Nikken's End #3B: The Purges Begin -
Nikken's End ? or NIKKEN ZENned ? You be the judge ...
.. "What distinguished the Indian system from that of the
.. ancient Western world is the absence of slavery. The
.. caste system made formal slavery unnecessary in ancient
.. India."
..
.. - from The Two Cl***** of the Four-Fold Caste System, by
.. Sudheer Birodkar.
In Nikken's Threefold World, which is "the world of unenlightened
beings who transmigrate within the Six Paths" ** [Hell, Hunger,
Animality, Anger, Humanity and Heaven] ... the 3rd chapter describes
the structure of Nikken's World of Animality.
** Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism
________ Table of Contents _______________________
..
.. Notable Purges In History
..
.. Stalin And The Moscow Trials
..
.. The Wider Purge
..
.. The Purge You Didn't Notice
..
.. Obaya**** As First Kulak
..
.. Definition of Animality (Chikusho)
..
.. Getting Some Help
..
.. The Survivor Gita
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________ Notable Purges In History _______________
From the Wikipedia ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge)
.. The purge has been a political tool throughout recorded
.. history.
..
.. In the era of Republican Rome, Marius proscribed Sullan
.. sup****ters after he and Cinna ousted Cnaeus Octavius; Sulla
.. followed with even more brutal proscriptions against Marian
.. sup****ters when he came into the dictator****p. The Second
.. Triumvirate instituted more proscriptions some forty years
.. afterward after taking control of Rome from Caesar's
.. murderers.
..
.. The earliest use of the term itself was the English Civil
.. War's Pride's Purge. In 1648, the moderate members of the
.. English Long Parliament were purged by the army. Parliament
.. would suffer subsequent purges under the Commonwealth
.. including the purge of the entire House of Lords. Counter-
.. revolutionaries such as royalists were purged as well as
.. more radical revolutionaries such as the Levellers. After
.. the Restoration, obstinate republicans were purged while
.. some fled to New England.
..
.. The French Revolution saw revolutionary factions purging
.. each other. The most famous purge was Robespierre's Terror
.. which ended with him being purged as well. After the fall of
.. Napoleon, all those associated with revolutionary activity
.. were purged.
..
.. Purges are often associated with the Stalinist and Maoist
.. regimes. Those who were purged (among them artists,
.. scientists, teachers, people in the military, but also many
.. long-time communists who dared to disagree with the party
.. leader****p) were sent to labor camps or executed. The most
.. notorious purge was the Great Purge initiated by Joseph
.. Stalin during the 1930s. Deng Xiaoping was known for the
.. distinction of returning to power multiple times after
.. surviving multiple purges.
..
.. The Nazis also engaged in purges, most notably in the Night
.. of the Long Knives (1934) and the mass reprisals against
.. Adolf Hitler's opponents following the July Plot (1944).
Of these kinds of purges, the purge most likely surrounding a shaky
succession (like the hand-off of the imaginary Transfer Box, between
Nikken Abe 67th and Nichinyo/Gikan Hayase 68th) ... is the Stalinist
Purge.
________ Stalin And The Moscow Trials ____________
From the Wikipedia ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge)
.. Between 1936 and 1938 three Moscow Trials of former senior
.. Communist Party leaders were held. The defendants were
.. accused of conspiring with the western powers to assassinate
.. Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union
.. and restore capitalism.
So accusations of dealings with the Soka Gakkai or the Reform Priests,
whether true or not, become sufficient proof to render one of the
priests, vulnerable to a purge.
.. The first trial was of 16 members of the so-called
.. "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre," held in August
.. 1936, at which the chief defendants were Grigory Zinoviev
.. and Lev Kamenev, two of the most prominent former party
.. leaders. All were sentenced to death and executed.
The accusations of misconduct are immaterial. The clearing out of
opposition to the changes being brought about in the next stage, which
is the consolidation of power, will affect anyone who is not a
complete and utter minion of the power elite.
