Interesting you accuse the Nichiren Shu sect of propagating Nichiren as a warlike leader. Yet, today, Nichiren Shu is the most tolerant branch of the Nichiren Buddhist religion. Odd, that development.
Lincoln and the Republican Party supposedly were the ones who freed slavery we live in a Topsy Turvy upside down World read the dialogue between daisak iKeda and European cultural critic Hugo
@@RFKjrForPres The Republican Party also was Anti-Slavery and the Democratic Party tried to keep slavery and Segregation. 👀 Everything isn’t as it appears sometimes
No matter what sect you are try to study the REAL message of Buddha ..... compassion, kindness, unconditional love, equanimity, wisdom, open mindedness, and many more that I can not type in this comment section. Study the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold paths.
I couldn't agree with you more. But also be willing to see what he taught in the last 8 years of his life that he said he wanted to teach everyone for the 40 or more years he was teaching the lessor vehicle sutras, which teaches us the vow he made from the beginning of his teaching, "To make all people equal to me with no distinctions." He never taught his teaching to be put on a pedestal and then be worshiped like an idol. That is idolatry and has nothing to do with his main reason for his teaching, as he said to let everyone know that they are all Eternally Endowed Thus Come Ones who have full access to the eternally endowed super natural powers of the thus come one.
Obviously like the gentleman sounding forth here, you are comng from a place of total ignorance about this Buddhism. I used to be like you, Life is not a beach when one is arrogant. It tends to hurt in the long run.
+Major Tim To Ground Control ++++ Nichiren Daishonin emphasizes in chanting the name of the Lotus Sutra. According to history of Japan, during when he was alive, not many Japanese at that time were literate. Only the upper class and the wealthy were literate. Now that we are in the 21st century, nearly everyone on Earth is literate. Study the Lotus Sutra ..... the scripture that summarizes all of Buddha's teachings before his death. Go to internet to learn the Lotus Sutra translated into English from Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese language. Since Japanese Buddhist sects appears to slander each other. Try to learn Buddhism in the mainland continent of Asia. There are NO sectarian separation in BUDDHISM in China, Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam. Please forgive me because I see Japanese Buddhism as a watered down version of the religion. Think about it. Japanese believe suicide rituals brings honor to the family name if a family member have done so-called dishonorable act??? For those who truly studied Buddhism, suicide is NOT the answer to so-called dishonorable act! The spirit of the person who committed suicide will suffer a woeful state in the afterlife. It is mentioned in the Buddhist teachings. Wish you best of luck to find a good English translation of the Lotus Sutra.
+Major Tim To Ground Control ++++ Nichiren Daishonin emphasizes in chanting the name of the Lotus Sutra. According to history of Japan, during when he was alive, not many Japanese at that time were literate. Only the upper class and the wealthy were literate. Now that we are in the 21st century, nearly everyone on Earth is literate. Study the Lotus Sutra ..... the scripture that summarizes all of Buddha's teachings before his death. Go to internet to learn the Lotus Sutra translated into English from Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese language. Since Japanese Buddhist sects appears to slander each other. Try to learn Buddhism in the mainland continent of Asia. There are NO sectarian separation in BUDDHISM in China, Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam. Please forgive me because I see Japanese Buddhism as a watered down version of the religion. Think about it. Japanese believe suicide rituals brings honor to the family name if a family member have done so-called dishonorable act??? For those who truly studied Buddhism, suicide is NOT the answer to so-called dishonorable act! The spirit of the person who committed suicide will suffer a woeful state in the afterlife. It is mentioned in the Buddhist teachings. Wish you best of luck to find a good English translation of the Lotus Sutra.
Read all those. Nichiren's view is much more progressive and much more enlightened than every thing you talk about above I have been a student of Buddhism for over 30 years. Read the 5 volumes of the Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra it will help you put everything in perspective you are talking about.
I was having fun, venting some fumes. All 10 worlds are contained in all the ten worlds, so as my tone of anger had buddhahood in it, as it was directed at the stupidity of the sites that lied about me that claim their lies are valid based on Nichiren Shu. That kind of potency of anger was perfectly appropriate for the stupidity they were using to screw their selves out of full awareness and the enlightenment they could be choosing to be, if they weren't choosing to be so ignorant.
Know it all.You really really need to take a serious look at this video again and your human condition in it. Perhaps after you chant,so maybe SOME semblance of humility might appear .and you can start over. In the meantime you can throw ten worlds at me but unfortunetlyy since I am presently in the SGI its so filled with Japanese Videos from the 40s, that I don"t' even know what the Ten Worlds are, I am aware of Ikedas, many many numerous DIALOGUES with famous people though. If being enlightened like you is what I have to look forward to, I want out now.
Sorry.I think Nichiren Shu are more kind and polite.They have the true peace .Nichiren Shu are the most peacefull sect here in Japan.Dont bark like a fox.
Thank you for your interesting point of view. They were the biggest cheerleaders of the war on Asia and the world before and during WWII. Glad they have changed their ways. .
@@RFKjrForPres Soka are like making war. World peace ect.became worst. Nichiren Shonin's teachings taught about enlightenment from awareness.Dont make excuses .I was in Soka 41 years ago.
Jessica's you don't like the messenger or how the messenger delivered the message doesn't mean you have to kill the messenger when the message is correct
Hello anyone. Soka Gakkai and👉Sgi are similar from them messing up from them then But Shu dont harm anyone and are a peacefull sect here in Japan. But But i am in Nichiren Shoshu since 1970 .Happy and no problem. The stories from Soka Gakkai from goverment or war after Nichiren Daishonin's Buddishm have nothing to do of it. Japan🧑🦳
There is no Ikedausm; not only is it a misspelling but even if you spelled ism right; it doesn't exist. All that exists in the ever growing, ever victorious SGI is the vow that Shakyamuni/Siddhartha/Gautama made in the Lotus Sutra: "In the beginning I made a great vow to make all people equal to me with no distinction." So if you are talking about Nichiren, Shakyamuni, Ikeda or you and me, there is no distinctions. You can only dislike another person if you dislike yourself. So everything you hate about Daisaku Ikeda and his millions (and growing) successors around the world is what you hate about yourself. Because, "I am he, as you are he, as you are me and we are all together." - John Lennon. That is what the oneness of mentor and successor means: Shi-te-funi. I don't have any judgments against Nichiren Shu and I love them as much as I love the Office of Home Land Security. It's just another government sponsored program that doesn't work.
