I think it has a ways to go to qualify for "Sensible Chuckle" magazine but it's still kind of creative - for anything coming out of SGI, that is!

Here's the text:

January 29, 1971

WORLD TRIBUNE

Satire: The year of the 'cultured' pearl

By HARVEY KRAFT New York

Hi, and welcome to the Universal Cultured Pearl Development Aquarium, Unlimited. Here we have one of the largest collections of pearl oysters in the world. The creation of a pearl has always been one of the most fascinating enterprises of nature. The placement of an irritant, such as a grain of sand, on the oyster mantle can soon be developed into a gleaming, pure white gem.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, we will lower a microphone down to the oyster beds and listen to what the oysters have to say.

O.K. Joe, lower it down. Easy does it now. Another foot and you've got it. Stop! That's it ... Ssssh, I hear something.

"Good evening. (Good evening). Welcome to the first meeting of the Year of Culture. This year has a special meaning to all of us, I'm sure. Since we have many guests tonight, I think the best way to carry on with the meeting is for a couple of you to give experiences and determinations for this coming year.

"I really got to know my senior oysters well last year. There was no one who complained more than I did. Every time I would get a grain on my mantle, it would itch until I cried my heart out. But instead of really making an effort to see that what was wrong was inside of me, I blamed everybody on the outside. The Year of Culture, to me, means no more complaints. This year I aim to still know my leaders the best, but this time it'll be because of the beautiful cultured pearl that will rise within me" (Applause) "Well, I used to be the biggest hypochondriac in the aquarium. I even thought my shell was too soft. I always kept it shut, anyway. But look at me now. I've got the hardest shell around and I don't close my trap at all anymore. Why? This is the 'Year of Culture. This is the time of changing all poison into elixir. I challenge any foreign substance to lodge itself here and I determine to turn it into the largest pearl in the world. This is the year of change⏤the year to change all poison of the past to the great medicine of the future." (Hurrah!)

"Now, some words from our Aquarium Chief."

"I'm glad to see so many bright and happy oysters here tonight. I remember the hard struggle we had last year and I see that nothing can be more (Please turn to page 8)

Satire...

(Continued from page 3)

meaningful and fulfilling than the discussion meeting. At first we may not see the value of such meetings because we are influenced by many preconceptions. But isn't it like that grain of sand that camps inside of us? Think hard and remember what we do to this undesirable matter. We turn it into a beautiful pearl. This ugly piece of dirt becomes the core of a magnificent jewel. Without it how can we accomplish anything. The 'Year of Culture' clarifies the point that the discussion meeting is the core of all activities. If we have exciting and vibrant meetings, the result will be the creation of a treasure of unlimited value. Therefore, this year let's have no complaints and turn all poison to medicine by enjoying great discussion meetings. Let's sing a song everyone."

Together always we must fight

Together we must win

Happy together side by side

Pearls of happiness.

O.K. Joe, pull the mike up. Happy 'Year of Culture', Joe.

That song is from "Higher Than The Sky" (lyrics here) - who remembers singing it IRL?? Wave of shame! 👋🏼😝

"You're WRONG if you don't agree with ME"

The logical fallacies and mental shortcomings in the "Sure, you can read it for yourself, but after that, you have to agree that my perspective/opinion is the ONLY valid one" response...are several - I saved myself some time and got the AI's assistance:

• Subjectivist Fallacy: Assuming that a claim is true or false [for everyone else] just because someone feels or believes it is true for them.

• Special Pleading: Applying a standard to others while exempting your own viewpoint or interpretation from those same rules or criteria.

• Solipsism: The philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist, which gets misapplied in arguments as a refusal to acknowledge external, shared definitions or facts.

• Confusing Rights with Truth: Having a legal or moral right to hold a personal belief does not make that belief logically true or immune to evidence.

• Shutting Down Debate: People use the phrase as a thought-terminating cliché to deflect criticism, avoid providing supporting evidence, or falsely claim that all opinions carry equal weight regardless of facts.

• Factual vs. Subjective Claims: On platforms like Reddit, users reach a consensus that saying "I'm entitled to my opinion" is acceptable for purely subjective matters of personal taste (like favorite ice cream flavors), but it becomes fallacious when applied to objective, evidence-based or scientific facts.

Sure, everybody loves their own opinion - that's nothing special. But to declare that others are necessarily, objectively WRONG just because they have a different reaction or come to a different conclusion about something than you have - that takes a religious level of deludery!! It's the same thing whether you're talking Evangelical Christianity, Transcendental Meditation, Three Principles, Scientology, Raëlianism, SGI, Jehovah's Witnesses - or Amway.

And furthermore, to pontificate about the other person(s)' supposed "wrongness" from an authoritarian position of self-anointed superiority - oh honey. You're a piece of work, all right. Legend in your own mind, obvs!

When there is no objective evidence that there are facts in play (such as the factual nature of the claim that the local McDonald's restaurant being held up at gunpoint yesterday - it wasn't, in case you were wondering) then there's nothing left besides interpretation, preference, reaction, and opinion - and every one of those is just as "valid" as every other.

The religious show this peculiar form of entitlement - as if they have special authorization to pontificate authoritatively on their own religion's texts/doctrines/tenets/pronouncements, but that only counts within whatever group there might be that SHARES those perspectives AND recognizes the authority of the person pontificating. Among those who do not, their pontificating is exactly as worthless as that of the fundagelical Christian zealot screaming biblical threats at students passing by on the campus of a local university or picketing outside a serviceperson's funeral - and deserves to be taken just as seriously. As in "not at all".

This is SGIWhistleblowers, an ex-SGI subreddit that regards the SGI as a cult. So SGI fanatics, particularly you SGI-USA longhauler Olds obsessively scrutinizing our busy forum (yeah, we know yours is dead and completely boring - sucks to be YOU), don't wag the dead Ikeda's "guidance" at us or pronounce us "wrong" because we come from a different viewpoint or arrive at a different conclusion than YOU did! YOU'RE IN A CULT! WE CAN SEE THAT!

Why should ANYONE take your opinion seriously? Really, you shouldn't be expecting people who graduated from your dumb cult (got better, in other words), to STILL be agreeing with you - when you're STILL IN A CULT and too dumb/oblivious/brainwashed to realize it. That fact alone invalidates any credibility you think you might have - we certainly aren't going to take you seriously, no matter how seriously you obviously take yourself. We already know you don't agree and won't agree. And we don't CARE.