.. The second trial in January 1937 involved 17 lesser figures
.. including Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov.
.. Thirteen defendants were shot, the remainder received terms
.. of imprisonment in labor camps where they soon died.
..
.. The third trial, in March 1938, included 21 defendants
.. alleged to belong to the so-called "Bloc of Rightists and
.. Trotskyites," led by Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the
.. Communist International, former Prime Minister Alexei Rykov,
.. Christian Rakovsky, Nikolai Krestinsky and Yagoda. All the
.. leading defendants were executed.
..
.. There was also a secret trial before a military tribunal of
.. a group of Red Army generals, including Mikhail
.. Tukhachevsky, in June 1937.
..
.. Some Western observers who attended the trials said that
.. they were fair and that the guilt of the accused had been
.. established. They based this *****sment on the confessions
.. of the accused, which were freely given in open court,
.. without any apparent evidence that they had been extracted
.. by torture or drugging.
..
.. The British lawyer and MP Denis Pritt, for example, wrote:
.. "Once again the more faint-hearted socialists are beset with
.. doubts and anxieties," but "once again we can feel confident
.. that when the smoke has rolled away from the battlefield of
.. controversy it will be realized that the charge was true,
.. the confessions correct and the prosecution fairly
.. conducted."
..
.. It is now known that the confessions were given only after
.. great psychological pressure had been applied to the
.. defendants. From the accounts of former OGPU officer
.. Alexander Orlov and others the methods used to extract the
.. confessions are known: repeated beatings, torture, making
.. prisoners stand or go without sleep for days on end, and
.. threats to arrest and execute the prisoners' families. For
.. example, Kamenev's teenage son was arrested and charged with
.. terrorism. After months of such interrogation, the
.. defendants were driven to despair and exhaustion.
Once the political enemies are finished off, the sense of relief in
everyone else who is a "Survivor" is palpable.
This relief is short-lived, however. The worst has not yet begun.
________ The Wider Purge _________________________
.. Eventually almost all of the Bolsheviks who had played
.. prominent roles during the Russian Revolution of 1917, or in
.. Lenin's Soviet government afterwards, were executed. Out of
.. six members of the original Politburo during the 1917
.. October Revolution who lived until the Great Purge, Stalin
.. himself was the only one who survived. Four of the other
.. five were executed. The fifth, Leon Trotsky, went into exile
.. in Mexico after being expelled from the Party but was
.. murdered by a Soviet agent in 1940. Of the seven members
.. elected to the Politburo between the October Revolution and
.. Lenin's death in 1924, four were executed, one (Tomsky)
.. committed suicide and two (Molotov and Kalinin) lived. Of
.. 1,966 delegates to the 17th Communist Party congress in 1934
.. (the last congress before the trials), 1,108 were arrested
.. and nearly all died.
..
.. The trials and executions of the former Bolshevik leaders
.. were, however, only a minor part of the purges ...
..
.. While kulaks were "liquidated as class", on July 30, 1937
.. the NKVD Order no. 00447 was issued, directed against "ex-
.. kulaks" and "kulak helpers", among other anti-Soviet
.. elements, see NKVD troika. This order was notable in several
.. respects, becoming a blueprint for a number of other actions
.. of NKVD targeting specific categories of people.
The Kulak's worst crime was of being competent in commerce. Their
ability to do commerce on the local level was the possible seed for a
counter-revolution. Therefore, they had to go.
.. A series of national operations of the NKVD was carried out
.. during 1937-1940, justified by the fear of the fifth column
.. in the expectation of war with "the most probable
.. adversary", i.e., Germany, as well as according to the
.. notion of the "hostile capitalist surrounding", which wants
.. to destabilize the country. Polish operation of the NKVD was
.. the first of this kind, setting an example of dealing with
.. other targeted minorities. Many such operations were
.. conducted on a quota system. NKVD local officials were
.. mandated to arrest and execute a specific number of
.. "counter-revolutionaries," produced by upper officials based
.. on various statistics. .
