Bruce Maltz, the 11th World

Haibutsu Kishaku.

The warm reception to my posting here is overwhelming. People are afraid to post here, they do want to be cast away as junk or have web pages put up about them, as the SGI did to me, or have people hate them and send box loads of letters to Nichiren Shu in Japan. The more one realizes they are a Bodhisattva from the Earth; this fear takes care of itself.

 Listen, I never said that people should not chant. I said that it was not necessary to chant. I am so happy that many people have found a connection to the Lotus Sutra though chanting Nam Mu Myoho Renge Kyo. If you are chanting Nam, you are an idiot. Nichiren chanted Nam Mu, he wrote Nam Mu, and all the damage control that the sects and Ryu-EI-EI-O can do, cannot undo the fact that prior to the Muromachi period, in Japan, and they pronounced all the vowels. If Nichiren had wanted to write NAM, he could have. But, he wrote Nam Mu.  The formula Nam Mu Myoho Renge Kyo was his way of connecting people to the Lotus Sutra. If you want to continue, be my guest, but it is not a practice outlined in the Lotus Sutra. I am quite confident Nichiren knew what he was doing.

 Here and there in his copy of the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren recorded various passages from texts related to the Lotus rituals, such as their canonical source (Fahuaguanzhiyigui), which was attributed to Amoghavajra; an iconographical text probably introduced in Japan at the beginning of the Kamakura period (Weiyixingsejing); a text attributed to Enchin (Kõen hokkegi); and sequences of mantras. Elsewhere he discusses questions of textual inconsistencies in the canonical manual (Senjishõ, STN 2: 1022), and explicitly refers to iconographical details of the ritual. (Zenmuishõ, STN 1: 410; Hõonshõ, STN 2: 1219) It seems quite safe, therefore, to assume that he had a certain familiarity with the practice.

  Things that I talk about in my blogs, are things called “Haibutsu Kisaku” that means literally abolishing Buddhism and dismissing Shakyamuni’s Teachings, an Anti-Buddhist Movement

 Sounds pretty hideous, but think about a priest from a Nichiren Sect that talks about Buddha, but makes up his own Human teachings, and says it is Buddhism. I call it CRAP. Lucky The Lotus Sutra and the Original Buddha can only be hidden by fake Priests.

 The Lotus Sutra, the Original Buddha and the Bodhisattvas from the Earth are not moved by Fake Priests, and remain untarnished.  It is easy to understand that those fake priests, who need a position to have power over people because of their small ego, and maybe small other things, write all over the internet, tell us what the Buddha meant and taught (how in the hell do they know?) dress in beautiful robes, hold beads with precision, and have good dental plans have a defiled mind with perverted ideas that only leads them to wander in a world of delusion. 

 Careful, they are very jealous of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth. Why? Only because we expose them for being the clouds that try and block the Lotus Sutra. Frankly, no one else has the balls.

 Competing with each other over whether a funnel is round or triangle is baloney.  If one of our one eyes and the other is having a fight over who is right, it would be ludicrous.  Or if somebody seriously had a tug of war with his one hand and another, it would appear very bizarre. 

Buddhism is not for fools.  Enlightenment is to understand consistently what seems to be a contradiction at a glance to us naive being.  Buddhism teaches us that it is A at one time, but another time it teaches it is B. Both A and B are the true aspects of the truth, but People tend to think A and B are not friendly because of their custom monotonous philosophy.

I am not religious, Buddhism is not a religion.  There is no such thing as religion in the world, only people who think there is religion. There are people who want you to believe there is religion, and they are a Priests and they want Power over You. It’s all bullshit. None of it is true.

 The Lotus Sutra expects us to grow up toward the third ­dimension and I don’t care what sect you are in, when you die no one is going to ask you, “HEY YOU, STOP, what sect were you in?”  But don’t start inventing Human Practices and saying Buddha said this and that. The Bodhisattvas of the Earth are here to spread the Lotus Sutra, remind people they were there, and stop people who are trying to cover the sutra and give you their Human ideas and practice Haibutsu Kishaku.

Maltz

HOUSE

Nichiren referred to his followers collectively as a
“house” (ichimon) if you could read Japanese
or know kanji you would know this.



It was not a sangha, General Chapter, Nichiren Shu, or the Soka Cockeye.

