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Hey David... Minutes of the SGI Top Salaried Senior Leader New Year's Board Meeting Board Members, sitting around a large brass table with marble legs: Present: Daisaku Ikeda, Hiromasa Ikeda, Minoru Hirada, Itchy Wada, Nobutaka Kumagai, Koji Shinohara, Toshinori Iwazumi, Archibald E. Asawa Quorum present? Yes Others Present: Exec. USA Director: Danny Nagashima, Chang Dong H
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dear Blue Lady: Others here attempt to awaken you from the perspective of common sense and the ways of the world. I will attempt to awaken you from the perspective of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin. "I, Nichiren am the foremost practitioner of the Hokekyo in Japan. If among Nichiren's disciples and lay donors you come later than me, then even before the God Brahma, the Emp
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Dear Gwt; First I am sorry for your misfortune. Next, I am joyful about the the SGI's misfortune. Nichiren says, misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one while fortune comes from one's mind to make one respectworthy. Your mind has become warped by the SGI teachings that throws out the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha and the entirety of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth and fo
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Dear Blue Lady: They are rather expensive but well worth it. Martin Bradley, a Nichiren Shoshu member, has a highly erudite translation of several selected Gosho, some authentic and some considered not. Basically from the so-called orthodox perspective, Martin Bradley's commentary boils down to ornate rhetoric and meaningless talk. Yet, his translations, partisan though they may be
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dear doubtful: Actually, not my last dime. I live in a run down trailer park and subsist on spaghetti and butter and green peas and ketchup with jelly on white for dessert. Botsu for leaving the Gakkai, I guess. For several years, all we studied, was Ikeda's lecture on the Heritage of the Law, each time for more than a year, in the eighties and in the nineties too. Boring and possibly
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Dear Doubtful: It took me about 3 weeks from the time I learned that the DaiGohonzon might be a forgery until leaving the Soka Gakkai. I gave it one more chance, attending a regional meeting with my wife. When Ikeda was mentioned more than 100 times, Nichiren twice, and Shakyamuni Buddha and the Lotus Sutra, not at all, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Since that time, I ha
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QuoteFindingmywaytodayYour posts regarding May Contribution and FNCC are very interesting. It is so refreshing, but challenging to realize I have been apart of a cult the last four years. I have to say that when I participated regularly and came to meetings and wanted support, I didn't get it. Now that I haven't been in contact, all sorts of people are coming out of the woodwork calling
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Dear Doubtful: If you want to talk Buddhism, SGI taught you wrong attitude and wrong ichinen. The SGI teaches the opposite of the Noble Eightfold Path. It teaches Wrong Wisdom , Wrong Conduct , and Wrong Concentration . Wrong View is that you can not attain Buddhahood without the mentor or SGI. Wrong intention is the intention to convert people to a pseudo-Buddhist sect that destroys t
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Dear Doubtful; I haven't been to FNCC but I have been to two, three day SGI cult seminars at your center in Trets France. If you go like a good little Ikedabot fanatic with doubt free faith, everything is smooth and cordial. If you go with many questions or doubts, you will taken aside for intensive retraining. I would bet that every single group had a facilitator and the facilitators all
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You lack faith in the Eternal Buddha Ikeda Taisaku. "Only through the Soka Gakkai and a relationship with Sensei can one attain Buddhahood." -- Proud SGI Member Ikeda Kayo-kai Song In Rythym With Your Life Each Day Today with you, Sensei With eternal brilliance in our hearts We cast away the winter’s gloom Bringing spring; a brand new start Like a father you cheer us on
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This is a breakaway faction. Kaneda, Roberto Mignoti? and their cronies are the official authorities.
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SGI-italy, what a mess. Not great but Google translate gets the job done. If what Nichiren Daishonin teaches about unity is true, the future generations have little to worry about the Soka Gakkai despite their great size and wealth. Nichijew... Crying over SGI Italy's misfortunes that they brought upon themselves............NOT
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QuoteRothausConcerning donations I would just like to repeat two links here concerning Soak University of America and Soka Gakkai USA. In a way it speaks for itself looking at total assets. Dear Rothaus: I like that, "Soak University." Nichijew
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Rock the Era is a homage to Sensei. Its full name is, Rock the Era for Sensei. It's other purpose is to gain youthful converts. in a sense, it is a modern battle cry, not unlike, "Onward Christian soldiers!": "I want you to fight and advance bravely, as valiant young warriors, in the proud battle to spread the Law.” -- Toda However, from the name, Rock the Era for Sensei
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Quoteevergreenits funny you mention the Jehovah's Witnesses. There were some ex Witness SGA's (second generation adults) at the conference. we had a lot of things in common. one was all the prostelytizing going on around us. our parents were constantly working to teach/force others to learn about the true way. SGI isn't bible based but the weirdness of cult life still abounds.