So, in the end, the thing that threatens an incompetent elite that
wields power ... is any competent sub-group that does not.
And a competent sub-group that can be crushed, MUST be crushed. The
drive to crush the potential threat is overwhelming. Any vehicle will
do, and most likely the one that does the job finally, is only the
last in a series of failed attempts. And that ultimate successful
subjugation is done with a vengeance.
________ The Purge You Didn't Notice _____________
There was a purge done in Nichiren Shoshu that you may have only
partly noticed.
Of course, there was the embarrassing growth and success of the
competent Soka Gakkai, that showed the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood for
the negligent and lazy parasites that they were. Then, specious
charges were flung at President Ikeda, which didn't do it at first,
then later something stuck well enough, and the Soka Gakkai was purged
completely in the hope that some would submit, but the numbers of
cowards and traitors to the Law itself, were too small. Those purges
were inneffectual because of the strength and core determination of
the member****p to do Kosen Rufu.
But that's not the purge that I'm talking about.
The purge that I'm talking about was completely effective and was done
IN PLAIN SIGHT, but went unrecognized for what it was.
Only now, in the light of the story of the missing Transfer Box, which
is the heritage of the High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu, is it possible
to understand the methods and purpose of the seemingly insane actions
of Nikken Abe, the 67th High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu.
Now, for the first time, the truth can be seen for what it is !!!
Only the Transfer Box could give Nikken an unchallengable hold on the
past, present and the future of the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood.
Without it, his hold would remain tenuous, and his legacy of control,
insecure.
In the prologue to the book "The Self-Appointed High Priest", is
recorded only the FIRST effort to retrieve the Transfer Box by the
false High Priest two days after the death of the previous High Priest
Nittatsu, by attempting to extract it from Nittatsu's family in the
person of his son-in-law Sugano.
After that failure to retrieve the Transfer Box, and in a pattern of
terrorist actions that only the mind of Nikken Abe and the Al Qaeda
commander of Iraq, Zarqawi, could understand ... the legacy of
Nittatsu Shonin the 66th High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu was destroyed,
piece by piece, until the last and greatest piece, the Sho Hondo, was
the last remaining hostage that Nikken Abe held a knife to the throat
of. True to his brother Zarqawi, Nikken acted grimly, as the butcher
he is.
Without ever going public, the Hosoi sons and Nittatsu's son-in-law
watched in horror as Nikken Abe unspeakably reduced every single thing
that Nittatsu ever did to rubble, and yet they would not give up the
one thing that Nikken would destroy everything for, the legitimizing
possession of the Transfer Box for Nichiren Shoshu.
And they were right not to, for having gained possession of the
Transfer Box, Nikken would have had to proceed to do the exact same
series of actions, so as not to appear guilty of extortion. And of
course, there is the evil joy of gloating over subjugated victims, by
teaching them a lesson in persistent determination.
So, this is real reason why the Sho Hondo had to go.
The Soka Gakkai was not even part of it !! We were just some extra
pieces on the Go playing board.
Atari !!!
________ Obaya**** As First Kulak _________________
Someone finally perceived the threat that Obaya****, as head of the
Overseas Bureau, posed to any succession of the High Priest. As a
competent and corrupt head of a network of priests around the world,
any small set of temples in Japan could be joined with the network
under his control and that would be seen as Nichiren Shoshu. Indeed,
after the departure of several temples in Japan to the reform
movement, that clearly IS NICHIREN SHOSHU !!
So, whither goest the Overseas Bureau, goest Nichiren Shoshu.
This was too much of a threat and so in August, 2 months after the
publi****ng in English of "The Self-Appointed High Priest", and 3
months before the announcement of Nikken's handover of the High
Priest's position to Gikan Hayase, Obaya**** got canned in a forced
retirement. And this was a castration to Nichijyun Fujimoto's hopes
for an after-succession coup d'etat. (He's speaking in a subdued and
higher pitch now, I'll wager.)