MALTZ TRYING TO OPEN MORE EYES

ETERNAL Buddha Nature:

".. good man! I take all things as non-eternal.  How do I know? Because of the causal relations.  If anything arises out of causality, I see them as non-eternal.  The Buddha Nature is birthlessness and deathlessness; it is no going, no coming.  It is no past, no future, and no present.  It is not one that comes out of cause; it is no making of no cause.  It is not one made; it is no maker.  It is no outer form or not no form; it is not one with a name, nor is it one with no name; it is no name and no matter.  It is not long, not short.  It is not one come out in five groups, eighteen realms, and twelve spheres.  Because of this, we say eternal.  The Buddha Nature is the Tathagata; the Tathagata is the Law, and the Law is eternal.  Eternal is the Tathagata, the Tathagata are the Bodhisattvas and the Bodhisattvas are eternal. 

Because of this, what comes out of cause is not called eternal."

(Nirvana Sutra, Book 13, chapt. 19c,)

MONKS AND NUNS

Many people feel that the Human Buddha Sakyamuni is a teacher of human life, he devoted his whole life to lead innumerable people, according to their intellectual standard, character and circumstance on the path of the truth. All of Sakyamuni’s guidance to his followers originated in the truth of the Universe in which he attained enlightenment. Nevertheless, Sakyamuni showed his Buddhahood practically for the mass of people in various ways.

“The various sûtras of [the first] forty‑two years set forth matters of good and evil occurring in the dream of birth and death; therefore, they are called provisional teachings. They are the scriptural teachings of preparatory, expedient means, by which the Buddha sought to entice and lead the dreaming beings, in order to startle and rouse them into the waking reality of the Lotûs Sûtra. Therefore, they are called provisional teachings (Sanze Shobutsu Sokanmon Kyoso Hairyu written by Nichiren Daishonin)

Therefore, the Tathagata entered our dream of birth and death, placing himself on the same level as the perverted beings, and by means of the Language used in dreams enticed the dreaming beings, leading them gradually by expounding matters concerning the distinction between the good and evil that occur in dreams. (Sanze Shobutsu Sokanmon Kyoso Hairyu)

Lets look at the attitude Shakyamuni had while preaching the law. He did not perform His preaching and guiding as a formal ceremony, but always regarded everyday life as a place for preaching and enlightening. Sakyamuni never lost an opportunity to preach the way of life at any time or to any person.

In Chapter five of the Lotus Sutra, “Parable of the Herbs”, Sakyamuni gives the general vows of the Buddha: “Those who have not yet been saved I cause them to be saved; those who have not yet been set free to be set free; those who have not yet been comforted to be comforted; those who have not yet obtained nirvana to obtain nirvana.”

With those vows, Buddha could not but give a helping hand to anyone who was living in the world of suffering. If he saw that people were overcome by illusions, he could not help himself from freeing them on the spot. Sakyamuni could not stop but teach instantly the way of reaching a stage of peace to those who had not known that peace.

Nowadays, many men of religion try to preach the truth only at formal places like Temples, or on formal occasions like sermon meetings, or guided meditation sessions. They are not even sure if they are preaching the truth. I have many friends that are priests, I dearly treasure them as great human beings and personal treasures. They are not my priests. They have helped me in time of need, and shown great human attributes they don't reveal when wearing the priest hat. Honestly, rather than make sense of the matter, I accept them as wonderful people that are assets to my life. Then on the other hand, I have known some real stinker-oooos, than have gone out of their way to make life miserable. Again, I just think they are idiots, and go on.

I have been very lucky, to have known so may people, that I can have a balanced and fair view. Some lay people even feel the need to become a priest so that they think they will only then have the power to save others. Does this make any sense? I think they feel, they are impotent, and they need the robe or people will not listen to them. There is a translator for the Kempon Hokke, that I always had admiration for, he always produced top top notch first rate material for people that wanted to study Nichiren's ways, yet never asked to have special titles. That is a great person. Another man for the Nichiren Shu, because of jealousy sought the priest robe to gain what he felt more power over people, and when I was in Japan, I learned this was a way he wanted to have more power of me, and it is so stupid, I don't even care. His views are so off, that I just have pity for anyone that listens, they are sweet talked into human fields of pain of regret of confusion, and he mixes up all the different practices and hates Nichiren, and only wants Buddha to be Jesus or God.

I think that if we look back at the life of Sakyamuni we can see that how mistaken this preaching of professional religionists is. Did Sakyamuni become a Priest? Did he tell people to become a priest? Did Nichiren have to be a priest, or could he have been a Sushi Chef? It is the inability of the current brainwashed members to think out of the box and want to stay attached to their sect, just like a dysfunctional family that keeps the ball bouncing. But someday it will stop.

Those that have read the Nirvana Sutra have read:

“This teaching shall not be entrusted to biksus (monks) and biksunis (nuns), but to upasakas (laymen) and upasikas (laywomen).”