Love it! Thanks for the video. I joined the SGI in 1998, and have been independent since the early 2000s. Best choice I ever made was to leave and practice & study on my own. Being a light unto myself.
It's changed so much since you left. I'd love to take you to a meeting that will really blow your socks off with some very enlightened people who keep a low profile.
After 55 years of practicing Nichiren Buddhism, I can tell you that Nichiren Shu is the most accepting and diverse of the varies sects I have practiced with. That would be Nichiren Sho Shu / Soka Gakkai, Rissho Kosei Kai, and Nichiren Shu.
The fellow in the video doesn't present his points (assuming he had some) very well. Practice what you're going to say, THEN turn the video camera on. I don't mean to be critical, but give me a break
Hello people he even dont know who Nichiren Shonin really are and the truth Nichiren was taught.He is in the most bad sect from it.Ha Ha.... Nichiren Shu are the most peacefull sect .THIS IS THE TRUE POWER THERE. 😁🤑
Nichiren Shu was the more supportive of the war against all of Asian that the Japanese military perpetuated in WWII. They twisted Nichiren's teachings to make it appear that Nichiren was some nationalist war monger. That is why so many scholars have the twisted perception of Nichiren as a nationalist. Because of the Sect Created by the Japanese government that was an instrument of the government called "Nichiren Shu."
Also, you mentioned you studied the histories of Japanese Buddhism - what are the names of these books? And, what books are you holding in your vid? Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra volumes? Gosho? or neither? Just curious.....
Wow, I'm bad with names. I would have to go to all the 6 or 7 Sendai City libraries I used to borrow books from and the Southern Illinois University in Nakajou (Niigata) Library where one I can remember the title was the Marathon Monks of Mt Hiei and another book was Hiro Hito, where a lot of Criticism of Nichiren Shu got me to contact the author and to find and read many of the books in his reference section. But I totally disagree with his thesis that Nichiren Buddhism is a nationalist and militaristic teaching. This was only a twisting of Nichiren's teaching that was caused by people joining Nichiren Shu which was a government created institution to twist and subvert the teaching of Nichiren the same way the Councils of Nicaea in Rome subverted all the teachings of Jesus with the creation of their so called "Bible," which conveniently expunged most of the best teachings of Christ, like the teaching of reincarnation (which were taken out at the 3rd council of Nicaea). But so many more book i read over the years, I don't remember the names. And then all the books I've checked out from all the libraries in Niigata (about 5 or 6 library). I don't even remember the names of most people I meet. I think because I've known them in too many lives and they keep changing their names. But if you send a few names of book to me I might be able to say oh yeah that was one I read from so and so library. I chew through books so fast, but luckily I've only had to replace 3 book from libraries in Japan that I lost or someone stole from me. I might be holding volume 5 of the Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra as it is on my shelf next to the Secret History of the Fuji School and the Orally Transmitted Teachings. So many of the books or university essays on Japan and on Buddhism that I got in PDF form from online libraries, are also on the 4 kindles that the screens cracked and I can't get access to my newest kindle because I don't have a wireless connection in Japan to register my kindle to get access to the book I purchased on my old broken kindles. When I wrote my first novel, I had used so much information from many books I read in the 80s and 90s that I published it under a different name than I was using at the time legally, because I didn't have the time to go back and check all the books to see if the ideas that I was having really came from all the books I read or I was channeling it or it was just wild delusional fantasies. But then in the 4 years at Soka University I was able to study all the subject I covered in my novel and I was able to see the crazy things I wrote about were more true that I was willing to be, know, perceive and receive at the time of the first publication of them and why I chose the novel format, so people could later say I was just make shit up which I was really sure any more.
Yes the Orally Transmitted Teachings (OTT) is great, but it really should be titled Nikko Notes from Nichiren's Lectures at Mt Minobu. Because that's what they are. But if you read them along with many other writings of Nichiren and along with the Lotus Sutra and along with the 5 volumes of the Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra it's all you really need to know about Japanese buddhism. Because most of Japanese buddhism outside of Nichirens's work and Dengyo's work is like Mental Masterbastion, especially the one hand clapping Zen, which shouldn't even be called Buddhism. It should simple be call mental gymnastics for monks who have way too much time on their hands.
ig·no·ra·mus /ˌiɡnəˈrāməs,ˌiɡnəˈraməs/ Learn to pronounce noun an ignorant or stupid person. "assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him"
My understanding is that Nichiren Shu generally defers to scholarship when it comes to determining which Gosho are authentic and which are not. This is an important issue, apparently, because some Gosho are questionable in their authenticity.
@@RFKjrForPres Shu did not make the war . That time who started the war? Damm.Nichiren Shonin and Shu are teachings the gosho not about a war.Atama karapo. Dayo.Then how was Shoshu and soka before war and past?
I've been Buddhist all my life and a few other lives. I'm a coincidence theorist. I think it's a coincidence that the Japanese government created Nichiren shu and then Nichiren shu was the biggest pusher of the Japanese war on all of Asia.
but you dont really practise the eightfold path do you? and it wasnt really nichiren shu who pushed the war it where more shinto and japanese nationalism who did it but what "kind"of buddhism do you then practise? coincidential buddhism?
I practice the form of Buddhism that Siddhartha/Gautama/Shakyamuni said was the final teaching and the only teaching to be practiced in the later day of the law, the 3 fold-lotus sutra. The pushing of war with Asia by the Nichiren Shu is and was well documented. This is just one of many sources you can easily find. alt.religion.buddhism.theravada.narkive.com/FM3rmELt/nichiren-shu-and-the-asian-holocaust-part-1-of-2 In the book Hiro Hito Nichiren Buddhism is described as a nationalistic religion, but Nichiren was the antithesis of a nationalist, he often made fun of the island mentality of the Japanese, but it was the Nichiren shu that distorted Nichiren's teachings to make them seem nationalistic. So I wrote this letter to the author of Hiro Hito: facebook.com/notes/tim-janakos/while-i-was-waiting-an-hour-for-the-peruvian-restaurant-to-open-in-ueda-japan/10150344453684383/
Already answered above. Please read my answer as it would be redundant to say it again. Nam myo-ho ren-ge kyo is the only teaching that the Buddha said would be relevant for the time we live in.
