Kempon Hokke

Mark once again shows his pacifist side concerning other countries and 60 years ago. Today he's more kill the Muslims. At least he's consitent.

"Sacrifice your own skin to slash the opponents flesh. Surrender your own flesh to saw off the opponents bone.' With their faithful implementation of this well-known Japanese fencing strategy during the war, the Japanese military is able to achieve glorious, ever victorious invincibility in the Sino-Japanese conflict and in the Pacific war, and thus. easing the minds of the Japanese people. This strategy of sacrifice should be held as an ideal lifestyle for those remaining on the home front and should be applied in every aspect of our daily life." -- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

Courage, you say greg_r?

You mean like cosying up to a fascist wartime government - courage?

Look no further: Kempon Hokke is all you need!

No SGI promotion and advertisements are allowed here. Use your own words to rationalize your bad behavior. We will not talk about Shin Yatomi's karmic retribution unless you persist. you would be better off worrying about your own Buddhahood then continuing to admonish us.

Dear greg:

You [and j] especially, are a breath of fresh air. I know this is a cliche but it's true. Hopefully, more than a few will come forth and join the Kempon Hokke and the rest continue to chant the Daimoku.

mark - nichiren said to discard the shallow and seek the profoung requires courage. most sgi leaders have no courage. they have become co-dependent. everyone outside of sgi knows this. a cult is a cult. the one's that do have some courage have already left or are leaving as we speak. don't be discouraged. to a man, they will all realize their great mistake. the sooner the better.

Certainly, you and the other SGI leaders aren't Bodhisattvas of the Earth, dragging people down, along with yourselves, into the Lower Six Worlds. Fact is, you are neither awake nor happy.

Mark,

The purpose of the emergence of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth is to correctly place the happiness of oneself and of others as an actual, tangible reality in this present life, not a lofty abstraction of intelligence, which looks down upon sincere practicioners, those of great effort yet seemingly great disadvantage, those you've never heard of nor whose experience you've mocked in one of your posts, the undefeatable life journey of those who give every last ounce of their faith, practice, and study to grab hold the arms of others and lift them up to awaken them to the indestructible state of life which is the fearlessness and happiness of buddhahood.

wake up

Thanks Greg:

Not that I'm great or even good but wouldn't it seem to you that for a nichiren Buddhist, the truth of these concepts is self evident, especially having studied for some years. Yet, after I posted this somewhere else, I was attacked by an SGI member, that happiness is the whole point of Buddhism. I was so disgusted I didn't even argue the point.

I'm sure the Sultan of Brunei is quite happy but is he Enlightened? I'm sure there were times Nichiren Daishonin wasn'tt very happy like the times he laments being all alone in the frozen wilderness. But he was enlightened. The SGI is a very shallow interpretation of the teachings.

thanks mark for all the really good information that you put on your site about nichiren and the lotus sutra. some people are paying attention.