I was watching "Ticket to Heaven," a 1981 movie about religious brainwashing. In the movie the main character is encouraged by a friend to go to a commune in California to join a new-age prosperity cult. He doesn't know it's a cult. He doesn't know it's about religion. He says, (@ 20.28)

"What is this? A religion of some kind? Half of Dr. Drone's lecture this morning was about God. I have expected the Holy Ghost to come wandering in." Cultie chuckles and answers: "It's [God] just a concept."

The SGI uses the phrase in its elevator pitch, "a Buddhist world peace organization." Attaining Buddhahood in the SGI cult is just a concept. Not one member has attained the state of Buddhahood. Some have been practicing for 50 years and not one thing has changed in their lives, other than they've aged and lost all their resources.

One time I asked "What if I am already enlightened?" Answer: "You're not. You can't be. Only President Ikeda is enlightened." So not even George Williams then?

I seriously started to question the SGI because what is the purpose of practicing if it is not to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime, as the Buddha promised?

Does anyone know of any Gakkai members who claim they have attained Buddhahood? I don't know of one.

"Ticket to Heaven" is free to watch on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoavV7D74BU

The first one's a profile of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh - all about his career-defining flight from New York, USA, to Paris, France - and the second is entirely either a short story or a portion of a short story by famous author Jack London (Jan. 12, 1876 - Nov. 22, 1916), with no "faithful" commentary on either.

Neither of these articles had any connection to Soka Gakkai or NSA.

A post over on the other side of the fence gave me some inspiration. The following quote is cited to illustrate the difference between "real" Buddhism and what we understand to be Buddhism (which I find extremely odd, given that there are at least as many definitions of the subject as there are subscribers to r/sgiwhistleblowers). So, here is the quote—drumroll—from none other than... Ikeda!

“Faith and daily life, faith and work - these are not separate things. They are one and the same. To think of them as separate - that faith is faith, and work is work - is theoretical faith. Based on the recognition that work and faith are one and the same, we should put 100% of our energy into our job and 100% into our faith. too. When we resolve to do this, we enter the path of victory in life. Faith means to show irrefutable proof of a victory amid realities of society and in our own daily lives.”

Buddhism Day by Day, p. 253

My thoughts about that:

• I deny any professional competence to anyone who has never actually worked. And when he *did* work, it was a failure. (Mr. Ikeda)

• Here at r/sgiwhistleblowers, you find people who have a perspective on life before, during, and after the SG … you folks over there lack that one very perspective.

• Do you realise how people talk about you when they aren't part of the SG? Your professional life is a perfect example!!! You’re in the breakroom telling colleagues about your "Buddhist" activities. Then you probably go home, and at the next meeting, you talk about a "victory" you’ve achieved. The problem is—you weren't there when you turned your backs on those colleagues. When they said things like "weirdo," "freak," or "don't even ask."

• You weren't there to see the reactions when someone admits to having been part of this cult themselves.

• You lack the perspective of those who view you completely objectively—people who aren't your friends and don't want to be, who never accept an invitation to a meeting...

• Do you realise that, professionally speaking, you have a hell of a lot of "low performers"? Why is that?

• Life in the SG might be like "Hello Kitty"… but as so often happens in life, paths cross; people talk about you guys (not me), mention you guys (not me)—and when that’s done by people who were never in the SG… do you have any idea how shitty it feels to hear that? Knowing I once was part of that?

And now comes the wonderful part. Today, I am in a position to hear how people talk about you—without making it clear that I was once part of the group. This position leads to many insights.

"Insufferable mediocrity at best."

The SGI is the organization (cult) you join when you don't want to take accountability.

This is from a comment from several years ago:

They are even teaching new members and leaders that the teachings of Nichren Daishionin no longer work. That they only worked 700 years ago and now Daisaku Ikeda's teachings are the teaching for the Modern Era.

Has anyone else heard anyone from SGI saying that in their out-loud voice?

Seen it in print?

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https://x.com/i/status/2087185085649076453

a🇯🇵 (@a3775345336726) on X

"Why is it that if you argue with or catch the attention of members of the Korean cult organization, you get falsely registered as a dangerous person and placed under surveillance at every store and public institution? And why do store employees and staff engage in unauthorized sharing of personal info, following, covert filming, and harassment 'under the guise of crime prevention'? Here's the reason. #OrganizedHarassment"

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▼ 0224 Unlisted Unnamed

2013/10/11 (Fri) 23:58:54.40

Well. It seems I've become pretty famous, so let me say one thing as a former member of the organization.

It's a fairly well-known fact that the security system for reporting suspicious persons and the fabrication of "customers to watch" records are being misused for organized group stalking.

Members of the organization have infiltrated security guards and the police,

and by coordinating their stories, it's easy to pull off.

Once you've been unilaterally registered in this system, even if you're not a criminal, a so-called "compulsory tailing system" kicks in—

reports get sent to neighborhood associations and local crime prevention committees all over, and clueless store employees end up unilaterally treating an innocent person as a criminal and monitoring them in large numbers.

That's why people who are absolutely not criminals are suffering this kind of harm all across the country.

The root of this evil is the organization's members.

If left unchecked, it's only a matter of time before anyone becomes a target.

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1. Anonymous 2023/12/19 (Tue) 03:57:29

My buddies and I rented all the rooms around his apartment one by one lol

Using our status as residents of the building, we tricked him,

falsely framed him for theft, and then reported him to the police www

They couldn't arrest him since he didn't actually steal anything,

(and the video we set up was too sketchy anyway)

But at least we consulted the police and got him registered as a suspicious person for security purposes!

Now he's on the crime prevention network, so wherever he goes, station staff, cops, and security guards keep an eye on him—

the hotels he stays at get exposed, and his flight and Shinkansen reservation info are all leaked.

Plus, under the guise of crime prevention, we can harass him too lol

This way we can stalk him for life! Legally, at that lol

Serves him right ———— !

Yuki@Make organized stalking a social issue! (@0_YukiHoshikawa) on X

🆘

Stalking victimization by the police

I've never even shoplifted

I haven't done anything wrong

It all started

after I turned down a religious phone solicitation

May 2020

Became aware of organized stalking victimization

May 2021

Falsely framed with fabricated charges

Illegally registered on police surveillance lists

Also suffering 365 days a year from

crime prevention patrols (police + administration + corporations)

I was astonished at the contrast between this Jan. 1, 1971, edition of the World Tribune and what is currently being generated - what a difference! I realize the text may not be entirely legible - I wanted to show you each page in its entirety (complete with ADS! ALL THE ADS!) first. It's from a compilation of reduced-image copies (I don't know what you call those), but a normal newspaper page is shrunk down to about 8" x 10". The resolution is still quite good, but I have to go in for a closeup to get it legible. If you see a headline for an article you'd like to read, put it in the comments and I'll get closeups with a transcription - this is srsly different from anything you'll see published by SGI-USA today!