Great job ranting at the only reasonable Nichiren sect. From what I see, Shoshu places Nichiren above Gautama Buddha, while SGI preaches prosperity gospel and new age 'law of attraction' bs, which goes against the Lotus Sutra itself (see Chapter 4) Plus that Ikeda isnt even a monk lol. Still, Nichirenism as a whole is an extremist doctrine. Most of Japanese Buddhism is like this. Zen withs its Zazen-only approach. Jodo with its Nembutsu-only approach. No reason why a person shouldn't Zazen one day, Nembutsu another day and listen to the Lotus Sutra the following day.
Karim is exactly right. Having participated in NSA in the '80s and NShu in the '90s, you are correct. Whereas, this video is utter and complete nonsense and angry ranting. When I was in NSA, now SGI, they did NOT teach Buddhism. At all!! It was chant and get a cadillac. Chant and get a bigger butsudan. Chant and go straight--make babies for kosen rufu. Chant to make more $$$. NEVER, NOT ONCE were were ever told to chant for enlightenment, or taught the precepts or anything about true Buddhism. Load of crap--just like this video! When I was in NShu, the head minister (who now teaches in Hiroshima) ACTUALLY taught Buddhism, its history, precepts, practice, etc. It was a breath of fresh air! Unlike this video. And whenever NShu was attacked--as in this video-the leaders were calm, undeterred, and couldn't have cared less. They just went about their business and nodded politely. Unlike this video.
I went back and read all the president ikeda's guidances from the sixties and seventies in the community centered library in Santa Ana back in the nineties. And never once did he talk about any of the things you claim NSA talked about. I grew up in NSA since 72. I was so fortunate to be in so many intro meetings with Mr. KIKAMURA in Orange county. He was amazing.
It's a Nichiren Shu University. Since it was established in 1580 it is safe to say that it wasn't too much earlier than that that Nichiren Shu was also founded and the government probably gave them the money (just total speculation on this one or perhaps past life memory on this one) to start to school as an incentive to get more competing Nichiren sects to join the government created federation called Nichren Shu. Nichiren Shu was created by the Japanese government to try to pull all the competing Nichiren schools of Buddhism into one government controlled entity that would help the create "national unity" and to end the warring states period of Japan, and consolidate the control under the Emperor of Japan that was trying to regain all the power and control that was lost to the consecutive Shogun military coup leaders, ever since 1221 when one Emperor was beheaded and the other two retired emperors were exiled to Sado Island and to the Island of Oki, respectively (Which is the reason Nichiren believes he was born the next year). The exact year and which emperor it happened under is lost in my memory, after reading too many books that many contradict each others, but maybe regression therapy would bring it out of my deep subconscious mind. If some publishing company wants to contract with me to write a thorough book on it and pay me a good amount of money for the work, I will go back and research and foot note all the books I read and would need to reference. But since RUclips only pays me about 100 dollars a month for my videos as of now, until I get more views, I'm not in the place to go back and rehash my own past in Japan which in many ways I would like to put completely behind me and get off these "god forsaken islands." The last quote I know is from Nichiren but don't know which of his 4,000 or more pages of writings it is from.
Hey Krista, (and anyone else how can read this). If you have time, or you're willing to create the time, I'm in 3rd place in the US-wide Guitar Center Singer Song Writer Completion. If you support having Buddhist inspired music in the main stream of the US music industry, please go to my page in the competition songwriter.amplifiertv.com/channel/Tim+Janakos and listen to my 5 songs and comment on them, follow my page and share them from this page. I get point of all 4 activities.
Will do, Tim! Thanks for the very long responses! I'll PM you. Haven't been to Japan in a long time. I do miss Kyoto. Tokyo not so much....Osaka, not at all. NMRK....
I felt the same way about Osaka. I went one time and the only thing I liked there was a mexican restaurant and that is it. I got so lost in Osaka because almost nothing is in English even the elevators I don't know what buttons to push for up or down. They had a "GuRouNDo for Ground and then another two buttons with Kanji that I couldn't read. So I would just push them all. And no one could give me directions anywhere. The second time I want to Osaka with my wife and daughter to take them to Osaka Universal Studios and I was so glad we flew and when we landed at the airporrt a bus took us straight to Universal studios where we stayed for two days in a hotel right outside the gates so we never had to see the rat race of Osaka. and the Tokyo rat race drives me so bat shit crazy that I'm looking for a way out of the city. But Kyoto, I loved. I went there 3 times and I took both of my wives (1st and current Japanese wife) and next I want to try Nara, because my friend just moved there and says it's ever more slower pace than Kyoto but just as nice.
I always chuckle when I see somebody complain that they went to a FOREIGN country and *those* people hadn't had the foresight and consideration to label everything in English for them.
Are there real differences between the objectives of Nichiren Shu and SGI? I would say there are no real differences between the objectives of Nichiren Shu and SGI. They both believe in the One Vehicle of all buddhism, which is the full integration of the individual sentient being. That is to say that Buddhists believe each person has a Buddha Nature within (you may dub it Holy Spirit if you like) and that each sentient being has unlimited potentiality. All buddhists believe this fundamental fact of life regarding Buddha Nature or Holy Spirit . Various Buddhist sects prescribe various methodologies to bring about actualization or realization of this inner spirit of beings and all life, but fundamentally they believe in one vehicle and sanctity of life. In this short video Major Tim errs when he conflates Nichiren Shu and the Japanese government as one. Nichiren Shu and SGI are one in their objective and belief in the one vehicle, but they differ in what methodology to use to achieve the objective. So there are no real differences between sects of Buddhism. I will go so far as to say between religions period.
Thank you for your interesting points of view. Objectives and methodologies don't make for a correct philosophy. When the Lotus Sutra has Shakyamuni (Siddhartha/Gautama) say "In the beginning I made a great vow to make all people equal to me with no distinctions." And the Nichiren Shu, Nichiren Shoshu, and all other priesthoods in Japan make rankist distinction between laity and priesthood, and claim that practitioners can only reach enlightenment thought the auspices of men in robes, they are practicing a religion that has nothing to do with Buddhism or Buddhist egalitarianism. Rankism and egalitarianism never work together. Nichiren Shu is practicing a form of Catholicism and calling it Buddhism. You can dress a wolf in sheep's clothing all you want and it will still be a wolf. They are using a methodology that always fails. There is nothing in any of Nichiren's 4,000 or more pages of writings that puts priests above lay people, but Nichiren Shu, Nichiren Shoshu and all the other priesthoods in the world do.
