a magical board that world peace hinges on? I have never heard the DaiGohonzon referred to as a magic board before. When I joined SGI/NSA in the late eighties, the DaiGohonzon was revered. It's a large wooden Gohonzon, and we were told that Nichiren carved it in the 1200's as a symbol of his vow to spread his Buddhist teachings throughout the world. SGI leaders urged t
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Long, but interesting message from the SGI Unofficial Board: Deals with the Dai- Gohonzon, a big wooden Gohonzon, supposedly inscribed by Nichiren Daishonin for all mankind. SGI used to try to get members to go on Tozan, a pilgrimmage to Japan to see the DaiGohonzon. Then after the split, somehow it wasn't necessary -- because Nichiren Shoshu was at Taiseki-ji, the temple where the D
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Pages 109-116 of this thread discuss Wendy Byrd Ehlmann and how SGI treated her -- both before and after her death.
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QuoteevergreenRothaus - quick question, what are the reassessment groups? I never heard of them before. ! These were SGI members, both in Scotland and the United States, who were trying to "be the change you wish to see," in SGI. They were grassroots groups of members who wanted greater openness and democracy in SGI. The Internal Reassessment Group, or IRG, in the United Stat
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QuoteDavidM I am an SGI member in SGI UK. I have my doubts about certain aspects of the organisation. By nature I am very critically minded and automatically tend to question authority. The only conclusion I can reach is that there is something very, very wrong with the leadership in SGI USA. I cannot even imagine a leader speaking to me in the way you have all reported. If they ever did I w
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Quotegingermarie Meanwhile, my husband participates and although he has no personal practice, he is a district leader. (honestly, they will appoint anyone who is willing and breathes) My husband is sincere, and is fulfilling his "obligation" even though he doesn't believe in the MD relationship or chanting for that matter! To me, this is the problem with SGI in a nutshell.
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Quote: Wayfarerfree: "Noticed that I was feeling really anxious, and that I get that a lot these days. I had a bit of an epithany though yesterday. I realised that Soka Vision was there, in the back of my psyche, creating its barrier of judgement/should I shakabuku etc. And the anxiety was coming from my ignoring the SGI stances that had become automatic, even though, and this is the sick
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Evergreen, it sounds difficult. The "devilish functions" remark just shows how SGI has indoctrinated its members with fear. They hang onto members by making them feel that horrible things will happen to them if they leave SGI. It's not true, of course, but people believe it. You may lose some of these people; you may not. I lost all but two of my so-called SGI frien
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And speaking of love letters to Ikeda............ --------------Beginning of Quote, Yahoo Group SokaGakkaiUnofficial-------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Daisaku Ikeda children's book video trailer Thank you. A nice presentation. However I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering why Soka Gakkai's founding president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
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QuoteRothausQuoteThe AnticultThere need to be some books explaining the inner workings of SGI-Ikeda, from those who were on the inside and near Ikeda. THe problem is though for a book you would need some interest by the public. I believe that many of the celebrities have distanced themselves form SGI. I somewhere heard that Thina Turner is not with SGI anymore - no idea if that is true though.
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QuoteThe AnticultThere is also another large list of articles about SGI on Prévensectes. (in French) (English) Soka Gakkai - The House of Clarification Statement of Intent - Serve Counter Information on the Soka Gakkai This is also from the prevensectes site, the testimony of Nobuhiro Nobuko, an SGI-Japan women's division leader, who alleges that she was raped three times by
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QuoteNichijewI have no proof but I wouldn't put it past the incredibly skillful SGI PR machine to plant outlandish stories and videos so they can turn around and assert, "see these sick people , they hate the SGI so much , they make up the most ridiculous, even psychotic stories". For example, there is the case of a blog and several videos by "some woman" that accuses the
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More from yellowpeep.blogspot.com/ July 11, 2006 --------Beginning of quote--------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Soka Gakkai - High possibility of North Korean Here comes again! Soka Gakkai International. Known as the largest Buddism sect in Japan, Soka Gakkai International (SGI) has gaind its victory (it's their fav
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SGI in Japan, www.yellowpeep.blogspot.com May 22, 2006 Interesting point: Some commenters have said that SGI members in Japan have gotten heavily involved in the media and performing arts -- creating intense pressure for non-SGI members in those fields. These non-SGI members feel very pressured to join SGI -- or risk losing out on opportunities to work. The "Weekly Diamond"
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from Ikeda, Bush, Noriega, and the Cocaine Trade --------------beginning of quote, www.e-net.or.jp/----------------------------------------------------------- Soka Gakkai’s Cocaine Business By Mr. Toshimitsu Ryu, July 1st, 1995, Emyo Soka Gakkai was investing the honest money from their followers in cocaine smuggling business. The profit was given to the leaders of Japanese LDP or