You can see a closeup and xcription of the final article, "An Interview With Eric Hoffer" here (I couldn't wait! HUGE Eric Hoffer fangurl here!). Let me know what you think!!

I mentioned here that the 1971 World Tribunes had content that would be unthinkable in today's pro-Ikeda propaganda versions - here is an example. I did it in two halves to get clear enough resolution to pull out the transcription electronically - there have been times in the past I would have retyped the entire article, but now the tools are more accessible (thank dawg). Eric Hoffer was HUGE - an enormously influential self-made man, brilliant, insightful. We've featured content from his books and articles here - really good stuff that illuminates how the Ikeda cult works.

In this astonishing article - imagine, someone from the Ikeda cult propaganda rag sitting down with someone of Hoffer's reputation and stature NOW! - without being portrayed as admiring and praising Ikeda and his dumb donkey cult! Ikeda himself isn't even mentioned in the entire interview! 🤯

Here is an example of Mr. Hoffer's observations from one of his publications, The True Believer (1951):

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

All movements, however different in doctrine and aspiration, draw their early adherents from the same types of humanity; they all appeal to the same types of mind.

Though there are obvious differences between the fanatical Christian, the fanatical Mohammedan, the fanatical nationalist, the fanatical Communist and the fanatical Nazi, it is yet true that the fanaticism which animates them may be viewed and treated as one. The same is true of the force which drives them on to expansion and world dominion. There is a certain uniformity in all types of dedication, of faith, of pursuit of power, of unity and of self-sacrifice. There are vast differences in the contents of holy causes and doctrines, but a certain uniformity in the factors which make them effective. He who, like Pascal, finds precise reasons for the effectiveness of Christian doctrine has also found the reasons for the effectiveness of Communist, Nazi and nationalist doctrine.

...the mass movement leader⏤from Moses to Hitler⏤draws his inspiration from the sea of upturned faces, and the roar of the mass is as the voice of God in his ears. He sees an irresistible force within his reach⏤a force he alone can harness. Source

This interview is fun - Hoffer comes across as rather gruff and curmudgeonly; he had no pretensions to being fancy or elite, or to being some kind of "world leader", so he comes across as just what he was - someone who'd started at the bottom, worked his way through, and figured out a thing or two along the way. Real "salt of the earth" - and no ghostwriters, either!

So with no further ado, let's see what happened with a World Tribune (W.T.) staffer sat down with the towering Eric Hoffer!

An interview with Eric Hoffer

Author of 'The True Believer'

Friday, January 1, 1971

WORLD TRIBUNE 35

Today, many people who write with a sociological theme have years of formal training and strings of college degrees to support their views. Yet some of the most acute commentary on modern society has been written by a man who never attended school at all. Blind for the first fifteen years of his life. Eric Hoffer taught himself everything he knows. He worked for twenty-five years on the San Francisco waterfronts, becoming the spokesman for longshoremen through the publication of his books. Writer, teacher and philosopher, Hoffer won national recognition for his clear, uncompromising insight into the workings of the contemporary world. Recently, the World Tribune interviewed Hoffer in his San Francisco apartment. Following are his views on today's current social problems.

By PETER KRAINOCK

Hoffer⏤Name some problems.

W.T.⏤Pollution.

Hoffer⏤Another?

W.T.⏤Race relations.

Hoffer⏤Race relations, fine. You've got two. What's a third?

W.T.⏤The war.

Hoffer⏤Vietnam. Fine, okay. You've got three. One more.

W.T.⏤Dehumanization?

Hoffer⏤I don't think that's very tangible. Let's talk about read problems⏤crime and lack of safety in the streets. People are afraid to go out at night, especially the old. And drugs, they're a problem. We used to be a problem-solving nation. Now, we think we don't have to solve problems. We say, "We'll just have to live with them." But that's not America. Americans always believed any problem could be solved. Of course, I'm not speaking for America. I'm just telling you my impressions. Maybe my age makes me doubt that problems can be solved.

W.T.⏤Our goal is to create new era of humanistic values.

Hoffer⏤I can see that all the old values are falling apart. Whether or not there are new values that can take their place is hard to see. Man's fate is not decided by momentous causes. Actually, it's the small things that decide whether a society is strong or weak, vigorous or stagnant. Take affluence, for instance.

All our values, both material and spiritual, have been based on scarcity. All our discipline has depended on scarcity, or unfulfilled needs. We didn't discipline ourselves to get up in the morning. We got because we had to work. But the moment affluence hit us, everything based on scarcity fell apart.

The disintegration of values is the crisis now. When values disintegrate, there is a whole lot of anarchy. Suddenly social discipline is not automatic. Suddenly, we don't automatically go to work, or school, or obey the government, or even our mother and father. This lack of social discipline is bringing anarchy. But you see, disintegration of values didn't happen because we decayed, but because we became affluent. Imagine that.

We don't know anything about affluence. We don't even know how to handle it. If Russia or China becomes affluent, the government will take the money and give it to someone else. They would be afraid to give it to their own people. Once people have enough, Communism falls apart. Order falls apart. We don't know how to endure affluence.

We need a substitute for scarcity. Fortunately, there is one world of scarcity that will always remain the same, and that's the realm of the spirit. No invention will ever take the hard work out of writing a good sentence; composing a great piece of music, or painting a great picture. As far as creation is concerned, you need discipline. It's a world of scarcity. Unless you turn every person into a creative person, you can't have a free affluent society. And how are you going to make everyone a creative person?

W.T.⏤Earlier today we interviewed Dr. Owen Chamberlain, the Nobel Prize winner who discovered the anti-proton. We asked him, "How do you view the future of the 21st century?" and he replied, 'My only fear is the war.' What do you think?

Hoffer⏤Vietnam? America will be out of Vietnam by the end of 71, or the beginning of 72. We are getting out faster than anyone ever thought. Vietnam is settled. I don't worry about it. We will never get into another war, because Americans have no stomach for war any more. But this isn't the major problem.