There is only one vehicle but many roads upon which to travel. Correct philosophy is to gain enlightenment by any means necessary. Helping others toward enlightenment only helps the bodhisattvas of the earth to stay focused on the ever present job of gaining enlightenment. Don't forget it was Mr. Gautama that made the vow and some of us have made a separate 2nd vow of helping him achieve the goal of equality. Think about it, all those who choose to believe in the parable of the treasure tower have that equality in us already. So our job is only a matter of being helpful in bringing out Buddha Nature. The guy wearing robs and taking it all very seriously is expressing a personal piety which all too often crosses over into personal aggrandizement but not always. The false prophet or corrupted teaching cannot be found in correct Nichiren buddhist practice. Chant NamMyoRengeKyo with faith and observe self is correct practice. That's all she wrote. There is no such thing as rebirth or reincarnation and all of the so called philosophy of buddhism is idol speculations. Meditate [chant the mantra] to evoke your highest nature or at least to rest your spirit and be calmly. Ub a'ight. If you want the extra piety go to any of the 'other' sects. If you just want to embrace the best possible 'you' then check in with SGI. Either/or will get you to where you want to go and in the style you want. Peace.
@@RFKjrForPres Im a Nichiren Shu practitioner from the US and there isn't much of a distinction between the preists and laity. In fact its mostly laity that are in charge of running all the administrative goings on of the temple, i.e. organizing functions, fund raisers, talks and conferences, retreats, documenting donations, making sure the temple is financially sound and the lights and heat keep running etc... the priests are mostly there to give teachings and officiate certain rituals (which many of the laity also know how to perform) and we are urged to actively study and practice. It seems you don't know very much about Nichiren Shu...
I'm waiting for you to read the history books of Buddhism in Japan and wake up to the reality of this Government created group that has given Nichiren a bad name around the world..
@@RFKjrForPres "Buddhism teaches the principal of changing poison into medicine. When members in a region or country work together in a spirit of unity, they will definitely, be able to make a breakthrough and increase understanding of our movement. This is what will enable kosen-rufu to greatly develop in the 21st century. This is Buddhism.
Why do the 45 people who don't like this video debate anything I said in the video? Because they didn't watch the whole video to know I'm right, nor did they really study the history of Nichiren Shu in Japan as I did for the 13 years I was there. .
@@RFKjrForPres i am still in Shoshu.but for me Shu and Shoshu the same Gohonzon the same gosho but how they ruled it specially soka written gosho chanced the true doctrine more to wrote about humanist teachings from it. Humanist ghost writter Mr.Sentaro already passed away .non believer).wrote it not Mr.Ikeda either.Why i said Shu and believers have so peacefull life it is true seing them around me every day here in Japan. Soka and Shoshu are become so angry so i doupt for what is the real.i did not see any more peace from them soka sgi and Shoshu the last 30 years from them.trully to say Nichiren Shonin dont even look down on them.I still practice in my home and happy from it.By the way you never been to Minobu so You cannot understand and see to discuss their own happiness. And what i am going to think for my further future.
How sad that all Nichiren sects in fact all Buddhisms are not united and support each other instead of arguing like sects! Different strokes for different folks. Whatever suits the individual is fine
When people are practicing incorrectly based on the Buddhist teachings from the sutras you have to point it out and you have to go against them otherwise it's destroying Buddhism
Yes, very similar and it became in the antithesis of what Jesus taught AMOR, and they turned it backwards, and it became ROMA, the seat of death and pillaging and the history ever since has been "Genocide in the name of Jesus ." He would be rolling in his grave if didn't have that fairy tale, descent to heaven, like so many other heros did, like the Apotheosis of Julius Caesar did about 100 years before him. And then the did the same thing for George Washington the slave holding, hemp growing, military general dictator turned politician "I never lie (BS)" who could kill thousands of indians in a single bound. So they tried the same thing before the war against Russian and it worked, so thought they could do the same thing with the US in WW2, just didn't know the sleeping lion would wake up. They turned all of Nichiren's Teaching on their heads like Jesus. History doesn't always perfectly repeat itself, but often it Rhymes.
@@RFKjrForPres and Nichiren Shonin was not againgst any gods .He respect and woreship the gods with it. Dont you know it? In scroll Hohonzon the gods are sitting there.Atama yapari karapo.
Theravada was created by the 5,000 monks who walked out on the Buddha aka School of the elders AKA innchanticka before the ceremony in the air in the lotus sutra. This historical Buddha refers to it as his counterfeit law not to be practiced during the latter Day of the law. But if you have a time machine please go back to the first 500 years after the buddha dies he says that's the only time his lesser vehicle teachings will be practiced in accordance with reality
ig·no·ra·mus /ˌiɡnəˈrāməs,ˌiɡnəˈraməs/ Learn to pronounce noun an ignorant or stupid person. "assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him"
nim·rod /ˌnimräd/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. LITERARY a skillful hunter. "nimrods take to the field after everything from prairie dogs to grizzly bears" 2. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN an inept person.
Zen is a stupid false religion??? I think a compassionate Buddha would like you to calm down and remember that religion can also be a tool of ego
Interesting you accuse the Nichiren Shu sect of propagating Nichiren as a warlike leader. Yet, today, Nichiren Shu is the most tolerant branch of the Nichiren Buddhist religion. Odd, that development.
Lincoln and the Republican Party supposedly were the ones who freed slavery we live in a Topsy Turvy upside down World read the dialogue between daisak iKeda and European cultural critic Hugo
@@RFKjrForPres The Republican Party also was Anti-Slavery and the Democratic Party tried to keep slavery and Segregation. 👀 Everything isn’t as it appears sometimes
The insane censorship at their tube won't stop until we move everything to rumble which I'm doing. Find me under Tim janakos
An angry S.G.I. member ,guess he has been reading the wring books ....lol!
I'm perfectly happy and I never read anything "WRING (sic.)"
No matter what sect you are try to study the REAL message of Buddha ..... compassion, kindness, unconditional love, equanimity, wisdom, open mindedness, and many more that I can not type in this comment section. Study the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold paths.
I couldn't agree with you more. But also be willing to see what he taught in the last 8 years of his life that he said he wanted to teach everyone for the 40 or more years he was teaching the lessor vehicle sutras, which teaches us the vow he made from the beginning of his teaching, "To make all people equal to me with no distinctions." He never taught his teaching to be put on a pedestal and then be worshiped like an idol. That is idolatry and has nothing to do with his main reason for his teaching, as he said to let everyone know that they are all Eternally Endowed Thus Come Ones who have full access to the eternally endowed super natural powers of the thus come one.
Obviously like the gentleman sounding forth here, you are comng from a place of total ignorance about this Buddhism. I used to be like you, Life is not a beach when one is arrogant. It tends to hurt in the long run.
