Bruce Maltz, the 11th World

uselessness of misleading causes

The Buddha told Ananda,

"You and others like you still listen to The Dharma with the conditioned mind,
and so the Dharma becomes conditioned as well,
and you do not obtain the Dharma-nature.
This is similar to a person pointing his finger at the moon to show it to someone else.
Guided by the finger, the other person should see the moon.
If he looks at the finger instead and mistakes it for the moon,
he loses not only the moon but the finger also.
Why? Because he mistakes the pointing finger for the bright moon.
Not only does he lose the finger, but he also fails to recognize light and darkness.
Why? He mistakes the solid matter of the finger for the bright nature of the moon,
and so he does not understand the two natures of light and darkness.
The same is true of you. (Shurangama Sutra).

Nichiren Sects are listening to the Lotus Sutra with a conditioned mind And do not obtain the joy or essence contained inside the Sutra because they are Not looking there. What are they looking at? Nichiren did not follow the human Shakyamuni, He followed the Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni, and identified him as a real person. The Human Buddha can be found in the first fourteen chapters. The Eternal Buddha appears at the Ceremony in the Air.Nichiren pointed everyone towards the Lotus Sutra, but everyone looked at Nichiren.All the sects looked at Nichiren and only gave lip service to the Lotus Sutra.After Nichiren’s death, everyone started to look at those pointing at Nichiren.When the Soka Gakkai came along, they said look at me, we will save you, Sometimes they even forgot to point.Now there are so many fingers pointing in so many directions you need a GLS system in fear of getting lost.Still everyone is looking at the fingers and everyone is getting lost, and the fingers are blocking the sun.Everyone is mistaking the fingers for the Lotus Sutra, the Eternal Buddha and his Original Disciples. My thesis and open to discussion is that Nichiren Buddhism is not a Religion,There are only people who believe it is.If everyone left all the Nichiren Religions, there would be no more Nichiren Religions. Back to the Ceremony in the Air, being a bodhisattva of he Earth

Maltz