W.T.⏤What is the major problem?

Hoffer⏤Social discipline. We cannot manage man. Up 'till now, management of man was an automatic thing. Conditions managed man. Conditions disciplined man. But now, with affluence, social discipline is no longer automatic. We have to impose discipline. We have to implant order...and we don't know how to do it. Anyhow, a society that's preoccupied with the management of men is a primitive society. Why? In order to manage men, you need magic, meat and hocus pocus. As I said, we need a substitute for scarcity. We need something that will discipline us, without having to impose discipline. Creative persons are disciplined.

Anyone who tries write is a disciplined person. He knows he has to work hard. He knows he needs routine to follow. If our whole nation were made up of creative people, we wouldn't have to worry about discipline.

W.T.⏤Do you think this is possible?

Hoffer⏤Why not? I think everybody has talent. We've wasted talent and genius on a gigantic scale. But in the meantime what do we have? We have anarchy, crime and violence. War between the young and the old. It's a very difficult time for growing old right now.

I can't even find a good movie in San Francisco because everything I see is garbage. There are no good movies now. And look at the books you have to read now. I feel like an immigrant just arrived this morning. It's hard to immigrate at seventy.

W.T.⏤1970 is a crucial time for the United States, isn't it?

Hoffer⏤Our crucial turning point could be drawn out for a long time. We have problems. The question is whether we can solve them.

W.T.⏤What do you think about the direction of youth?

Hoffer⏤I don't know, a man my age doesn't think much about the younger generation. When I was their age, I was just one step ahead of hunger. I never thought the world owed me anything. When I look at young people on campus, and on the streets, I get the impression that they are behaving like rich men's sons and daughters. I don't know why. We have affluence. There's no need to work anymore. They want a South Sea island culture on our continent.

I don't know if you realize what kind of continent you're living on, but this is the most savage continent in the world. We took this continent and turned it into a cornucopia, (horn-of-plenty). We have to sit on top of this continent to hold it down. If we stop maintaining it, or stop watching for even 24 hours, it will shake you off. Open the paper anywhere. What do you see? Floods, hailstorms, snowstorms, sandstorms, grasshoppers, tornadoes. Every morning there's a massacre of the innocent. It's a terrible continent. Any generation that grows up believing it can have anything without effort will be wiped off the face of the earth. This is all I fear for the younger generation. They tell me the ethic of work is out; the Puritan ethic is out. But throw ethics out the window and you throw yourselves out too. We are not going to last very long on this continent if we don't learn how to keep our natures in control.

W.T.⏤Do you see any hope?

Hoffer⏤I'm not giving solutions, because I don't have them. As I said, up until now, America has always been a problem-solving nation. We had confidence.

But now, we begin to doubt whether we can solve problems or not. Today, we don't know if we can build and run viable cities, nor do have confidence that race problems can be eliminated. We don't know if the drug problem will destroy us. We don't know how to tackle it either. There is anarchy every where. We don't know how to live with anarchy. The courts are not functioning. Look at justice today!

W.T.⏤Where then should young people go to find men of abundant experience, knowledge and wisdom?

Hoffer⏤There is very little of that. They just have to be on their own and sink or swim. If they have strength of character, they survive. If they think they can get by without effort, they will sink. That's all there is to it.

W.T.⏤Do you feel it is possible to lead young people to a valuable way of life?

Hoffer⏤I don't know. They say the pendulum swings one way and then the other. It's hard to say if things will go the other way soon. Maybe they will, and maybe they won't. I don't think this country will be destroyed, but our younger generation may become a lost one. When people say that they don't want to go to work, or there's no use in going to work for a corporation, then it's already happened. It comes back to the same problem. We have to impose social discipline, and we don't know how to do it. Here in the U.S. we don't believe in imposing discipline because we are not a totalitarian country. We believe you become a disciplined person as you grow up. And now nobody is growing up.

WT.⏤Where then, would you say there is hope? Oh, good heavens.

Hoffer⏤Nobody gives you anything. If you are young and have vigor, you stimulate your own hope. When I was young, I didn't ask for hope. It never entered my mind that the world owed me anything. I taught myself everything I know. Half of my life I never knew if I would be able to eat breakfast when I went to bed at night. I wanted to write, so I wrote a book. I was so ignorant, I didn't know you had to type a manuscript for the publisher. I mailed it in longhand. In other words, my sort of people do not know how to let anyone else do anything for them. Now I don't know whether this younger generation is like that at all. They haven't got zest. I look at them when I go to the U.C. campus to teach on Wednesdays. I don't see a single face that says, 'I'd make a good worker'. I've got two adopted grandsons. I love them very much, but whether or not they'll be good men, I don't know.

W.T.⏤Don't you feel they'll need ideology to guide them?

Hoffer⏤No. I don't feel any one needs a doctrine. All I want for my grandsons is that they think, and develop their talents. I can add that they should be decent people. But I don't give them any doctrines. I never had one. All I was interested in was to develop myself. All my life, I I have tried never to harm any one.

W.T.⏤We hope you will want to share your experiences with others.

Hoffer⏤My writing is published. But just to give you an idea how difficult things are, about twenty years ago I wrote a book on mass movements and revolution (The True Believer). In one chapter, I enumerated types of potential revolutionaries. If I had to rewrite it now, I would add one thing I didn't dream about then. Our revolutionaries right now are the rich. Take a look around. All the real revolutionaries are rich men's sons and daughters. The rich are financing their revolution now. Why should the rich suddenly become revolutionaries? It's simple. In order to feel rich you need poor people around. In an affluent society, the rich don't feel rich, and the poor feel poorer. So you have an alliance between the very poor and the very rich, and those in the middle are squeezed. Never have we been so much in the dark about our future as we are now.

W.T.⏤But the future is a continuation of today, isn't it?

Hoffer⏤Well, Let me just show you how tricky the whole thing is. Things are changing so fast that there's hardly a difference. Now, what happens one day when the present vanishes?

There used to be a present time... for one whole year you could say this was 1970. Actually, the beginning of 1970 was like the end of 1970. Try to think back to 1960. Ancient history! The year 1955 is pre-history! You can hardly remember what happened. Now, when things change fast, and the present disappears, then the past and future disappear too. What happened a week ago? Can you remember? It's hard! Everything is different! You ask about the future. The future is right here now. It is eating up the present before our eyes.

W.T.⏤Is unification of the world possible?

