Kempon Hokke

Teaching Daily

I teach people that: Your weight is the cause of your abscesses; your cigarettes are the cause of your poor lung function; your drinking is killing your liver; your diet is why your stomach hurts. In the secular realm, I am thanked for my advice based on the sound teachings of modern medicine whether the person institutes it or not. In the religious realm however, even if my intentions are just as noble, my arguments just as rational and based on the Lotus Sutra and Gosho, they are summarily rejected and I am attacked for attempting to help them.

If you lost one lung because of smoking many people would stop to preserve their other lung and to those who continued to smoke, I would emphatically reassert my admonitions to that person to stop smoking. If your life was filled with sorrow for practicing the deadly teachings of the SGI, you would think many would quit the SGI and those who remained would at least take a look at the teachings. Most don't and therefore I have no choice but to reassert my admonitions to them to leave the SGI

I conclude that the SGI is like nicotine, very pleasurable and addicting but deadly. You will excuse me if I point out how both are deadly. And yet, there are still some deluded people that argue that cigarette smoking prolongs life by reducing stress or other such nonsense. Such are the irrationalities in the secular realm. How much more so in the religious realm, where even, despite the horrific actual proof of the effects of the SGI faith and practice, the rational theoretical proof demonstrating superiority of the the authentic teachings of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin to the SGI's, and the doctrinal proof of the superiority of the Lotus Sutra and Gosho over the Human Revoloution, Living Buddhism, and the World Tribune, there are those that continue to engage in deadly behaviors, continuing to consort with the SGI rather than the Kempon Hokke, for example. I will never stop pointing out the dangers of both behaviors.

Mark