I think we really know why Sakyamuni entrusted his teachings to layman and laywomen, one important reason could be that lay believers have many opportunities of doing their propagating to enlighten the masses in everyday life. The job of the Bodhisattvas, is to remind other Bodhisattvas they were at the Ceremony in Space, it is not to bring them to a PRIEST or NEW TEACHER.

Unless we can lead as many people as possible to the teachings of Buddha, by making use of every opportunity to do so, we cannot rapidly change or bring the world to a state of peace.

If you bring someone to a sect, a meeting, a Priest, a new Teacher, give them HUMAN TEACHINGS, teach them Nichiren is the Buddha, Ikeda is the master, you are really are Creep.

Maltz

KEEP IT ENGLISH-NO JAPANESE-NO TRANSLATORS NEEDED

"Two monks, brothers, brahmans by birth, of fine language and fine speech, came to the Buddha and said Lord, here monks of miscellaneous origin are corrupting the Buddha's words by repeating them in their own dialects, let us put them into Vedic. The Lord Buddha rebuked them: “Deluded men, how can you say this? This will not lead to the conversion of the unconverted    And he delivered a sermon and commanded the monks You are not to put the Buddha's words into Vedic Who does so would commit a sin I authorize you, monks, to learn the Buddha's words each in his own dialect " Cullavagga V.33; Vinaya Pitaka II. 139. 1ff.

Toda Josei Zenshu

This is very different than what appears in the Human Revolution
for the American Soka Gakkai. Read and decide for yourself
what the message is........

Source: Toda Josei Zenshu (The Complete Writings of
Josei Toda), Vol. 4 Publisher: Wakosha Publishing Co.
Publication Date: December 10, 1965 Pages: 599, 600

Around the middle of November, the light of the morning sun flowed through the three foot window. Having concluded his morning observance, Gan (Toda),
Feeling refreshed, faced the sun and chanted o-daimoku while focusing his heart upon Taisekiji's Gohonzon. The amount of his daimoku had reached 1,800,000.
From around March of that spring, he had begun tallying the number of his daimoku. He took delight at the increase in number. On that day, with the advance of
The number of daimoku, his heart had come to feel perfectly tranquil, and an indescribable joy welled forth. He felt an indescribable peace, like a gentle spring breeze wafting over a field. It was neither dream nor dilirium. He was with an innumerable multitude, neither in the sky nor on the ground, and was he not, along with everyone else, performing obeisance (gassho) to the Gohonzon?

This may have lasted several seconds or it may have lasted several minutes. He had no way of knowing the length of time. However, it was nothing other than the awareness that he was in the world described in the Jujiyujutsu (The Followers'Welling Up from the Earth) Chapter of the Lotus Sutra. That sutra passage reads, "Hearing Shakyamuni's voice as he made his assertions, these bodhisattvas of every variety welled up from below. Each of these bodhisattvas was at the head of a multitude, and each of them led followers as numerous as the sands of sixty thousand Ganges Rivers... Upon completing their pilgrimage, they respectfully faced the two World-Honored Ones..." Gan was a person amongst this tremendous multitude. He had attended the gathering of the Lotus Sutra in the eternal past. The Daishonin states in "Sandaihiho sho" ("The Three Great Secret Laws"), "As the supreme leader of the vast number of bodhisattvas who welled up from the earth, Nichiren without a doubt received the oral bequeathal of the Three Great Secret Laws from the founder, the enlightened World-Honored One, more than two thousand years ago." These words welled up in his breast as though they had been deeply engraved there. The very instant he was about to exclaim that these words were not a lie and that he was now in that very found himself sitting on his chair.

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U.S. troop deaths hit 7-month high in Iraq

Killing of three soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushes toll up to 47

BAGHDAD - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.

One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The other died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small-arms fire, the military said Wednesday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad.

A third soldier died in a roadside bombing Tuesday night in the east of the capital, the military said.

The statement did not give a more specific location. But the eastern half of Baghdad includes embattled Sadr City and other neighborhoods that have been the focus of intense combat between Shiite militants and U.S.-Iraqi troops for more than a month.

4,059 since 2003
In all, at least 4,059 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The latest fighting erupted at the end of March after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched a crackdown against Shiite militias in the southern port city of Basra. But it quickly spread to Baghdad’s Sadr City, a sprawling slum with about 2.5 million people that is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The militiamen have used the district as a base to fire barrages of missiles and mortar rounds at the U.S.-protected Green Zone which houses much of the Iraqi government and Western diplomatic missions, including the U.S. and British embassies.