+Major Tim To Ground Control ++++ Nichiren Daishonin emphasizes in chanting the name of the Lotus Sutra. According to history of Japan, during when he was alive, not many Japanese at that time were literate. Only the upper class and the wealthy were literate. Now that we are in the 21st century, nearly everyone on Earth is literate. Study the Lotus Sutra ..... the scripture that summarizes all of Buddha's teachings before his death. Go to internet to learn the Lotus Sutra translated into English from Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese language. Since Japanese Buddhist sects appears to slander each other. Try to learn Buddhism in the mainland continent of Asia. There are NO sectarian separation in BUDDHISM in China, Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam. Please forgive me because I see Japanese Buddhism as a watered down version of the religion. Think about it. Japanese believe suicide rituals brings honor to the family name if a family member have done so-called dishonorable act??? For those who truly studied Buddhism, suicide is NOT the answer to so-called dishonorable act! The spirit of the person who committed suicide will suffer a woeful state in the afterlife. It is mentioned in the Buddhist teachings. Wish you best of luck to find a good English translation of the Lotus Sutra.
+Major Tim To Ground Control ++++ Nichiren Daishonin emphasizes in chanting the name of the Lotus Sutra. According to history of Japan, during when he was alive, not many Japanese at that time were literate. Only the upper class and the wealthy were literate. Now that we are in the 21st century, nearly everyone on Earth is literate. Study the Lotus Sutra ..... the scripture that summarizes all of Buddha's teachings before his death. Go to internet to learn the Lotus Sutra translated into English from Chinese, Korean, or Vietnamese language. Since Japanese Buddhist sects appears to slander each other. Try to learn Buddhism in the mainland continent of Asia. There are NO sectarian separation in BUDDHISM in China, Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam. Please forgive me because I see Japanese Buddhism as a watered down version of the religion. Think about it. Japanese believe suicide rituals brings honor to the family name if a family member have done so-called dishonorable act??? For those who truly studied Buddhism, suicide is NOT the answer to so-called dishonorable act! The spirit of the person who committed suicide will suffer a woeful state in the afterlife. It is mentioned in the Buddhist teachings. Wish you best of luck to find a good English translation of the Lotus Sutra.
Read all those. Nichiren's view is much more progressive and much more enlightened than every thing you talk about above I have been a student of Buddhism for over 30 years. Read the 5 volumes of the Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra it will help you put everything in perspective you are talking about.
What's the point? As far as I am concerned, I am still leaning over toward the Minobu tradition than the Fuji tradition.
You can tell my this guys tone he didn't chant today . Hahahaha
I was having fun, venting some fumes. All 10 worlds are contained in all the ten worlds, so as my tone of anger had buddhahood in it, as it was directed at the stupidity of the sites that lied about me that claim their lies are valid based on Nichiren Shu. That kind of potency of anger was perfectly appropriate for the stupidity they were using to screw their selves out of full awareness and the enlightenment they could be choosing to be, if they weren't choosing to be so ignorant.
Major Tim To Ground Control dude you are about as enlightened as my armpit.
Thank you for that compliment. Your armpit also thank you.
Know it all.You really really need to take a serious look at this video again and your human condition in it. Perhaps after you chant,so maybe SOME semblance of humility might appear .and you can start over. In the meantime you can throw ten worlds at me but unfortunetlyy since I am presently in the SGI its so filled with Japanese Videos from the 40s, that I don"t' even know what the Ten Worlds are, I am aware of Ikedas, many many numerous DIALOGUES with famous people though. If being enlightened like you is what I have to look forward to, I want out now.
embarrassing really.
This guy is very arrogant and angry
Thanks for coming out.
@@RFKjrForPres Thanks for coming out as a passive-aggressive and self-righteous cultist.
Sorry.I think Nichiren Shu are more kind and polite.They have the true peace .Nichiren Shu are the most peacefull sect here in
Japan.Dont bark like a fox.
Thank you for your interesting point of view. They were the biggest cheerleaders of the war on Asia and the world before and during WWII. Glad they have changed their ways. .
@@RFKjrForPres Soka are like making war.
World peace ect.became worst.
Nichiren Shonin's teachings taught about enlightenment from awareness.Dont make excuses .I was in Soka 41 years ago.
Please tell me something in the video that's incorrect so I can correct myself. So far no one's been able to point out one falsehood in my videos
Jessica's you don't like the messenger or how the messenger delivered the message doesn't mean you have to kill the messenger when the message is correct
Hello anyone. Soka Gakkai and👉Sgi are similar from them messing up from them then But Shu dont harm anyone and are a peacefull sect here in Japan.
But But i am in Nichiren Shoshu since 1970 .Happy and no problem. The stories from Soka Gakkai from goverment or war after Nichiren Daishonin's Buddishm have nothing to do of it.
Japan🧑🦳
So Ikedausm and his world domination is more organic ?
There is no Ikedausm; not only is it a misspelling but even if you spelled ism right; it doesn't exist. All that exists in the ever growing, ever victorious SGI is the vow that Shakyamuni/Siddhartha/Gautama made in the Lotus Sutra: "In the beginning I made a great vow to make all people equal to me with no distinction." So if you are talking about Nichiren, Shakyamuni, Ikeda or you and me, there is no distinctions. You can only dislike another person if you dislike yourself. So everything you hate about Daisaku Ikeda and his millions (and growing) successors around the world is what you hate about yourself. Because, "I am he, as you are he, as you are me and we are all together." - John Lennon. That is what the oneness of mentor and successor means: Shi-te-funi. I don't have any judgments against Nichiren Shu and I love them as much as I love the Office of Home Land Security. It's just another government sponsored program that doesn't work.
Love it! Thanks for the video. I joined the SGI in 1998, and have been independent since the early 2000s. Best choice I ever made was to leave and practice & study on my own. Being a light unto myself.
It's changed so much since you left. I'd love to take you to a meeting that will really blow your socks off with some very enlightened people who keep a low profile.
Great move on your part.
After 55 years of practicing Nichiren Buddhism, I can tell you that Nichiren Shu is the most accepting and diverse of the varies sects I have practiced with. That would be Nichiren Sho Shu / Soka Gakkai, Rissho Kosei Kai, and Nichiren Shu.
The fellow in the video doesn't present his points (assuming he had some) very well.
Practice what you're going to say, THEN turn the video camera on.
