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Nichijew, He did say that didn't he....Nichiren made no mention of a gigantic lay organization taking over his religion did he....thanks for reminding me.
Nichiren didn't say this, either:
------beginning of quote, www.fraughtwithperil.com, Kempon Hokke blog, Mark Rogow---------
December 10, 2009
Daisaku Ikeda versus Nichiren Daishonin
"I ask you to become people who are trusted even more than before. Toward this end, you should base your lives on the oneness of mentor and disciple. You must decide that pursuing THE ONENESS OF MENTOR AND DISCIPLE IS THE PRIMARY QUEST OF YOUR LIVES." (World Tribune, 11/06/09 p.1)
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Hmm, "I ASK you"? Smooth! I'm not commanding you....I'm just asking nicely! (Byron Katie often says "I invite you to......" See, the choice is yours! ) But is it really?
Become trusted "even more than before"? Oh, DID you trust me before? How sweet! Trusted by whom, leaders who don't tell the truth themselves? Trusted to do what, give all my time and money to SGI?
"Toward this end"? WHAT end are we going for? The end of a person who gets taken for everything by SGI?
"You must decide that pursuing THE ONENESS OF MENTOR AND DISCIPLE IS THE PRIMARY QUEST OF YOUR LIVES."???????????????????????
I MUST decide this? Why MUST I? Who says? If I MUST DECIDE this, then, I don't really have a choice -- do I?
In other words, the biggest and most important thing in your life must be devoting yourself to a man you most likely will never even meet. A man who doesn't know you, and cares nothing for you, except for the money and unpaid labor that you can give him. How is Ikeda different than Kim Jong Il of North Korea? Kim only wants the people of North and South Korea to adore him -- Ikeda wants the whole world!
Ikeda loves to compare himself to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, Dr. King, as a Christian minister, may have asked his congregation to devote their lives to God, and Jesus Christ. He may have asked his followers to devote their lives to justice for all. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I cannot recall Dr. King ever saying, "Devote your lives to ME!"
Likewise, Nichiren Daishonin tells his followers to "follow the Law, not the person." He strongly advises AGAINST following teachers of incorrect doctrine, corrupt priests, evil friends.
I remember the days of "Soka Spirit," when SGI kept telling members that the high priest Nikken Abe was so evil and wrong because he was telling members that enlightenment came through following him (Nikken) rather than the Law.
And here Ikeda is, telling members that their enlightenment is going to come through following him (Ikeda.) Doing exactly what he criticized the priests for!
The sheer narcissism of that sentence: "You must decide that pursuing the oneness of master and disciple is the primary quest of your life."
Patricia Evans, in her book "Controlling People," writes:
"The person who has defined your experience seems to have failed to grasp that you are a person with your own reality." (page 5)
"When people encounter controlling behavior, they often feel "erased," as if to the perpetrator, they don't exist." also page 5.
"Without a psychic boundary, we would be like drops of ink diffused into a pool of water -- easily absorbed into other people's definitions of us, even other people's purposes. We would come to believe that they are our own without even realizing it."
Toward the end of my time in SGI, I was just starting to feel strange, irritable, spacy, confused, almost dissociated, when I went to SGI meetings. When I read Evans' book, I began to understand why. I felt as if I, Tsuki, were being erased....that my leaders and fellow members could not grasp that I was an individual with my own dreams and goals. They wanted me to be absorbed into SGI, and make its goals my goals....this was making me very uncomfortable, especially this "oneness of mentor and disciple." I began wanting to scream everytime I heard that -- which, actually was a sign that I was HEALTHY, not difficult, nor a doubter, nor a slanderer!
Sorry, leader, you've failed to grasp that I am a person with MY OWN reality, not a drop of ink in the murky pond of SGI!