They also have fought running street battles in which hundreds have died. The U.S. military says those killed have been mainly gunmen. But police and medical authorities in Sadr City say innocent civilians have frequently gotten caught up in the fighting.

Such street battles — in tight confines and amid frightened civilians — are increasingly becoming a hallmark of the drive into Sadr City and recall the type of head-on clashes last seen in large numbers during last year’s U.S. troop buildup in Baghdad and surrounding areas.

Girls' school destroyed
The Sadr City violence continued overnight with the destruction of a school in the district. AP Television News footage showed that parts of the two-floor Baghdad Girls’ School had pancaked as the result of an explosion. Desks were hanging down from the slanting classrooms where the outer walls were blown out by the blast.

Local officials said the school was the target of an airstrike on Tuesday evening.

An official at the local hospital, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the information, said two people were killed and 16 wounded overnight in Sadr City. He said this brought the death toll in the district since Tuesday to 31, with 107 wounded.

The U.S. military had no comment about the school but said an Abrams tank fired at gunmen shooting at U.S. troops in Sadr City, killing all three. In another part of Sadr City, an unmanned drone fired a missile at a group of men planting a roadside bomb and killed one, the military said.

In another development, the office of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Shiite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, said he received a telephone call from President Bush on Tuesday afternoon.

The SIIC is one of the main members of al-Maliki’s U.S.-supported government and a rival of al-Sadr’s movement.

An SIIC statement said that two exchanged views about the current situation in Iraq. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

SPECIAL REPORT: KEMPON HOKKE MEMBERS DEVELOPE PROSTATE PROBLEMS

Undercover reporter Urethra Franklin has learned that Mark Rogow, and Graham H. Lamont, have been pissing and moaning .

Chap 16 says they should:

• Increase their intake of remembering they are Bodhisattva's Bodhisattvas of the Earth, and forget they are members of a Human Organization.
• Cut down on writing about other people, sects and sources and saturated fat.
• Stop thinking an Internet comment is actually an attack.

NOT THE ONLY WAY

If one takes seriously the sanction not to seek the Lotus Sutra, and by association Buddha, outside of oneself, and if it does permeate the universe, then shouldn't a sincere practitioner be able to "see it" expressed everywhere, even if not confined to a particular form like a scroll or a sound like chanting words in a language or any language for that matter. Some feel that Nichiren gave the Lotus Sutra its most direct or intoxicating expression, but can something one believes be limited to any particular manifestation of form? Can such a sincere person not hear the Lotus Sutra in the silent meditation, or in the visualization of the Ceremony in Space without a Japanese Mandala using our own imagination, reaching beyond space and time, the possibilities seem just endless limited by my abilities to explain my thoughts. Isn't sharing the insight of the Lotus Sutra, and helping others to find this principle, and if so, must those dedicated to doing so not "find it" themselves however it may express itself in a particular culture?

TCB
Maltz

ROCK AND ROLL SUTRA

Various Schools of Nichiren Buddhism, Represented as Menu Items

ENTREES

All entrees come with some form of mantra invocation. Please specify whether you prefer nam- or namu- in your (O)daimoku.

Seared Butsuryu
Gongyo-free devotion marinated in okozui and "sacred formula." Showered with sparks struck from flint. Xylophone on the side.

Shoshu Roll
Narrow strips of exclusivist orthodoxy accompanied by extremely rare ushitora gongyo. Wrapped in priestly robes, sprinkled with sho-hondo dust.

American Independent Platter
Spit-roasted dissent, piled high with questions. Flavored with a subtle hint of bitters.

Shoshin-kai
Tender, early sprouts of reform, cut down and hung out to dry. With whine vinaigrette.

The Minobu
Amulets smothered in mysticism, served on a mandala from our gift shop.

Gakkai Special
A mix of everything, changing daily. Please ask server for details.

Baked Kempon Hokke
Small portion of something. No one ever orders this. We're not sure what it is.

*

DESSERT

Fujufuse
Half the calories and none of the fat of regular ice cream. Made from the milk of strictly practicing cows. Sorry, cannot be served to slanderers or nonbelievers.

Assorted Salty, Stinky Fish Candy
Like a lot of things, this represents Japanese culture more than the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism. But don't let that stop you from incorporating it into your practice. Yum.