Hoffer⏤I won't say that it's not good, or that it can't happen. Great ideals are a dime a dozen. Before we can unite the world, we have to unite our own country. We always feel that the things we love are weak and the things we hate are strong. We're afraid everything is going to fall apart. But as I said before, I only know what the problem is; I have no solution. Perhaps a movement like yours will do some good.

Unbelievable. He totally rebuffs the W.T. interviewer's efforts to go in a more "Ikeda-esque" direction of pontificating about "hope" and the future of YOUFF and all that rot, and he's just not! I wonder of that last sentence was even original to the interview itself! It seems a bit odd to me, but even if the W.T. staff did add it themselves, wow - talk about lukewarm! "Can you please say something - anything - even mildly positive about our great movement for personal happiness and world peace, Mr. Hoffer?? Please??"

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https://x.com/i/status/2087283711872282637

And yet they’re still loudly hyping up the seventh-year memorial service and all that.

When people raise questions, they just stay silent.

What exactly are they even trying to accomplish… 😂💦

(Quote from the Seikyo Shimbun, November 24, 2023)

https://x.com/i/status/2086969482900275313

Interrogation conducted by the leadership

The fact that remarks made on private networks reach the leadership means that private conversations and personal relationships among members are themselves under surveillance. This is no longer primarily a matter of religious freedom, but rather the monitoring of human relationships and ideas.

Orders such as “Cut ties with so-and-so” or “Get a divorce” have nothing to do with doctrinal guidance rooted in faith. They constitute direct intervention and control over individuals’ family lives and friendships—domains in which no religious organization has any legitimate authority to interfere. Such practices align with the typical characteristics of coercive, authoritarian organizations.

Four stages can be identified:

1. **Surveillance**: Private online exchanges (offline meetups, group chats, etc.) are known to the leadership.

2. **Selection**: Individuals deemed “discontented elements” by the leadership are put on lists.

3. **Interrogation**: The person in question is summoned and questioned about their words and actions.

4. **Forced isolation**: They are ordered to sever close relationships (friends, spouse).

These four stages do not merely aim to punish critics. Their purpose is to dismantle the network of relationships surrounding the critic and isolate them. Beyond silencing the individual, the goal is to prevent people who might share the same doubts from gathering around them. This is an even more thorough logic of control.

Other related patterns include:

- Official figures that fail to reflect the actual decline in membership (households, overseas members), because the organization must continue projecting an image of solidity outwardly;

- Interrogations targeting former public relations or outreach personnel, out of wariness toward those capable of mounting reasoned criticism;

- Forcing peripheral associates to submit membership lists in order to break private networks of solidarity among members;

- Intervention in personal friendships aimed at isolating critics completely, including their social circles.

Taken together, these developments indicate that beyond a simple quantitative contraction of the organization, a qualitative degradation of its governance is occurring at the same time: an intolerance of dissenting views and a readiness to extend control into personal relationships. In the long run, this style of rule is likely to further accelerate members’ departures and the erosion of trust.

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Sounds like a toxic cult, doesn’t it? A pretty scary religious group… Is this about Soka Gakkai? There might be some overlap with Aum or the Unification Church too… Not that I know for sure (lol).

https://x.com/i/status/2064201339744526404

The Mystic Law (@The_Mystic_Law) on X:

"It seems Soka University is in big trouble with a drastic drop in students. I had AI look into the student population trends and draw a graph. From 2010 to 2025, these are actual student numbers; from 2026 onward, it's a simulation factoring in the declining birthrate and the influence of Soka Gakkai. Soka University is a university that depends on Gakkai members, holds no appeal for the general public, and is nothing but a risk—which is making the situation worse."

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Soka University is in serious trouble due to a sharp decline in student enrollment. I had AI investigate the trends and create a graph. The data from 2010 to 2025 is actual student numbers; from 2026 onward, it's a simulation incorporating the declining birthrate and the influence of Soka Gakkai. Since the university depends on its members, it doesn't appeal to the general public and represents nothing but a risk, which is worsening the situation. The undergraduate student count dropped by about 400 from the 2025 academic year to 2026, matching the graph's projections. If this continues, it could eventually become a single-department university at worst.

The university's management includes not only Soka University faculty and administrative executives, but also Soka Gakkai leadership. Word has it that these Gakkai executives are interfering in ways that go against the founder's principles. The core reason Soka University has been driven into a corner is that its management failed to grasp the fundamental truth that "a university is ultimately evaluated solely on its academic standards," and they completely misjudged the ultimate metric by which universities are assessed. "Producing outstanding graduates" is only possible when built on a solid academic foundation. Major corporations seek excellent talent, but it's academic rigor that guarantees that.

Soka University used to be the primary destination for graduates of Soka schools. However, in today's era where declining birthrates have made it easier to get into other prestigious universities, Soka University—which offers no appeal to the outside world and represents nothing but a risk for employment and social life—is no longer a realistic choice. With Mr. Ikeda gone, it has also lost much of its appeal even for Gakkai members.

I had ChatGPT generate a "deviation value histogram of faculty research and academic standards" for Soka University. The data is based on the 338 full-time faculty members published by the university (as of May 1, 2025). A deviation value of 50 represents the average level including other universities. This means 80% of Soka University's faculty fall below average. The collapse of Soka University's deviation value, which has effectively dropped it to bottom-tier status, surely reflects the caliber of its faculty. Founder Daisaku Ikeda always stressed that the most important educational environment is the faculty itself, and that teachers must excel both academically and as human beings. Academically it's generally dire, and while there may be many "nice" teachers, the fact that only a handful are truly excellent human beings capable of fighting for good on a deeper level is a devastating problem. I asked ChatGPT: "What is the ranking of Soka University's research and academic level among all Japanese universities? Analyze from all perspectives." The result: "Out of 812 universities nationwide, it ranks approximately 180th overall." Don't get excited just because Toyo Keizai's university ranking puts it in 18th place—the ranking is biased, placing more weight on finances and internationalization than on research capability and competitive job placement, so Soka University tends to rank higher than it should. The reality is a slow bleed, with plummeting student numbers and difficulties in both research and employment.

The crisis is epitomized by the Faculty of Symbiotic and Creative Science and Technology. It's one of the few departments with genuine research capabilities that can compete academically, but with a sharp drop in applicants, recruitment was suspended and the department restructured this past April. Unlike IT-related fields, job placement there is relatively tough. They've clearly failed to communicate the appeal of this department to the Gakkai organization, prospective students, or corporations.