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More on the Clow case and SGI harassment of Nichiren Shoshu's American temples. www.prevesectes.com I found this article very difficult to get through because of the bad translation from French to English, and the legalese. This is my best interpretation of what happened: 1. First, SGI lawyers and accountants, including Linda Johnson, met to discuss how to close down Nichiren Shosh
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QuoteThe Anticult A large part of the SGI membership, Ikeda wants to be passive and accepting, and to donate money to SGI, and do what they are told. Then he has a smaller segment of SGI who he does the exact opposite with, and turns them info fanatics for SGI, people who will do almost anything for SGI, including violence in the name of "peace". Everyone who does violence claims its
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Anyone remember SGI's Victory over Violence Campaign, in the late 1990's, and early 2000's? SGI was going around having all of these Victory Over Violence meetings, and the youth division was heavily involved? -----------Beginning of Quote, www.vov.com-------------------------------------------------------------- Victory Over Violence (VOV) is a youth-led initiative that wa
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QuoteThe AnticultThere is also another large list of articles about SGI on Prévensectes. (in French) (English) Soka Gakkai - The House of Clarification Statement of Intent - Serve Counter Information on the Soka Gakkai This is an account of how SGI members in Osaka, Japan, harassed the priest and members of a local Nichiren Shoshu temple, from May 1991 to November 1993. This so
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QuoteThe Anticult Soka Gakkai www.prevensectes.com/soka.htm (english page) Responses from former SGI-France members about SGI and why they quit, posted June 6, 1998. Everything sounds so familiar. -------------------Beginning of Quote------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What particularly attracted me in this sect - "The friendly
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From the From the alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren board. It's just interesting how the Ikeda loyalists just deny that anything Ikeda does could ever be wrong. They can actually defend chanting to a picture of Ikeda as being about Buddhism...and get pretty nasty and mocking if someone suggests that maybe it's not. And if you're not comfortable with this...it becomes all abo
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Quotetsukimoto Mr. Gore entertained doubts about Mr. Ikeda, who used money as freely as water, and determined to leave the organization over a certain incident. "In 1974, it was discovered that Brazil Soka Gakkai General Director Robert Saito (currently Honorary General Director) was embezzling the organization's money. Vice President Satoru Izumi (currently Chief of the Supreme G
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From (Translated from the French www.prevensectes.com/ Remember how much Sensei loves children! Teach your fortune bebe to love "Ikeda Claus!" It's never too early! -----------Beginning of Quote-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clearly, the Soka Gakkai was very interested in children and their education. According to F
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The prevenseces link is interesting. The (CAIC) Cult Awareness and Information Centre also has articles on many of these topics: SGI's insurance fraud in Japan, . Watanabe's speech against SGI, the death of the priest Ouhashi. I think that the CAIC's translation is better. Here's one that I don't remember seeing on the CAIC. It's from -------Beginning
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It's been said that we've all done personal things on work time. Is there a person who hasn't used his or her office computer for personal correspondence, e-mail and checking out the latest on favorite websites? What Linda Johnson has done, if this publication's allegations are true, is far more serious than this. It's an ethical issue, a major conflict of inte
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QuoteRothaus@ Anticult As far as I know Tiger Woods mom is practising a form of Thai buddhism. Yes -- I got this from ---------------Beginning of Quote----------------------------------------------------------------- Missing from Woods's description of his daily routine is meditation - learnt from his Buddhist mother and one element of a religion that shapes much of his attitude
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QuoteThe AnticultOne part of Ikeda that has not been discussed very much, is his ability to be charismatic, seductive, and an extremely flattering on a one to one basis, with certain people. You can see the people and women he seduces, being mesmerized by him for long periods of time. You can see them bragging that 20 years ago they attended a "very small" meeting with him, like he was
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QuotesushigrlWow Tsuki, SGI really knows how to use its members. Or maybe Linda thought this one up herself and "volunteered". She was demoted at work, but promoted in SGI. Isn't that sort of ass backward? But giving one's life to cousin rufus requires some sacrifices, doesn't it. Very damning, but great information. The second article is even better!! I never knew t
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Antony Elmore's take on both the Seattle Incident and SGI's use of priests, --------Beginning of quote, www.proudblackbuddhist.org------------------------------------------------------------ When the SGI orchestrated the Hiroe Clow scheme the SGI raised in the excess of 15 million dollars for the supposedly Hiroe Clow defense fund. SGI Ikeda hired former prostitute Hiroe C
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The previous post referred to a group of SGI leaders, including Linda Johnson, trying to find a way to kick Nichiren Shoshu out of California. One of the suggestions was a sex scandal --and not surprisingly, a tale of a sex scandal involving Nikken, the then- Nichiren Shoshu high priest, came up after this meeting. This was the "Seattle Incident," which allegedly happened in 19
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