I don't mean to be critical, but give me a break
Hello people he even dont know who Nichiren Shonin really are and the truth Nichiren was taught.He is in the most bad sect from it.Ha Ha....
Nichiren Shu are the most peacefull sect .THIS IS THE TRUE POWER THERE. 😁🤑
Nichiren Shu was the more supportive of the war against all of Asian that the Japanese military perpetuated in WWII. They twisted Nichiren's teachings to make it appear that Nichiren was some nationalist war monger. That is why so many scholars have the twisted perception of Nichiren as a nationalist. Because of the Sect Created by the Japanese government that was an instrument of the government called "Nichiren Shu."
@@RFKjrForPres Then why 110 years ago Shoshu was chanting and practiced Like Shu?
Do you know it? What was Shoshu named that time?
@@RFKjrForPres and you and soka sgi dont even respect and are followers to Nikko Shonin any more .as a buddisht though.That is strange.
Also, you mentioned you studied the histories of Japanese Buddhism - what are the names of these books? And, what books are you holding in your vid? Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra volumes? Gosho? or neither? Just curious.....
Wow, I'm bad with names. I would have to go to all the 6 or 7 Sendai City libraries I used to borrow books from and the Southern Illinois University in Nakajou (Niigata) Library where one I can remember the title was the Marathon Monks of Mt Hiei and another book was Hiro Hito, where a lot of Criticism of Nichiren Shu got me to contact the author and to find and read many of the books in his reference section. But I totally disagree with his thesis that Nichiren Buddhism is a nationalist and militaristic teaching. This was only a twisting of Nichiren's teaching that was caused by people joining Nichiren Shu which was a government created institution to twist and subvert the teaching of Nichiren the same way the Councils of Nicaea in Rome subverted all the teachings of Jesus with the creation of their so called "Bible," which conveniently expunged most of the best teachings of Christ, like the teaching of reincarnation (which were taken out at the 3rd council of Nicaea). But so many more book i read over the years, I don't remember the names. And then all the books I've checked out from all the libraries in Niigata (about 5 or 6 library). I don't even remember the names of most people I meet. I think because I've known them in too many lives and they keep changing their names. But if you send a few names of book to me I might be able to say oh yeah that was one I read from so and so library. I chew through books so fast, but luckily I've only had to replace 3 book from libraries in Japan that I lost or someone stole from me. I might be holding volume 5 of the Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra as it is on my shelf next to the Secret History of the Fuji School and the Orally Transmitted Teachings. So many of the books or university essays on Japan and on Buddhism that I got in PDF form from online libraries, are also on the 4 kindles that the screens cracked and I can't get access to my newest kindle because I don't have a wireless connection in Japan to register my kindle to get access to the book I purchased on my old broken kindles. When I wrote my first novel, I had used so much information from many books I read in the 80s and 90s that I published it under a different name than I was using at the time legally, because I didn't have the time to go back and check all the books to see if the ideas that I was having really came from all the books I read or I was channeling it or it was just wild delusional fantasies. But then in the 4 years at Soka University I was able to study all the subject I covered in my novel and I was able to see the crazy things I wrote about were more true that I was willing to be, know, perceive and receive at the time of the first publication of them and why I chose the novel format, so people could later say I was just make shit up which I was really sure any more.
Just looked the two books I hold up in the video are volume one and volume two of the Writing of Nichren Daishonin at 3:11 in the movie.
OTT?
Yes the Orally Transmitted Teachings (OTT) is great, but it really should be titled Nikko Notes from Nichiren's Lectures at Mt Minobu. Because that's what they are. But if you read them along with many other writings of Nichiren and along with the Lotus Sutra and along with the 5 volumes of the Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra it's all you really need to know about Japanese buddhism. Because most of Japanese buddhism outside of Nichirens's work and Dengyo's work is like Mental Masterbastion, especially the one hand clapping Zen, which shouldn't even be called Buddhism. It should simple be call mental gymnastics for monks who have way too much time on their hands.
Zen as a “false religion “?! Good luck mate... long way to go yet!
Thanks for coming out.
The words of Nichiren there bub, I was quoting who the Nichiren Shu try to basterdize.
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Edit: dudes and dudettes? dear me...fwiw I deleted my original comment. I"m not going to bother and lend any credence to your suppositions.
My understanding is that Nichiren Shu generally defers to scholarship when it comes to determining which Gosho are authentic and which are not. This is an important issue, apparently, because some Gosho are questionable in their authenticity.
Deferrs to scholarship what a joke
I guess they were deferring to scholarship when they were bastardizing Nichiren's teaching to support the war effort in World War II
@@RFKjrForPres Shu did not make the war .
That time who started the war?
Damm.Nichiren Shonin and Shu are teachings the gosho not about a war.Atama karapo. Dayo.Then how was Shoshu and soka before war and past?
Yes you are right.Thank you.
Japan.
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Why are Nichiren Buddhists so belligerent and hostile? You take after your founder, eh? Very unappealing.
There is absolutely nothing belligerent about this video. But each sees in others what they want to see.
You are truly in denial bro. I will chant for your awakening.
You are truly in denial bro. I will chant for your awakening.
@@iDalisMediaTV Shakyabuku means to cut off what is fake and reveal what is true. This is exactly what this video does.
@@RFKjrForPres
This is not Shakabukku at all.
are you a christian conspiracy theorist? you really don't sound like a buddhist though
I've been Buddhist all my life and a few other lives. I'm a coincidence theorist. I think it's a coincidence that the Japanese government created Nichiren shu and then Nichiren shu was the biggest pusher of the Japanese war on all of Asia.
but you dont really practise the eightfold path do you?
and it wasnt really nichiren shu who pushed the war it where more shinto and japanese nationalism who did it
but what "kind"of buddhism do you then practise?
coincidential buddhism?
I practice the form of Buddhism that Siddhartha/Gautama/Shakyamuni said was the final teaching and the only teaching to be practiced in the later day of the law, the 3 fold-lotus sutra. The pushing of war with Asia by the Nichiren Shu is and was well documented. This is just one of many sources you can easily find. alt.religion.buddhism.theravada.narkive.com/FM3rmELt/nichiren-shu-and-the-asian-holocaust-part-1-of-2 In the book Hiro Hito Nichiren Buddhism is described as a nationalistic religion, but Nichiren was the antithesis of a nationalist, he often made fun of the island mentality of the Japanese, but it was the Nichiren shu that distorted Nichiren's teachings to make them seem nationalistic. So I wrote this letter to the author of Hiro Hito: facebook.com/notes/tim-janakos/while-i-was-waiting-an-hour-for-the-peruvian-restaurant-to-open-in-ueda-japan/10150344453684383/
Already answered above. Please read my answer as it would be redundant to say it again. Nam myo-ho ren-ge kyo is the only teaching that the Buddha said would be relevant for the time we live in.