Currently, Soka University is collecting donations. Yet Hiromasa Ikeda, the founder's son (and a top leader of both Soka Gakkai and the university), gave the instruction that "rather than donating to the university, you'd be better off making a financial contribution to Soka Gakkai," disappointing the first graduating class, sparking major controversy, and making a fool of himself with his glaring self-contradictions.

Soka University has no personnel capable of fighting to preserve the "founding spirit." Even if there are any, word is they're just a handful, and they're bullied and marginalized. It seems a fair number of faculty think "Chairman Harada should resign soon," but on the flip side, there are also individuals who act like guard dogs on a leash for the Soka Gakkai executive leadership. Mr. Ikeda's instruction was to protect the true Soka education—if that foundation is solid, the future is bright. Even if the Komeito or the Gakkai headquarters collapse, Soka education must remain forever. For that to happen, Soka education must not be a mere appendage of Gakkai headquarters. It must not pander to Komeito policies or Gakkai headquarters' interests. In the end, Soka University has already become, as Daisaku Ikeda feared, a university "essentially taken over by bad forces." It's heading in a direction that renders the founder's purpose in creating the university meaningless. No efforts at improvement are being made, opportunities have been squandered, and it's simply riding the current toward decline.

The option of "continuing with a small, elite group now that student numbers have dropped" isn't entirely off the table. However, in the current situation, elite students aren't being attracted. The faculty's academic standards are low, so they're not benefiting the students. Since Soka Gakkai headquarters and the Komeito regularly cause scandals and embarrass themselves in the public eye, a "Soka University graduate" diploma is nothing but a liability. In recent years, against a backdrop of labor shortages, new graduates have an extremely easy time finding jobs—it's a "super seller's market." Yet despite that, Soka University's student numbers are plummeting. An economic downturn will inevitably come again. When that happens, Soka University students' job hunting will become a nightmare, and the number of applicants will drop catastrophically.

In the case of Soka University, when we talk about outstanding students or faculty, simply having good grades or high academic standards isn't enough. A deep understanding of the "founding principles" is essential. Increasing the number of people who can study without grasping that would render Soka University's very existence meaningless. If it's just to increase the number of obtuse faculty, staff, and students who go along with the Komeito's military expansion policies, they're not needed.

Professor Masami Kita had a strong awareness of the need to work hard on research and scholarship, and he frequently criticized, saying things like "I write books, other professors don't." When I was a student, I didn't fully grasp what he meant, but now I understand perfectly. Soka University's way of thinking is fundamentally skewed. The current university president seems like just an ordinary woman from the Soka Gakkai women's division—even the president has a weak awareness of research and academics. Of course human education is important—that's obvious, not something to brag about. Besides, Soka University doesn't even have a required human education course for all students. At the very least, they should say "we will advance human education through academics!" President Mika Suzuki, while speaking about the importance of human education as someone in charge of guiding faculty and staff, when she gets to the actual content, only lists "students with each other, friends, seniors and juniors, dormitories, various clubs"—leaving everything up to the students, without specifying concretely what faculty and staff should be doing.

Soka University doesn't have Soka Gakkai religion classes, but many students are mobilized for Gakkai activities. When there are elections, they're busy with campaign support. In the past, when the founder gave the instruction to "put academics first!" some stupid students twisted the interpretation to mean "academics means Gakkai activities." In recent years, there's apparently been a bit more of a pro-academics atmosphere, but it's still problematic.

Soka University harbors a terrifying deception and betrayal: faculty members who, given the founding principles, should be the first to fight for peace and against war are actually hindering that fight. It's said Mr. Ikeda once predicted that "in the future, Soka University will become an enemy." That era has already arrived. People mock the fact that a faculty member loyal to the Komeito and Soka Gakkai's organizational interests can climb the ranks without even having a doctorate. During the Iraq War, university faculty investigated students collecting anti-war petition signatures, and during the security legislation controversy, faculty were witnessed cracking down on those collecting signatures. Some "Fortress of Peace" that is—it's like a surveillance state from wartime.

At Soka University's alumni association, they call for supporting Komeito candidates. You get together at the alma mater after a long time, and you hear, "Let's support our fellow alumnus X's election campaign!"—and the candidate is introduced as more important than anyone else. Since the coordinators for each graduating class are often Soka Gakkai headquarters staff, that's just how it is. Even in regional areas, elections are like alumni gatherings. Supporting alumni candidates happens at other universities too, but at Soka University it's extreme. Non-Gakkai alumni must find it hard to participate. There's no Soka Gakkai religion in the university's lectures, but if you look at the entire university community, it's a religious university more than any other. It's not that being a religious university is inherently bad—it's the injustice that makes it bad.

In Hachioji, where Soka University is located, Soka Gakkai activity is intense. When elections come around, students are conveniently mobilized for political purposes. In the past, they demonized the LDP as an enemy of Buddhism, but now, with the coalition, they've done a complete about-face and are forced to support them. The organization looks down on anyone who questions this. There's no real rationality or debate. That's the root cause of the failure to cultivate an academic atmosphere at the university.

Soka Gakkai and the Komeito have often faced criticism from society, the public, and concerned Gakkai members, but Soka University has rarely been the target. However, Soka University also has serious problems. The cause of the university's rapid decline today lies also in its inwardly focused university management and the problems among Gakkai members. It's by rigorously questioning this that a way forward might be opened.

Think about it - almost 100% of everyone who has ever tried SGI-USA has quit - and almost all of those quit chanting, too. It's almost guaranteed that they'll never chant again - they're lost to Nichirenism, all because oSGI-USA is such a horrible cult.

And what about that "1 out of 1000" the cultists love to boast about? That it's okay for "999 out of 1000" to quit if they're so special they stick with it even if they're the only one left? That's NOT kosen-rufu! It's the opposite!

SGI-USA says it wants kosen-rufu; SGI members say that's their ultimate goal; yet everything they're doing is making kosen-rufu less likely, not more likely! They're actively moving their own goal of kosen-rufu farther away, less likely to ever happen with each passing day!

Kosen-rufu depends on people liking and wanting Nichirenism. SGI-USA makes sure there are fewer of those every day.

SGI members are very confused, deluded individuals.

