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   XPost: alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren   
   From: r0s9t8u3v2@aol.com   
      
   On May 11, 3:30 am, Alias  wrote:   
   > On 5/11/2013 5:32 AM, Disbasing Zen Stories wrote:   
   >   
   > I don't know nor do I care. I do know that SGI is a cult that has Ikeda   
   > as their object of worship. I also know what actual proof is and I've   
   > received lots of it.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Alias   
      
   Ah, but not knowing and not caring is the head-in-the-sand position of   
   an ostriche: this is very vulnerable. The devilish function likes to   
   keep people trapped in a false sense of security during their life   
   such that their unrecoverable surprise on their deathbed is all the   
   more distinctive.   
      
   Knowing and caring that one is NOT following a falsehood or Fake Geika   
   is the position of a Buddha: indestructible happiness. You impugn   
   Sensei, but you cannot impugn the total love and affection that   
   President Toda had for his one true disciple. He manifested it   
   publicly. Sensei is the rightful leader of the SGI, and his mentor was   
   the one true disciple of President Makiguchi, who stuck it out with   
   him in prison and carried on afterwards: AS IF THE MENTOR WAS STILL   
   ALIVE AND PRESENT.   
      
   That cannot be said of Nikken, who was a self-appointed High Priest   
   and who personally sundered the chain of succession of High Priests of   
   Nichiren Shoshu, whose terminal link was Nittatsu. Nittatsu hid the   
   Transfer Box with his family to prevent Nikken from appointing himself   
   High Priest with any kind of proof of authority or security. Insecure   
   and unathorized Nikken destroyed every single thing that Nittatsu had   
   built or created at Taisekiji, as an expression of his frustration   
   upon failing at all attempts to criminally extort the Transfer Box   
   from Nittatsu's family: culminating with his destruction of the Sho-   
   Hondo. To both Nikken and Nichinyo, Nittatsu is truly dead, and   
   Nichiren Daishonin and Nikko Shonin before him are truly dead as well.   
      
   Following self-appointed priests who hate and despise their mentors   
   and the Founders and who practice extortion by destroying the property   
   of the Buddhist organization is probably what Nichiren Daishonin and   
   Nikko Shonin would consider to be well summarized by the statement "I   
   don't know nor do I care." It characterized the state of Buddhist   
   practice that the Daishonin had to face and contend with his whole   
   life, right up to the moment of his death.   
      
   By actual proof, I presume that you mean conspicuous benefit of the   
   material kind: nice Mediterranean weather where you are, success in   
   your business, reasonably uneventful family life, Spanish economy   
   hanging in there, etc. Those things can and will change quickly.   
      
   What does not change, irrespective of circumstances or struggles, are   
   the inconspicuous benefits of the heart.   
      
   No matter what is going on, or what challenges I face, from the top of   
   my head to the tips of my toes, every cell feels deep and unshakeable   
   happiness all the time and every day. I guess that's what Sensei calls   
   joy.   
      
   Whenever everything else is taken away from me that happiness will   
   remain: and that moment is coming, because my existence here is the   
   very state of impermanence. "Lots" of material "actual proof" will not   
   sustain you through that transformation, nor will your relationship to   
   the self-appointed Geika and his evil philosophy, nor your head-in-the-   
   sand attitude. That goes for the rest of you Zen people as well.   
      
   -Chas.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)