Ok BTW coming back to SGI after stretching myself for a week over the hate stories of ex-SGI members I had a bout of fever with other health issues. But the good news is that this time I attributed it all to my own carelessness rather the attach of some Mr. Devil of the sixth heaven who is constantly held responsible for all things bad in our life by the o so knowledgeable SGI. In my sickn
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I agree that the spiritual world out there has been twisted and turned and more twisted and turned. But really hasn't everything else in the society. As human, society and science grows so does our belief and practices. Change is the only thing constant. Put personally I believe that people's interpretation of any situation just gives you another theory you could accept them or rejec
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TaitenAndProud you share exactly my thoughts. Throughout my stay in the ashram I have pondered about this question a lot. Why do some people have an excessive need to search the meaning of life and God. A simple life given to live beautifully seems quite unappreciated by many. The ashram i had gone to was based on Karma Yoga (a concept quite complicated for me) where you work for God and work
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Meh I am glad that you could appreciate your mother for her essence. And I send good wishes for the two of you. I have attached the painting I wanted you and TaitenAndProud to see. The link just takes you to the artists homepage. . Yes surely we are influenced by our surrounding but we have greater opportunities to perfect that influence within our own little brains but our personality largel
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Wow TaitenAndProud I felt terrific reading it too. In your honor I have put as my cover photo today and have quoted "Winning gives birth to hostility. Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside." Gautam Budh as my status update on facebook. I can now enjoy all things related to Buddhism without feeling guilty. Meh, it&
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Wow MEh and TaitenAndProud thank you a zillion times for not only resolving my doubts but also sharing with me the true meaning of Buddhism. Also I now look forward to understand true Buddhism.Learn and research about it. Before this I did not believe in any other form of buddhism and had consciously kept my mind blocked from any other school of Buddhism. I remember once my dad had got me m
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Dear Meh you are so right I would never have believed that SGI is a cult had I come across these forums while I was striving in faith. I would have in fact easily labelled all of these as "slander of the law'. You know I come from a simple family and my parents have given us much beyond they could actually afford. Even though I was not born a princess I was turned into one because of
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Dear Meh thank you for the car analogy. It really sums up the whole ideology. I so wish I could have found you guys a few years back I could have used those precious years of my youth being more focused on life. Everyone else I know is much better off than me now. And I have to run twice hard to catch up with the rest of the world. I believe that as we grow of course life throws greater challe
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I am so glad that I came across this forum while I was reading your comment I could feel my true feelings being resonated about the entire practice of chanting and being an active SGI member for so long that I had lost track of my self. I would like to share my story and brainstorm why a reasonably sensible person like me fell pray to all their gibberish. I belong to India, born in a very tol
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I almost cried reading this. I was so brainwashed that I have never bothered researching about all this. I wish I could have done this earlier it would have saved me for so much turmoil. Thank you so much. God I am normal.
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everytime I read your comments I feel so relieved that the doubts I had about the practice were not my inherent weakness (as they say) and I feel so glad and truly thank God for saving me from ruining a beautiful life by believing in their demented philosophies.
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