And Obaya**** was replaced at the head of the Overseas Bureau by a
handsome fellow, who is unconnected by any close family ties, and who
can be easily controlled or disposed of.
(This introduces an inherent weakness and inefficiency in the
organization. But winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing.)
Having lost three temples in court challenges when the Transfer Box
could not be produced, Nichiren Shoshu is now in trouble and must
seize the remaining temples under close family control, before any
more im****tant temples are lost.
****ba in San Francisco and Kawabe in Wa****ngton were only the
ignorable beginning. It is only a matter of a very brief time before
all the major temples not now under the control of the extended group
of the 6 clans (Hayase, Abe/Takanos, I****i, Kimura, Imano) ... will be
brought under direct control of family members.
The window of op****tunity for the exodus of those vulnerable, non-
family priests in those temples is quickly closing.
However, the issue of the Tranfer Box being published now in English,
makes a successful court challenge possible and even likely for both
Overseas Bureau temples and Nichiren Shoshu temples in Japan, for the
first time. This is precisely BECAUSE it is internationally public and
cannot be hidden any more from the view of non-Japanese eyes.
Now is the time to take your temple over to the other side. After the
consolidation, it will be too late. Then the next and closer
consolidation will occur, as the old Hokikai faction finally reaps the
benefits of a century of maneuvering ...
________ Definition of Animality (Chikusho) ______
From (http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/SokaGakkai/Study/
Elementary/Text3.htm):
.. The third world is that of Animality (chikusho). In this
.. state we are like an animal driven by survival
.. instincts, lacking any restraining virtues such as
.. reason or morality. People 'in this state observe only
.. the "law of the jungle." They take advantage of those
.. weaker than themselves and submit to those who are
.. stronger.
________ Getting Some Help _______________________
If you are a Nichiren Shoshu Priest, or a Hokkeko member from anywhere
in the world, and are thinking about switching to the Soka Gakkai
(SGI) call or contact the Headquarters at SGI Plaza (http://www.sgi-
usa.org/cgi-bin/locator.cgi?ZIP=90401)
Tell them that you are a Nichiren Shoshu Priest or Hokkeko member, and
wish to speak to someone about the SGI, and what to do.
________ The Survivor Gita _______________________
Who will replace the "Sen'ou Nezumi" ?
Nikken, the Usurper King of the Rats at Taisekiji, has been replaced
by Nichinyo, who is an angry member of the elite, due to too many
blows to the head. A little punchy, and brief in his rule, since
Nikken has plans for his son to take over.
One thing that is known for certain: There will be a new Rat King. And
quickly there will be another.
Another thing that is known for certain: All the alliances will
change, and more than once. Anyone that has watched Survivor knows
this.
Rule Number Zero:
The War of the Rodents can only be won by ... King Rat.
More to come ... These questions will be answered !!!
-Chas.
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Reading from "Reply to the Mother of Ueno", Writings of Nichiren
Daishonin, p. 1073-1074 ...
'However, those who declare that the Lotus Sutra is superior to all
the other sutras are justified in doing so. In fact, they will enjoy
great benefits. This is because their declaration accords with what
the sutra itself says.'
'Prefacing the Lotus Sutra is a work called the Immeasurable
Meanings Sutra. It is like the vanguard of generals who go before the
procession of a great king to quell disturbances. This Immeasurable
Meanings Sutra states, "In these more than forty years, I have not yet
revealed the truth." These words are like the great bows that the
generals carry to drive away the king's enemies with arrows, or the
swords with which they cut those enemies down. They are like a royal
proclamation, sharp as a sword, directed to the members of the Flower
Garland school who read only the Flower Garland Sutra, the priests of
the Precepts school with their Agama sutras, the Nembutsu believers
with their Meditation Sutra, and the True Word teachers with their
Mahavairochana Sutra, chastising them for failing to follow the Lotus
Sutra and bringing them to submission. They are like Yo****ie attacking
Sadato, or Yoritomo destroying the forces of Kiyomori. These words of
the Immeasurable Meanings Sutra, "In these more than forty
years . . . ," are the sword and rope of the wisdom king Immovable, or
the bow and arrows of the wisdom king Craving-Filled.'