Major Tim To Ground Control i didn't know the buddha spoke sinno-japanese
Great job ranting at the only reasonable Nichiren sect. From what I see, Shoshu places Nichiren above Gautama Buddha, while SGI preaches prosperity gospel and new age 'law of attraction' bs, which goes against the Lotus Sutra itself (see Chapter 4) Plus that Ikeda isnt even a monk lol.
Still, Nichirenism as a whole is an extremist doctrine. Most of Japanese Buddhism is like this. Zen withs its Zazen-only approach. Jodo with its Nembutsu-only approach. No reason why a person shouldn't Zazen one day, Nembutsu another day and listen to the Lotus Sutra the following day.
Interesting point of view, though not many who have studied Buddhism and practiced for over 40 years would buy it. Thanks for coming out.
Karim is exactly right. Having participated in NSA in the '80s and NShu in the '90s, you are correct. Whereas, this video is utter and complete nonsense and angry ranting. When I was in NSA, now SGI, they did NOT teach Buddhism. At all!! It was chant and get a cadillac. Chant and get a bigger butsudan. Chant and go straight--make babies for kosen rufu. Chant to make more $$$. NEVER, NOT ONCE were were ever told to chant for enlightenment, or taught the precepts or anything about true Buddhism. Load of crap--just like this video! When I was in NShu, the head minister (who now teaches in Hiroshima) ACTUALLY taught Buddhism, its history, precepts, practice, etc. It was a breath of fresh air! Unlike this video. And whenever NShu was attacked--as in this video-the leaders were calm, undeterred, and couldn't have cared less. They just went about their business and nodded politely. Unlike this video.
I went back and read all the president ikeda's guidances from the sixties and seventies in the community centered library in Santa Ana back in the nineties. And never once did he talk about any of the things you claim NSA talked about. I grew up in NSA since 72. I was so fortunate to be in so many intro meetings with Mr. KIKAMURA in Orange county. He was amazing.
Actually it was Mr osaki that was amazing. Though kikamura was too
Are you kidding. Nichiren budishm are not Buddha.
What are you talking about my brother. Right Speech. Reminder
What is Rissho Universtiy? How old is it? And which Nichiren Sect runs it, or do none of them? Thanks.
It's a Nichiren Shu University. Since it was established in 1580 it is safe to say that it wasn't too much earlier than that that Nichiren Shu was also founded and the government probably gave them the money (just total speculation on this one or perhaps past life memory on this one) to start to school as an incentive to get more competing Nichiren sects to join the government created federation called Nichren Shu. Nichiren Shu was created by the Japanese government to try to pull all the competing Nichiren schools of Buddhism into one government controlled entity that would help the create "national unity" and to end the warring states period of Japan, and consolidate the control under the Emperor of Japan that was trying to regain all the power and control that was lost to the consecutive Shogun military coup leaders, ever since 1221 when one Emperor was beheaded and the other two retired emperors were exiled to Sado Island and to the Island of Oki, respectively (Which is the reason Nichiren believes he was born the next year). The exact year and which emperor it happened under is lost in my memory, after reading too many books that many contradict each others, but maybe regression therapy would bring it out of my deep subconscious mind. If some publishing company wants to contract with me to write a thorough book on it and pay me a good amount of money for the work, I will go back and research and foot note all the books I read and would need to reference. But since RUclips only pays me about 100 dollars a month for my videos as of now, until I get more views, I'm not in the place to go back and rehash my own past in Japan which in many ways I would like to put completely behind me and get off these "god forsaken islands." The last quote I know is from Nichiren but don't know which of his 4,000 or more pages of writings it is from.
Hey Krista, (and anyone else how can read this).
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Will do, Tim! Thanks for the very long responses! I'll PM you. Haven't been to Japan in a long time. I do miss Kyoto. Tokyo not so much....Osaka, not at all. NMRK....
I felt the same way about Osaka. I went one time and the only thing I liked there was a mexican restaurant and that is it. I got so lost in Osaka because almost nothing is in English even the elevators I don't know what buttons to push for up or down. They had a "GuRouNDo for Ground and then another two buttons with Kanji that I couldn't read. So I would just push them all. And no one could give me directions anywhere. The second time I want to Osaka with my wife and daughter to take them to Osaka Universal Studios and I was so glad we flew and when we landed at the airporrt a bus took us straight to Universal studios where we stayed for two days in a hotel right outside the gates so we never had to see the rat race of Osaka. and the Tokyo rat race drives me so bat shit crazy that I'm looking for a way out of the city. But Kyoto, I loved. I went there 3 times and I took both of my wives (1st and current Japanese wife) and next I want to try Nara, because my friend just moved there and says it's ever more slower pace than Kyoto but just as nice.
I always chuckle when I see somebody complain that they went to a FOREIGN country and *those* people hadn't had the foresight and consideration to label everything in English for them.
Are there real differences between the objectives of Nichiren Shu and SGI? I would say there are no real differences between the objectives of Nichiren Shu and SGI. They both believe in the One Vehicle of all buddhism, which is the full integration of the individual sentient being. That is to say that Buddhists believe each person has a Buddha Nature within (you may dub it Holy Spirit if you like) and that each sentient being has unlimited potentiality. All buddhists believe this fundamental fact of life regarding Buddha Nature or Holy Spirit . Various Buddhist sects prescribe various methodologies to bring about actualization or realization of this inner spirit of beings and all life, but fundamentally they believe in one vehicle and sanctity of life. In this short video Major Tim errs when he conflates Nichiren Shu and the Japanese government as one. Nichiren Shu and SGI are one in their objective and belief in the one vehicle, but they differ in what methodology to use to achieve the objective. So there are no real differences between sects of Buddhism. I will go so far as to say between religions period.
