What does this passage means?. It means that SGI cannot accomplish Kosen Rufu as a Lay believers on its own and create their own "new heritage" with the three presidents by themselves placing the emphasis on the connection to the mentor instead of the Gohonzon of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, cutting themselves off from and condemning the very priests and lay believers, who associate with them, who have been practicing and maintaining Nichiren Buddhism for the past 7 centuries plus.
The meaning of the passage that states that "as a matter of course will naturally conform to its intent" means that all practitioners who chant the daimoku whether they practice with the SGI or with the priests including the priests themselves are respect worthy just for the fact that they chant the daimoku. The question remains to be asked: what does it mean to chant the daimoku and conform to its intent? we would have to say that the intent springs from the passage declaring that the Lotus Sutra (hence the Gohonzon of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo) to be foremost among all the sutras the Buddha“ has preached, now preaches, and will preach.
If any practitioner, whether a priest or lay believer, who fails to place the Gohonzon of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to be supreme and foremost and instead places his/her relationship on a mentor, this priest or lay believer destroys the intent and heart of the Lotus Sutra.
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Aren't you still practicing in the SGI? No wonder you have so many issues with Leadership! Holy smokes man, the SGI is the only organization fully committed to worldwide kosen-rufu and you are bashing its mechanics and still a part of it? I appreciate President Ikeda's guidance and it enables me to encourage others to read the Goshos and to continuing living with a seeking spirit. If your intent is divisive and counter productive to the SGI movement in the USA then in my humble opinion I think you're going way overboard and planting seeds with bad genes my man.
You just posted about the 14 slanders and now you're basically insinuating the SGI will not accomplish kosen-rufu. Creating Disunity in the Buddhist order is a grave sin as you recently posted. I think you're totally wrong if that is the intention behind your words. I sincerely hope I'm misinterpreting your words. Do you have any idea what the Head Priest in Washington DC is talking about these days? Read the latest courageous hearts newletter if your still in the SGI because that Priest from the Nichiren Shoshu temple is bashing Christains, Muslims and Jews. Gimme a break my man, you can't be serious about what you're posting unless you attempting to cause other chanting growers to harbor doubts.
These Temple folks became super arrogant and ultra corrupt by 1991 and even destroyed the Shohondo! Did you also contribute towards building that amazing structure that these priests uprooted out of rage and jealously because they don't do shakubuku and are committed to retaining their supremecy over lay believers? Did you read the Untold Story of the Fuji School are is this just from your personal experience.
I think the first paragraph i quoted from you is riddled with bullshit ("new hertitage" is a misinterpretation) because it is at best an incomplete truth. PLEEASE Don't try and manipulate chanting growers against practicing in the SGI because that is the worst cause you could ever make on this thread in my humble opinion.
Please explain further because you really upset me with your words. They seem to be untrue and manipulative...
My understanding is based on what I read in the Gosho. You seem to have an emotional reaction and do not realize that Kosen Rufu cannot be achieved by perpetuating a dispute for over 20 years that has nothing to do with regards to correct faith these days and is based on emotionalism and loyalty. It all boils down to who is correct and who is incorrect in the light of Nichiren's admonitions conveyed in his writings to include Nikko's 26th admonitions. Since I am looking at things from the view point of correct teaching and incorrect teaching 20 years later and make my observation based on reading the Gosho, versus what is happening in both camps today, it is only a matter of time that you will find out that Kosen Rufu can only be established in the correct manner when both priests and lay believers adhere to the teaching of Nichiren Daishonin based on the Gosho, not based on which camp you are presently practice with, no matter how many shakubuku SGI accomplishes.
When those who chant the Daimoku live the words of the Gosho with their lives based on correct faith and hold the Three Treasures of the Latter Day of the Law as foremost, they more likely will prevail and survive the dreadful times we about to enter after Sensei closes his eyes in the next few years. If we who chant the Daimoku, being disciples of Nichiren, continue in a smear campaign and do not rely on the Law instead of person(s) and do not base our conviction on the correct teaching in the light of the Gosho, one group will definitely is going to perish and it may not be the priests.
You have questions whether I am an SGI member or not. Well, I am! But I am quite concern over the direction that SGI is taking today 20 years later. If you do not see it, it is because you have not been long enough to investigate, study, observe and live by the principals written in the Gosho.
If you feel that my observation hinder your efforts to lead anyone here to the “correct teaching” as long it is the SGI, I will refrain from continuing to post on this board. There are enough zealous people in SGI that read the Human Revolution instead of the Gosho and do not base their conviction on their faith in the Gohonzon of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. I am not one of them!
I humbly accept any challenge you may see to be cleared based on what I have written in regards to correct faith to any issue you may seem to be in question. Emotionalism has no place in clarifying the truth in faith.
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