'When the late Nanjo Goro made his way across the mountains of
death and the river of three crossings, the soldiers who escorted him
and repulsed the mountain bandits of earthly desires and the pirates
of past offenses and allowed him to proceed safely to the pure land of
Eagle Peak were these words of the Immeasurable Meanings Sutra, "In
these more than forty years, I have not yet revealed the truth." '
'The "Expedient Means" chapter in the first volume of the Lotus
Sutra states, "The World-Honored One has long expounded his doctrines
and now must reveal the truth." It also says, "Honestly discarding
expedient means, I will preach only the unsurpassed way." In the fifth
volume we read, "Only the bright jewel that is in his
topknot . . . ," [Lotus Sutra Chapter 14] "This one jewel exists only
on the top of the king's head," and "the way that powerful ruler did
when he took the bright jewel he had guarded for so long and finally
gave it away." '
'The im****t of these passages is this: The great collection of
scriptures has been brought to this country of Japan, numbering 7,399
volumes, and each one of these various scriptures is a follower and
retainer of the Lotus Sutra. To illustrate, the men and women in this
country number 4,994,828, but all are subjects of one man, the ruler
of the country.'
'As for the significance of these various scriptures, let me give
an analogy that even an uncomprehending woman can understand
immediately. Suppose that one is building a great pagoda. In addition
to the lumber to be used in the pagoda itself, one gathers together a
large quantity of small timbers and uses them to build a scaffolding
ten or twenty feet in height. After one has done this, one uses the
original lumber to construct the pagoda. And when the pagoda is
completed, one then removes the scaffolding and discards it, leaving
the pagoda in place.'
'Now the scaffolding represents the various other sutras, and the
great pagoda, the Lotus Sutra. When the Buddha preached the other
sutras, he was in effect erecting a scaffolding in preparation for the
preaching of the Lotus Sutra.'
'In the same manner as the sutra describes when it says, "honestly
discarding expedient means," persons who put their faith in the Lotus
Sutra should first cast aside and fling away the Namu Amida Butsu
invocation based on the Amida and other sutras, the teachings of the
True Word school based on the Mahavairochana and other sutras, and the
two hundred and fifty precepts of the Precepts school based on the
Agama sutras, and other teachings, and then they should embrace the
Lotus Sutra alone. When one is preparing to build a great pagoda, the
scaffolding is of great im****tance. But once the pagoda is completed,
then the scaffolding is removed and thrown away. This is the meaning
of the passage about "honestly discarding expedient means." '
'Though the scaffolding is necessary to complete the pagoda, no one
would ever dream of discarding the pagoda and wor****ping the
scaffolding. And yet the people who seek the way in the world today
spend their whole lives reciting Namu Amida Butsu only, and never once
chant Nam-myoho-rengekyo. They are like persons who discard the pagoda
and wor****p the scaffolding. They are examples of the secular saying,
"seemingly wise, but actually foolish." '
'The late ****chiro Goro did not take after other people in Japan
today. Though still a youth, he followed in the footsteps of his
sagacious father. And at an early age, having not yet turned twenty,
he began chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, and thus he became a Buddha.
This is what the sutra means when it says, "Then not a one will fail
to attain Buddhahood." [Lotus Sutra Chapter 2] I hope that, if you,
his loving mother, are thinking with longing about your son, you will
chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and pray to be reborn in the same place as
the late ****chiro Goro and your husband, the late Nanjo.'
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