should Nichiren have told the Regent, "Why don't you let the Zen, Tendai, and Pure Land monks and laybelievers continue to persecute me and my disciples?"
Nichijew
Oddly, I can't find any references to the massacre(s) to which you refer.Quote
I might if I knew nothing of the history and prophetic nature of the Mahayana Mahaparanirvana Sutra which was composed 800 years before the Muslims and Rajputs slaughtered 20,000,000 pacifistic Buddhists in India. Nichijew
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Hitch
Deeply moved by the hope and trust Mr. Ikeda shared with the members, she pledged to repay her debt of gratitude to her mentor for the rest of her life."
(By the way, trainees return from their trip with lots of trinkets and cheap-o gifts. Every pencil, souvenir, calendar, gakkai cult flag, juzu bead case, notebook, lunchbox they eat or bottled drink they have while there, every single thing is prefaced with the statement "This is from 'Sensei'". Just like an invisible father or Santa Claus, watching over their entire visit, to the smallest detail.)
- Hitch
Oh, yes, I remember all that! Ugh! So Ikeda's declined into decrepitude? Has he gone senile/dementia? Stroke? I haven't seen anything of him in so many years...Quote
The cult org. likes to frame every Dear Leader visit / event / meeting as an "historical" gathering (some more so, than others). International cult members are chosen from their respective countries, based on their cult org. position and devotion specifically to Ikeda, to attend a "training course." Remember, "training course" (much like The now defunct Malibu "Training" Center) is a euphemism for thought reform / brainwashing. Case in point, notice her "long awaited wish" and especially her pledge until the day she dies.
This was all of course when The Dear Leader could actually ambulate and speak normally (pre-2010? or so), but is now all put on hold, while re-edited reruns are played for the membership - framing The Dear Leader passing on the baton to the "YOUTH!" in his "aging" (not sick, mind you) final years.
(By the way, trainees return from their trip with lots of trinkets and cheap-o gifts. Every pencil, souvenir, calendar, gakkai cult flag, juzu bead case, notebook, lunchbox they eat or bottled drink they have while there, every single thing is prefaced with the statement "This is from 'Sensei'". Just like an invisible father or Santa Claus, watching over their entire visit, to the smallest detail.)
Hey! Whatever happened to the Malibu Training Center?? Was it replaced by the Florida Nature and Culture Center? Is that one still going?Quote
The cult org. likes to frame every Dear Leader visit / event / meeting as an "historical" gathering (some more so, than others). International cult members are chosen from their respective countries, based on their cult org. position and devotion specifically to Ikeda, to attend a "training course." Remember, "training course" (much like The now defunct Malibu "Training" Center) is a euphemism for thought reform / brainwashing. Case in point, notice her "long awaited wish" and especially her pledge until the day she dies.