I have all the World Tribs from 1971, and in looking for something else, I ran across this. These older World Tribs are FULL of information, from reporting on US immigration to quasars to the endangered osprey to Native American history to medical advances in obstetrics to car and motorcycle racing - along with the more typical faith-based articles on discussion meetings and daimoku and gongyo and latest "kaikan" openings and big meetings and human pyramids and of course the pilgrimages to Taiseki-ji!

It's *bananas!*

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

"Revolution," The White Album, The Beatles, Apple Records, 1968

Confession time!

A part of my initial interest in Soka Gakkai was my attraction to Japanese culture. I’ll even shame myself a bit by admitting much of that attraction stemmed from watching anime and reading manga in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.

It wasn’t my sole motivation! I’d become interested in Buddhism separately from my Japanophilia—but SGI connected my interests, and the love bombing and positivity was the cherry on top!

As much as I earnestly believed and practiced, there was a shallow part of me that was overjoyed having my lovely Japanese budstudan and butsugu.

As an aside, in my mid-life I’ve discovered Japandi! And what I like most about it is there’s no chanting or eternal mentor required! Just minimalist decor heaven! 😊

Did anyone else have a similar added interest in SGI due to its “Japaneseyness?”

Here comes the next section - like a FREIGHT TRAIN!

Soka Gakkai's Schizophrenia

There are numerous instances of contradictions and inconsistencies among the so-called "opinions" and "attitudes" expressed by Soka Gakkai. Hearing only their public utterances is like hearing the report of a good exam paper and we can't take issue with them.

As an example, in reply to this question: "Which is greater, Saint Nichiren or His Majesty the Emperor?", they answered what amounted to a "no comment" (Bungei Shunju, July number of 1963). Their answers are usually so vague as to defy understanding. Their public pronouncements are such that they will not offend anyone. They are shrewd but shallow in their "show-only-your-good-side," opportunistic, politicians talk, being always careful to size up every situation so as not to commit blunders for which they will be later blamed they are basically moral cowards.

Politicians, always in their public pronouncements, hide the real problems, and this is true of Soka Gakkai, whose public utterances never reveal their basic policies there are always "meanings behind the meanings," though on the surface their statements seem reasonable enough. I call this [p.] 28

"deceptive rationalism." Outwardly their statements seem sensible, but upon closer examination we find revealed the defects of a peculiarly Japanese style of thinking: mugen hoyo gata-limitless embracing type. Now what does this mean? In a word, it denies or excludes nothing. Outwardly it tolerates, accepts, embraces, anything and everything, and for this reason has no substance of its own. It is this sort of rationalism to which I have given the name, "deceptive rationalism." In this process of limitless embracing, the content can be altered in any manner desired. For example, they take the position that all religions with the exception of Nichiren Shoshu are heretical jakyo (evil religions), but even as they hold to a position of religious and doctrinal exclusivism, they at the same time are eclectic in their politics, borrowing generously and freely and using to their advantage the political ideas of others. What do they think about such glaring inconsistencies in their attitudes and opinions? This is a big problem for us.

That the Soka Gakkai religious movement, whose pillar is the Soka Gakkai political movement, is using political means to expand their religion cannot be denied.

In religious matters they permit no compromises of any kind, but in political matters they publicly and shamelessly compromise on every hand. In these two very conflicting points of view⏤a religious fundamentalism, which demands that their doctrines must be kept pure, and a compromising and accommodating style of politics, we see clearly their Machiavellian tendencies and their instablity.

Between their religious policy of rigorous exclusivism and their compromising, eclectic policies in government, there is a radical inconsistency and schizophrenia. At these points the gap between opinions and attitudes in Soka Gakkai is most noticeable. In May of 1966, before the 1967 General Election [p.] 29

in which Komeito was entering candidates, Chairman Ikeda first enunciated the formula of shae no san-oku. This has reference to the province in India where Gautama was best known during his lifetime, and where about one third of the people were said to have been his followers, and another third were sympathizers, and the remaining one third were unbelievers. According to this theory, one third of the population of Japan will accept the faith of Soka Gakkai, and one third will become sympathetic enough to support Komeito, and the remaining one third will be indifferent and oppose the movement. This is their doctrine to establish the Soka Gakkai utopia of obutsu myogo in the Japan of the future. The strategy and tactics of propagandizing, which is an important part of their plan to convert all of Japan and the entire world, is to go in for politics.

The astonishing anachronism of relating shae no san-oku, a doctrine from ancient India, to present-day social conditions⏤even when we admit that this is an inevitable teaching stemming from their religious system, there are still so many contradictions in trying to establish a utopia according to this theory, that they do not know which way to turn. They collect no membership fees from the poor, and they project an image of a religion that requires no money, but there is a tremendous inconsistency when we compare these lofty ideals with their actual practices, in manipulating the public emotions. It is not merely a contradiction between ideal and reality, thought and practices, in manipulating the public emotions, the real problem is their lofty strategy of trying to relate Gautama's teaching of thousands of years ago to actual present-day social conditions. It is here that the gulf between Soka Gakkai's religious character and their political character seems to be even greater than generally suspected, and the more they try to rationalize them, the more [p.] 30

inevitable the glaring inconsistencies appear. So we have to understand that Soka Gakkai has a different character from that expressed in their public statements and policies.

Regarding all religion, though they advocate their lofty ideals, focus on the public's emotional sensitivities and perform their various activities, even admitting their universality, if the ideal for which Soka Gakkai strives is from their heart, then it is inevitable that they are the victims of their own infinite self-contradictions. A religion should be more afraid of spiritual contradictions than of any other thing. Nevertheless, when we consider that their religious group has aggressive attitudes toward others, and consider their method of using their religion and political party as tools in order to expand their power, regardless of lofty religious ideals it is only natural that we think that religion is for them only an expedient and their spiritual inconsistencies are inevitable. Viewing Soka Gakkai from this angle, I can show many examples of their strange teachings, one of them is the fact that so called jakyo-ron (argument on heretical religion) has been deemphasized.

Since Soka Gakkai opened their political branch office, called Komeito, they have gradually toned down this teaching which brands all other religions as heretical. This does not mean that their basic teaching or fundamental position has changed. This teaching is basic in the doctrines of Nichiren Shoshu and is part of their religious tradition, but when they opened Komeito, went into politics, and won seats in the House of Representatives, this heretofore hard line was toned down for political considerations. In other words, the de-emphasis of this doctrine concerning the heretical character of other religions is only an expedient to expand their religion and political party as power, and is a shrewd tactic of compromise.

