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- Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:20 am
- Forum: Soka Gakkai/SGI
- Topic: Is world domination SGI’s goal?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27303
Re: Is world domination SGI’s goal?
Oh, those guys. Yes, they're one of very few such movements we know anything about in the west, infamous for some crimes committed in its name.
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:51 am
- Forum: Soka Gakkai/SGI
- Topic: Could Ikeda "become" a tulku?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6165
Re: Could Ikeda "become" a tulku?
When did he smoke?
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:49 am
- Forum: Soka Gakkai/SGI
- Topic: Seems Gakki study department has changed it's tune
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12599
Re: Seems Gakki study department has changed it's tune
You do realize that enlightenment and Buddhahood are not one and the same...
What, pray tell, could be the difference? Not to quibble, but this statement does not make sense.
What, pray tell, could be the difference? Not to quibble, but this statement does not make sense.
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 1:42 am
- Forum: Soka Gakkai/SGI
- Topic: Is world domination SGI’s goal?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27303
Re: Is world domination SGI’s goal?
Tell me about these harsh conversion methods.
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:17 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Provisional , transient , terms attributed to Buddhas
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4495
Re: Provisional , transient , terms attributed to Buddhas
Minobu:
I have never seen in any of the gosho any indications that Nichiren called himself a provisional Buddha. Are you familiar with the fifteenth chapter of the Lotus Sutra which describes the Bodhisattvas of the Earth?
I have never seen in any of the gosho any indications that Nichiren called himself a provisional Buddha. Are you familiar with the fifteenth chapter of the Lotus Sutra which describes the Bodhisattvas of the Earth?
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:46 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: can we talk about this/differing sect ideas in Nichiren Schools
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3361
Re: can we talk about this/differing sect ideas in Nichiren Schools
I recall reading that the devil king will seek to disrupt the prolongation of the lotus sutra in the later age. There is also a gosho regarding difficulties as proof of medicine working in progress. So as I see it the very challenge presented by the schism is an opportunity for Nichiren practitione...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:38 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: howdy pardners
- Replies: 1
- Views: 430
Re: howdy pardners
Your experience is instructive, and your humility in sharing it here is commendable.
I agree with you in part about debate: there's a place for it, but debating anything online is nothing but a recipe for disaster.
I agree with you in part about debate: there's a place for it, but debating anything online is nothing but a recipe for disaster.
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:07 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: What do you do if you cannot get a person to see their own hatred, delusions, dysfunction, etc?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1003
Re: What do you do if you cannot get a person to see their own hatred, delusions, dysfunction, etc?
Pray for their happiness. The more trouble they cause you, the more you should chant for them.
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:17 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: ? about Bodhisattvas of the Earth
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1153
Re: ? about Bodhisattvas of the Earth
Nichiren was circumspect in his assertions. In one document he says he isn't Jogyo or his disciple, other times he implied he was. I think no matter how you interpret it, literally or figuratively, what's going on today is "emerging from the earth." The Gohonzon didn't spread in the U.S. j...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:57 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Nichiren Shoshu/SGI Pre-Split
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1210
Re: Nichiren Shoshu/SGI Pre-Split
I joined several years before the split. This is too sensitive for an open thread but I'll be glad to talk about it in private message.
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:01 am
- Forum: Soka Gakkai/SGI
- Topic: Could Ikeda "become" a tulku?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6165
Re: Could Ikeda "become" a tulku?
The Soka Gakkai from its inception has been based on the master-disciple relationship.
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:17 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Ichinen Sanzen/Mahavairocana /Gohonzon/?Rigpa?
- Replies: 172
- Views: 20100
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:49 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Kosen Rufu Prayer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1596
Re: Kosen Rufu Prayer
by the way yes, Toda did say that
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:45 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Do you have to believe in spirits, deities, etc to be a Nichiren Buddhist?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5239
Re: Do you have to believe in spirits, deities, etc to be a Nichiren Buddhist?
Thoughts? I don't speak for the soka gakkai, but I do know that President Toda said it was up to you if wanted to believe in gods and dragons and buddhas or not. The important thing is practicing correctly. As far as the Gosho addresses it, I'd refer to "On Attaining Buddhahood": "Ne...
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:35 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Do you have to believe in spirits, deities, etc to be a Nichiren Buddhist?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 5239
Re: Do you have to believe in spirits, deities, etc to be a Nichiren Buddhist?
Thank you for reminding me of that.Könchok Thrinley wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:03 pm Not a nichiren guy, but one quote from Nagarjuna stuck in my head AFAIR it goes something like this: Since everything is empty everything is possible.
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:05 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: A few questions on forgiveness...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 767
Re: A few questions on forgiveness...
Nichiren had much to forgive in his lifetime, having been persecuted so much. He mentions in the gosho that he knew before he started that he would suffer, and vowed not to hate anyone who carried out such deeds. He then says that in spite of everything, "I remain safe to this day. This vow may...
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 5:53 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Kosen Rufu Prayer
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1596
Re: Kosen Rufu Prayer
Think of specific ways to link progress at work to kosen-rufu, like "I want this because it will lead to prosperity for both me and the company. By winning at work I vow to tell people about the benefit of the Gohonzon." Which is the best propagation, and leads one more step closer to kose...
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:21 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Properly Exchanging and Debating Ideas Between Various schools
- Replies: 4
- Views: 903
Re: Properly Exchanging and Debating Ideas Between Various schools
, Minobu. Very moving experience.
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:48 pm
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Advice for young buddhists
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3446
Re: Advice for young buddhists
The whole Nichiren Shonin is the Primordial Buddha thing is cool and i used to get excited at the possibilities....but it totally changes everything to do with the history and lineage of the Lotus Sutra and the very essence of Lord Shakyamuni now revealing this teaching to His Time. It sure does. If...
- Thu May 21, 2020 6:35 am
- Forum: Nichiren
- Topic: Advice for young buddhists
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3446
Re: Advice for young buddhists
I'd tell my younger self to find a copy of President Ikeda's "Ode to Youth"(published in 1974) and study it harder than I did then. I did read and think about it back then, but it is a rich work of instruction.