Chocolate Maltz

By Christian Oaks

The redneck goes Buddhist

THE REDNECK GOES BUDDHIST
From: National Review | Date: 3/4/1988 | Author: Mano, D. Keith

What, for Sure, I know about Buddhism is you wanter have clean socks t'do it in. I know that because I'm right now at a downtown han meeting--which is whenever enough middle-managment yuppie people get shoeless together and chant in Japanese. First off they rattle through Lotus Sutra--to the fetching tune of, far as I can tell, here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack-quack. Mind, in our believe-whatever nation, you better not show disrespect for color, race, or creed, especial when that creed is hotter than sun spots, the way Nichiren Shoshu of America (NSA) has been, just look what they did to Mr. Jimmy Greek--and he said nice things. So I am open-minded. More or less what we all are after chanting a quarter-hour--open-minded as in VACANT TRY ELSEWHERE.

NSA people appear decent, amiable types, tho somewhat spoony. They'd clap and hoo-roar at a paper-trained dog, if he was in need of encouragement. "Keith is visiting with us tonight." Yaw-whee, let's hear it for Keith. This Buddhist sect was first thought up by a preacher called Nichiren Daishonin before A.D. 1300. I don't understand it much--no one seems to--but the thingamabob that'll do the job is Nam Myo-Ho Renge Kyo. Over and over again. Nam means devotion. Myo-ho = mystic law. Renge is your basic lotus. And Kyo stands for the verbalization of Buddhist doctrine. Diagram this sentence however you want--after some while it sounds like Nomyno Foreign Dago--endless repetition is what will clear up that fuggy karma you got.

Repetition in front of the Gohonzon, mind now. First copywrit by Daishonin himself, a Gohonzon is this scroll picture (no one at my han meeting can translate it), that NSA people will come and enshrine on your bedroom wall for no installation fee. "Daishonin inscribed this Gohonzon to mankind, because he wanted to give us some way to relieve the suffering in our lives." It isn't a person, not a god, nor yet a moral map coordinate. No one even has to believe in the Gohonzon, though that might seem polite, considering. Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism is a practice, they say, not a belief. The swift practicer will foreign dago, morning and night, as long as he can stand it. And they challenge me to chant for sure-enough material things: cash, job, blonde bimbo, whatever. Though, to my Christian ear, that'd be pushy as asking for seconds of the Eucharist.

NSA people witness a whole lot. Fact, it is all like some kind of Oriental AA meeting. I was down and out, then I chanted my way from mailroom to executive assistant. One woman got her husband's salary up over $40,000 this year. In fairness: they do suggest you start by namming for a new stereo and move up to world peace, say. But NSA approaches the prospective convert with this great loss-leader promotion--reminded me of slate-night TV advertising. Yes, my friend, try it for one week and, if by that time you aren't promoted to first busboy, well, back to Methodism or whatever you came from and no hard feelings. But if you are promoted (and the chant routine might make you confident for once)--getting is believing. What d'you need to receive your own official Gohonzon--precisely like the wooden original in Japan? Just your $17 life membership fee and a trip to our temple in Queens. That is some long novitiate: three hours at most, if you hit heavy traffic.

But lemme shoot my wad somewhat on chanting in general. No doubt chanting will relax the mind and keep you maybe from a premature cerebrovascular incident. It is also something spiritual that you can actually do--add up and pack away Nam Myo-hos like a mud wasp. Which is easier and more countable than, oh, opening your soul to grace from the Risen Christ. But when they tell me all I need are chants and my Gohonzon, well, whoa. I don't purchase that. It shrinks my human nature down. If God just wanted some creature who could say Nam Myo-ho without thought, He would more conveniently have set up a mynah bird in Eden.

The temple, which I hauled out to, is eye-spronging: looks like a giant machine-gun emplacement in suburbia. Whatever you or I feel about NSA, it is major mojo now. There are forty thousand NSA Gohonzoners in New York, 500,000 around America, and twenty million worldwide. Check out their newspaper, World Tribune, and you'll see NSA gatherings--ten thousand here, twenty thousand there--such as Yankee Stadium doesn't get for a twi-night doubleheader. It is all so organized: near paramilitary. Band and chorus and drill dance and helmeted gymnasts who show "fighting spirit." I quote: "Wave upon wave of youth-division performances capped by the simultaneous accomplishment of five human pyramids, reaching as high as five stories, which brought the entire audience to its feet." NSA has got all of America broken down into one recruitment territory or another. What you have here is Toyota in a temple. No protectionist legislation can keep it out.