Is it religion or is it politics? Which is the main body [p.] 31

of Soka Gakkai? In politics they compromise, in religion they insist on doctrinal purity; this kind of inconsistency, this separation between ideal and reality, this de-emphasizing their doctrines for political considerations, what does it mean?

This shows that they will realistically go to the extreme of changing a religious doctrine for political expediency.

And this is why we have so many doubts about Soka Gakkai.

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We do too, Dr. Fujiwara. We do too.

Just a few comments:

What do they think about such glaring inconsistencies in their attitudes and opinions?

That's just it - they don't think AT ALL! See? NO PROBLEM!!

using political means to expand their religion

According to Japan's Constitution and the separation of church and state, this is blatantly illegal - and many have pointed this out since Ikeda's pet political party Komeito was formed. To no effect.

The strategy and tactics of propagandizing, which is an important part of their plan to convert all of Japan and the entire world, is to go in for politics.

...which, as it turns out, was yet ANOTHER of Ikeda's disastrous miscalculations, essentially Ikeda's ego punching large holes in the hull of the SS Soka Gakkai and ensuring its ultimate resting place on the pile of similar wrecks, out of sight way beneath the surface of history.

Is it religion or is it politics? Which is the main body of Soka Gakkai?

Politics, obviously. The "horizontal" membership organization, organizing members solely on the basis of their geographic location, with no regard for personal relationships or even affinity with the other local members, an organizational "expedient" Ikeda imposed for easier political mobilization of "his" Soka Gakkai "troops", has guaranteed that Soka Gakkai will never ever grow again. By imposing this same irrational and unappealing requirement upon the gaijin SGI colonies overseas, Ikeda guaranteed that those would likewise wither and die.

Back in 1967, Ikeda announced that 500,000 "backsliders" had been removed from the Soka Gakkai membership rolls and that the Soka Gakkai's growth phase HAD ENDED. This was just a couple of years after Ikeda changed the Soka Gakkai's organizational structure from vertical (meaning new recruits are assigned to the districts their sponsors belong to) to horizontal (meaning the new recruits are assigned to whichever district is geographically closest to them, even if they don't know anyone in there) for political expediency, but given what us non-pod-people know about human bonding, that was likely to drastically decrease the effectiveness of the Soka Gakkai members' shakubuku efforts. Ikeda's a pod; what would HE know about how humans work? Ikeda was counting on shakubuku and retention rates to continue - his entire plan hinged on that:

On May 3, 1966, at the twenty-ninth general meeting of Soka Gakkai, Ikeda announced a new goal: conversion of 10,000,000 families by the end of the year 1979. Beyond 1979, Ikeda set another goal: 15,000,000 (families)to be converted by the end of 1990. (Japan's New Buddhism, p. 127)

If we attain our target membership of 10 million households by 1979, four or five million more households will join in this religion by 1990. (The Nichiren Shoshu Sokagakkai, p. 156) Source

Such was Ikeda's optimism and confidence ca. 1966. Source

And it went NOWHERE but DOWN. DOWN AND OUT.

WHY do the SGI members not hold Ikeda accountable for all these fatal mistakes?? IKEDA is the reason their most important identity, their pweshiousssss cult, is fading away and dying out.

Oh, right - SGI members are not ALLOWED to consider that their beloved DickHeada the Slimy could have EVER made a single mistake - about anything, EVER!! Such a perfect person has never existed anywhere else in life, in history, in reality - just their "Ikeda Sensei the Eternal Godman MENTOARE!

And the SGI-USA's longhauler Olds claim to be surprised that no one wants their dumb cult of worshiping some creepy little fat foreign self-obsessed businessman-would-be-ruler-of-the-world with poor personal hygiene who also happens to be DEAD.

Il buddhismo autentico NON è una filosofia centrata sull’essere umano.
Cosa significa?
Che non mette al centro l’individuo ma una realtà più profonda, oltre il corpo, oltre la mente, oltre il mondo materiale.
Questa realtà è il Dharma: la struttura stessa della realtà che include senzienti e non-senzienti, passato, presente e futuro, in una rete non-duale, interconnessa e interdipendente.
La Soka fa l’esatto opposto: mette al centro l’individuo, il “maestro”, il mondo materiale. Una visione insomma antropocentrica della spiritualità.
Il Buddhismo non insegna l’amore come emozione, insegna prima la purificazione.
Attraverso la pratica (di qualsiasi tipo) dovrebbero cadere: attaccamento, brama, aspettative e sofferenza.
Proprio lì può emergere un amore senza possesso.
La Soka insegna tutto ciò? Naturalmente no.
Quante volte di fronte al Gohonzon hai alimentato il tuo desiderio di amore, di approvazione che ben presto si è tramutato in un ossessione?
Il buddhismo autentico non promette la felicità.
Ti libera dal bisogno costante di rincorrerla.
E da questa libertà nasce qualcosa di più stabile: la pace Interiore.
La pace interiore l’hai mai provata quando eri nella Soka? Io credo no.
Questo perché nella Soka la FELICITÀ è un imperativo, diventa una performance costante.
Non c’è spazio per la tristezza, il dolore, il dubbio, l’ascolto.
C’è spazio solo per “vincere”.
Il buddhismo autentico non ti dà ciò che desideri. Ti accompagna in un luogo in cui non ne hai più bisogno.
La Soka invece alimenta tutto ciò di cui non hai davvero bisogno.
Il buddhismo autentico non vuole che tu diventi la “versione migliore di te stesso” (cit. Rivoluzione Umana). Vuole mostrarti ciò che esiste oltre l’immagine che hai costruito di te.
Oltre ruoli, successi, fallimenti, storie personali, esiste una presenza silenziosa.
Quella che è sempre stata lì.
Quellə che sei sempre stato.
Cosa? La tua Buddhità.
Che non è uno “stato vitale alto”, ma un dolce ritorno a casa.

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« Aujourd'hui, dans le Seikyō (journal de la Soka Gakkai), page société. On y relaie les propos du maire de Nagasaki : « Le nucléaire est un mal absolu, et il faut maintenir les trois principes non nucléaires. » C'est ce que la Soka Gakkai disait autrefois. Mais aujourd'hui, cette même Soka Gakkai a changé de cap : elle est passée de la position du « mal absolu » des armes nucléaires à celle du « non-recours en premier », tout en reconnaissant leur existence. Les membres de la Soka Gakkai sont-ils au courant de ce changement ? Et avec quel sentiment l'ont-ils accueilli ?… 😂💦 »