My "direct connection" to Nichiren Daishonin is the daimoku I chant,
Derek -
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(Derek N.P.F. Juhl) wrote in message
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> SGI USA MEMO
> DATE MEMO NO.
> September 26, 2003 ORG-037
> (excerpt)
>
> ADDENDUM No. 1:
>
> "The revisions confirm the religious identity of the Soka
> Gakkai as the body of believers with a direct connection to
> Nichiren Daishonin, dedicated to accompli****ng his will and
> mandate to carry on the heritage of true Mahayana Buddhism,
> which extends back to Shakyamuni Buddha's Lotus Sutra. Quite
> simply, we firmly believe that we are the only body existing
> today that can be considered true votaries of the Lotus
> Sutra in the Latter Day of the Law, true Mahayana Buddhists
> and true disciples of the Daishonin."
>
> Versus:
>
> "Basic Questions of Study," World Tribune, February 5, 1979
>
> "The expression 'direct connection with Nichiren Daishonin'
> has been used to mean fusing oneself with the Gohonzon of
> the Three Great Secret Laws, which is the life of Nichiren
> Daishonin.
>
> "It follows as a matter of course that the direct connection
> to Nichiren Daishonin goes through the high priest who is
> the True Buddha's messenger and who alone carries on the
> lineage of True Buddhism. 'Kechimyaku' 'Kechimyaku' has been
> translated variously as heritage, lifeblood or
> transmission."
>
> Derek Juhl
That last bit in the World Tribune was published in a time that the
SGI was being oppressed heavily by the Priesthood. The utter arrogance
of, and subjugation beneath, the authority of the High Priest was just
one of the causes that brought down Nittatsu that same year, and
opened the Age of Nikken.
He is a High Priest truly worthy of the hubris of being the "direct
connection" for the members of Nichiren Shoshu. Which is why the SGI
is not and never again shall be associated with NST. This is the work
of the Five Senior Priests at Taisekiji. The utter turning on its head
of the Daishonin's Buddhism.
But the spirit of the Five Senior Priests, which is alive and dominant
at Taisekiji, did not then, and will not ever, subjugate the members
of the SGI.
How about them apples, Derek? If you want to wor****p that decaying old
man at Taisekiji, you go ahead, bow and scrape. We never will. And
don't counter that I wor****p President Ikeda, Derek, because I don't.
Only the deluded ravings of Temple followers confuses the appreciation
that I have for Daisaku Ikeda, with "direct connection" wor****p by
dantos.
My "direct connection" to Nichiren Daishonin is the daimoku I chant,
Derek. Not a person. I uphold the Law, and not persons, Derek. All
persons are the same, and must not be upheld over each other.
If you want to deify Nikken, go ahead. But don't make the mistake of
projecting your insanity upon the SGI.
-Chas.
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From "The Entity of the Mystic Law", Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
p. 426 ...
In the final analysis, the meaning of the Lotus Sutra is that the
metaphor is none other than the entity of the Law and that the entity
of the Law is none other than the metaphor. That is why the Great
Teacher Dengyo in his commentary says: "The Lotus Sutra contains a
great many metaphors and parables. However, when it comes to the major
parables, we find that there are seven of them. These seven parables
are none other than the entity of the Law, and the entity of the Law
is none other than these metaphors and parables. Therefore, there is
no entity of the Law outside of the metaphors and parables, and there
are no metaphors and parables outside of the entity of the Law. In
other words, the entity of the Law refers to the entity of the truth
of the essential nature of phenomena, while the metaphors and parables
represent the entity of the Mystic Law as manifested in actual
phenomena. The manifestations are none other than the entity of the
truth, and the entity of the truth is none other than the
manifestations. Therefore, it can be said that the Law and its
metaphors constitute a single entity. This is why the passages from
the treatises and the annotations by the Tendai school all explain the
lotus as both the Law itself and a metaphor for it."
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