It's 11 P.M. in Flushing, Queens. This, they let me know, is the third or fourth convert service tonight. More than one hundred people-all Caucasian or black--wait with 15 new chanters before a spiffy and expensive black/gold altar. Nam Myo-ho Renge Kyo. Well, take it or leave it, there is a lesson to be learned. All over America faiths that have been unashamedly positive about material success are bringing home the juice. Folk have enough insecurity, thank you. Even when tax-deductible, the Christian offer, "Go and sell that thou hast and give it to the poor," doesn't enliven much. This world is full of yearning and fear. People just don't intend to wait for eferred benefits in paradise. And don't bother telling them they're unworthy: they know that. Far be it from me to question the New Testament, but I worry about my faith, and when last did your church hold a human pyramid

NICHIREN'S ORIGINAL PRAYER

"...in my original prayer I made a vow that: I should not have a prejudice in favor of any sect; I should adopt whichever sect shows the evidence of being the teaching of the Buddha and is reasonable; I should be guided solely by the sutras, not by the commentators of India, translators and minister-masters in China; regarding the doctrines of Buddhism, I should not be afraid of even being punished by a king, not to talk of persecutions by the people below him; I should not follow instructions against the Buddha's teachings even if they are given by my parents, teacher and elder brother; and I should speak up honestly as expounded in sutras regardless whether or not people believe in me." (Refutation to Ryokan-bo)

TCB
MALTZ

SEPARATE RITUAL FROM THE PATH

I strolled on over to the Kempon site,
Mark Rogow post some things about me,
He thinks those things are going to hurt me, or something?
Actually I have no idea what he thinks anymore.
I am not even sure if he does.

First of all, I cannot control what other people think.
I am not responsible for what other people think.
I will not go to war over misconceptions and rumors.

I left America to go to Japan to find out exactly what Nichiren Buddhism is all about.
To separate the fat from the bone, to separate the ritual from the path.
Far from that goal, it is clear to me know that each and every person has their own idea what the path is and is not.

When I read the Lotus Sutra, I see Buddha is still alive today.
I see the Buddha, to me and for me there is no path other than the Law of the Lotus Sutra.
No sect, no group, no guru, no special this or that will provide anyone with the tools for becoming a Buddha, other than the Lotus Sutra itself.
Was Nichiren’s message anything different?

Truth in Buddhism is not determined by human judgment but by the Buddha’s words alone, as recorded in the true scriptures.
The Lotus Sutra was not established by a human teacher, but by the Buddha himself.
Only a Buddha and another Buddha understand what Buddha is, therefore we have to discard anyone and everything that they say when they try and explain Buddhahood.
They are fools trying to convert other fools.
In Lamont’s efforts to spin and twist Nichiren, he wants to be the issue.
This is Mappo, and it is easy to do.
It’s easy to put on an Elvis jumpsuit and want to be Elvis,
It’s easy to shave your head, or speak Japanese and want to be Nichiren,
But Nichiren was only a man.
A man of skin, blood, urine, bones, dung, birth and death.
A human being.

I am not Nichiren nor Buddha, just a human trying to sort out Buddhist Law from Human Law.
In Buddha’s day and in Nichiren’s day, normal everyday humans trying to uphold to law did so at the risk of their own life.
I don’t think waking up in the morning, and logging on to the Internet and slandering and spreading rumors is the same as upholding the law with one’s life.
Does attaching oneself to a sect of cult make one go crazy, or do crazy people attach themselves to sects and cults?
Mark Rogow writes his masters and writes them the SGI is attacking him?
Attacking? Where and when? Steve Polito went so far to tell me Nichiren entered his life, and only he upholds the law,
And everyone slanders him because he protects the law.
No, Steve, please don’t like you because you are quite reprehensible.

Those people that want to say bad things about me, make up rumors and lies, spread gossip will only suffer because of what they are doing.
But I don’t think they are attacking me.
My family was kidnapped by a sect in Japan and taken to Izu.
People in Kempon did conspire to have my wife expelled from her university, and that might be called an overt attack, I don’t know.
I just have considered the people involved total idiots.

To Mark Rogow: I don’t reject Rev. Kubota or Lamont, the new so-called priest, or anyone in the Kempon.
I reject the idea of following a person.
I have not lied to anyone, and yet I am being called a liar, even by those that know the truth. Are memories really that selective and short?

There would not be a Kempon Hokke in America if Stephanie and I had not brought their teachings here.
And now we are cast aside like junk.
I am sure Rev. Honda would not cast us away.
Kempon Hokke kicked him out of the Sect.
Even though I left, he wold still consider me a good friend.
Nichiju treasures me.
Lamont and Rogow just don't understand Buddha's heart.

In 2000 my wife and I had lunch with Senchu Murano a believer that has translated the Lotus Sutra into several languages.
There was another believer from another foreign country there, and in front of me and my wife, they asked him,
“Why is Bruce the most hated person in Nichiren’s Buddhism? “
My son who was 9 yrs old at the time, broke out laughing.
Senchu Murano, put down his bowl of soup, and looked at the believer and said, “it is very simple, he broke the piñata and now everyone can pick up all the candy and toys, but it is not enough, they wanted to be the one to break the piñata. I have always wished he and his wife would have been a Nichiren Shu member.”