Thank you for your interesting points of view. Objectives and methodologies don't make for a correct philosophy. When the Lotus Sutra has Shakyamuni (Siddhartha/Gautama) say "In the beginning I made a great vow to make all people equal to me with no distinctions." And the Nichiren Shu, Nichiren Shoshu, and all other priesthoods in Japan make rankist distinction between laity and priesthood, and claim that practitioners can only reach enlightenment thought the auspices of men in robes, they are practicing a religion that has nothing to do with Buddhism or Buddhist egalitarianism. Rankism and egalitarianism never work together. Nichiren Shu is practicing a form of Catholicism and calling it Buddhism. You can dress a wolf in sheep's clothing all you want and it will still be a wolf. They are using a methodology that always fails. There is nothing in any of Nichiren's 4,000 or more pages of writings that puts priests above lay people, but Nichiren Shu, Nichiren Shoshu and all the other priesthoods in the world do.
There is only one vehicle but many roads upon which to travel. Correct philosophy is to gain enlightenment by any means necessary. Helping others toward enlightenment only helps the bodhisattvas of the earth to stay focused on the ever present job of gaining enlightenment. Don't forget it was Mr. Gautama that made the vow and some of us have made a separate 2nd vow of helping him achieve the goal of equality. Think about it, all those who choose to believe in the parable of the treasure tower have that equality in us already. So our job is only a matter of being helpful in bringing out Buddha Nature. The guy wearing robs and taking it all very seriously is expressing a personal piety which all too often crosses over into personal aggrandizement but not always. The false prophet or corrupted teaching cannot be found in correct Nichiren buddhist practice. Chant NamMyoRengeKyo with faith and observe self is correct practice. That's all she wrote. There is no such thing as rebirth or reincarnation and all of the so called philosophy of buddhism is idol speculations. Meditate [chant the mantra] to evoke your highest nature or at least to rest your spirit and be calmly. Ub a'ight. If you want the extra piety go to any of the 'other' sects. If you just want to embrace the best possible 'you' then check in with SGI. Either/or will get you to where you want to go and in the style you want. Peace.
@@RFKjrForPres Im a Nichiren Shu practitioner from the US and there isn't much of a distinction between the preists and laity. In fact its mostly laity that are in charge of running all the administrative goings on of the temple, i.e. organizing functions, fund raisers, talks and conferences, retreats, documenting donations, making sure the temple is financially sound and the lights and heat keep running etc... the priests are mostly there to give teachings and officiate certain rituals (which many of the laity also know how to perform) and we are urged to actively study and practice. It seems you don't know very much about Nichiren Shu...
@@samuraichuck87 Yep. What you said. This video is nonsense.
could you cite the specific texts or cite the specific events/persons so we can confirm what you have read?
Always happy in Nichiren Shoshu. Since 1970 .No problem. Shoshu are on the true path.
Shu wa anatasama yori hewa kamo. Japan🧑🦳
I am waiting for you to take this video down, chant for wisdom and then upload one that reflects the Nichiren Buddhism practiced by the Soka Gakkai.
I'm waiting for you to read the history books of Buddhism in Japan and wake up to the reality of this Government created group that has given Nichiren a bad name around the world..
@@RFKjrForPres "Buddhism teaches the principal of changing poison into medicine. When members in a region or country work together in a spirit of unity, they will definitely, be able to make a breakthrough and increase understanding of our movement. This is what will enable kosen-rufu to greatly develop in the 21st century. This is Buddhism.
Why do the 45 people who don't like this video debate anything I said in the video? Because they didn't watch the whole video to know I'm right, nor did they really study the history of Nichiren Shu in Japan as I did for the 13 years I was there. .
@@RFKjrForPres Which books can you suggest these 45 people read? Are there on-line sources for the people who can not travel to Japan?
THAT IS GHOST WRITINGS.
NOT TRUE GOSHO.
I think I was the one who wrote it in my previous lifetime when I was Nichi moku shonin.
Just like my life after that 1 when I was sir Francis Bacon in all my writings get published Under some illiterate guy named willy shack- spur.
@@RFKjrForPres i am still in Shoshu.but for me Shu and Shoshu the same Gohonzon the same gosho but how they ruled it specially soka written gosho chanced the true doctrine more to wrote about humanist teachings from it.
Humanist ghost writter Mr.Sentaro already passed away .non believer).wrote it not
Mr.Ikeda either.Why i said Shu and believers have so peacefull life it is true seing them around me every day here in Japan.
Soka and Shoshu are become so angry so i doupt for what is the real.i did not see any more peace from them soka sgi and Shoshu the last 30 years from them.trully to say Nichiren Shonin dont even look down on them.I still practice in my home and happy from it.By the way you never been to Minobu so
You cannot understand and see to discuss their own happiness.
And what i am going to think for my further future.
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(Sorry for small mistake)
Soka chanced the gosho
Nichiren Shonin doctines to been written it to a human revolution teachings from it.)
How sad that all Nichiren sects in fact all Buddhisms are not united and support each other instead of arguing like sects! Different strokes for different folks. Whatever suits the individual is fine
When people are practicing incorrectly based on the Buddhist teachings from the sutras you have to point it out and you have to go against them otherwise it's destroying Buddhism
@@RFKjrForPres valid point
So angry... Have you tried sitting Zazen? It’ll quiet your hate and anger. Koans are fun too.
Its pretty funny that you are so angry, but you have this big heart around you...
Thank you! Love your delivery.
Nichiren Shu reminds me of how Christianity began as a government religion in Rome.
Yes, very similar and it became in the antithesis of what Jesus taught AMOR, and they turned it backwards, and it became ROMA, the seat of death and pillaging and the history ever since has been "Genocide in the name of Jesus ." He would be rolling in his grave if didn't have that fairy tale, descent to heaven, like so many other heros did, like the Apotheosis of Julius Caesar did about 100 years before him. And then the did the same thing for George Washington the slave holding, hemp growing, military general dictator turned politician "I never lie (BS)" who could kill thousands of indians in a single bound. So they tried the same thing before the war against Russian and it worked, so thought they could do the same thing with the US in WW2, just didn't know the sleeping lion would wake up. They turned all of Nichiren's Teaching on their heads like Jesus. History doesn't always perfectly repeat itself, but often it Rhymes.
@@RFKjrForPres and Nichiren Shonin was not againgst any gods .He respect and woreship the gods with it.
Dont you know it? In scroll Hohonzon the gods are sitting there.Atama yapari karapo.
Thervada is the closest to The Buddha's teachings.
Theravada was created by the 5,000 monks who walked out on the Buddha aka School of the elders AKA innchanticka before the ceremony in the air in the lotus sutra. This historical Buddha refers to it as his counterfeit law not to be practiced during the latter Day of the law. But if you have a time machine please go back to the first 500 years after the buddha dies he says that's the only time his lesser vehicle teachings will be practiced in accordance with reality
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