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QuotetsukimotoQuoterattyboyI'm tired of reading about the 190+ honorary degrees received by Daisaku Ikeda mentioned by SGI defenders. Do we know that some sort of financial or political contribution has been made to allow this virtual unknown to allegedly have 'the world's record' in receiving these honors over the real humanists and contributors to society? Rattyboy, Anti
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Front Page World Tribune February 16, 2010 World Tribune February 16, 2010 Daisaku Ikeda Receives 259th Award from the Devries Online College WT Hamtramck Michigan, 02/03/10 For his outstanding achievements in Home Economics , the Devries College awarded Daisaku Ikeda with his 259th honorary degr
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QuotetsukimotoDavid, I did not know about that website, and I don't know anything about Safwan Zabalawi either. He or she could be some ordinary member who has created the website independently. Or perhaps there is no person by that name; an SGI member, leader, or group could have just chosen that pseudonym. It's not an official SGI website, but it can say things that an official
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Dear Evergreen: I'll give you an ah shucks moment. Your life is important to us and it is quite interesting. I don't know too many SGI fortune babies who quit the SGI. I know one and I am not at liberty to mention his name because his mother is a fairly prominent Japanese leader who herself has her doubts. Anyway, his Internet name is QQ and you can find his writings on the Nichiren
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Dear All: It appears that we have all had a "lightbulb" or straw that broke the camel's back moment. I did too. I started reading critiques of the Soka doctrine and philosophy for a month or two. I was pretty sure I was going to quit the SGI but I was going to give it one more chance. We attended a Regional meeting at the New York Community Center. By the end of the meeting, Ik
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QuoteScoobyDoobyThanks Tsukimoto, for your last post. I read the About blog several months ago and thought the very same things. I rarely post here but I lurk a great deal. Even though the activity has slowed down quite a bit here in the last month or so (I hope everyone is well), I still find it beneficial as it pertains to my own situation. "Some members actually seem to be held bac
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Dear wakatta: I shudder to think of finding myself sitting at a district meeting with all those folks around me thinking they will shakubuku me again <shudder> Their leaders shudder to think their members might encounter me to shakabuku them. They are not too thrilled with this forum either. Nichijew
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Quotewakatta1@nichijew Don't forget Rapture, the big pay-off for Hunger!! As most of those reading here, the lower six worlds are tightly chained together and those chains are what really enslaves people to a group like the SGI cult. If you score big in one world and you wind up being dragged through the other five. Like winning at the casino, you keep going back for the rush. Success
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Dear Tsukimoto: "For instance, some say, "You can overcome your problems if you do shakubuku, if you promote Seikyo Shimbun you can be happy. You can be happy if you try to do more zaimu." This is a life condition of hunger. You are always expecting something in return. If you don't overcome your problem you will resent having made the effort. This is different from the lif
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dear All: Man, its quiet around here so I thought I'd liven things up with the latest SGI tome, A Toynbee Analysis of the Fuji School. You may download and read it here: It is a self serving analysis based on Gakkai self importance and propaganda . Don't act surprised but it is not based on the Lotus Sutra and the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin and therefore, it is not based
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QuotetsukimotoDoes anyone know what's going on with the SGIUnofficial message board? When I try to look at messages there, I keep getting a page that says it's temporarily unavailable. It's been this way for several days. Go through the back door. Try and type in Sokagakkaiunofficial on Google search. Nichijew
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QuoteFindingmywaytodayThat is interesting what you have been writing about in regards to Ikeda, MLK, and Gandhi. Before SGI, I had heard of MLK and Gandhi, and never Ikeda. Then, I started to believe he is a man of peace, but I believe with the wrong intentions. I don't know if I did the best thing, but I blocked all the e-mails from any SGI people. I then got a few calls from people say
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Quotequiet oneNichijew, sounds like a great invitation! I'm curious about the IRG, which you said has "sprung to life this week". Who is involved? And is their agenda still to "reform" SGI, or what is it now? debonaire, When I was a devoted member (over 30 years), I did maintain a few friendships with non-members. The best advice I can give is to just let them d
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Dear Quietone: This week, two people from the IRG yahoo reform group , one person on the SGIunofficial yahoo group, and one Kempon Hokke friend, were contacted to set up home visits. Coincidence? They will no longer come to visit me, even senior leaders, because I am too dangerous to their faith in the Soka Gakkai and Ikeda. I speak their language, have read all of Ikeda's and SGI
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