Even the guy who runs the Nichiren Coffeehouse would throw me out of one group after another, but then tell people, I saved his life.

With a somewhat broken heart,
because of the weak nature of the human being,
Bruce Maltz

Lamont and Rogow speak behind my back

Lamont and Rogow speak behind my back

I am sure there is nothing sinister in Mark Rogow's desire to learn about the Lotus Sutra, but since this is my blog, I would like to express my sadness that his heart cannot feel the difference between a lie and truth. When we really understand Nichiren and what he says in the Kanjin Honzon Sho, it is always like a radar goes off when something flies against that, including Nichiren himself in other letters. That letter is so dead on, it must be studied without religious influence. That brings me to the sad news that Lamont has led my old friend Mark Rogow to a dark alley, to the desert of regret.

He says my views about the Lotus Sutra are incorrect because "The Kempon Hokke Shu shugi koshu roku, p. 62, specifically states the opposite to Maltz: the Hommon stands for differentiation and opposition between the Buddha and the unenlightened. If there is no differentiation, what is the use of faith? (ibid., p. 64)."

In 1998 Yasuhara, gave me a book by Rev. Honda of the Kempon Hokke Shu, the “Hokekyo kogi” (“Lectures on the Lotus Sutra”). I had it translated. Here is part of the translation that fits this blog:

Honda on commenting on the “Chapter of the Measure of Life of the Tathagata”: in volume 2, p. 215, specifically states:

“The saintly patriarch relying on the vast numbers preaches the innumerable, and therewith judges it to reveal the Beginningless Really existing Original Buddha of Concrete (or Tangible) Character of the Enjoyment and Response [Bodies], when as he says it ‘is the Beginningless Ancient Buddha of kalpas as many as the dust of countries touched or not by the dust of five hundred of tens of trillions of nayutas of asamkheyas of great trichiliocosms (gohyaku jinden gô) and so on to the Three Bodies that are revealed’, it is this.

Although in discussing this Original Buddha there are those who cull out the Buddha Who practiced and manifested the Effect and point to the Ideality (Abstraction) of Unmanifest Original Enlightenment (hongaku no ritai) and take this Abstract Buddha (ributsu) that is the unenlightened worldling (bombu) to be the Original Buddha (hombutsu) and take the Actual Buddha (jibutsu) as the Manifestation Buddha (shakubutsu); this is by no means (kesshite) the conclusion of the faith and practice of [the Bodhisattva] Converted by the Original Buddha (honge). However, among the Saint’s latter lineages they frequently assert this doctrine and advocate that it is the sublime doctrine revealed by the ‘[Chapter] of the Measure of Life’ alone and the Ultimate Theory exceeding the {Bodhisattva] Converted by the Original Buddha (honge); the ignorant heedlessly would follow suit. Alas! This child is to be pitied !”
Honda makes it clear that the Buddha spoken of in Chapter Sixteen is a concrete or tangible character (gutaikaku) relating to the Enjoyment and Response Bodies (hojin and ojin) and he utilizes a phrase from the “Kanjin honzon sho” to describe this Buddha; although there are some who have tried to twist the phrase to mean something else Honda is fairly clear: he believes in the “Actual Buddha” (ji butsu) and dismisses the theory of the Abstract or Ideal (ritai) Original Enlightenment, which, as every scholar should know, is oriented towards the Dharma Body (hosshin) of the Buddha.

Honda’s description is the same with the idea found in the “Kaimoku sho” (STN, v. 1, 5536 8). Nichiren says the feature that separates the “Hokekyo” from all other Mahayana Sutras is the concept of the “revelation of the original” (kempon) of the Enjoyment Body (hojin) and of the Response Body (ojin).
Shigyo Kaishu, (“Nichiren no ‘Kanjin honzon sho’ no busshin ron ni tsuite” p. 181), cites this “Kaimoku sho” passage to show Nichiren was NOT oriented towards the Hosshin based hongaku view of the Buddha.”
Honda then goes on to criticize people who are weak and follow those who take ri hongaku to be the Original or Fundamental Buddha and take the Actual Buddha to be a a mere Manifestation Buddha. By the way, this hongaku doctrine is clearly expressed in “On the Reality of the Dharmas” (Shoho jisso sho) (STN, v. 1, 724 l. 11)), a work much praised by Taisekiji and the Soka Gakkai.
The one thing that the Taisekiji, SGI, Marc Strumpf and Mark Herrik, Ruyeieio McCormick have always done is condemn me for accepting the orthodox view that Hondo is talking about.

