The Anticult
Date Added: 03/18/2006
Posts: 843 Re: Soka Gakkai International - Nichiren Buddhism`yeah, SGI is a waste. I have known many people into SGI, they seem to attract a "NewAge" crowd of folks, who like the social aspect of getting together, and the Magical Thinking of Chanting and Desiring material goods, better sex, nicer cars, and basically everything else the Buddha said is the origin of Suffering. How can something that is the opposite of Buddhism claim to be Buddhism?
One girl I knew, who was a good person, got lured into SGI, and was really into it. She ended up getting sick, and refused a lot of early medical treatment, as she thought she could get healed by Chanting. Didn't work, she got worse and worse. Then she finally got into medical treatments, too late, and literally had hundreds of people Chanting for her to heal.
She died, and left behind her kids.
They don't tell those anecdotes, those who have hundreds of SGI followers Chanting for them, and die a pretty horrible death in a few months.