If the "Kempon Hokke Shu shugi koshu roku" flies against the Lotus Sutra, and the logic in Nichiren's teachings I am not sure, or if it is Lamont's twisted spin. The Lotus Sutra is superior to Nichiren, to Kempon Hokke and to Lamont.

Also, not once did I ever want or ask to be leader of Kempon Hokke in America. We did all the work, and everyone else wanted to be leader. Marc Strumpf and Marc Herrick asked Kubota if they could be the Priest. Graham Lamnt and one of Kubota's friends in Los Angeles, tried to cook up a plan to make Lamont President. Did I ever ask? no Did I ever mention this to Kubota? no. Did I ever want to be a priest? no. Did I ever recommend anyone become a leader? No. Did I do most of work in the beginning and before I left? Yes! Did I spend $100,000.00? yes! Can I refute all Lamonts lies and allegations against me? YES!!! Am I perfect and a saint? No, thank goodness. If Kubota says anything different, I will challenge him to a lie detector test, btw, he never offered to make me a leader or a priest. My view was to have Kempon Hokke like the internet, a group with no center, no leaders, but forever growing. Now I am glad everyone showed their true colors, it was my bodhi tree, so to speak.

Maltz

TRANSLATED BY LAMONT

In the "Kanjin honzon sho" (On the Object of Worship in Contemplation), Nichiren Daishonin states "Now the Saha World of the Original Time is the Ever-abiding Pure land apart from the Three Calamities and outside of the Four Kalpas. The Buddha has not already been extinguished in the past and will not be born in the future. Those who are converted are of the same essence. This is identical to the complete possession of the three thousand (realms) of one's own mind, the three types world" (translated by Lamont).

I wonder just how Lamont reads this essential part of this writing by Nichiren? Does he reject the "Kanjin honzon sho" as a forgery? Was Nichiren sent by Buddha to discredit Lamont?

Lamont hates Hongaku monism and thinks Hongaku monism is not the view of Jumonryu (followers of Nichiju). I agree with him on the point that "Hongaku shiso" is wrong. Lamont misunderstands the term "Hongaku", only by immediately thinking it means "Hongaku shiso". This is the most critical and fundamental error in his view.

The term "Hongaku" only means the "Original Enlightenment”. This, as everyone can see very easily, is what is preached in the Honmom (Original Doctrine), especially in Chapter 16 'Measure of life'. On the other hand, in the Shakumon (Manifestation Doctrine) it preaches "Shigaku" (Attainment of enlightenment). Therefore, the subject of "Hongaku and Shigaki” is parallel to the subject of "Honmon and Shakumon".

In the Shakuman, we have Buddha and Human Beings, Honmom is based on monism and preaches the ultimate equality of worldly beings and Buddha.

Actually, there was no argument here, it was only Lamont's confusion and misunderstanding always wanting to fight with the "evil one".

Maltz

Makes no sense

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Maltz

Best/Worst Cover of a Song

The best cover all time is one of the best rock 'n roll songs of all time:

Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower."

Worst -- William Shatner, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Can't even carry a tune and sounds like Captian Kirk reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Maltz

I am the rebirth of Jogyo

One of the letters that Nichiren Shonin wrote says,

"I have realized that I am the rebirth of Jogyo Bodhisattva"
(Show; teihon Nichiren, p. 1720). "

There are many questions concerning the authenticity of many of the letters attributed to Nichiren.
Especially when the letter does not meet the teaching of a specific Nichiren Sect.
Some say Nichiren is the Buddha.
Some say many things.
The passage quoted above is from a letter that exists in Nichiren's own hand.

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“Manchukuo”

During WW11, right wing Japanese militarists loyal to Nichiren’s teachings, occupied China and established the puppet state “Manchukuo.” This was to be a staging ground for the larger cataclysmic global war. It was here that Lt. General Shiro Ishii of the notorious Unit 731, developed a leading edge in Biological Warfare. Using captured POW’s as test subjects, Ishii and his team were responsible for some of the most abhorrent human experiments ever recorded. A key figure during this period was Kanji Ishihara. A right wing military strategist, Ishihara predicted that the final war would be fought with future “weapons from the laboratory.” However, Allied victory in WW11 ensured that Japanese militarism ground to a halt, and potential developments of sophisticated weapons were outlawed. Nichiren’s cataclysmic doctrine, however, was not forgotten.(TESLA DOOM WEAPONS by David Gyuatt)